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Yes, along with the quality of the experiences, offsites freebies, have actually gotten better than in-panel SDCC offerings.
In my opinion, that's the big difference between the offsites and comic-con proper. Comic-con is observational and the offsites are experiential. You go to panels at comic-con to be an audience. You do the offsites to participate. Watching a panel of say how they made the Blade runner set is one thing, being able to walk around in one is another. To this day, when I watch Mr. Robot, I have a physical memory of Elliot's apartment since I was in a duplicate of the set. It's just not a place I've seen on TV, it's a place I've been. That's a world of difference.
It seemed last year there were a lot more people around on Sunday than there were say 4-5 years ago. Back then around about 2pm it was pretty empty.Dude, you're missing out. They are awesome. I was talking to someone about last year's comic-con the other day and spontaneously we both said that the Bladerunner offsite was the best thing about it. That was one of the late ones. They were still going at 10pm. I'm not sure how late they stayed to get everyone thorough that was in line. I was walking by and there was still quite a line. I could have sworn that some offsite went until midnight. That may have been the GoT one but you had to get in line 12 hours earlier for that. They vowed to stay open until everyone who waited made it through. In general many more offsites seemed to be around on Sunday and around later.
I probably am missing out, but it’s just so hard for me to justify the time commitment required for these — both the lines (I don’t do lines unless I get an entire’s day worth of programming worth going to in one room) & the ~hour round trip it takes to get across the street between the Convention Center and the Gaslamp, not to mention giving up all the programming inside that I’ve paid for. I’ve figured that if I don’t get all 4 days some year then I’ll try the offsites on the off days but of course Friday and Saturday are probably going to be the busiest for those as well. that But thanks for the tips about them lasting longer — I’ll definitely check things out Sunday night this year!
I’ll definitely check things out Sunday night this year!
Seeing how Wondercon did online lottery for panels and signings, it might happen with SDCC this year but no news of it till we read of anyone get emails to check in and choose what they wanna try for and hope u get something. so if this happens it may remove lines or shorten them some for this year. but time will tell.
I don't think any will be open at 10pm Sunday night. If that's going to happen, that will be on Friday and Saturday. Open late on Sunday is 5pm. I don't see how they can be open that late on Sunday since they have to be gone by Monday. Last year, there was a conference starting in the Marriot on Monday and late on Sunday afternoon they had already replaced some of the comic-con signage with that for the next conference. Even by Sunday night, many of the offsites will be gone. They break them down quickly.
I think that will change a lot of the atmosphere of comic-con. If I were an industry participant, I'm not sure I would like that. There's a lot to be said for rewarding the people who really want to be there. An online lottery makes it too easy. Some people would do it just to do it even if they have no intention of showing up. I think the spots should go to people who are willing to camp out overnight. Camping out overnight generates a lot of buzz that an online lottery does not. As marketing for a show, saying people got in by online lottery doesn't have the same buzz as getting in by camping out overnight.I think any effort would be better spent making sure that people don't cut in line and reward people who have put the time in versus an online lottery.
Oh ok. My original question was asking which offsites were open until 12 on Sunday (or at all after the con closed at 5) So when you mentioned offsites being open until 10-12 I thought you were referring to Sunday, but it turns out you were referring to Saturday instead. But, thanks for the clarification. Ah well, good to know but then if things go until midnight-ish on Friday and Saturday (both inside the con and out) but shut down cold at 5 on Sunday, then I’d still consider Sunday a half day. Also I guess still no offsites for me then.
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