San Diego Comic Con

I still can’t believe it happened but it did. Saturday I rolled into the office to purchase San Diego Comic Con badges and left victorious. My squad was six deep but between all of us we had around 11 codes thanks to friends who weren’t planning to attend. Personally I had three different browsers up and running. I entered the waiting room right at 11AM (EST) and then waited an hour for the sale to actually start. My group had a chat going and everyone was just sending stressful gifs back and forth, waiting for the claw to select someone. I was keeping an eye on the CCI Twitter account as they were tweeting out how sales were going. I noticed that Preview Night were almost gone according to them and then around 12:20PM the Con God’s smiled upon me and I was picked to purchase badges. Not only was I picked, but EVERY DAY WAS AVAILABLE. Yes, including Preview Night! I was shaking like a leaf in the wind but I managed to not panic and fill in all the info needed. Then with a few more clicks it was official. I had purchased badges for myself and two others in my group. Then another friend was picked and grabbed badges for two more who only wanted Thursday badges.

I still can’t get over the fact I was able to score every single day. And that I actually entered all the information correctly. We’ve already received the emails with our barcodes and now I feel like we can all let out a giant sigh of relief. This was my first time taking part in the wild west of badge sales. The first time I attended was 2010 and you could just go online and buy them, no issues. Then after that I attended as Press. The stress and nerves on Saturday were out of this world. Bodies are weird with how they react to things! I’m glad I made the choice to come into work though. I’d like to think having a business speed connection helped things, plus there’s no way I could have comfortably had three browsers open while on my laptop at home. Plus I just know the internet would have disconnected for some random ass reason, like a bird landed on a wire or something.

Now the only thing left I need to do is book airfare but I’m still waiting for Southwest to open their schedule. We’ve had our condo booked for a few months now. I still can’t believe how all of this has managed to come together! Did any of you take part in the badge sale on Saturday? Let me know below!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Where thousands of nerds (maybe millions?) gather around their computers to try and purchase San Diego Comic Con badges. Confession, I’ve never had to take part in badge sales before. I’ve gone as Press or early enough (like 2010) where I could just log on and buy them without any fuss. I’ve always just watched from a distance as my fellow nerds tried to make the most out of a stressful situation. I’m actually looking forward to joining them on Saturday. There’s a bit of a rush that goes along with buying in demand tickets. Like back in the day when I’d camp out to buy tickets for Nsync. The nice thing is I can do everything from the comfort of an office and not outside in line at 3AM in the cold.

Right now we have a group of six of us trying to get badges for three of us. The one thing that we have going for us is we all signed up to be volunteers which means we can attend SDCC for “free” after we do our time, as long as we make our shifts. I am looking forward to volunteering but I’d like to have options as well which is why I’m still trying to get a badge for whatever pops up that day, if anything. Two friends in the group are just going with the volunteer angle to save money which makes a lot of sense. It never hurts to have options!

Saturday I’ll be going into the office to use my work laptop and their much better internet. I can’t risk the weather or anything else messing up my connection on Saturday morning! Imagine finally getting picked to make a purchase and then getting disconnected. I think I’d throw my laptop across the room. Are any of you trying to secure badges on Saturday? Let me know! And be sure to watch my Twitter that day as I most likely have a badge induced breakdown!