Safe To Travel: San Diego Comic-Con Preregistration Not In November

For people who attended San Diego Comic-Con this year and have been waiting for word on when the pre-registration for next year’s SDCC would be coming off, all we’ve known since about August is that it will be happening “sometime between November 1 and December 31, 2013.”

Which was, and is fine – if the people at SDCC handle it even remotely like they did for the 2013 convention (which happened in August, 2012), all you need is access to a couple of computers with access to reliable high-speed Internet (at a couple of different locations in case one is hit by a bolt of lightning or a meteor or something), nerves of steel and an adamantium bladder so you don’t have to leave the screen until the deed is done. So they can do it pretty much whenever.

However, we are now less than one week away from American Thanksgiving, and there hasn’t been a lot of details released about exactly when this pre-registration is gonna happen. And if it happened during Thanksgiving weekend, it would be an apocalypse.

It would be an apocalypse because many of us travel to visit our parents during Thanksgiving, and have you seen your parents computer? Can you imagine trying to log into the pre-reg Website, competing against thousands of other people, on a malware-packed laptop rocking Microsoft Vista (Service Pack Yeah, Right)? Using a browser with about thirty different third party search bars on it? Over first generation “high speed” 512 KbS DSL? It would be easier and faster to start randomly sucking dicks at the bus station and hoping that some kind soul will pay you in SDCC passes.

Well, fear not. Because even though we still don’t know exactly when pre-registration is gonna happen, we do know that it won’t happen until after Thanksgiving.

From SDCC’s Toucan blog:

We wanted to give everyone a heads up that 2014 badge preregistration for Comic-Con will not occur in November. EPIC registration is fine tuning the process and needs a little more time to make sure everything is in order. As soon as we have a better idea of the timeline we will let everyone know at least 48 hours prior to preregistration going live. So in the meantime, please relax and enjoy your upcoming Thanksgiving weekend!

The blog also suggests a few things you can do to make sure you’re ready for the big day, with the first being to log into their Web site with your SDCC Member ID. If you are eligible to take part in the pre-registration, it will tell you right on your personal home page in big letters (I confirmed this yesterday). But in a nutshell, if you attended SDCC this year as a regular attendee, you should be eligible for the pre-reg. If you didn’t attend? You’re gonna have to wait for general registration, which will likely take place sometime early in 2014.

So in short: enjoy your Thanksgiving, sit tight, and we will find out when to register at least 48 hours before Zero Hour… which will hopefully be sometime before December 18th. Because if it’s not, I will be preparing to valiantly flail to obtain passes via the computer I described above. Yes, that is my parents’ computer.

But if that does happen, apparently my folks will be getting a blistering new i7 computer and a gigabit router for Christmas…