Calgary Expo: 27 - 29 Apr 2012

[langway05]

Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo

Show Hours

Friday 3pm to 8pm

Saturday 10am to 7pm

Sunday 10am to 5pm

The Calgary Expo offers a fantastic selection of Special Events!

- Metal Mayhem Pre-Show party at the Distillery (This includes a raffle in support of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Southern Alberta for FLOOR seats to Star Trek: TNG EXPOsed!).
- Comic Book Villains Pre-Show party at Ceili's Downtown (This includes a raffle in support of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Southern Alberta for FLOOR seats to Star Trek: TNG EXPOsed!).
- An Evening of Improv with Richard Hatch
- Stan Lee EXPOsed - a cocktail reception with Stan Lee
- James Marsters EXPOsed - a live acoustic concert with James Marsters
- Screenings, screenings and more screenings!

 

[langway05]

Friday of the day for the show to begin, BUMP

We're coming down for the Star Trek ExPosed on Saturday night and then Sunday for the Battlestar Galactica forum.

 

[newfiecomicguy1]

Anyone going? Great chance to hang with Stan Lee.

 

[99goals]

If anyone is going, I would love a stan lee, michael dorn and Levar Burton auto.
Can these be pre ordered?

 

[langway05]

Saturday night was such a blast at Star Trek TNG ExPosed which was well worth the price of attendance.

Attempting to gain access on Sunday was yet another matter. We had purchased passes on Thursday via EventBrite for the Sunday (Apr 29th) event.

Arrived at around 9:30am for 10:00am opening. We were hoping to see the Battlestar Galactica forum (Aaron Douglas, Katee Sackoff & Richard Hatch) at 11:00am. After being shuffled around through three differnent entrances and not being able to have our barcode scanned. For some reason there was a shortage of them... :| Anyways, after about 90 minutes of the run around to gain access we cut our losses without gaining access to the event.

I gotta say, the Promoter way over sold this event. Good for the Promoter, very bad for the attendee's, IMO. We heard on the tv news that the Calgary Fire Dept closed the doors on Saturday at 1200 as they were way over their allowable attendee's limit for occupation...

The Stampede Grounds were kind enough to refund our parking, ($13.00). Now I'm attempting to get a refund from the Calgary Comic Con ($44.38). The money isn't really this issue, the real issue is that the wait to get in was unacceptable. Plus they were still selling day passes on Sunday morning even though the Pre-Paid line to get in was even longer....

Alright, there's my vent.

 

[newfiecomicguy1]

Yikes.....what a frigging nightmare. You should all get refunds plus some free stuff. I am sure they have promotional auto's from the stars.