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Yeap, Dr. Who was on Sunday last year and it was right after the Fringe Farewell panel and Supernatural panel @ Hall H respectively. Just to give you an idea of how insane the queues are: I decided to begin queuing (in full cosplay) at 2am and assumed that I'd be pretty ahead in line. BOY WAS I SO WRONG. Apparently, people had already started to queue at 9pm the night before, and by the time I headed down to the Convention Centre the line had already curled allll the way to the walkway facing the sea by the Hilton. Just so you know, most of them were Dr. Who fans, judging by their outfits. By 5am there were people in the park-like area even further down. But once they start making people stand up and compress the lines, it got much better and we ended up in the first 1/3 of the room.
Make sure you're following the Nerd Machine on Twitter then. From what I remember, last year's panel was announced early Wednesday morning (day of Preview Night) and put on sale shortly after. I was on the Amtrak heading to the con at that point and didn't hear about it until after getting into San Diego (by which tickets had come and gone). I doubt I would have changed my Saturday plans for it (since for me, Marvel Cinematic Universe > everything else), but it was rather disappointing to not have even had the chance to consider it.
I'm new to Who and would love to be able to attend something!
I was too and last year had to skip the Dr Who panel last year after the Fringe panel. But now I'm all caught up and can't wait to go to a panel. I even had tickets to the Nerdist panel a couple of years ago and had to give them to someone else, because Matt Smith and Karen Gillan was on the show and I did not want to get spoiled
Don't forget that Chris Hardwick does his Nerdist live podcast show offsite and he is a major Dr. Who fan and has had Matt Smith , Karen Gillan, and Arthur Darvill on his show or hosted them quite a few times. I would buy the tickets for the Nerdist show when they become available.
For fans of Dr. Who, there is a Dr. Who convention in Southern California every year. It just happened for 2013, but info about 2014 is already up. It sold out in advance this year, but it's relatively small, I think around 3600 people. I haven't been personally but a lot of friends say really good things about it. The con is going to have its 25th anniversary so it's well established. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login