Forum - View topicNEWS: New York Comic Con Draws 130,000+, Comparable to San Diego
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aodmisery
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its giving sdcc a run for its money. sdcc would have way more people who would attend but convention center size caps out at 130k. i wonder how many people the new york convention center holds.
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ColonelYao47
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Javits Center doesn't have enough space to satisfy everyone...as a disgruntled anime fan, I'm nearly at the point where I'll shell out twice as much for the same tickets if that means NYC gets a second mega-convention for the niche genres. Aren't moments like this why Kickstarter and Indiegogo exist? |
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enurtsol
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By Sunday, I had 3 extra badges: one from someone deciding not to stick around for the weekend, one won Saturday from the Chevy scan raffle, and another on Sunday from the same raffle given to semifinalists. I was literally giving those sought-after badges away.
That's stark contrast how fast those badges sold out as soon as they're available - expensive VIP badges I wanted sold out within a day; other badges within few weeks. We knew it was becoming serious when badges last year sold out months before the event and selling 2nd-hand for hundreds of dollars or higher. When in previous years, "badge-sharing" was easy; ya could even walk around without a badge like that time they screwed up a friend's badge, or even just go through an unguarded back stairs on the top floor. Now the wireless RFID scans give them live data. But Javits Center can't really expand around as there's no hotels around it |
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razisgosu
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Down with NYCC bring back NYAF.
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Chrno2
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Wow, no wonder I felt so hot. And now since they have extended the events starting from Thursday, folks are going all 4 days. In a way it does sort of level the playing field but by a small margin. Sundays always seem to be the days where things get quiet. But man didn't think it would hit those numbers.
I really wish they would hurry up with the renovations because they could make NYCC so much more and allow the fans to spread out more. |
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Agent355
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I'm surprised at how many popular panels I was able to attend. After years of reading about people spending SDCC waiting on lines for hours just to be denied entrance into the panel rooms due to overcrowding, I was dreading NYCC. I abhor long lines. But I don't think I stood for more than a half hour at any given line, and I got into most of the panels I wanted to go to--including Sunday morning's Adventure Time panel, even though I arrived about 15 minutes after the panel started! I attribute this to NYCC clearing rooms between panels and being quite organized with lines.
Two notable panels that were crowded out were the Game of Thrones panel (I didn't really expect to make that one, but I could've if I were 5 minutes earlier) and Kodansha's manga panel...see, programmers at NYCC? Manga and anime are popular enough to warrant bigger panel rooms and more programming! Remember when NYCC brought in Jpop groups and Hiro Mashima? More like that, please. Maybe get Hajime Isayama next year...Attack on Titan cosplayers could probably fill up 1A15 |
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razisgosu
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You remember a time when the New York Anime Festival was still around. NYCC doesn't cater to anime fans anymore. |
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yamiangie
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From what I see it's not NYCC bothering to book anyone it's Companies bringing the guests to the panels they submit.
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