Forum - View topicNEWS: SPJA Comments on Anime Expo 2017's Saturday Security Line Fiasco
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leafy sea dragon
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I DID get a badge on Day -1 and still spent three hours in line to get in. This is because the lines to get badges got mixed up with the line to get into the building, meaning it wouldn't have mattered when I got my badge. Though it looks like it was relieved when they opened up more entrances (I would've waited even longer had the Pico Boulevard entrance not opened when I was getting close to there). I think the problem was a lack of staff and volunteers outside to direct pedestrian traffic, causing people to get confused as to which line was which. I think it's also due to Anime Expo being Saturday to Tuesday this time rather than the usual Thursday to Sunday. Thursday to Sunday means you have people getting their badges more gradually than this, when tens of thousands of people decide to all get their badges on Saturday morning.
Does this mean people would have to get a new bag every time they left and got back in? Over the four days I was there, I entered the convention center about a dozen times. Would that mean I needed to walk back to the parking lot, dropped off my bag, and get a new bag every time?
Is that what was going on? That explains why I had no problems getting a nice seat at the Welcome Ceremony despite being 15 minutes late, yet I was in the first row of the line for the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure panel and couldn't find a seat. I had figured there were massive numbers of Premiere Pass people or something.
Yeah, take it from me, who just got back from Anime Expo 2017: The line problem has never been this bad from the seven or eight years I've gone there as it was on Saturday, with the exception of that year when their systems went down completely. It was fixed by Sunday. The lines were clearly defined, and there was never more than 20 people or so for each line. Last year, for instance, was pretty efficient.
The Studio Trigger panel was capped, but it was capped poorly such that the room filled up when there were maybe 500 people lined up outside the ballroom. I was part of that line... |
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Cyan Bloodbane
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AX could have avoided this issues a decade ago by mailing people their badges a month or two before the event.
Why they never even gave it an attempt, I have no idea. |
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crosswithyou
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It depends on the room and the event. Certain rooms were cleared, some others were not. From their website:
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leafy sea dragon
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Ah, thank you. Most of the panels I wanted to attend happened to be in the not-cleared list, apparently. Well, that's my luck for you. I didn't check on the site as the thought never occurred to me that rooms might not be cleared until I read the posts here.
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crosswithyou
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I happened to see someone complain about the same thing on Twitter and AX just responded saying that it's outlined on their website. Unrelated, but I'm also hearing cases of staff taking some priority autograph tickets for themselves and restrictions on what items can't be signed not being announced ahead of time. All you can do is shake your head. |
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Caloris
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Mailing does not work. Posting badges just creates more problems for very little, if any, gain. There are ways to fix reg line problems that do not involve the time and resource waste of mailing. Have a look at the new reg policies. They will only ship to US and Canada address. They will only ship to an address once, and only if reged prior to a set date (possibly in April). People will still have to go to the on day reg area to collect anything normally given out at reg (eg lanyard, program book, etc) as only the badge will be shipped. This makes shipping pointless, as people will still have to go to reg anyway. |
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#873010
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Makes me wonder what the legal limit actually is. And I'm not quite sure what the second answer means. Was he trying to say all 100k people weren't in the convention center at the same time? Sure some of them were outside just socializing, resting, or doing cosplay related gatherings or shoots but it's absolutely packed for most of the panels and showings to the point where people at the ends don't even realize it and still hang around for naught. |
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leafy sea dragon
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That sentence in the second sentence is grammatically incorrect (though I wouldn't blame anyone for not producing perfect English when put on the spot), so it's hard to infer what it actually means. My best guess is that he's saying Anime Expo gets about 100,000 attendees or was expected to have around that number, but there wasn't anywhere close to that number on the premises, as not everyone is going to be there at all times. For instance, I had a 4-day pass, which makes me one of those hundred thousand, but I wasn't present for most of Day 3 because it was a normal workday for me. |
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