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The Official HISS Tank.com SDCC Thread (Comic Con)
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07-27-2008, 03:43 AM
Gaelinic
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A clarification for some fans. It's 12:30 a.m. here and I've been at the con every morning for over 12 hours each day. I'm tired and cranky.
Anyway, Hasbro lied on Friday. They had not sold out of the Blue Cobra Commander. On Saturday morning, they magically appeared again. They were sold out by noon. That sucked if you didn't have a ticket to get in the Hasbro line before noon. [side note: Hasbro used a time slot ticketing system from Thursday through Sunday to space out the buyers throughout the day.]
Anyway, as of Saturday night, they have not sold out of Black suited Cobra Commanders. But the new sticker over the Blue-suited Cobra Commander says, "Sold out at Show." This suggests the Blue suited CC will be offered at some point after the con, but very limited.
The limit was 2 Black Suited CC and 1 Blue suited CC per attendee. This was heavily enforced through a punch system on your badge. Unless you had more than one badge, you couldn't exceed that limit. The only ones that could overcome this system were exhibitors, essentially vendors. Each exhibitor is alloted a number of badges according to their booth. Doesn't matter if those people are there or not. So, vendors kept switching out badges for fresh ones. Also, they could have them reprinted all over again by going to the badge booth.
I know this because I got in the SDCC using a vendor's badge. He sells animation cells and is friends with my father-in-law. And no, he didn't buy toys at all. He just offered to switch up my and my son's badge to buy more CCs.
Now before you rant against the vendors, this is a highly time consuming venture with lines running upwards of 3 hours the first couple of days and the time involved in reprinting badges.
Anyway, good luck guys.
Gaelinic
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