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<blockquote data-quote="satori01" data-source="post: 1019975" data-attributes="member: 7859"><p>Besides Games Workshop selling Warhammer, Warhammer 2k, and LOTR minatures there was no other RPG representation at all, (Pazio was there mainly pimping star wars insider).</p><p></p><p>The Comic con has grown a lot and is much more dedicated to anime and comics than it ever was in the past. I last went to the con about 10 years ago, a lot of MTG, not so much RPG, at least not so much as in the "old days" in the old convention hall.</p><p></p><p>The culture has changed a bit, commercialy speaking. Before if you wanted anime, the Comic Con was pretty much your best way to discover and buy stuff, and people were willing to make deals and many had their stuff discounted right off the bat,(I bought the original forgotten realms box set as it was released, at the comic con for 20% at the TSR both all those years ago).</p><p></p><p>Everything was much more slick, but the boths were like walking into a video store, and no clerk there was willing to barter. I went so far as to show one clerk on my PDA how cheap it was to buy a particuliar DVD online, in an attempt to cut a deal... no dice.</p><p></p><p>As another aside what happened to downtown San Diego, it became Vancoverish with all the shiek housing, retail, and coporate buisness coexsisting in the same area. I went to go park in the familiar industrial side street I always used to park when I went downtown and rudely found a big friggin baseball park where my space used to be. HOW dare San Diego change in the ten years or so since I had last been there, (and change for the better it looked like). It almost looked like San Diego is having urban flight away from the subburbs back into downtown.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="satori01, post: 1019975, member: 7859"] Besides Games Workshop selling Warhammer, Warhammer 2k, and LOTR minatures there was no other RPG representation at all, (Pazio was there mainly pimping star wars insider). The Comic con has grown a lot and is much more dedicated to anime and comics than it ever was in the past. I last went to the con about 10 years ago, a lot of MTG, not so much RPG, at least not so much as in the "old days" in the old convention hall. The culture has changed a bit, commercialy speaking. Before if you wanted anime, the Comic Con was pretty much your best way to discover and buy stuff, and people were willing to make deals and many had their stuff discounted right off the bat,(I bought the original forgotten realms box set as it was released, at the comic con for 20% at the TSR both all those years ago). Everything was much more slick, but the boths were like walking into a video store, and no clerk there was willing to barter. I went so far as to show one clerk on my PDA how cheap it was to buy a particuliar DVD online, in an attempt to cut a deal... no dice. As another aside what happened to downtown San Diego, it became Vancoverish with all the shiek housing, retail, and coporate buisness coexsisting in the same area. I went to go park in the familiar industrial side street I always used to park when I went downtown and rudely found a big friggin baseball park where my space used to be. HOW dare San Diego change in the ten years or so since I had last been there, (and change for the better it looked like). It almost looked like San Diego is having urban flight away from the subburbs back into downtown. [/QUOTE]
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