Preview Night at #sdcc is three hours worth of the next four days.

It's also when everyone crams towards the toy company booths looking for exclusives.
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Day Zero of #sdcc can be handled one of two ways: Fly out early on Tuesday or fly out and get into San Diego in time to go to bed.
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The #sdcc prep is almost complete.

The roller is packed. Rolled all the clothes fit on one side while the other side is empty. iPad carry on may get repacked. All electronica devices will be charged tonight. Going to leave the battery mount home this time. And any liquids are in a plastic bag.

Happy to see SDCC has posted a restaurant guide and ( Read more... )

So, with the full schedule of #sdcc unleashed upon us here are some panels that I'm going to attempt...
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Originally posted by seanan_mcguire at Seanan's Guide to Surviving the San Diego International Comic Convention, 2011 Edition.
Every year around this time, someone says to me "Gosh, I've never been to the San Diego International Comic Convention before. I don't see what the big deal is. I really don't believe it's as big as everybody tries to make me think it ( Read more... )

I'm not going to repost the same information from last year, it's over here.

There really isn't much I can add to what everyone else has recommended.

What I can suggest is a few things I learned from last year.

First, if anyone coming in from out of town and using a DSLR Camera and have a battery mount might as well leave it either at home (to save ( Read more... )

So, the current news from the world of Comic Con is: Movie Studios will not be showing much this year at Con and Cowboys and Aliens is premiering on 7/23 at San Diego Civic Theater for a lucky 2000.

This isn't so bad in the long run. The gawk factor is less and then hopefully so will be the lines.

I think the lack of Movie Studios at Hall H will be ( Read more... )

So, the current news from the world of Comic Con is: Movie Studios will not be showing much this year at Con and Cowboys and Aliens is premiering on 7/23 at San Diego Civic Theater for a lucky 2000.

This isn't so bad in the long run. The gawk factor is less and then hopefully so will be the lines.

I think the lack of Movie Studios at Hall H will be ( Read more... )

So with admission tickets saga now over and the Hotel reservation not the bloody mess most of us expected the next step in San Diego Comic Con Saga begins:

Airline tickets.

I hope everyone finds the flights and prices they are looking for.

Originally published at RKB Writes. You can comment here or there.

Thank you to Crazy 4 Con for reminding me about: SDCC Hotel Registration.

Tomorrow.

9 AM PST.

Here's a PDF of the hotels.

The one and only place to be is the #sdcc channel to watch the carnage unfold.

Course, all will be for naught if the airline ticket prices keep rising...

Originally published at RKB Writes. You can comment here or there.