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Re: Silicon Valley Comic Con - San Jose CA April 21-23, 2017
« Reply #90 on: April 06, 2017, 01:44:06 PM »
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...and my jaw dropped as they just announced the original cast of SESAME STREET.

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“You've never seen a street like Sesame Street before. Everything happens here. You're gonna love it!” - Gordon

Just like Sesame Street, the best things happen… at Silicon Valley Comic Con!! Let your inner child (& your real kids) free-we’re bringing the beloved ORIGINAL cast of Sesame Street to #SVCC, including: Gordon himself (Roscoe Orman), Caroll Spinney (Big Bird & Oscar the Grouch), Alison Bartlett (Gina), Bob McGrath (Bob Johnson) & Emilio Delgado (Luis)!

Awesome!!!!!!

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Re: Silicon Valley Comic Con - San Jose CA April 21-23, 2017
« Reply #91 on: April 08, 2017, 08:44:44 PM »
Saw this on the Big Wow twitter.

"Silicon Valley Comic Con guest Tony Parker is accepting preshow commissions!

Tony Parker is accepting a limited number of pre-show booked sketches for Silicon Valley Comic Con. Price is $100 for 8.5x11 inked. Please message me here or email me at [email protected] to book your commission, thank you!"



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Re: Silicon Valley Comic Con - San Jose CA April 21-23, 2017
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Re: Silicon Valley Comic Con - San Jose CA April 21-23, 2017
« Reply #92 on: April 09, 2017, 07:48:59 PM »
Per their Twitter, the schedule is expected to be up tomorrow.

There are also two additional panel rooms I missed in the last post, 111 and 114 (on either side of Press.) Both of these are very small.

Some panels of interest that have been announced on twitter:

Star Trek Continues (Web series)
The Idiot's Lantern (Comedy show)
Extinct (BYUtv original series)
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Re: Silicon Valley Comic Con - San Jose CA April 21-23, 2017
« Reply #93 on: April 10, 2017, 01:42:40 PM »
The schedule is up!

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Re: Silicon Valley Comic Con - San Jose CA April 21-23, 2017
« Reply #94 on: April 10, 2017, 03:29:39 PM »
Just a reminder that we currently have a table booked at Il Fornaio (in the Fairmont Hotel, across the street from the Convention Center) for 6:30 pm on Saturday, April 22. I know Mark has RSVP'd, but anyone else planning to come, please LMK!
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Re: Silicon Valley Comic Con - San Jose CA April 21-23, 2017
« Reply #95 on: April 10, 2017, 03:59:21 PM »
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Just a reminder that we currently have a table booked at Il Fornaio (in the Fairmont Hotel, across the street from the Convention Center) for 6:30 pm on Saturday, April 22. I know Mark has RSVP'd, but anyone else planning to come, please LMK!
Me and my brother will be there. :) Not missing this.
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Re: Silicon Valley Comic Con - San Jose CA April 21-23, 2017
« Reply #96 on: April 10, 2017, 04:30:27 PM »
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Me and my brother will be there. :) Not missing this.

Great to have you guys, Mario!

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Re: Silicon Valley Comic Con - San Jose CA April 21-23, 2017
« Reply #97 on: April 11, 2017, 01:43:38 PM »
I called the Hilton yesterday to get the hotel confirmation number for my reservation placed through SVCC and they had no record of it.
SVCC had said after April 5th to contact the hotel direct for any issues. I emailed SVCC but they indicated that they would respond in 3-4 days so I'm waiting to hear if they just haven't sent the info to the hotels yet or if I have a problem.
Has anyone else gotten confirmation from the hotels of their reservation?

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Re: Silicon Valley Comic Con - San Jose CA April 21-23, 2017
« Reply #98 on: April 11, 2017, 01:55:39 PM »
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I called the Hilton yesterday to get the hotel confirmation number for my reservation placed through SVCC and they had no record of it.
SVCC had said after April 5th to contact the hotel direct for any issues. I emailed SVCC but they indicated that they would respond in 3-4 days so I'm waiting to hear if they just haven't sent the info to the hotels yet or if I have a problem.
Has anyone else gotten confirmation from the hotels of their reservation?

I have my confirmation from SVCC, but apparently no hotel reservation number.

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Re: Silicon Valley Comic Con - San Jose CA April 21-23, 2017
« Reply #99 on: April 11, 2017, 02:29:24 PM »
UPDATE     I just emailed and got a very fast response.

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I apologize for the confusion.
 
The data will be transferred to the Hilton tomorrow, April 12th. They should have your reservation in their system by Thursday.
 
However, your reservation is confirmed in my system. J
 
Thank you,
Karla
 
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Team San Jose / San Jose Convention & Visitors Bureau
408 Almaden Blvd
San Jose, CA 95110
D: 408.792.4192
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Re: Silicon Valley Comic Con - San Jose CA April 21-23, 2017
« Reply #100 on: April 11, 2017, 02:34:51 PM »
Thanks for the assist.  I'll check with them again on Thursday.  Just always a nervous nellie with hotel reservations.  ^-^

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Re: Silicon Valley Comic Con - San Jose CA April 21-23, 2017
« Reply #101 on: April 12, 2017, 12:40:44 PM »
This convention seems to have a number of ties to Salt Lake Comic Con/Utah. I've noticed:

  • Both use GrowTix, a division of MediaOneUtah, for their Ticketing and Apps
  • Both of their T-shirts are made by You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, which does not really make them for any other major conventions
  • This year the volunteer team leads are based in Utah, and appear to be from the same volunteer group from SLCC (although this is a different team than last year)
  • There will be a full panel from a BYUtv (based at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT) show, Extinct. BYUtv has held panels at SLCC for some of their other shows such as Studio C.

EDIT: Oh, here's why. Steve Wozniak has apparently worked in Utah since 2009, first at Fusion-io, then Primary Data. He met Trip Hunter at Fusion-io, who is now officially the CEO of SVCC and based in Utah. And Utah has lots of money.

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EDIT 2: This line jumped out at me:

"We couldn't find a weekend at the San Jose Convention Center, so the only way we could kind of get in there was to purchase a comic book show called Big Wow ComicFest. We purchased Big Wow in June, and then that was kind of the nucleus that we have built this event around."

I've been saying all this time regarding WonderCon leaving SF and yet publicly telling us how much they wanted to stay there -- that if they really wanted to stay that badly, they would have made it happen. And this is a perfect example: SVCC wanted to be in San Jose that badly, so despite not finding dates at first...they bought out Big Wow in order to make it happen.
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Re: Silicon Valley Comic Con - San Jose CA April 21-23, 2017
« Reply #102 on: April 12, 2017, 04:29:52 PM »
YES!!!!!!!!!!

Adam West and Burt Ward!!!!!

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Re: Silicon Valley Comic Con - San Jose CA April 21-23, 2017
« Reply #103 on: April 12, 2017, 04:43:09 PM »
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YES!!!!!!!!!!

Adam West and Burt Ward!!!!!

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Ok, this is rad!
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Re: Silicon Valley Comic Con - San Jose CA April 21-23, 2017
« Reply #104 on: April 12, 2017, 05:00:45 PM »
They keep on pulling out surprises so close to the show!
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