congratulations robert. looks guys, one of those rare moments of sanity on the board when a man shows priorities that make sense...

Preliminary list of Exhibitors for 2008 now posted.

ack! this is exactly what happened to me last year! Congratulations and i'm sorry all at the same time.

My Booth number is 4738 I believe. I will be offering a special Salari-Ika and a lot of 'western' exclusives as well. drop by.

Thanks Lurker for starting this thread. It's going to be another painful year. I'm sure I'll see some of you there.

Hey that's right. Hows your boy?

BTW thanks to all the well wishers. I was planning on a SDCC 08 exclusive Combat-R but I guess It'll have to wait till the next big con

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Please note: We have not been allotted enough rooms by the hotels to meet the demand for rooms. Rooms do fill up within the first few hours so you may want to try to book a room directly with the hotel of your choice now.

I tried booking with several hotels directly and they were either all sold out, blocked out or crazy spendly like $450 for an otherwise $150 room!

UPDATE: this post prompted me to try again. I found this site and was able to book a room at Hotel 500 8 blocks from the convention center for $120 a night: but i'm only staying Wed-Fri

I found out it was on top of the local YMCA...lol...

UPDATE

fucking hotel doesn't have bathrooms in each room...they are in the hallway flophouse style. gonna cancel..

http://www.sandiego.org/nav/Visitors

UPDATE: fucking www.sandiego.org SUCKS. DO NOT use this website to book any hotels. They charged me $25 to cancel my reservation at the hotel with no bathrooms.

I live in Escondido(which is about 25 miles north of downtown SD)and my brother Jesse and my homeboy Sam are coming down again from LA so we just stay at my pad and drive about 30-45 minutes to and from the con. It's definitely cheaper than a hotel/room. All that $ will go to more Kaiju and/or Joseph Michael Linsner stuff! To those I hit up already the offers still stand if yous want to save some green. Let me know though because I know of others who would rather crash on a couch or sleeping on the floor than spend $100+ a night...comes out o be about $500-$600 total for lodging....FUCK THAT!!!

i guess that is a hostel.

I booked this place a bit up the road, $140, and recently renovated:

Best Western Yacht Harbor Hotel
5005 N Harbor Drive
San Diego , California

free shuttles to and fro.

maybe i will try on the day and see if anything closer for a decent price otherwise i would rather spend the money on toys

That's what I'm talking about! Mas jugetes!!!

I was planning a solo trip over and had booked to stay within walking distance, but it's kinda turned into a team trip so I'm out on Hotel Circe again (family suite, outdoor pool for the kids etc).

Closer the date, if anyone else ends up that far out and wants to taxi share on a morning drop me a PM . . . psychos need not apply!

ok lurker, i booked a room here too. spoke to the guy at the front desk. He says he's hoping the renovations will be complete by July, but who knows.

and.....no free shuttles. maybe special deal for the convention? $9 cab ride each way.

hmm,

Train access FREE Shuttle on Arrival & Departure ONLY 0800-2000 Daily
Local shuttle Hotel Van

guess i misread

All right! Posse at the Best Western! Seems like it could be cool, 'tho there's no bar

Anyhow, my wife and I stayed at a place right up the road from this one 2 years ago (the Marriott - now crazy expensive), and there were shuttle buses specific to the Con that stopped at pretty much every hotel along this strip. Even if they don't stop directly in front of this one, it's probably a 5 minute walk to where one does stop.

Oh, and Kirkland - I saw that same Hotel 500 place - overjoyed at the price & location, but the shared bathroom thing killed it for me too.

OOOH Rad! Who's putting it out?

just to go back to NYCC for a second...methinks this year will be worth the ticket...it won't be like SDCC (nothing else is)...but I know there will be new stuff we all want there this year...

so dump on it all you want, but this year will actually be worth something.

should someone make a NYCC thread?

maybe as more info comes out...

until then, I'm content to get excited about sdcc this year...and am counting the days until it arrives...

I just wanted to point out that I don't think NYCC will be nearly as crappy this year as it has been...thank the toy gods...

hotel info up, but site is not responsive of course.

Managed to fight through the online mess to finally get a room for this year... ended up at the same place as last year.

(whew)

http://www.thesofiahotel.com/

we're staying here if we go. skylar booked it today. It looks ok on the website, but has anyone heard any horror stories?

wow... that looks nice! Service looks great... they'll even come up and visit your pets if you have any.

aw man.. where was the heads up?
oh well, hopefully my old rooommate will still be in SD still by the time to con hits

I got a post card. it just opened 2 hours ago, so you should still be good.