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No more 4-day passes

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San Diego Comic-Con has officially sold out of four-day passes for the weekend.

In March.

What recession????


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13 Responses to “No more 4-day passes”

  1. ed Says:
    03/13/09 at 1:41 pm

    Wow. POW! BAMM! ZIFF!!! Take that— ‘economic depression’! Glad I got my tix on Sunday at last year’s Con.

    Now cue:

    1)The complaints by hipster EastCoasterati bemoaning the Hollywoodization of this once pure Comics event— all the while trumpeting for “their” NYCC to have the same level of success…

    And
    2)The complaints of the nerdier-than-thou aghast at just how crowded San Diego has become in the last 5, 7, 10, 15 years— conviniently forgetting that THEY were part of the crowding 7, 10, 15, 20 years ago…

  2. foobar Says:
    03/13/09 at 2:25 pm

    What recession?
    The one that has kept me unemployed for the last 10 months.
    Enjoy your SDCC, everyone.

  3. Neeb Says:
    03/13/09 at 2:25 pm

    The sell-out isn’t that surprising.

    What will be the litmus test will be the kind of presence exhibitors have: big, complex displays or restrained and modest booths?

  4. Savage Says:
    03/13/09 at 3:38 pm

    That was quick.

  5. Chris G Says:
    03/13/09 at 7:25 pm

    EEEK!!

  6. michael Says:
    03/13/09 at 7:47 pm

    ed, chip on your shoulder, much? ;)

    and, yes, that is very impressive. I wonder if the whole show will be sold out by game time? :)

  7. Four-day passes sold out at Comic-Con International | Nerdage Says:
    03/13/09 at 11:35 pm

    […] According to The Beat, four day passes for the comics’ world’s biggest annual event, Comic-Con International in San Diego, have sold out more than four months in advance. […]

  8. ed Says:
    03/14/09 at 2:43 am

    michael:

    Nah, just a Beat reader familiar with Heidi’s post-SDCC reports and the comments they engender. Reading through those [archived off to the right] the last couple of years, I’ve noticed certain themes that crop up regularly in them…

    I figured that this CON SELLS OUT 4-DAY PASSES! article would bring out the same songs once again. But aren’t those “it’s called COMIC Con, not Films & TV Con/ why can’t SDCC be as small as when *I* started going”
    complaints a little cliche by now? It’s soooooo ‘05! ;-)

  9. jimmy palmiotti Says:
    03/14/09 at 8:56 am

    heard people will be scalping these, so really, just go to e bay if you need any.

  10. David Serchay Says:
    03/14/09 at 9:47 am

    They’ve changed the rules so that while tickets can still be refunded, they cannot be transfered, so the scalpers may be out of luck.

  11. Tom Spurgeon Says:
    03/15/09 at 8:25 am

    The days of attending with a retailer’s extra pass made out to “Jacques Lalargecoque” are OVER.

  12. not....guy Says:
    03/15/09 at 9:30 am

    nothing would please me more than scalpers being stuck with multiple tickets that they can’t get rid of. Unfortunately, the average person will probably have no idea about this non-transferable rule and then they will be the ones getting screwed over.

  13. Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » March 16, 2009: The people with real jobs Says:
    03/16/09 at 8:24 am

    […] [Scene] SDCC: four-day passes sold out Link: Heidi MacDonald […]

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