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Con Job - NYAF and NYCC Combine to Form NYCAFC...or something
Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 07:35PM
News out today is that NY Comic Con and NY Anime Fest are going to be held at the same time in the same location come October 8th, 2010. Since this is a local con for me, and since I have attended both CC and AF, I thought I'd give an opinion - this is going to Suuuuuuuuuuuck.
New dealers room at NYAF
There are probably a hundred benafits and business reasons to do this, but the fact is both NYCC and NYAF use about 2/3 of the Javits Center and NYCC, at least, always sells out. Now double that and you have a 4/3 full convention center and more than a sold out con. Something will have to give. And I don't worry about the quality, or one con overshadowing the other, but the simple truth is you can not MOVE during the busy times at either of these cons. And no matter how many voice actors, exclusive showings or free toys a con has, the thing that kills my fun the fastest is unmanaged crowds.
I worry about the lines at the bathrooms, too
The only way this will work is to cap attendance, so you better get registered early. I'm curious if they will overlap the programming (Marvel anime anyone?) or keep it totally my side/your side between comics and anime. I can't imagine there will be two dealers rooms. I would say the overlap in comic/anime fandom is on the order of 50%, so you are going to have nearly a majority of people there only for one con or the other. There are going to be tussles. Will the narutards disgust the comics-are-high-art crowd? Will the manga haters boycott the dealers room? This is going to be a clash of religious war proportions. I am so there.
New dealers room at NYAF
There are probably a hundred benafits and business reasons to do this, but the fact is both NYCC and NYAF use about 2/3 of the Javits Center and NYCC, at least, always sells out. Now double that and you have a 4/3 full convention center and more than a sold out con. Something will have to give. And I don't worry about the quality, or one con overshadowing the other, but the simple truth is you can not MOVE during the busy times at either of these cons. And no matter how many voice actors, exclusive showings or free toys a con has, the thing that kills my fun the fastest is unmanaged crowds.
I worry about the lines at the bathrooms, too
The only way this will work is to cap attendance, so you better get registered early. I'm curious if they will overlap the programming (Marvel anime anyone?) or keep it totally my side/your side between comics and anime. I can't imagine there will be two dealers rooms. I would say the overlap in comic/anime fandom is on the order of 50%, so you are going to have nearly a majority of people there only for one con or the other. There are going to be tussles. Will the narutards disgust the comics-are-high-art crowd? Will the manga haters boycott the dealers room? This is going to be a clash of religious war proportions. I am so there.
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