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One thing I’ve been curious about over the past few days is if toy manufacturers will still be offering SDCC exclusives (perhaps through the portal) even if there isn’t an SDCC. Point-of-sale would be online, and products would ship to homes in US addresses.Most of you know me as an avid collector, but I hope this isn’t the case. The toys don’t mean a thing without the memories.
The people who didn't score an SDCC badge would be very happy.
I can't fault them for reserving the right to wait until June to make a decision as so much could change (for the better or for the worse) by then. I guess it's also a risk that we take when we buy badges knowing nothing about the schedule. But regardless, I'm not going to participate in Hotelpocalypse because I don't think there's much value in any of the three scenarios:A) SDCC gets canceled/postponed. In this case, hotels will be refunded.B) We get some semblance of SDCC but it's not the usual. Demand will be drastically reduced. In this case, those who book at hotelpocalypse prices with a non-refundable deposit will get shafted, since plenty of hotels will be available for much cheaper closer to the show. C) Everything gets cleared up and we get a real SDCC. Even then, I don't expect it to be too difficult to get a hotel closer to the show at average prices. Last year it was possible without too much difficulty...and this year it will be easier because even if it goes back to normal, some things will have changed permanently. More people are afraid of large crowds. Less money to go around. Plans that have dropped due to uncertainty may not be able to be picked back up by the time SDCC officially announces it's on. As you can see from the poll...about 1/3 of us aren't keen on going, and we're the diehards.
I agree; we're literally 4-months away (slightly less, since 4 months from today would be Sat. Comic-Con) and who knows what this situation will be like. I've been teetering back & forth between 'they won't cancel' and 'they'll probably cancel.' The public sentiment in the Union Tribune this week gives me hope that this event will still occur, and I'm more optimistic at this time. I honestly think that in 4 months we'll be READY to celebrate the end of this pandemic; we'll be in NEED of a release. The comics industry is in a tail spin right now, with Diamond suspending distribution and comic shops hanging by an incredibly thin thread. Film & TV productions are on hold, even with films that ended principal photography months ago. BLACK WIDOW ended principal photography in October 2019, but because studios tweak CGI FX unit the last moment (or post-theatrical opening, as was the case with CATS) BLACK WIDOW still had to postpone its May release. Same with TV shows, with "The Walking Dead" unable to finish production on an episode a little over two weeks to air!The entertainment world is going to need a release and party, and Comic-Con could be just the thing! That's OF COURSE contingent on the world having the pandemic more under control before mid-July. I respect CCI for waiting as long as possible before canceling such a huge event: there's no need to cancel now. The Olympics, for example (since I've seen that canceling referenced) have a myriad of well-in-advance-of-the-event moving parts for countries' athletes to have to prepare: trials, qualification, training, etc. that is currently not happening. It makes sense for the IOC to cancel now since all of the pre-events leading up to the Olympics are currently canceled.
You bring up the Oympics. Olympics are a good example of how big event organizers should adjust their plan realistically. They're not pretending it might be postponed to the end of this year. No they're expecting to hold it in 2021 as they should. I understand Olympics are a much bigger event than SDCC but I feel CCI should be realistic too. Unless they're trying to be sneaky about it and trying to keep the money they collected for badges and want to try to run a smaller con.
I don't think you can compare the Olympics to CCI. Olympics is a large international organization and the CCI is a small non-profit. One big point is that the Olympics doesn't pay for much. The host country does. The postponement is going to cost Japan 5 billion dollars. That's in addition to the 20-30 billion it's already put in.As I've said before, I think CCI being a small non-profit runs pretty lean. They don't have a huge bank account. What comes in is used to pay off their expenses every year to put on the cons. They've already spent money spinning up for this year. Unless they have insurance that can make them whole, it may be an existential threat. They probably have to wait to be cancelled instead voluntarily cancelling in order for the insurance to pay off.I guess I have more faith in CCI than some. CCI will do the right thing. They aren't going to run off with the money. I think it's ridiculously that people even think that's a possibility.The thing they could do to assuage fears is push back the refund deadline.
It may be nonprofit however, the impact ot has on the gaslamp district is beyond comparison. This is what all the businesses count on to keep their books balanced.Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk
I'm not scared that CCI will run off with our money. I'm concerned that they're going to take our money and run a smaller con with minimal TV/movie panels and ask for $300-600+ in hotel deposits and refuse to give any refunds past their standard deadlines.
Maybe a good, but small, first step would be to waive the traditional 10% fee if someone would like to get a refund while the fate of the con is undecided given the extraordinary circumstances of this whole thing.The person could be taking a chance if they decide to roll over badges to next year because the whole thing gets cancelled, but for some folks they already know they don't want to go even if it goes on and may want/need their money for more urgent things at the moment.