Just spent 3 days at the Motor City Comi-con. Friday and Sunday were awesome. Saturday?
Well, in the end I guess it was worth it, but let me put it this way...
1. Last year, the Suburban Collection Showcase Center where it is held put up a record for the MCCC for 17-18,000 people coming in the doors.
2. This was enough for them to get Stan Lee to show up for one day only...which they did.
3. Traffic backed up in the interstate, parked miles away, and got heatstroke to attend. One guy working at the con estimated 25-30,000 showed up.
4. The Showcase was not ready for this. Internet inside the building went down, people with advance tickets (but not special Stan Lee tickets) waited out in 80 degree weather for three hours (most in costume), and the concession lines never went empty.
Now, I know most of you who attend enormous conventions in San Diego and elsewhere are used to long lines for big name celebrities. This is normally the sort of con where a 25 minute wait to get inside the building is considered ridiculous.
Well, at least now they'll know better. And I am happy that Stan signed my copy of Monsters to Laugh With Magazine, and seeing it put a smile on his face.