Disasterous Conventions and Great conventions.

Treadwell said:

1. The con had sold vacation packages that included tickets and hotel rooms, but somehow the hotel wasn't paid (or the hotel thought they weren't due to poor bookkeeping), so guests arrived to the hotel to find they had no reservations and no tickets....and the hotel was full. Some guests who did manage to check in under their expected reservations had notes slipped under their doors asking them to vacate.
2. the hotel was pocketing all of the onsite ticket sales due to this perceived non-payment, and was about to shut the entire con down when the organizers appeased them by passing the hat among dealers and guests alike--- they handed over a big garbage bag full of cash.
3. as part of the con, but at a different venue, was an elaborate stage show with the entire cast...that no one went to. Partly because the convention was not using the local unioned event planning company (which had an almost "protection racket" sense of entitlement for a piece of every event in town) for anything but ticket sales for the show, so they did underhanded things to thwart attendance, like telling people who called to buy tickets that it was sold out (when thousands of seats were available).
4. there was also no one actually running that show, so Walter Koenig took the lead and made it as good as it was. There were also audio problems and a firework or something went off in the audience.
5. and THAT show was almost shut down, too, the venue saying THEY hadn't been paid, either.

it just goes on and on....

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ddspike22 said:

I used to go to the Philly comic con every year starting around 2009 but I haven't gone since 2014 because it's just become way too crowded. I remember the first time I went there Norman Reedus and Sean Patrick Flannery were signing together and you could just walk up to their table and chat. Now I'm not sure Flannery even comes because Norman has absolutely massive lines.

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