Originally posted by: lordjedi

Originally posted by: 20th Century Mark

It's run by Gen Con who did a bad job for C3 which is what worries me.

How so?

To many reasons to list here without a massive thread derailment. I was a volunteer at C3. The good thing about volunteering is that I was able to get INTO the convention early every morning (I heard about a lot of people being stuck outside in the line more than 2 hours after it opened). The bad thing about it was dealing with GenCon staff.

Just for example: It wasn't the convention itself that made C3 fun it was the fans. Okay the weather had a huge actor to the dissatisfaction. But GenCon totally blew it as far as organization was concerned. Where the fan club were supposed to get in early, they still had to wait hours to get in even after the doors opened. The lines for the official store were a joke and they frequently ran out of their daily alotments and in fact had to close early on some days. On the first day, my friend waited in line 5 hours before he finally got his stuff. Meanwhile while I and a couple others went in at the same time, they split the line when it opened and we were out of there in an hour and a half. There was allegedly a Fast pass system in place, in fact there was a booth for it. It didn't happen. Most of these exclusive products for CIII were available a week later on swshop.com.

The official CIII party was overpriced, and just plain silly. Long lines for activities and events were the norm there as well. You had to pay for that and for any foods at that party as well. There was a party for all the fan clubs, 501st, Rebel Legion, Fan Force. $35 bought you admission to a room that did not have enough seats, not enough food, and no organization. In fact the celebs that got invited went to the cooler private master replicas party which I attended.

And next year, unless you are a Hyperspace member, you can not go to Thursday's show since that is exclusive to the fan club. So if you are willing to schekel out another $39 for membership into Hyperspace, you are out of luck for an entire day of the con. yes Lucasfilm knows how to milk a franchise and a fanbase for all it's worth