This weekend, the first ever San Diego comic – Malaga, was held in Malaga, Spain. As a beautiful Mediterranean city, it has many attractions to tourists, bringing the SDCC vibe to Europe for the first time seemed like a promising place. This has been promised many times since SDCC was announced last year as the first officially licensed show in Europe.
Unfortunately, reports on social media and Spanish media have called everything from “total disaster” to “Aliexpress version of Comic-Con” to the show. And locals call it “Cola Con”: Spanish for “Line Con”.
Problem: The first-time showrunners appeared to be unprepared about what to do with an estimated 120,000 (60,000 were expected) appearing to enter the venue. Attendees were not allowed to bring in outside food or water, and social media Spaniards were unhappy with expensive American-style fraudulent dishes like hot dogs and burgers.
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My first thought is that if you really want an SDCC experience, the line and expensive food are part of it, but many complaints point to many first-time mistakes.
There were some bright spots that you might see in regular comic scams. As attendance shows, people were very excited to go to the SDCC type event in Spain. Several news fell on the panel, and many celebrities showed, Arnold Schwarzenegger lives nearby throughout the year – appeared on Sunday to win an award from Antonio Banderas.
But even this was touched on the controversy, as Banderas wrote to IG.
“It’s a joy to present this deserved award to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Today’s real heroes were lined up to enter the venue where Comic-Con is being held, but they’re one of the biggest legends of action films.”
While it’s extremely rare to hear criticism from a major celebrity con man organization, the controversy over SDCC-Malaga has generally spread to Spanish media, with some videos complaining that have gained millions of views on social media.
Beat Pal Leonard Sultana (the British at SDCC) was in Malaga and posted many live streams and rap-ups about the show. It generally supports confusion claims. One video says the exhibition hall was too small for the intended audience. The artists alleys were four rows. Hall M holds 3,500 people, so you can see that the exhibition hall is not large enough to support the crowd.
The rules of external food are something many comic cons have, but we rarely have it enforced. Both SDCC and NYCC allow external food and drinks.
As mentioned in this operation of El Pais, Spain’s biggest newspaper, some of the criticisms aimed at close ties with the local Andalusian government of SDCC-Malaga have been involved in the show. (Translated via Google.)
Everything was wrong since the week it was announced. There were no direct connections with the original event, very generous grants from the Andalusian local government, and no confirmed guests. The businessman bought the right to use the brand, met with some politicians and chatted about “its electronic ticket business” between one mushroom and another mushroom. The organizational companies were created a year ago, and tickets for the event were sold on May 15th. As a result, I saw it this past weekend.
An organization that is only efficient when it comes to money billing. Imagine paying 55 euros (plus VAT) to attend a talk, not being able to enter, or having a photo QR code (90 euros). There is no QR scanner. You can eat at the airport for cheaper prices. There are many customs of this kind in Spain, all of which are better than this, with an admission fee of 50 euros (I’ve been to almost 100). It’s dishonorable to receive a subsidy of 4.5 million euros and bring this fiasco together.
Another news report acknowledged the first time the issue was as organizers promised to do better.
Moreno has ensured that access and queue management will improve in the next year. He said the organization has already worked on this and plans to “more space and surface area” for the next few years. The goal is to not only sell more tickets, but also make it easier for participants to move around the venue.
The junta president thought there was a long line in the fact that this year “exceeded”; Initially, SDCCM was to reach a maximum of 60,000 participants, but this number has more than doubled, exceeding 120,000. The original headquarters of Comic-Con (San Diego) confirmed the success of the Malaga event.
Honestly, you can’t slap anything the word “San Diego Comic Con” and you can’t expect it to be the same. Like many “disaster” stories, this sounds promising and planned. Despite Travails, SDCC-Malaga will handle three years to participate in the show, so there are several more editions. However, fans were expecting better, and the controversy was nervous. OCU, Spain’s largest consumer union, has begun an investigation into the show, with already 200 complaints.
Photo via Leonard Sultana
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