Now that Dragon*Con 2009 is part of the history books...

[thedrunkenjedi.livejournal.com]

...as a follow-up to a previous post from a few weeks back, "Has Dragon*Con become too big for its own good?".

There was no real consensus-one way or another-but we left off promising to revisit the question after the *Con.

So, again, now that D*C '09 is a thing of the past, what is opinion of all who attended '09-and at least one additional year for comparison? I'll chime in with my take on things once a few responses come through.

Comments

[crazchica.livejournal.com]

7th year of D*C, 1st on Staff.

I spent most of my time in a track room, but I thought it was much less crowded than usual this year. I rarely waited for an elevator (my longest two waits were Saturday evening and Monday during check-out), and even wandering around the Marriott on Sunday night wasn't a problem. I think how the major panels have been shifted around to all hotels instead of just one or two has been a huge help. Adding the Sheraton and more to the Hilton has been great.

Now, I didn't go through the apparent hell that registration was, nor did I try to get into any major panels, so my opinion may be biased.

Course, nothing can be as bad as that D*C a couple years ago where the Fire Marshal kept shutting down the Hyatt and kicking people out. That was a bad year.

[rozhena-ashford.livejournal.com]

The shutting down the Hyatt pissed me off. It'd have been fine if I wasn't staying there!

Only panel I went to was Friday AM and didn't have any problems getting in. Guess half the peeps were either still asleep or didn't ready the Daily Dragon to see the room change...