Hearing rumors of the first #ComicConFinland. Didn’t visit myself personally, but my wife and daughter were there yesterday. It was a brief visit because they couldn’t breathe. Top highlights:
Way too many people packed in one space and only one exit (they opened another later). People got stuck inside and got panic attacks, because were not able to leave. My wife and daugher waited 15 minutes to get out.
Barely any security around
Understaffed in each aspect, no medical around
No organized lines, people made up the lines themselves and it was a mess, lines didn’t have any progress, some lined up for 8 hours without getting to meet their heroes that they paid for. Those who did get to meet, stayed babbling there for 30 minutes. Nobody controlled the meets.
They sold extra tickets even though everything ran out already
From 10000+ visitors only 800 were able to fit in to the public Q&A, no screens were provided for the rest of them
Everything sold out really quickly and the rest of the stuff were cheap fake crap
No comicbooks found, well why bother in Comiccon right?
No organized hall, everything thrown to the same space
No water points
These from the top of my head, serious issues, what a shitshow… social media representatives boost only the positive sides. Visitors’ comments paint a different picture.
@rolle a friend of mine was there, too, and criticized exactly these things you listed. Especially the chaotic waiting and huge crowds without proper organisation were the worst and on the whole the con was a disappointment to them.
@rolle well, if your only measure of success is the number of visitors, technically you are right about the con being a success. If you count in other indicators as well, the success rate probably becomes negative.
I hope that the visitors would raise these negative sides in their blogs/ vlogs/ social media posts during next week so maybe some newspaper would pick up from there and challenge the over positive view of the organizers.
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