14 SEPTEMBER 2015
If you haven't already done so, log into your Member ID account this second and validate your attendee badge from this summer. Today is the last day to do so; CCI's world-famous Toucan blog says, "you must validate your Comic-Con badge number before September 15, 2015."
Fail to do so and you can't take part in Pre-registration later this fall. You've been warned.
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Pre-reg will be in November
5 AUGUST 2015
If a month ago today you had pre-Comic-Con butterflies in your stomach, you should have gotten an email just a short while ago telling you to validate yourself for Pre-registration. This is for 2015 attendees only; not pros, not vendors, not guests, not people who stood outside and looked longingly at the convention center. Just those of us with a 2015 attendee badge.
I'll get to the process in a minute. Here's what matters: the deadline. Which is 15 September 2015.
Last year's window between validation and Pre-reg, if you're curious, was this: the validation deadline was 15 October and Pre-reg was 8 November. But that doesn't mean we'll have an October Pre-registration; it will be after Halloween per CCI. So, same timeframe as last year. A day of victory, loss and heart-racing anxiety in an otherwise blah month.
Onto the validation process. You'll log into your Member ID account, select "Registration Info" and then click the button telling you to validate your badge. You'll enter the number at the bottom of your badge. Then the system will give you a "successful validation" message and you'll close out of the system with a false sense of optimism and accomplishment.
Pre-reg is coming! Though not for a while.
If a month ago today you had pre-Comic-Con butterflies in your stomach, you should have gotten an email just a short while ago telling you to validate yourself for Pre-registration. This is for 2015 attendees only; not pros, not vendors, not guests, not people who stood outside and looked longingly at the convention center. Just those of us with a 2015 attendee badge.
I'll get to the process in a minute. Here's what matters: the deadline. Which is 15 September 2015.
Last year's window between validation and Pre-reg, if you're curious, was this: the validation deadline was 15 October and Pre-reg was 8 November. But that doesn't mean we'll have an October Pre-registration; it will be after Halloween per CCI. So, same timeframe as last year. A day of victory, loss and heart-racing anxiety in an otherwise blah month.
Onto the validation process. You'll log into your Member ID account, select "Registration Info" and then click the button telling you to validate your badge. You'll enter the number at the bottom of your badge. Then the system will give you a "successful validation" message and you'll close out of the system with a false sense of optimism and accomplishment.
Pre-reg is coming! Though not for a while.
Pre-registration and validating your badge
31 JULY 2015
CCI's Toucan blog announced something we already knew/guessed; the number at the bottom of your badge is critical for Pre-registration. And there's going to be another "window of validation."
For those of you who went to SDCC for the first time this summer, and thus are embarking on your first Pre-registration ever, here's how this works.
You'll get an email notifying you that you have a certain period in which to log into the system and "validate" your Member ID for Pre-registration. You'll do this by entering your badge number. Here's the email from last year:
As for Pre-registration, that functions as a lottery much like the Open Registration you took part in earlier this year. Only 2015 attendees can participate, but only a portion of badges are available. So yes, it increases your odds of going in 2016 but it's nothing to feel overly confident about since the demand still outweighs the supply.
I know everyone is all about the when of Pre-reg; it's tempting to read into this announcement as a hint that validation and the subsequent actual sale could happen earlier this year. Last year was November and the year before was February, though that delay was due to a new system being tested.
I'd say it's highly possible that Pre-reg could happen earlier this year since CCI seems fairly settled on the process. But if you're frantically trying to set up a buying group now, I'd wait. Things can shift quickly in terms of peoples' priorities. Once the official validation window hits, you can start making arrangements then.
Finally, if you lost your badge or an absent-minded roommate tossed it, I'd contact CCI now and throw yourself on their mercy. They may or may not help you out by looking up your badge number but it's worth a shot.
Overall, it's rather incredible to feel this far out from the Con and be thinking of Pre-reg when we're still in (okay, the last minutes of) July. Although - please indulge my old-timer's reminiscence - it wasn't that long ago when we all pre-registered onsite in the Sails Pavilion and never thought about SDCC again until hotel reservations opened up. It's the year-round pervasiveness of Comic-Con that's different these last few years.
CCI's Toucan blog announced something we already knew/guessed; the number at the bottom of your badge is critical for Pre-registration. And there's going to be another "window of validation."
For those of you who went to SDCC for the first time this summer, and thus are embarking on your first Pre-registration ever, here's how this works.
You'll get an email notifying you that you have a certain period in which to log into the system and "validate" your Member ID for Pre-registration. You'll do this by entering your badge number. Here's the email from last year:
As for Pre-registration, that functions as a lottery much like the Open Registration you took part in earlier this year. Only 2015 attendees can participate, but only a portion of badges are available. So yes, it increases your odds of going in 2016 but it's nothing to feel overly confident about since the demand still outweighs the supply.
I know everyone is all about the when of Pre-reg; it's tempting to read into this announcement as a hint that validation and the subsequent actual sale could happen earlier this year. Last year was November and the year before was February, though that delay was due to a new system being tested.
I'd say it's highly possible that Pre-reg could happen earlier this year since CCI seems fairly settled on the process. But if you're frantically trying to set up a buying group now, I'd wait. Things can shift quickly in terms of peoples' priorities. Once the official validation window hits, you can start making arrangements then.
Finally, if you lost your badge or an absent-minded roommate tossed it, I'd contact CCI now and throw yourself on their mercy. They may or may not help you out by looking up your badge number but it's worth a shot.
Overall, it's rather incredible to feel this far out from the Con and be thinking of Pre-reg when we're still in (okay, the last minutes of) July. Although - please indulge my old-timer's reminiscence - it wasn't that long ago when we all pre-registered onsite in the Sails Pavilion and never thought about SDCC again until hotel reservations opened up. It's the year-round pervasiveness of Comic-Con that's different these last few years.
You validated your badge, right?
13 OCTOBER 2014
Final reminder - you have until 5:30 PST on 15 October to validate your badge for Pre-registration.
I'm pretty sure 98% of us did this within days if not hours of the initial email, because that's who we are. But if for some reason you've dawdled, do it now. Otherwise you'll be shut out of November's sale.
Final reminder - you have until 5:30 PST on 15 October to validate your badge for Pre-registration.
I'm pretty sure 98% of us did this within days if not hours of the initial email, because that's who we are. But if for some reason you've dawdled, do it now. Otherwise you'll be shut out of November's sale.
Did you validate yourself for SDCC Pre-reg?
30 SEPTEMBER 2014
Guess what tomorrow is? October. That's one month away from the magical month of Pre-registration, and only two weeks from the deadline to validate your eligibility.
That's right - the deadline for going into your Member ID account, selecting Registration Info, and entering the number at the bottom of your badge is 15 October at 5:30 pm PST. If you don't do it, you can't participate in Pre-registration.
And here's again my caveat to stave off all the confused emails I'll probably get anyhow - Pre-registration is only for people who attended San Diego Comic-Con this past summer. If you were not milling around the convention center with an attendee badge in July 2014, this has nothing to do with you. Ignore anything called "Pre-reg." Your turn will come - assuming you've created a Member ID - next spring, when Open Registration is held.
Sorry to keep repeating myself, but you would not believe the number of people who email me in a panic because they think this is the only badge sale ever for Comic-Con. It's not.
I know Pre-reg might seem like an unfair advantage for previous attendees, but it does ensure that a large number of attendees really enjoy being there and know what they're getting into, as opposed to the first-timers who think it's the biggest hot mess ever. And it's still a lottery, so really it just gives 2014 attendees two rounds at the Comic-Con game of chance. It's entirely possible to not get picked at either badge sale - depressing as that thought may be.
Guess what tomorrow is? October. That's one month away from the magical month of Pre-registration, and only two weeks from the deadline to validate your eligibility.
That's right - the deadline for going into your Member ID account, selecting Registration Info, and entering the number at the bottom of your badge is 15 October at 5:30 pm PST. If you don't do it, you can't participate in Pre-registration.
And here's again my caveat to stave off all the confused emails I'll probably get anyhow - Pre-registration is only for people who attended San Diego Comic-Con this past summer. If you were not milling around the convention center with an attendee badge in July 2014, this has nothing to do with you. Ignore anything called "Pre-reg." Your turn will come - assuming you've created a Member ID - next spring, when Open Registration is held.
Sorry to keep repeating myself, but you would not believe the number of people who email me in a panic because they think this is the only badge sale ever for Comic-Con. It's not.
I know Pre-reg might seem like an unfair advantage for previous attendees, but it does ensure that a large number of attendees really enjoy being there and know what they're getting into, as opposed to the first-timers who think it's the biggest hot mess ever. And it's still a lottery, so really it just gives 2014 attendees two rounds at the Comic-Con game of chance. It's entirely possible to not get picked at either badge sale - depressing as that thought may be.
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