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If you have single day badges, you CAN pick them up on Wednesday (if you have a Thursday) only at T&C. All the badges will be printed for you when you pick up BUT you still need the badge HOLDERS (color varies by day) and that can only be picked up at the convention center. The only badges that can be picked up at the convention center on Wed are 4 Day WITH PN.See grid for more details. You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginWhen you get to the convention center in the morning, you'll see 4 lines. There will be a line for Volunteers near one end. There is a line for Hall H under the tents on the other end. You'll see 2 different lines that start middle-ish of the center. One is for the people picking up badges. The other line is for the people who already have badges to get in and are either headed to the exhibit floor or to BR 20 (and other panel rooms).Badge pickup moves pretty fast once the line actually gets moving - the difficult part is just figuring out where the line starts/ends and security doesn't always know. Keep your eyes peeled for where the flow of people go and if they are or are not wearing badges and you'll be able to figure out which line to go to.If you do not have a badge and are trying to get into a panel, you'd need to coordinate with friends to save a spot in line for you (some folks get really upset about people saving spots but me personally, it's not a big deal if it's like 1-2 people).Don't know if that answered your question or made things more confusing!
There's 3 of us going this year, and we've got two 4 day with preview and one 4 day without preview. So, if I'm reading the badge pick up grid right, and we want to pick up all the badges on Wednesday we'll have to go all the way over to T&C to get one badge, then go all the way back to pick up the other 2 badges? Ugh. Any suggestions on the fastest way to achieve this? We'd like to get a chance at some of the exclusives on preview night but we also really don't want to line up on Thursday morning in the pick up line for the other badge.
Does anyone have any tips on driving to Town and Country on Wednesday to pick up badges? Like where is closest T&C parking lot to badge pick-up which I've read has been in the Atlas Ballroom (I know there is a parking charge)? It looks like on the satellite map there are parking lots in front and in back of the Town and Country. Does parking fill up? I've heard there can be traffic around the T&C Wednesday afternoon. If so, what times is traffic the worst and is there a way to avoid it (alternate route)?
Dogberry, great to see you again! I've been wondering where you were!
HEYO TJ! Yes it's great to be back! I'd kinda fallen off the Internet radar for a while because of my ridiculous work schedule and some travelling to Europe, but now I'm trying to get my work/life balance in check and plan for SDCC '13 again. Second time's gonna be even better now that I am much more informed - thanks to this forum as well!