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Birthday and Fan Expo Canada and Canada Day
14 years ago
A Wild Wall-of-Text has Appeared! *cue battle music*
Okay, so a few weeks ago it was my birthday. It was all fun and good. Since then, I've had exams, finished high school, visited family.
So, now it's the summer. Yay. It's also July 1st. For those of us in Canada, that means it's Canada day, and a holiday. For me, it also means it was the day to buy my Fan Expo Canada ticket. It's the one convention I can get to each year (although it's not a furry convention, just Anime, Comics, Gaming, Sci-fi, and Horror rolled into one. I've seen a suit or two there before, though.).
This year, due to how well (read, TERRIBLY) they handled the expo last year (read: moved from the larger North Building to the smaller South Building [from which they moved to the North building years ago because the event got to big], terrible ticket sale management, terrible customer service, terrible layout due to South Building, etc), they have moved back to the North Building (THANK GOD), rented all of the North Building (largest space for Fan Expo ever, apparently), extended it to 4 days. . .
Oh, and restricted the number of Premium (used to be called VIP) tickets (include a Deluxe Weekend Ticket, as well as a bag of goodies and free entry to all their events until July. Always has been restricted number of tickets) as the number of Deluxe Tickets (A weekend pass, like mentioned above). The Deluxe tickets have never before been restricted sale.
This could be a good thing or bad thing. This could mean the horrendous lines and crowding of last year will be gone (of course, by moving back to the North Building, they've fixed that anyways). Last Year, not only were there lines inside to use the escalator to get up to the dealer's room, the escalator broke down for a while. We also reached fire code and had a line over a hundred feet long and at least 5 people deep stuck outside the entrance doors to the convention. We couldn't leave the building to step ten feet and get a hotdog or we would NOT have been let back in.
Of course, this could also be bad, as people who seriously want to go all weekend (but, let's say are on vacation right now and can't buy their tickets), and miss out on the Weekend of Premium passes will have to buy a ticket for each day separate.
Let me demonstrate why this is bad with ticket prices (which change each year, generally getting higher, usually in relation to which high name guests are coming and how long the convention is):
Plain weekend pass (Deluxe Ticket): $85
Weekend + bonus gifts (Premium): $116
Daily (Thurs-Sun): $25, $30, $40, $30 Respectively (all together, $125 plus service charges)
My Grandmother bought my ticket this year (I grabbed one of the premium packages despite not being able to go to any other events this year due to University. I can always give the free access to a friend.) as a Birthday gift. Thankfully they were not sold out of them by morning. I look forward to the convention. I'll likely be consplaying an anime character, for those interested.
Also, to all the people who have watched me recently, thanks for the watches. They were unexpected.
You have caught Wall-of-Text. Dah duh duh. Dah de de de duh duh duh dah!
Okay, so a few weeks ago it was my birthday. It was all fun and good. Since then, I've had exams, finished high school, visited family.
So, now it's the summer. Yay. It's also July 1st. For those of us in Canada, that means it's Canada day, and a holiday. For me, it also means it was the day to buy my Fan Expo Canada ticket. It's the one convention I can get to each year (although it's not a furry convention, just Anime, Comics, Gaming, Sci-fi, and Horror rolled into one. I've seen a suit or two there before, though.).
This year, due to how well (read, TERRIBLY) they handled the expo last year (read: moved from the larger North Building to the smaller South Building [from which they moved to the North building years ago because the event got to big], terrible ticket sale management, terrible customer service, terrible layout due to South Building, etc), they have moved back to the North Building (THANK GOD), rented all of the North Building (largest space for Fan Expo ever, apparently), extended it to 4 days. . .
Oh, and restricted the number of Premium (used to be called VIP) tickets (include a Deluxe Weekend Ticket, as well as a bag of goodies and free entry to all their events until July. Always has been restricted number of tickets) as the number of Deluxe Tickets (A weekend pass, like mentioned above). The Deluxe tickets have never before been restricted sale.
This could be a good thing or bad thing. This could mean the horrendous lines and crowding of last year will be gone (of course, by moving back to the North Building, they've fixed that anyways). Last Year, not only were there lines inside to use the escalator to get up to the dealer's room, the escalator broke down for a while. We also reached fire code and had a line over a hundred feet long and at least 5 people deep stuck outside the entrance doors to the convention. We couldn't leave the building to step ten feet and get a hotdog or we would NOT have been let back in.
Of course, this could also be bad, as people who seriously want to go all weekend (but, let's say are on vacation right now and can't buy their tickets), and miss out on the Weekend of Premium passes will have to buy a ticket for each day separate.
Let me demonstrate why this is bad with ticket prices (which change each year, generally getting higher, usually in relation to which high name guests are coming and how long the convention is):
Plain weekend pass (Deluxe Ticket): $85
Weekend + bonus gifts (Premium): $116
Daily (Thurs-Sun): $25, $30, $40, $30 Respectively (all together, $125 plus service charges)
My Grandmother bought my ticket this year (I grabbed one of the premium packages despite not being able to go to any other events this year due to University. I can always give the free access to a friend.) as a Birthday gift. Thankfully they were not sold out of them by morning. I look forward to the convention. I'll likely be consplaying an anime character, for those interested.
Also, to all the people who have watched me recently, thanks for the watches. They were unexpected.
You have caught Wall-of-Text. Dah duh duh. Dah de de de duh duh duh dah!
