BotCon 2010 date and location announced

[Kyle]

I wonder if they picked this location to coincide with the promotion of the new Disney produced TF cartoon...

[Sleeve]

Just changed my reservation. I'd originally reserved to leave on the 27th, but as my flight home was from LA at 11:30pm, I realised I'd never to be able to get from Orlando to there in time. Now my return flight is on the 29th, so I'm staying an extra night in Florida (the 27th) and crashing at a friend's place in LA on the 28th.

[griffin]

You already booked flights?
I was going to wait a few weeks to see if any sales popped up. And if not, some of the current flight options were still okay for me. And even if by chance the flights I want sell out, I should be more flexable this year with time before and after the convention.

[Sleeve]

I'm doing the same as last year, whereby I visit my friend in Illinois for a couple of weeks before I head to Botcon, so wanted to plan early. Whereas last year I flew return to LA, this year I'm flying direct to Chicago but then home from LA, and the price of the flight worked out the same as the last year's return added with a domestic. So I figured same price, better dollar, why not?

The itinerary I have planned I can't see going on sale as such, and even if it does I won't be too fazed.

[Mecheon]

Man I am tempted to go. Just the whole America thing

Anyone up for being a meatshield/doubling up on costs or something?

[griffin]

Disney are offering discounted tickets into their Florida themeparks for BotCOn attendees, but the savings they are quoting look to be way off.
They say that the BotCon rate themepark tickets are up to 10% off, but only look to be about 4% saving. And even if it really was 10% off, I was hoping it would be like half price or something significant. For me, with the amount of money I'll be blowing on toys, a saving of $10-20 for a themepark ticket is rather negligable....

Link to the BotCon discounts - http://www.disneyconventionear.com/BOT

Link to the regular pricing - http://tickets.disney.go.com/buy/TicketTrans

And I think I'll be deciding closer to the event, how many days I have available for checking out the themeparks, and probably buy the tickets later or while there.

[Sleeve]

Oh, how it pains me to do this. Due to a few personal and a lot of financial issues, I've had to cancel my trip. No Botcon for me this year.

[griffin]

Update from the Convention organisors - pre-registration has been delayed another month to early March. Blaming it on setting up online registration (and still not guaranteeing it will be happening), which was what delayed it last year as well. Something they should have been working on earlier so that it was ready for the February pre-registration date.

Even though I might end up being the only one going this year, this is still news for those looking to buy non-attendee packs.

[griffin]

Despite all the claims that registration would be up by February...
Now that the deadline for this year's membership toy has passed, we'll probably see registration forms on the botcon website any day now. Demonac suggested that the delay was more likely intentional, to make sure the majority of people who registered last year had their membership expire to prevent them getting 2 convention discounts from the one membership payment.
Makes sense if true, but why have us believing in the first place that registration would be up in February...