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New dates for WizardWorld Chicago 2010

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catrick339

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Aw c'mon, now. Even if the show isn't as good as past years, it's a nice centrally located big show, just right for meeting your friends and hanging out at the Hyatt bar, or munching down a great meal at the steak house. Besides, if attendance tanks a bit more maybe I'll get my Hyatt room for $39 a night instead of $49!

 

lol LOL lol

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Not*Sure*

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Aw c'mon, now. Even if the show isn't as good as past years, it's a nice centrally located big show, just right for meeting your friends and hanging out at the Hyatt bar, or munching down a great meal at the steak house. Besides, if attendance tanks a bit more maybe I'll get my Hyatt room for $39 a night instead of $49!

 

lol LOL lol

 

Just don't patronize the red bar..they still owe our entire entourage free meals over that debacle

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Back in the 80's Creation Conventions tried to create a nationwide convention "tour" (for lack of a better word) and expanded very fast. The shows became watered down messes usually featuring one big name artist and rag tag group of t-shirt and porn dealers, and movie and TV show bootleggers. Their big guests were old TV and movie actors.

 

At one show in Chicago at the Holiday Inn on Michigan Avenue I was set up next to Boris Vallejo for two days and he had about 50 fans come up to him the entire time. I did less than $1,000 in GA and SA sales. Everyone knew that Creation was spreading itself too thin, yet they kept going and eventually crashed and burned.

 

I see the same pattern happening here with Wizard. Gareb's a savvy guy, but his empire has crumbled and he's grasping at the last straw he has - pop culture shows. The only problem is that he's trying to create a new San Diego and it just ain't gonna happen. No one can "create" a San Diego Comic-Con. A show like that evolves over decades. His Chicago show of last summer was the worse event he's ever put on in Chicago since he bought the show from us in 1997. And without the major publishers it has no chance of gaining back the glory days of 1997-2007.

 

All of the people who made him a millionaire are gone and he's got no one to tell him "STOP IT". It's sad. Very sad.

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Not*Sure*

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I like comic cons don't get me wrong. Seeing new stuff and going through dealer's goodies. I enjoy meeting artists and getting sketches even chilling and chatting with artists whose works I enjoy.

 

But I could do without the big lines for exclusives and feeling excluded from buying certain items because I didn't buy a special ticket. I feel offended when I have to get a wrist band and join a lottery to have my wrist bands number called to get the opportunity to wait in a two hour line.

 

I also despise 1,000 people in line to see a celebrity who starred in a comic book movie. Not that I am in that line but those 1,000 aren't there for comic books and they are standing in my way. One security guard ripped a sketch I had just gotten yelling at me about a wristband when I was not the least interested in THAT table.. One guided me by grabbing my tote and pulling it twisting the print I just purchased because I was in the way of a celeb entourage.

 

More than once I have been rough housed by security guards for no good cause. Once because I was looking at books on a table that was in the sight line of a popular crowded fad booth. Yanked out of the way and told not to crowd the area. I had no desire to be in the line or at the table they were concerned about I was looking at these books with pictures in them you know comics?

 

I am clever enough to get out of waiting in lines for sketches and action figures I want and avoiding the lottery type systems all together. That may not seem fair to the rest of the fans but I don't have time for that nonsense. I have a bit of an edge and I use it. But that being said the fact I have to use my powers for getting a mini action figure rather than concentrating on my plans for world domination irks me to no end.

 

Then there are the ridiculous gold/silver/platinum tickets for a special whoopdedoo goodie bag and a Tshirt that they run out of before you pick up your bag. The tickets for meet and greets where the artists /celeb types act like they are doing a favor to the fans who paid good money to be there or worse act apathic and bored to death to be in a roomful of fans that made them. I don't bother.

 

 

Makes the "skating rink" "hotel room" comic shows with like 6 dealers seem fairly fun.

 

 

 

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FlyingDonut

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I like comic cons don't get me wrong. Seeing new stuff and going through dealer's goodies. I enjoy meeting artists and getting sketches even chilling and chatting with artists whose works I enjoy.

 

But I could do without the big lines for exclusives and feeling excluded from buying certain items because I didn't buy a special ticket. I feel offended when I have to get a wrist band and join a lottery to have my wrist bands number called to get the opportunity to wait in a two hour line.

 

I also despise 1,000 people in line to see a celebrity who starred in a comic book movie. Not that I am in that line but those 1,000 aren't there for comic books and they are standing in my way. One security guard ripped a sketch I had just gotten yelling at me about a wristband when I was not the least interested in THAT table.. One guided me by grabbing my tote and pulling it twisting the print I just purchased because I was in the way of a celeb entourage.

 

More than once I have been rough housed by security guards for no good cause. Once because I was looking at books on a table that was in the sight line of a popular crowded fad booth. Yanked out of the way and told not to crowd the area. I had no desire to be in the line or at the table they were concerned about I was looking at these books with pictures in them you know comics?

 

I am clever enough to get out of waiting in lines for sketches and action figures I want and avoiding the lottery type systems all together. That may not seem fair to the rest of the fans but I don't have time for that nonsense. I have a bit of an edge and I use it. But that being said the fact I have to use my powers for getting a mini action figure rather than concentrating on my plans for world domination irks me to no end.

 

Then there are the ridiculous gold/silver/platinum tickets for a special whoopdedoo goodie bag and a Tshirt that they run out of before you pick up your bag. The tickets for meet and greets where the artists /celeb types act like they are doing a favor to the fans who paid good money to be there or worse act apathic and bored to death to be in a roomful of fans that made them. I don't bother.

 

 

Makes the "skating rink" "hotel room" comic shows with like 6 dealers seem fairly fun.

 

 

 

Come to the Baltimore Comic-Con August 27. I guarantee none of these things will happen to you - and if anything like it even starts to appear, let me know (I'm the big furry guy running the show promoter's table) and we'll fix it. (thumbs u

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Sorry I guess I have figured out why I am feeling so sarcasticly jaded ..I think it is a holiday blues type of thing lol. I am moody anyway but I am thinking holidays aren't helping..

 

I love comic cons just not big corporate life sucking greedy monster comic cons..

 

It's like going to a ren fair and being asked to cover up because my outfit is too showy and beinh shushed because I am loud.

 

It just taints the whole con/fair.

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PeasOfCrap

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Baltimore runs a great convention, if you want to go to a show focused on comics, the creators and their fans.

 

you wont get all these washed up media guests from movies and tv which have nothing to do with reading comics.

 

 

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That Ron Dude

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I love the Chicago Con. I even loved it last year. It is days drive from Toronto and makes the various Toronto Conventions look tiny.

 

If you can give me good reasons to go to Baltimore I might change my habits though. Is it as big? What does it cost to get in? In Chicago I stay at the Motel 6 around the corner from the convention and pay $60 a night for a double. Can you match that? Chicago is one of the great cities. Baltimore can't match it. On the other hand I have been to downtown Chicago a dozen time but only thrice have I been to Baltimore (what I have seen is not pleasant).

 

If you can sell me I will be off to Baltimore.

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Kevin Boyd

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If you can sell me I will be off to Baltimore.

 

Hey Ron... Fan Expo is on August 27-29, 2010 next year as well... also one week after the Chicago Con... on the usual end of August weekend the show is traditionally held on. Because of that I won't be going to the August Chicago Con next year (and I definitely couldn't go on the original dates either because it conflicts with a family wedding). Unfortunately Baltimore's new weekend directly conflicts with my obligations to the Toronto show, but it is an excellent comic-centric show.

 

That's also an interesting remark about Toronto shows seeming smaller. I suspect it has more to do with the layout as the square footage used is very close, size-wise to what we used at Fan Expo last August. Hall A at the Donald Stevens centre is 250,000 square feet, not including panel rooms, while our space on the 800 level of the South building of the MTCC was actually larger - 260,000, not including the panel rooms on the 700 level.

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