Blew a whole Saturday at a con in Chicago last summer

The convention floor was a zoo. Parents just let their kids run wild. One kid knocked over a stack of long boxes and nobody helped the seller. I saw an older guy trying to sell a raw Amazing Spider-man 300 for cover price and three people laughed at him. Has anyone else stopped going to big cons because the vibe is just off now?

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olivias8813d ago

That Amazing Spider-man 300 story actually sounds like a win to me. I was at ECCC in Seattle last spring and saw a guy walk in with a full shopping cart of old toys and comics like he was at the grocery store. The chaos is part of the experience, it keeps things real. If everyone was polite and nothing got knocked over you'd just be at a fancy art gallery instead of a con. And honestly the kids screaming and running around remind me why I got into this stuff in the first place, to have fun not to treat it like a museum.

rosejackson13d ago

Respectfully disagree with the chaos being part of the fun. I watched a kid knock over a full display of graded slabs at a smaller show last year and the owner just stood there with this dead look in his eyes while the parent shrugged and walked off. That's not keeping things real, that's just rudeness with a side of entitlement. The old guy getting laughed at for asking cover price on a 300 tells you everything about how the culture has shifted. I still go to smaller local shows where people actually act like human beings, but the big cons feel more like a haul video audition than a community.

calebrivera13d ago

Yeah, I used to roll my eyes at people complaining about big cons until I watched a dad let his kid kick over a $500 statue and just walk away.

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