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San Diego Comic Con 2021 scheduled on...Thanksgiving weekend
- Thread starter Nahbac
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Thursday isn't a huge day for panels. Or at least it wasn't when I used to go a long-ass time ago.
I worked at the pro registration tables for a while and a lot of those people didn't show up until Saturday or even Sunday.
I get that they wanted to move it as late in the year as possible, but jesus. Either of the first two weekends in December would honestly have been better than this. I'm guessing these were the only dates the convention center was available but still.
I'd definitely go if it put me in position to go in later years.
I thought I'd never be able to get in again.
they're squeezing a weeks worth of convention into 3 days so probably so.
It will be interesting how they manage the crowds. This is what it usually looks like...
I assume they will limit the number of tickets sold. I do have to say that I think my comic con days are over, I just can't see myself being comfortable in big crowds like this anymore.
Note: I've been there so many times, I may or may not be in this photo.
I assume they will limit the number of tickets sold. I do have to say that I think my comic con days are over, I just can't see myself being comfortable in big crowds like this anymore.
Note: I've been there so many times, I may or may not be in this photo.
All I could think of is maybe they thought having it during thanksgiving would lead to less disappointments for presumably the tigher amount of tickets that will be sold. And even then, it makes no sense ("Lets have an event and plan it on a day people won't want to come, where we don't know where consumer confidence will be because of the pandemic, because we want to make money this year")
The assumption that many bartenders, cleaning staff, and hotel employees make enough money to travel/vacation over Thanksgiving weekend strikes me as pretty naive. They shouldn't be strongarmed into working over Thanksgiving, but those positions don't really leave you wealthy enough to take off 4 days in a row and pay inflated airfare on top of it.
A lot of the people that show up to these things do not get regular work as actors, and strongly rely on convention income that they get from autographs & photographs. Those people have had zero convention income for over a year now, and are very much looking forward to resuming the convention circuit.
I thought they decided already to hold it without people attending again this year?
If not, hoo-boy. SDCC is not where I'd want to be during Thanksgiving weekend. And I went there for 5 years between 2012-2017.
If not, hoo-boy. SDCC is not where I'd want to be during Thanksgiving weekend. And I went there for 5 years between 2012-2017.
yeah same. They need to just give us a choice to roll this into 2022.
Most other big conventions are tentatively aiming to take place later in the year, at full scale or close to it.....many of them probably can't survive skipping two years in a row, and their insurance companies will probably not pay out for another cancelled event.
it's gonna be a shitshow.
most of the staff that conforms comic con is volunteers, and around 60-80% of volunteers are from Baja, so yeah.
They stated that they need the income not only for the CCI organization, but also for the surrounding area. It'll be really really fun to see this blow all over their own faces.
most of the staff that conforms comic con is volunteers, and around 60-80% of volunteers are from Baja, so yeah.
They stated that they need the income not only for the CCI organization, but also for the surrounding area. It'll be really really fun to see this blow all over their own faces.
All the service workers who support this event should threaten to walk off the job for anything less than double overtime.
Unions and collective bargaining.
Unions and collective bargaining.
I think those tickets are rolled over for 2022. This is sort of separate from that.
How on earth did they not see an issue with this?!
But don't the big celebs show up for the panels?
They aren't talking about the panels. They're talking about lesser-known celebrities who do autographs and photo ops at conventions to supplement their income.
I understand, but Comic Con are also going to lose out on the big names who are part of the draw in addition to fucking over all the lesser known celebs and the staff that will have to work during the holiday.
