Another quick entry. I attended FanExpo 2008 yesterday. I think I stated that the last time I went (2006) I was a little underwhelmed… well, this time it was even worse. Difficult to believe maybe, but it is true.
There were 3 booths selling tickets for the show, ending up in a lineup of an hour and half!!! Yes, I waited for 90 minutes in order to pay $25 to get in. I think this is utterly ridiculous. You would think that since they’ve been doing this for a while now that there would be some extra ticket booths open in order to quell the rush. Hell, make an automated ticket booth or something that I can stick my credit card into!
Secondly, the vendor displays were again a little poor. I used to remember a wide variety of different things for sale in these expos, but I didn’t see that. If you weren’t looking for comic books, action figures, or DVDs there was nothing really there for you. We tried to check out the gaming section to see if there was any interesting board games on display, but were underwhelmed. We ended up sitting down and playing ‘Settlers of Catan’ for an hour and a half. A game that several of us own and didn’t have to pay $25 each for the privilege of playing.
Maybe I used to be more into the stuff that was there… or maybe I’m just losing touch with my geekdom. Personally, I was happier when we went back to Matt’s place and played D&D for the rest of the night. I just wish we hadn’t wasted half the day doing other stuff when we could have been doing that!
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