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sonofsidds Registered: Apr '05	Date Posted: 4/22/05 10:02pm Subject: The Official Celebration Horror Stories... post/complain here. - Date Edited: 7/23/06 10:45pm (3 edits total) Edited By: DVeditor
	here is mine... had nephew and sister fly in from dallas to chicago. (nephews birthday a few weeks ago) drive from rainy chicago to indy... 4 1/2 hours.. get there around 1ish. Go to get nephew some exclusive swag for him to remember the event... NO CELEBRATION STORE OPEN??? it says here it is open to 8pm. huh? sorry we closed it at 10am. WHAT???? 10am???? are you joking? nope we are not...talk to the ceo of gen con over there.... blah blah blah... i am not good at planning try tomorrow... but i have a one day pass... sorry you are ***. then he says quoting him "It is sad if you just came for the figure" implying I am sad. ... I am sad i paid $40 for your lame convention in which i can buy nothing to celebrate it... better yet I will credit card dispute your tickets for false advertising. (You see mr. ceo I would not need the exclusive figure to sell on ebay if your prices for admission were reasonable in the first place) Gen Con what a joke of a company... nice way to ruin any "celebration" i thought my nephew and i may have. Edited title...this is the complaint thread too.
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heels1785 Registered: Dec '03	Date Posted: 4/22/05 10:04pm Subject: RE: celebration horror stories... post here.
	I would have decked that obnoxious guy for calling me "sad." I understand you didn't because your nephew was there, that was good restraint. Yeah, I'd go after them for false advertisement, you should get something. -----signature----- Bunsen Honeydew
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echo-3 Title: Midwest RSA Presiden t Hoosier Alliance Registered: Mar '02	Date Posted: 4/23/05 10:43pm Subject: RE: celebration horror stories... post here.
	"sad" would be overkill, to be sure, but really, you are at a convention with thousands of fellows fans with costumes and exhibits and working R2 units and yet the ONLY way you can think of to "remember" the experience is to shell out money? What about pics? What about video? What about the dealers room? I know that it is intoxicating to hear the word "exclusive" and say "OH MY GOD I JUST GOTTA HAVE IT!", but it is all just overblown pack-rat mob mentality. There is absolutely jack to be proud of in owning the talking vader if 500000 other people have one too. Get a picture with yourself and a few costumes. Those are unique to you, and as far as I am concerned, far more valuable. I flew over 5 states to get here, and I do NOT have a Vader. What I do have is two rolls of film with me enjoying the ambience, and 60 min of video footage. The pics can be framed and put on my wall, and that is going to be infinitely more personal than a talking action figure. -----signature----- http://podcast.hoosieralliance.com/ Bloomington Indiana Fan Force http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hoosier-Alliance/93530527244
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GrandAlmightyMaster Registered: Mar '03	Date Posted: 4/23/05 11:01pm Subject: RE: celebration horror stories... post here.
	amen echo -----signature----- But master you're the one that always told me to feed off the living force. - Anakin http://5acomic.com http://lqarena.com - Live action Laser Tag at its Finest
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ICF Registered: Apr '05	Date Posted: 4/24/05 4:17am Subject: RE: celebration horror stories... post here.
	There were more "exclusives" then just the figure. Maybe they wanted the C3 shirts, the poster (that was sold out) or one of the other items from C3. And you know what, if he (or she) wanted the figure ---that is their perogative and who are you to judge them? GenCon screwed this convention up in a big way...how do you close the store line an hour or 2 after the doors open? How do you get told different stories by every person you encounter. I have no doubt if I asked 4 "event" people which way was up, they would each point in a different direction. What is sad, mr gencon CEO, is that you had years to plan this and it was a big mess and most people I encountered in various lines to get in, to get in the store, to get into the opening cermonies and the rest were not happy campers....
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echo-3 Title: Midwest RSA Presiden t Hoosier Alliance Registered: Mar '02	Date Posted: 4/24/05 4:49am Subject: RE: celebration horror stories... post here.
	just to clarify above post by "ME", I did not post that,I am at the hotel and used there pc and I forgot to log out.SO whoever got on the pc after me posted that messege. Sorry if it upset anyone. E- -----signature----- http://podcast.hoosieralliance.com/ Bloomington Indiana Fan Force http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hoosier-Alliance/93530527244
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SalaciousBCrumb Registered: Apr '04	Date Posted: 4/24/05 6:24am Subject: RE: celebration horror stories... post here.
	im sick of everyones bitching about this thing. i had a great time, and i even got into the store. with like 40000 people going, you have to know that if you want to get into the store everyone wants into, you have to get up and in line very early one morning. as for closing the store, it wasnt like they just said "we dont want to sell anymore". the fact is they already had so many people in line so early, that they didnt let anyone else in so they could get thru those people first. dont blame the store. blame the other thousands of people who got in line ahead of you! and while his tact was lacking, what the gencon rep said is pretty accurate. If your whole visit is based on or ruined by your lack of buying a figure, youre there for the wrong reasons, and you were destined to be disappointed. THAT is kind of sad. Im not saying that YOU are sad. -----signature----- "All life's riddles are answered in the movies" Got a LiveJournal? http://www.livejournal.com Let me know! My friends list needs more people!
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buzz57 Registered: Mar '02	Date Posted: 4/24/05 6:30am Subject: RE: celebration horror stories... post here.
	salacious, then your one of the 40000 people that did like it. -----signature----- I'm very good with my light saber. The force is strong in my family.
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ShaakTi Registered: Dec '04	Date Posted: 4/24/05 8:26am Subject: RE: celebration horror stories... post here.
	You can't go after them for False Advertisement, it's their right to close the store when they want to, it's not illegal, just bad business, get over it and move on. -----signature----- Member of the Quinlan Vos FanClub "Shaak Ti my dear, you've come to rescue me!" Palpatine in Clone Wars Episode 25 e-married to darth_grievous1
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DINVADER_RETURNS Registered: Mar '03	Date Posted: 4/24/05 10:28am Subject: RE: celebration horror stories... post here.
	My beef is they should have had multiple C3 merchandise Kiosks, not just one that people would mob. They said with C2 they learned their lesson, they sadly did not.
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Rictor Registered: Apr '05	Date Posted: 4/24/05 1:52pm Subject: RE: celebration horror stories... post here.
	What they need to do next time for the 30 years of Star Wars convention in 2007 is give out wristbands for the store. Example: blue wristbands would be for 9-10, green 10-11, yellow 11-12, etc and ONLY 500 people per hour. That way you have time to go and do other things before your appointment instead of wasting valuable time standing in impossible lines. Gencon, are you hearing this? Mary Franklin please make a note of this. -----signature----- I am the only gay jedi. http://www.rickriolo.com http://www.geocities.com/gayjedi
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Rebecca191 Registered: Nov '99	Date Posted: 4/24/05 2:12pm Subject: RE: celebration horror stories... post here.
	I was only there Thursday and Friday and except for the line to get in on Thursday didn't really have a bad time. Can't believe the mess with the store, I did get a t-shirt, a JC friend who managed to get on line early picked one up for me but I didn't get any of the other store merchandise. Maybe it was a blessing I had to come home and missed Saturday. And I woke up this morning with an awful cold I'm pretty sure I caught there. But I'm glad I went and I did have a pretty good time. -----signature----- Join the Dark Chocolate Side!
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darthgrouchy Registered: Apr '05	Date Posted: 4/24/05 4:09pm Subject: RE: celebration horror stories... post here.
	From what I heard, the state fire marshall had to close the store due to overcrowding issues - fire hazzard and all. I believe that Gen Con royally screwed up this Con. Nobody had any idea what they were doing. The people at the registers had no idea how to operate them, GenCon people were moving perfectly organized lines into perfectly disorganized messes for no good reason. They really ought to have included the cost of the figures into the price of the badges and sent vouchers with the badges, to be redeedemed at several different locations (other that the store) for the figure. This would have prevented some from making off with boxes of figures - apparently some of the people working the store "forgot" to stamp badges. As for Lucas, I'm not sure that if this is true, but from what I heard was that the original plan was to have George give 1 presentation inside the RCA Dome. As the dome seats some 50,000 people, everyone would have gotten the chance to see him. But as this weeekend was also NFL draft weekend, the Colts took the RCA dome away for their own draft party. Don't know if there is going to be a Celebration 4 but fans better hope that Indiana expands that convention center and that GenCon stops hiring monkeys to organize these events.
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prophecygirl Registered: Apr '05	Date Posted: 4/24/05 4:28pm Subject: RE: celebration horror stories... post here.
	It was fun when I got in line for George Lucas just before midnight, was maybe #250 in line, and then when they moved us inside about 500 people got infront of us somehow. Yet, still greatful that the Hyatt let us inside. The lines were unbelievable, preventing attendance to several shows I really really wanted to see. I was in the store line at 12:15 on opening day (outside line 6am), and they did the lines all wierd so that people who got in line around 11am got ahead of me. That really sucked.
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Darth_Ignant Registered: Oct '01	Date Posted: 4/24/05 4:29pm Subject: RE: celebration horror stories... post here. - Date Edited: 4/24/05 4:31pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Darth_Ignant
	The store did not close at 10 AM. However, there were so many people in line by 10 AM, that anyone else gettign in line after that wouldn't get in by 8PM. I went to the store on Friday. I got in line outside by 5AM in the fan club line, and went straight to the store. After 3 more hours of lining up, I got to the front. So even if you got there by 5 AM, it was still a 7 hour wait. -----signature----- I hereby declare Manchester United FC to be truely the team of craptacular-ness and I accept that epic is correct in his denouncing of them, the team he foolishly supports. LFC FOREVER YNWA.. "Okay. I'm a fat lunatic. Does that make you happy? Does it? "
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OldjediMasterYoda Registered: Apr '05	Date Posted: 4/24/05 4:32pm Subject: RE: celebration horror stories... post here.
	I totally agree the fact the store was so poorly setup run organized etc didnt ruin my weekend but was a major disappointment. I didnt get one single CIII item except the vader figure and I had tp pay a vendor 45 for it, It was cool meeting people in line and the 5 mins of footage they showed was worth the trip but what a terribly run event it was. I also met some awesome Forcers, shout outs to Poodu, Mrksinnie, James Vader, and the great folks who came from overseas -----signature----- This one a long time have I watched, all his life has he looked away, to the future, to the horizon, never his mind on where he was, hmm ?? What he was doing ! Adventure heh excitement heh a Jedi craves not these things Padawan Learner to Droideka27
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