I would agree with Mohammed – SDCC needs to take a look at the potential popularity of some of the panels, whether they are recurring (for a tv series or movie sequel) or new, and stick what they think would be the “crowded panels” at the beginning of the day, or a panel or two in at least. That way folks who want to get in to the bigger ballrooms to see slightly less popular shows/movies can still do so. I think that’d be a more feasible fix for SDCC’s powers that be than capping attendance (What? And lose money?) or raise prices (which they’re doing anyway).

Also, I agree with “Just Christine” on the Castle Panel. In 2009, I didn’t catch it, but tried to get in to the Browncoats panel that Nathan was a part of. Didn’t even make it up to the door. They definitely needed a bigger room, though Nathan made up for it (didn’t need to, but he’s just awesome that way). He headed out during the panel to make way to the Browncoats booth, and stopped for a few minutes for pictures and autographs, so those of us waiting in line got to say a quick hello/nicetomeetyah.

The one thing that I thought that really sucked was Britt’s Garage for The Green Hornet over at the Park at Petco Park. Went over there on Sat. morning about a half hour before they opened at 9:30 to get a shirt and ride Black Beauty. Around 9:20, they are getting ready to open and find that the one car that they will be using will not start and needs to be jumped. One of the models tells us that they are down to the one car because the other two cars that they actually have decked out are not street legal and they have already been pulled over. They finally get the car started, but then they still have to get gas but it should only be 10 minutes. After waiting 20 minutes for the car to come back for gas, we finally give up and leave, which the other people in line in front of us have already done. One of the employees then tells us that they have no control over what happened since it was an “act of God.” Not having enough gas is NOT an act of God. And you would think that if they were gonna bring three cars down for people to ride in, that they would have actually made sure that the cars were all street legal. And why wouldn’t you spend a little more time getting ready, instead of trying to scramble a few minutes before you are going to open? Poor planning and execution of their marketing if you ask me…..Yeah, we did get a t-shirt and we should have left earlier but we waited since we were towards the front of the line….we wasted over an hour that would have been better spent at a panel or with other exhibitors that actually care to present their best foot forward instead of giving excuses.

The camper problem was definitely strong with True Blood though. I say put that thing in Hall H in the morning. I remember three years ago the Simpsons was in that room at 10 am on Saturday.

The Scott Pilgrim Experience was really well done in my opinion. Even though the lines could get long people didn’t leave empty handed. They really stole the promotional show for me. Flynn’s Arcade was cool to.

Best: Big Bang Theory & Chuck intros. Quantum Leap panel

Worst: Getting a Clash of the Titans bag (that’s all I got-I expected the lines-they did suck, but there was always a reward at the end!)

My biggest worst was all the choices that had to be made. Do I stay for the Avengers announcement or do I go to the DC Universe Online party? Not to mention all the other panel choices that had to be made …

Stew