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If you've been enjoying the sublime weather of San Diego at the latest Comic-Con -- or look forward to its balmy climes in the future, don't get too comfortable.A lot has changed since the first Comic-Con gathered in 1970 with roughly 300 fans in attendance. Attendees now number at over 125,000, and recently it sold out of all its tickets before the event even started for the second year in a row -- and even sooner, this time. With demand for the convention now outpacing the ability of the San Diego convention center to contain it, and the contract with the city set to expire in 2012, it's been reported that Comic-Con organizers have been flirting with other locations -- namely, Los Angeles and Vegas.
Now rumors are swirling that they've gotten even more serious about seeing other cities, and have given San Diego an ultimatum: start building an expansion for the convention center by 2011, or we're out of here -- a difficult demand during difficult economic circumstances.
What do you think? Would you support a move to another city, or are you hoping that that the Con stays put?
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Saturday 25 July
By Andy G.
I would definitely miss San Diego as the site of the Con. I have been going on and off since '89 and it would not seem like the same convention somewhere else. That being said, having waded through the city and convention floor traffic this year again, I am ready for a bigger setting with more available public transportation. The question I have is: Would the Con use more floor space to cram in more exhibitors or would they make the aisles wider to try to alleviate some of the overcrowding?
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Tuesday 28 July
By Darren Ellis
I have never been to SDCC and will not go because of the congestion I have read about. However, I will absolutely be there if they move to Vegas. I hope it happens. 1 week for the con, 1 week for poker.
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Friday 18 September
By Jeremy Becker
I have never been to comic con but I know its a purely homegrown San Diego convention thats infuses millions of dollars into San Diego's economy and puts us on the international map.....I thinks its ABSOLUTLEY PATHETIC that San Diego government's continued small minded, small time mentality risks us losing Comic Con to LA or Vegas because we wont expand the convention center. Its just like how the city is about to lose our professional football team, the Chargers, because we wont build a new stadium...
I dont know why the people of this city allow this backwater provincial approach but we are going to LOSE all the very things that are BORN AND BRED in San Diego.
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