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Amazing Arizona Comic Con Feb 14-15
« on: January 19, 2015, 10:10:50 AM »
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login  Good size con coming to AZ in a few weeks.  There is a groupon for it too, but looks like the groupon is already sold out of sunday.  I went to this one last year, very comics and cosplay focused show.

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Re: Amazing Arizona Comic Con Feb 14-15
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2015, 08:27:01 PM »
Great con last week. Not sure if anyone will see this - but pics for anyone that's curious :)

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Re: Amazing Arizona Comic Con Feb 14-15
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2015, 09:10:06 PM »
Omg I didn't even know about this D: I live 20 mins from Phoenix too! Dang it! Just moved here this year...that's my excuse....That would have been great for valentines day too! Oh well. Next year! Good thing I got those SDCC badges or this would have been a blow I couldn't handle. I'll look out for Arizona comiccon 2016!

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Re: Amazing Arizona Comic Con Feb 14-15
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2015, 09:59:31 PM »
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Omg I didn't even know about this D: I live 20 mins from Phoenix too! Dang it! Just moved here this year...that's my excuse....That would have been great for valentines day too! Oh well. Next year! Good thing I got those SDCC badges or this would have been a blow I couldn't handle. I'll look out for Arizona comiccon 2016!
Oh wow! That's awesome u live here. In that case, you have to go to the big show in May! Phoenix Comicon is one of the biggest cons in the country. Amazing is great fun,  but this is my favorite non-SDCC con - You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

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Re: Amazing Arizona Comic Con Feb 14-15
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2015, 06:51:54 AM »
Love the big arrows in this one:   :)

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Re: Amazing Arizona Comic Con Feb 14-15
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2015, 06:55:54 AM »
Thanks Chris!  His lines were pretty crazy!

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Re: Amazing Arizona Comic Con Feb 14-15
« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2015, 09:01:29 AM »
Noooooo!! I have a wedding to attend in SF that weekend!! I'm originally from the San Francisco Bay Area and Fanime in San Jose in happening May 22-25 too! My sisters always like going to that so I'll probably join them for that one....sigh.....someday I'll make it to a Arizona convention...I am planning on going to the AZ Ren Faire in a couple weeks though! haha not sure if that counts.....I didn't know Phoenix Comiccon was that big- how does it compare to Comiccon? Last year SDCC was the only con I've ever been to so I think I've got my standards set pretty high....

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Re: Amazing Arizona Comic Con Feb 14-15
« Reply #7 on: February 23, 2015, 10:04:43 AM »
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I didn't know Phoenix Comiccon was that big- how does it compare to Comiccon? Last year SDCC was the only con I've ever been to so I think I've got my standards set pretty high....

PHXCC had 80K attendees last year, so it is nearing SDCC size.  But it doesn't even come close to SDCC in spectacle, foot print or star power.  You may get a few A list actors but not entire panels of them.  There are still some great celebrity appearances though, check out the guest list as it gets closer to may.

Also, there are a few offsites, but again it doesn't even compare to SDCC.  It's probably more comparable to Wondercon.  But make no mistake, it's a big intense con with tons of stuff to do and worth visiting more than one day.  This may even be the first year it sells out.

Bummer you can't make it!  But you will have some nice plans for 2016!

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Re: Amazing Arizona Comic Con Feb 14-15
« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2015, 07:42:48 AM »
80,000 is a healthy number.  It's the size of SDCC around 2003-2004 according to wikipedia.  You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

I also think that's bigger than Wondercon, but I could be wrong.

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Re: Amazing Arizona Comic Con Feb 14-15
« Reply #9 on: February 24, 2015, 08:03:28 AM »
Wow! That's good perspective, and i think that is about the same year phxcc started.

My first time there was 5 years ago and you couldn't imagine it ever selling out, there was like 12k attendees.   So they have added about 20k per year, which i am sure is collateral from the sdcc explosion

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Re: Amazing Arizona Comic Con Feb 14-15
« Reply #10 on: February 24, 2015, 08:37:34 AM »
I find that wiki page very helpful when people say the attendance of other shows.  It gives a nice comparison of "that show is how big SDCC was in year xxxx."

When I first went to SDCC in 1998, I felt that 42,000 people was plenty big.  :)