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I have to admit the whole thing with people getting there earlier and earlier had me questioning how long I would continue to go. I wasn't going to sleep out for it after winning the ticket.
I'd still go if it happened to fit into our schedule. There have been a couple of years that we got tickets, but ended up releasing them because of a conflicting schedule. Since last year was a "non-Marvel" year we were able to actually to use our the Saturday tickets we received. It was our first time ever! I had heard the horror stories about having to line up early in the morning just to get the tickets that were allotted to you, and them running out by 10am earlier in the week. We got lucky and were able to go to the WB panel in Hall H that morning, then go over and pick up our tickets when that let out. There were still plenty of tickets left even though it was like 1pm by then! We were able to get lunch and do the Mr. Mercedes offsite (we had a fastpass, but there was no line anyway) before heading over to Conan. We got pretty decent seats too, in the lower section, just a couple rows behind the band. Then afterward, we went to the Purge panel, and checked out the VR pavilion thing over at Omni after that. So from our perspective, it wasn't much of a time suck at all.
As a Conan fan, will be sad if he is gone.As a fan of free pops, Will suck they are gone.As a person who knows the ridiculousness that people go to try and get the pops from Conan the last few years.....I'm ok with it being gone.Would mainly be a bummer if the Conan Comedy House wasn't there again because that was amazing.
The same thing happened to Conan as what happened to Hall H and the Everything Else line. People always try to beat the previous year's line up time and it creeps sooner and sooner and sooner. Quite ridiculous, but a natural occurrence when it comes to lines at SDCC. We can throw ideas out on how to combat it but ultimately it's out of our control. Sadly, just like with Hall H, I'd probably keep doing it though. I grew up on Conan (staying up way too late on school nights) so being able to see him in person was super special to me.
I'm with you on that. I was a fan of his when he was on SNL: mainly as a writer, but he appeared in some sketches and had such a uniquely goofy demeanor I couldn't help but think, "ooh: the red head is in this sketch!" I was hyped when he got the Late Night gig, and watched him almost religiously (sometimes via VHS, recording his episodes and watching them the next day)! His early days were almost boarder-line disastrously funny, and as he found his stride he was second only to GOAT Letterman in comic genius (IMO).I was so hyped when I won the golden ticket on year three, and had a blast at the taping. Now that I've done it, I don't stress too much about scoring another ticket. I hope to scores tix if he's back this year, but I won't stress if I don't (and I'll certainly find other things to occupy my time )
I assumed the live show was gone, but thought maybe he'd still do his comedy house, but if there are LA tapings during SDCC, then I guess he's out all togetherSent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk
It would certainly be odd if he didn't have any kind of presence at SDCC - ever since 2015 his face (or his POP face) has been an integral part of the marketing for SDCC. I remember the first year he was there his POP ad was on one of the biggest hotels downtown. I remember the first SDCC promotion I saw last year was Conan on the airport escalators as soon as I got off my plane.I will say, I don't think he'll be back at the theater, even though they controlled a bit of the hype last year and didn't allow people to lineup overnight, it still seems like his live tapings at Spreckles are getting harder to control with each year...but I could see him coming back as a moderator for panels, have his own panel, or maybe even host the SDCC Funko Funday party. Or maybe they've got something planned that is completely different, like an event at the baseball park or some kind of party.I just think he's made too much of an impact at SDCC to completely disappear.