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So if you can't get a 4 day pass anymore, are you going to get a badge for each day? Because christ that's going to be annoying. Not to mention I'll have to pick up 12 badges if that were to be the case.
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The Marriott, with the dumb-gently caress prices I paid last year, is already booked the whole week. Is this the norm and did I luck out last year by getting a room only a couple months before the Con?
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Jan 29, 2014 04:49
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$2,600 give or take (around $600~ a night plus taxes) through Marriott's site, I never signed up for the lottery. I guess I lucked right the gently caress out?
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Jan 29, 2014 06:39
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mrfart posted:Well, I got my pro pass + guest. Although the guest pass wasn't free. They weren't sold out. It took me nearly 15 minutes to get my badges (two free one paid) because the system was freaking out when I tried placing the order because it lost my information. I had to refresh the page and go through all of the steps but it when through without a hitch that time. Dr Tran posted:Could you tell if you had to go through the same lottery process the rest of us will have to go through? No lottery.
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Jan 29, 2014 23:06
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mrfart posted:Well, I guess the guest thing was a lottery of sorts then. With Professional status you should get you badge for free and you can get two additional guest badges one is free the other is paid in full. 
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Jan 30, 2014 22:13
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Dr Tran posted:These are the lovely faraway hotels. However, they are cheaper. No kidding, man these are inconvenient.
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Feb 27, 2014 14:42
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Jimmy James posted:I clicked book me at a higher rate even though I'm not sure what that means. I hope it doesn't mean 800 dollars. I think it means "You'll be booked at the standard cost of the hotel during the event" which is probably around $600. Axel Serenity posted:Awesome. Thanks guys! So, what's everyone hoping for? First two I had in were Marriott Gaslamp and then the Omni, but I know those are popular. We made sure to choose some of the downtown hotels about a mile out just in case, too. My group is all trying for the Marriot Marina and everything else close by. This poo poo is awful. Last year I just reserved a hotel through their site and ended up paying out the rear end, funds aren't great this year so it's my first time having to go through the lotto and I'm dreading it.
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Apr 8, 2014 17:17
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Alan Smithee posted:If you don't get parking IN the convention center there's ONE COOL TRICK to getting cheap parking that They Don't Want You To Know About I don't know if you're being sarcastic?
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Apr 8, 2014 22:42
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Is it safe to assume that if we don't have anything by now we're hosed?
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Apr 10, 2014 18:51
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Then I guess I'll just give it until the evening to have my dreams (and trip) ruined.
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Apr 10, 2014 18:55
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Dr Tran posted:Twitter seems to think the denials went out first. My girlfriend got her denial but one of my friends was assigned to a hotel (that he didn't choose) that's 4 miles away without shuttle service. 
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Apr 10, 2014 19:18
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Welp, got the Hotel Del Cornado 5 miles away. This wouldn't be that bad because at least I got something, but they honestly expect me to pay $319 for being this far out? gently caress that.
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Apr 10, 2014 21:53
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Soarer posted:Are reservations transferable? Because we also got the Westin Gaslamp (gf got our Hilton) which is a hell of a lot closer with one king bed for $239 a night. If we can transfer I'll definitely take you up on the offer, the hotel is basically going to make or break the trip for my group, everyone in the group said "gently caress that" when I told them what hotel we got and the price. Utterly ridiculous.
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Apr 10, 2014 22:19
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Yoshifan823 posted:Holy gently caress, the Hotel Del Coronado is nice as poo poo. That's where I'd go if I were bringing friends who weren't gonna con it up the whole time. That's the problem, we are going to Con it up the whole time and after having the convenience of the Marriott Marina last year there's no way the Hotel Del Coronado is going to fly, we were constantly making trips back and forth with hauls of poo poo and relaxing every couple hours or so in the room for a half hour.
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So NECAs first exclusive for SDCC has been announced, Super Freddy from Nightmare 5.
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I'll probably be doing the Hasbro Shuffle this year again depending on what the exclusive Transformer figures are, probably going to drag the girlfriend into that misery too so maybe we'll be able to get double of whatever they offer. If we can organize it, I wouldn't mind picking up stuff for goons so not everyone wastes their whole Preview Night. edit: More NECA Exclusives, three pack of Pacific Rim figures in all black and fancy packaging: http://necaonline.com/48121/blog/san-diego-comic-con/sdcc-feature-friday-2-exclusive-end-titles-pacific-rim-action-figure-3-pack/ sigher fucked around with this message at 05:03 on May 25, 2014 |
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Alan Smithee posted:Hehehe, Goat Man™ Figure I'm glad I wasn't the only one that laughed at this.
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Xenomrph posted:Would any kind goons going to SDCC be willing to grab NECA's Ahab Predator for me? I'll definitely try! Does NECA always do cash only? I didn't buy anything from them last year because I never carry cash. I'll have a pull out some this time I suppose.
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Jul 5, 2014 20:17
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Last year it was cash only, kinda poo poo. I'll try though.
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Jul 6, 2014 02:45
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RevKrule posted:If you're using the ATMs inside the convention center, you deserve to be ripped off on fees and lines. I too believe people should get hosed out of their money for using convenient options.
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Jul 7, 2014 02:22
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RevKrule posted:Just to clarify, I'm not advocating anyone get hosed out of money, I'm advocating being smarter with your money, especially if going a little out of your way and pre-planning can save you some good coin. I get it but I saying people "deserve to be ripped off" comes off as kind of rear end in a top hat-ish.
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Jul 7, 2014 05:01
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Jack Skeleton posted:And this year's Power Rangers exclusive, just cause every year needs one of these to cause a cluster gently caress. Fuuuck, good luck with getting that whoever dare braves you. You poor souls.
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Jul 10, 2014 09:07
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Dr Tran posted:Here are your 2014 Warner bags I want that Gotham one.
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Jul 19, 2014 05:47
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bobula posted:It's too bad none of the exclusives I've seen so far are very exciting to me. I like cool art stuff like that rad Steamboat Mickey I bought a year or two ago. Same here, but I guess it's better for my wallet anyway. Plus I can just buy stuff to eBay it later.
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Jul 20, 2014 10:00
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I need one of those Alien Isolation bags. My preview might was a bust, we arrived way too late for a lot of the exclusives we want so I'm going to be wasting all of tomorrow borrowing stuff. Thanks to the goon and hooked me and my girlfriend up with the Embassy Suites but holy gently caress, Valet only and it's $40 a DAY.
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Jul 24, 2014 05:06
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Alan Smithee posted:Park in the Mariott lot The self parking? Also, just woke up at 4 to get a Hasbro voucher, made it into the building only to have most of the line broken up because they ran out of vouchers. After three hours of waiting and two hours of sleep, at least in Hall H you'll eventually get in. Last year I had no problem getting a Hasbro voucher, this is utterly nuts. It's only my second year going but it's incredible apparent the con has grown too big for it's own good.
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Jul 24, 2014 15:30
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Met Justin Wong and Grant Imahara, pretty sweet con so far. Also have managed to keep the spending to a minimum, but just saw something that might hurt my wallet. Trying to be strong.
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Jul 27, 2014 03:57
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Rocco posted:This is insane to me. The dude thought him and his children were in danger. Two guys "sitting on his hood as a joke" was perceived as a threat and he gunned it. He had every right to protect his kids. Are people really defending the loving zombie walk over this? Yes, I too think it's ok to push and shove my way through a crowd when I'm being impatient. In a car. Then gun it and not give a poo poo about any of the lives that surround my vehicle. You're pretty dumb dude.
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Jul 29, 2014 12:23
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Axel Serenity posted:I definitely agree. I mean, it'd be nice just to take the Metro down from Burbank on a personal level, but LA would be a terrible venue for the Con as a whole. There's nothing to do there, and even if a ton of SDCC attendees are LA natives... we go to get out of the city for a while and enjoy San Diego. Having it in town would suck the fun out of it. Downtown LA is a ghost town after 8, anyway. There's stuff to do in LA but the problem is it's so spread out that there's no way you're going to do anything without a car. Also Downtown becomes the most lively after 8 because that's when all of the crackheads come out of the woodwork trying to slang you some Oxy; it's horrid. San Jose is pretty good with accommodating Fanime but there isn't poo poo-all to do in the city after dark.
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Are we going to make a new thread for this year or just keep using this one? I could have sworn I ordered my Pro badges sometime in January and now I'm fearing I missed the window but there hasn't been any updates in the thread so 
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