Comic-Con Ticket Chaos

It’s that time of year again; let’s just hope you had your mouse ready.

Comic-Con started selling tickets for 2011 Registration at 9:00 a.m., and shortly after registration opened the site went over captivity asking would-be buyers to “try again momentarily”.

All of which brings us to the real point.

”If Comic Con "needs" to move from San Diego because the Convention Center is too small -- then why can't they figure out how to sell tickets for the event here?”, wrote viewer Jim Zix in an email to us.

” Clearly [they] can't handle the 110,000 guests expected for this year -- and they want to move to a bigger place, and sell more tickets”, Zix theorized.

It’s an interesting theory, but some, including Zix, feel the entire ticket fiasco, which gets larger year after year, is put in place to show city planners that Comic-Con is in need of more space, and without it, the event will move to venues more well equipment.

Venues are hoping for just that. Back in March places like Anaheim took to Facebook trying to lure the comic event of the year to their convention center.

Whatever the reason for the capacity overload and ticket delays, the only thing we know for sure was summed up nicely by tweeter @iceyblade, “The longest lines at #sdcc this year won't be for Hall H or Ballroom 20. It will be for tickets for next years Comic-Con.”

First Published: Feb 5, 2011 10:42 AM PST