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Sarah can be a bit naive. Also, it is unclear if Roy Royson is Awesome Roy's ACTUAL name or if he thought it sounded cool.
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February 10th, 2015 | by Trae Dorn
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  1. Nick Schneider
    Nick Schneider
    February 10, 2015 at 12:41 am | # | Reply

    Story of my life. “Wait, what am I doing here? When did I become staff?”

    • Geekfeast
      Geekfeast
      February 20, 2015 at 3:39 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah, that happened to me too XD

  2. Ray Dannelly
    Ray Dannelly
    February 10, 2015 at 8:25 am | # | Reply

    Mine is more something i signed up for years and years ago and they’ve never removed me from the list… I got birthday cards from McDonalds for something like 20 years.

  3. Dessa
    Dessa
    February 10, 2015 at 10:21 pm | # | Reply

    As someone who a) just got a smartphone, b) knows tons of people without smartphones, and c) uses paper schedules anyway, I want to punch Roy.

  4. Blitzkrieg1701
    Blitzkrieg1701
    February 11, 2015 at 12:27 am | # | Reply

    I hated the thought of cons not printing out programs… until I finally got myself a smartphone. Now I get all weirded out any time I’m at a con that DOESN’T use Guidebook or some other online thing.

    • Ed Rhodes
      Ed Rhodes
      February 12, 2015 at 11:01 pm | # | Reply

      One of the things that cheeses me off about RI Comiccon is that while they PROVIDE a program book, it doesn’t have a schedule of events in it. You have to go to the lobby and copy down whatever it is you want to see that they’ve put up on a whiteboard!

      • Trae Dorn
        Trae Dorn
        February 12, 2015 at 11:32 pm | # | Reply

        Isn’t that the same con that had to have fire marshals step in because they oversold the event?

        Paragons of effective management, really. 😛

        • Ed Rhodes
          Ed Rhodes
          February 16, 2015 at 10:11 pm | # | Reply

          Yep, that’s them. I went to lunch early enough that I got back into the con before the hammer came down. A friend I met the next day told me HE’D been locked out because they were over crowded. It’s a thing. I remember Phil Foglio did a strip about a NY Star Trek con where Ticketron oversold the con and something like 14,000 people showed up. Last year they had to make refunds for the people who paid extra for the “Batman” section of the con. Yvonne Craig cancelled months before the event and Julie Newmar (who I’D been looking forward to seeing) had her flight cancelled because some one shot up LAX! Adam West and Burt Ward did the best they could, but they were bored and it showed.

  5. Vanessa M.
    Vanessa M.
    February 11, 2015 at 11:09 pm | # | Reply

    I keep every program book from every con I have attended. Not having one at Otakon just felt weird… I wanted something physical I could bring back to show the staff here, but they were pretty much electronic-only (I heard later there WERE program books, but there were very few printed.)

  6. Chiaroscuro
    Chiaroscuro
    February 14, 2015 at 7:17 pm | # | Reply

    Oh, we’ve had this debate many a time, but it comes down to this:

    Everyone wants one. But most folks leave their pocket program guide in their hotel and asks for another one. We go through 500 extra every convention.

    We made Conbooks an optional grab and cut printing of them by 20-30%, but people want the printed program guide, even if it’s online.

  7. Kay Shapero
    Kay Shapero
    February 17, 2015 at 12:14 am | # | Reply

    Live with it – you print up a batch of schedules (one or two sheets generally does the trick), put them out for people to take as needed, and put up a big one as a poster behind the information desk for when you run out. Yes it’s a good idea to have an on-line schedule – be sure you can update it on the fly. But don’t dare Murphy by depending on it solely. The number of things that can go wrong is scary…

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