Entertainment Earth SDCC 2018 Exclusives

Entertainment Earth has revealed a good amount of SDCC Exclusives so far. Could there be more? All of these are currently up for pre-order on their website but your best chances are getting them at SDCC as they are sold there first and anything that is left will go to those who placed their orders early enough in the pre-order.

Outside Events at SDCC 2017

Here's some of the events that were outside SDCC which features the Adult Swim on the Green, The Tick, Netflix, FXX, Fox, Blade Runner 2049, AMC Deadquarters, Mr. Mercedes, Syfy, Teen Titans, LEGO Ninjago, King Kong Skull Island and the Petco Interactive Zone. There are tons more events but these were what we saw. Lines for most of these were long with even longer lines during the weekend. Since most of the outside events are open to everyone including those without a SDCC badge you can expect to wait in lines for hours at all the outside events unless certain outside events require a reservation online prior to SDCC.

Pictures below show you some of the outside events.

Cosplay at SDCC 2017

Some of the cosplay that we ran into during SDCC 2017. Most of the time we were standing in line for other events either inside or outside. There's a lot of line waiting.

ConanCon SDCC 2017

We were lucky to get tickets to one of Conan's live taping during SDCC this year. It's always an experience going to a live taping of Conan's show. This year they scheduled 2 shows on one day and we were got to go to the evening taping of Conan's show which featured the cast of LEGO's Ninjago.

Super7 at SDCC 2017

Super7 always has a great showing at SDCC with exclusives and upcoming projects. They had 2 different Pop-Up events at their store in Downtown San Diego during SDCC which was Skeletor's Lair and UNKLE.

The LAIKA Experience at SDCC 2017

The LAIKA Experience was one of the things we really wanted to see. With everything at SDCC, this was a 3-Hour wait and we were there early too. At least it wasn't an 8+ hour wait. This was the last day of SDCC and was a must see before we left San Diego.

If you ever get the chance to see the LAIKA Experience in your city or state, we highly recommend it, especially if you've wondered how Stop-Motion Animation is made. The sets to make these animated movies are so detailed and intricate. Just jaw dropping!

SDCC 2017 Game of Thones Winter is Here Experience

Well, what can we say? Only wait in this line if you are a SUPER DIE HARD GAME OF THRONES FAN! It took us over 8+ hours to get in.  The experience was cool and we love doing a few of them but the people who were running the GOT Experience needs to give out wristbands with a specific time on when to come back instead of making everyone wait in line all day.

SDCC 2017 Recap

This year we attended SDCC as Attendees and not Press due to an error in our application that we made but tried to contact CCI regarding the problem to fix it but they never responded to emails sent. It's quite sad actually, that they couldn't be bothered to answer an email from us especially since we've been covering their shows for over 10 years. Therefore, we have extremely limited coverage of SDCC this year as you can tell from our social media accounts. We enjoyed SDCC without having to schedule out what we needed to cover every day but we still tried to do as much as we could. 

Ok, let's get to Preview Night and the clueless staff sending us on a run around around the convention center trying to get into the line for the exhibit hall. We asked about 4-5 different staff members where the line to get into the exhibit hall and they would all point us to the wrong directions where every time it would lead you either back outside the convention center or back in the area to pick up your bag/lanyard etc...

We were with a group of friends and a few new comic con attendees. The first impression we got was disorganization from CCI staff and whoever else they hired to work during SDCC. After literally going in circles looking for the line, the veteran attendee in us went to work and found our way to the line which was pretty much empty.

Preview Night was the only day that they had this weird setup. It wasn't like the previous years. All the other days, you knew where you needed to go to line up etc... so there was no problem getting into the correct line.

A couple of us were lucky enough to get tickets to one of Conan's shows during SDCC and he had this funny segment from his Monologue called LINECON which is pretty close to what SDCC is if you have never been there. Even the off-site events have LINES and the wait can be quite long as well! More on that later.

In the end, SDCC was great but they still had problems that needs to be fixed. Another thing is we don't understand how they can't get a system in place to do an online lottery for exclusives from Funko, LEGO etc... Obviously, it would cut down on the massive overnight lines and lines in general. There is already a lot of overcrowding in the walkways and areas behind the convention center.

Obviously, we were disappointed in CCI for not responding to our emails but they really need to figure out a better way to communicate with staff throughout the show on where lines should start and end etc... Another big thing they should work on is how to alleviate overnight lines. Why not do an online lottery ticketing system for certain popular exclusives or even Hall H Panels?

Anyways, here's some pictures below of some of things inside SDCC this year. Like we said not many pictures. We usually take a few couple thousand pics but this year we took significantly less.