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Panels lightly attended?
« on: July 20, 2017, 04:10:26 PM »
Is it me or are the non Hall H panels lightly attended? I'm at the indigo ballroom right now and there is so much space and the doctor who panel is in 45 mins.

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Re: Panels lightly attended?
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2017, 05:14:38 PM »
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Is it me or are the non Hall H panels lightly attended? I'm at the indigo ballroom right now and there is so much space and the doctor who panel is in 45 mins.

I've been to four panels today and waited zero minutes in line.  I wonder if it's a function of the RFID badges eliminating counterfeit badges or just the programming splitting people up into smaller interest groups.

But, I did see tons of people camping out for tomorrow's Hall H.

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Re: Panels lightly attended?
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2017, 05:29:32 PM »
Colony was bare over in Indigo IMO. Was good too.

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Re: Panels lightly attended?
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2017, 09:17:47 PM »
Ballroom 20 was pretty busy.

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Re: Panels lightly attended?
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2017, 10:32:23 PM »
I'm not sure how busy I'd say Ballroom 20 was. In the morning it was barely half full, and then I stood in line for maybe 30 min and got into Battlestar Galactica panel pretty easily. Looking at the schedule, that had to be the 2nd or 3rd most popular panel of the day.


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Re: Panels lightly attended?
« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2017, 10:52:46 PM »
I think the off-sites has been capturing the attention of more attendees this year. I've been hearing stories of super long lines at the off-sites. I think the next 2 days should bring more packed rooms, especially Saturday.

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Re: Panels lightly attended?
« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2017, 11:05:54 PM »
But I thought off sites were dead this year?

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Re: Panels lightly attended?
« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2017, 11:48:39 PM »
Strange I noticed the big line early this morning snaking along. There are even news stories about the line being unusually long. I guess I'll find out tomorrow. Today was offsite day. For a Thursday, the offsite lines were long. I only got to 3 offsites and was in pretty much solid lines from 8am until 5pm. I talked to so many people on Wednesday who said that Thursday would be offsite day as well. I guess everyone decided Thursday was a light offsite day and to take advantage. The problem is that if everyone does that, then the lines are no longer short and it's no longer a light offsite day.

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Panels lightly attended?
« Reply #8 on: July 21, 2017, 02:50:19 AM »
Ballroom 20 was busy for Legion but Inhuman was probably the most popular. We sat in there from the SyFy panel until the end of the day after killing our wallets during PN and Thursday morning/afternoon lol

Thursday is always a mellow day. I've never had issues getting into a panel on Thursdays in any of the rooms. Friday and Saturday is another story.


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Re: Panels lightly attended?
« Reply #9 on: July 21, 2017, 08:30:31 AM »
There was a decent line in 6a due to Rockos Modern Life.

When i passed Hall H in the morning looked like you could walk right in.

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Re: Panels lightly attended?
« Reply #10 on: July 21, 2017, 04:19:02 PM »
There was a long line for b20 this morning, but it didn't even fill up the room. Eventually it filled. At next couple of panels we moved up and ended up only a few rows back. There really wa no ned to show up early.

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Re: Panels lightly attended?
« Reply #11 on: July 21, 2017, 10:11:02 PM »
I heard Preacher was fairly empty today. ?

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Re: Panels lightly attended?
« Reply #12 on: July 21, 2017, 10:17:15 PM »
6A was crazy around 12:30pm. I think the combo of TMNT, Ducktales and a couple of Disney shows knocked it out. My daughter really wanted to see Star vs. the Forces of Evil, but the line went all the way out the back doors and down  the stairs to the terrace. We got into 1/2 of Psych after arriving at 9:45. It started at 10, we got in at 10:30. We easily moved up to the front half of the room for Izombie.

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Re: Panels lightly attended?
« Reply #13 on: July 21, 2017, 10:54:13 PM »
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I heard Preacher was fairly empty today. ?

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3/4 full. However, the panel for Twin Peaks had only half Hall H filled while about 1.5k people were waiting outside. Security never let us in so we never got to see Twin Peaks.
It was an absolute disgrace.

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Re: Panels lightly attended?
« Reply #14 on: July 22, 2017, 12:30:07 AM »
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There was a decent line in 6a due to Rockos Modern Life.

I thought it was because of all the people who wanted to see David Tennant!   :)
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