It's kind of hard to follow who is whom with all the anonymous commenting.
I won't go to Dragon*Con, and if you want to dish over the reasons it's not going to happen on LJ, but in a hotel bar or convention party.
Comic-Con International (yes, that's their legal name) is just too much of a mob scene, and they're in a precarious position with their facility (their needs built the San Diego Convention Center, but their needs and volume trigger a greed-frenzy and the convention center and the hotels keep trying to screw with them to get even more money out of the deal, and they're so big that there are maybe two other places they could go in the US). I've got no interest, and if I want my Comic-Con fix I'll get it at SF at Wondercon (their northern show) or APE (their Alternative Press Expo, which is much more to my taste).
Boskone is a great example of how not to manage a scale problem. When Minicon decided to narrow their focus and shrink their convention and did it in a way that pissed off a bunch of their core membership, we referred to it as "pulling a Boskone."
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I won't go to Dragon*Con, and if you want to dish over the reasons it's not going to happen on LJ, but in a hotel bar or convention party.
Comic-Con International (yes, that's their legal name) is just too much of a mob scene, and they're in a precarious position with their facility (their needs built the San Diego Convention Center, but their needs and volume trigger a greed-frenzy and the convention center and the hotels keep trying to screw with them to get even more money out of the deal, and they're so big that there are maybe two other places they could go in the US). I've got no interest, and if I want my Comic-Con fix I'll get it at SF at Wondercon (their northern show) or APE (their Alternative Press Expo, which is much more to my taste).
Boskone is a great example of how not to manage a scale problem. When Minicon decided to narrow their focus and shrink their convention and did it in a way that pissed off a bunch of their core membership, we referred to it as "pulling a Boskone."