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I highly doubt I will be going. I was at Celebration III, and it was insane. I spent too much of my time waiting in lines and getting frustrated with how badly organized it was... it's like they said "these are Star Wars fans, they're famous for waiting in lines for days, even weeks for a good seat at a movie - they won't object to waiting hours for an event, when there are a dozen different events going on at once, that they have to miss because they're waiting in line!"
The volunteer staff had less training on how to handle a situation like that, than at any convention I've seen with one-tenth the attendance. I ended up getting a couple offers to join the staff because a few people knew that I knew what I was doing, and my response was that I had little enough time to fit in a third of what I wanted to do there, why would I want to have even less time just to get a free t-shirt and a partial refund of the con ticket (which was one of the cheapest parts of the whole thing, compared with plane fare and hotel tickets).
All that, plus I hate Los Angeles, and if I ever see it again, it will be too soon.
For quite a while I was pushing on the sw.com forums, to having a touring Celebration IV, with smaller conventions at different locations around the country. I'd be more likely to follow that tour around and go to ten conventions each with a few thousand people, than go to another one with thirty thousand people.
All that said, I still may break down and figure out a way to attend, if they add an event that I just cannot miss.
-Scourge
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Dark Sith Lord of the Council, Historian to the Empress
Master to Vulpine, Sith Apprentice
Under the Dark Patronage of Lady Lumiya
"You truly are evil."
-Abel Peņa, Star Wars EU writer, to me
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. I guess a little bribing would be in order or I could always sneak out but I think the would notice me being gone.
