Yeah, the lines do seem like a big turn-off. The only reason I'm partial to AX is that it's in the summer. AWA seems like a really fun con, but it's at kind of a bad time for me. >.< Then again, now that I'm taking fewer classes, it might be more do-able in the upcoming years... Were you thinking of going to AWA this year or next?
I hope Chris had fun despite the lines! I'd be interested to hear how the promotion efforts went!
No AWA for me, since I'm anticipating a pretty hellish yeah between internship and writing my paper. Fall semester in particular since I'm taking so many credits. XP
It'd be fun to go in the future, though! I hope they're able to fit into the sae venue then because I think it's awesome!
I don't know if AX is quite that bad (2-3 events per day due to lines), but then when you think of the volume of 30k attendees and some of the caps for events (300 to 500 for a panel, 2k for a concert, 2k for the cosplay contest, 800 for a dance, 250 for a film)...
Not everyone is going to get to do what they want to do. Period. Short of a lottery, the only answer is lines. The more popular the event, the earlier the line starts. I have attended shows when you literally only got to do one or two things a day during a show that was almost round the clock.
I'm guessing that KK will never have to deal with such crushing numbers, just based of location and experience. By year 3 AX, Anime America, and Fanime were pushing around 8k+ attendance and that was before Anime was shown on network TV and sold in Wal-Mart.
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to be honest.. outside of a few VERY big names.. i'm mostly indifferent about guests and VIPs (unless they are canon shooters).
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I hope Chris had fun despite the lines! I'd be interested to hear how the promotion efforts went!
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It'd be fun to go in the future, though! I hope they're able to fit into the sae venue then because I think it's awesome!
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Not everyone is going to get to do what they want to do. Period. Short of a lottery, the only answer is lines. The more popular the event, the earlier the line starts. I have attended shows when you literally only got to do one or two things a day during a show that was almost round the clock.
I'm guessing that KK will never have to deal with such crushing numbers, just based of location and experience. By year 3 AX, Anime America, and Fanime were pushing around 8k+ attendance and that was before Anime was shown on network TV and sold in Wal-Mart.
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