San Diego Comic Con 4-Day Passes: ON SALE RIGHT NOW!
Yea, 5 years ago, you could pretty much decide you wanted to want a 4-day pass around June and you’d be okay … now apparently, we live in world where in SEPTEMBER the year before – or nearly 9 MONTHS AWAY – you have to start thinking about buying a 4-day pass for San Diego Comic Con 2010 …
There is one big difference this year (besides tickets now $100 for 4 days + preview), you can buy a ticket with the PREVIEW NIGHT option or not – I’m presuming the PREVIEW NIGHT OPTION will sell out first.
Of course, buying the tickets separately won’t save you much money unless you are definitely only attending one day or two days max but if you’re going to be there all week, buying single tickets will cost you around $40-$50 each day. (single day tickets have NOT gone on sale yet). So, if you’re traveling from afar, you might as well get the 4-day ticket + preview but it ALL depends on what you want to do and what your goals are.
If you are a store and you are there to buy to resell or to meet new manufacturers, most of your important contacts are only going to be there Wednesday-Thursday & Friday. Most larger companies staff will leave Friday afternoon.
If you are an eBayer buying to resell or a serious, serious collector, then, of course, you will want to be there Wednesday night (preview) night, Thursday & Friday as some items are limited to a few hundred or 500 and they will be gone possibly by Thursday late …
But if you are interested but not insistent, for the typical large company exclusives, keep in mind the lines are INSANE on Wednesday & Thursday and you can literally be in line for 2 hours to buy the “max” numbers listed (and Wednesday night is only 3.5 hours long). AND in 98% of the cases for “exclusives” at SDCC, they are available online while the show is going on or after (such as the case with Hasbro & Mattel).
Friday is actually the best day to buy. On Wednesday & Thursday, it’s the serious, serious eBay buyers and collectors but they have pretty have bought their fill by Thursday night (by close of Thursday night, they’ll have been at it for about 15 hours) & are pretty much done. On Friday, you could pretty much buy what you want and lines were as short as 2-minutes at Mattel to 5-minutes at Hasbro … and since it’s before the weekend and a working day, there are slightly fewer people as some of the professionals have even left … so unless it’s some item limited to 500, you can pretty much belly up to the bar on Friday and drink your fill.
By Saturday, the lines start to swell back up and sellouts begin to pop up here and there. I think the He-Man book sold out early Saturday and by Saturday night, the Mattel Wonder Twins were gone. The He Man book was only 1,000 copies.
And of course, there is movie-TV-comic book-toy programming all day and all throughout the show so there is plenty to do … at the show.
So, depending on what you want out of the show … but if you’re traveling from a distance, it’s also hard to beat the excitement of the doors opening on Wednesday night so yea, who’s planning for next July – well, now you are if you’re planning on coming to SD.
And in case you’re wondering what Mattel is doing for CARS – it’s still up in the air but so far, it looks like they will be concentrating on Toy Story 3 so CARS will get an exclusive but it might be smaller than this year’s set …
If you’re going – we will see you there!
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17 September 2009
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SDCC registration note:
Buying a 4day pass+ preview night versus indivual Days:
Buying a 4day pass+ preview night you register ONCE on Wednesday.
Buying a 4 day passes on indivual Days: You have to register EVERY DAY and loose your place in the Line of those that allready are bought.
Yes 2 lines perday if you buy individual days.
ONE LINE perday if you buy a 4 day+ pass
I am definitely going, but I swear this time I will go to more panels! Thank goodness my sweeties are free for another 5 years :). I have already pledged to have a Take5 party at my house and let Kevin use my garage for his shipping activities. Bring it T5ers!
Martin gave us several clues as to the Cars exclusive for next year. It will be a single Car and will be in an acrylic case like the LSMcQ and we will love it. I guess that last part goes without saying eh?
well that settles it…. I almost positive I am going!!!
I’m almost positive….. smurfs….
Woot! It surely would not be the same without you 🙂
Is this Monica if so hi Monica how are you and the family.
Indeed Nikko, changed my name to match my Twitter account :). We are all doing well thank you, immersed in our first weeks of Kindergarten, a whole new adventure that begins waaaaay too early in the morning. Hope all is well with you too! Have you made your big move yet?
(MET: I believe the workday should be structured just like the K days … I take numerous naps, I read books with pictures of CARS and I learned if you squeeze your juice box too hard, oh oh – SPILL!, not as much juice to drink though Aristole the Ferret enjoys Blazing Grape® on the floor … and I get two snack breaks – though at noon, I put on the suit and work my way through the rat race butchering innocent salespeople from Des Moines …).
Well I hope they don’t sell these out too quick. I REALLY want to go next year, but it is a LONG trip for me. Lyndsee are you going?? It is hard to decide right now, 9 months in advance if I can go or not. But I would hate to miss the 4 day pass with preview… ugh 🙁 Lets hope these don’t sell out too quickly !!
Road TRIP!!!!! NOW is the EASIEST time to make this choice . . . unless you are attending a wedding!! Go enjoy . . . SCORE!! 🙂
I am seriously thinking about going….. a lot can change between now and then!!! And I also have a date with chuki_mama, so I really do need to go!!!
You can buy now, then if “something suddenly comes up” just cancel. I’m planning to dress up too.. 😉
ooooooo…. who are you going as????
Definitely NOT Thunder Thighs “Wonder Woman”.. Not sure, but something with a cape…
if we all go again…. I think we should go as some kind of “team”….
I want to wear a Cod Piece!!!
don’t you already wear one????
Yes!! Team Take5 or something and tackle Matty! Maybe we can borrow some football gear..
that would be hilarious!!!!!!!! Anybody else in????
oh, oh, oh, I know…… ZOMBIE football players!!!! 😆 Then we’d fit right in!!
I am totally in!!! Road Trip and Costumes – Here we come!
Yippee!! 😀
I am in too 🙂
Even better!!!
Anyone in or near Utah can ride down with me.
My 4 Day Plus Preview Night is bought
hmmm….. wonder if I could get away with the military price… active now, but not in July…..
Who is that on your Avatar?
BatChipmunk?
Mighty Mouse?
Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears is an American animated television series that aired in the United States in the mid-1980s through the early 1990s.
Cubbi Gummi – The youngest Gummi. An aspiring knight, he is always looking for adventure and often finds it. Because of his youth, he is often not taken seriously by the others, which is frequently a mistake. When fighting crime at Dunwyn, he uses the masked identity of the Crimson Avenger (THE AVATAR PICTURE), which he assumed soon after Calla dubbed him “the unseen defender of Dunwyn” for saving her from Igthorn.
very good work , sir….
was one of my favorite cartoons growing up….
I watched Animaniacs. (Yakko, Wakko & Dot)
I loved that cartoon too. Also one of my favorites growing up. This and My Little Ponies and Snorks 🙂
I FEEL SO OLD!!!!
That’s because you are! I kid, I kid 😉 (no pun intended…)
Me too 🙁
I remember watching the Justice League (ya-know Batman, Superman, Aquaman….) but the were called “Super Friends” AND they had 2 geeky kids and Wonder Dog. (NOT Zan, Jayna & Gleek)
Wendy and Marvin! I keep asking Mattel to make them in their DC Classics line.. SDCC exclusive? ….. they said very unlkely, but hey at least they actually acknowledge the collectors of their other lines…
I never understood why, but I actually liked the Snorks…. at least until theydumped Dimmy and brought in ‘jump the shark’ JoJo….
geez he was annoying…
From the registration area on 2010 SDCC site:
50.00 ( regualr price is 100.00)
Senior (60+) and Active Military 4 Day Membership, July 22-25, 2010 (includes Preview Night July 21st). Active Military with ID can pay the Sr. price. The Military pricing does not extend to dependents.
Hey Met, any contest to guess the sell out date? Looks like there will not be much room for scalpers to resell their tickets/registrations with photo identification required.
(MET: Yea, no scalping allowed but for those wavering, keep in mind, you can request a refund until June 21, 2010 … but you have to do it by mail …).
What are you offering as a prize Steve????
9 months in advance, I wonder if COmic Con will be a boy or a girl??
It’s too early to tell.. Have to wait until the second trimester.. 😆
What if it’s twins???
Awwwww…. come on Met………gaze into the crystal gearshift knob and tell us what Mattel has in store for us 😀
I wish they did something like this over here in the UK. The only thing we’ve ever really had was Star Wars Celebration Europe. It’s another one of those “only in America” things – it’s not fair!
Jon
(MET: You have the Running of the Bulls and Masked Balls, we have combined the two of big beef packed into a room with a hundred thousand people who are being circulated around a room without their feet touching the floor … plus toys & comics … 🙂 ).