PAX East 2011 Expo hall map!

BigRed

No thread for itself and it was announced on paxsite.com

http://east.paxsite.com/expo_map.pdf

Rdr

I have reached a new level of excitement for PAX.

MangoProjects

Rdr wrote: »

I have reached a new level of excitement for PAX.

Any chance PA will come out with another floor plans for panels and gaming? - Thanks

MTSonic11

I too got incredibly excited when I saw it. It was nice to wake up to the map this morning. I've already gone over it a few times to see the placement and vendors. I like the idea of Indie Alley too.

ZOMG 18 days!!11ONEONE11!!!!!

Parmaynu

Planning my vendor route already!

Rdr

MangoProjects wrote: »

Rdr wrote: »

I have reached a new level of excitement for PAX.

Any chance PA will come out with another floor plans for panels and gaming? - Thanks

We'll have to wait and see.

BigRed

MangoProjects wrote: »

Rdr wrote: »

I have reached a new level of excitement for PAX.

Any chance PA will come out with another floor plans for panels and gaming? - Thanks

They always do, you will have to wait until closer to the event though. Perhaps this week.

H2O Shoagie

Parmaynu wrote: »

Planning my vendor route already!

I have already been doing the same thing.

Lelldorianx

Don't hate me if I missed some big obvious legend somewhere, but what is the significance of the red color on the middle booths?

Thanks for the link, and curse you for making it impossible to think of anything but PAX!!

lillb

Lelldorianx wrote: »

Don't hate me if I missed some big obvious legend somewhere, but what is the significance of the red color on the middle booths?

Thanks for the link, and curse you for making it impossible to think of anything but PAX!!

Not sure, but they all seem to be computer hardware companies: Nvidia, EVGA, Gigabyte, Corsair, Galaxy, Patriot, Cooler Master, etc.

King of Kickass

I know Battleground Games and Hobbies, based in Abington MA, sells WarmaHordes items. I was wondering if anyone could remember if there was a table last year selling WarmaHordes merch? I can only remember a lot of Magic and Pokemon. I'm looking to get into the tabletop mini realm.

David Coffman

lillb pretty much has it, although why it's colored differently will make more sense once you see it in person.

mentok1982

Parmaynu wrote: »

Planning my vendor route already!

How can you do that if you don't know where the entrance is?
Do you know where the entrance is? I don't see it on the map. Is it the two staircases?

Frugus

Parmaynu wrote: »

Planning my vendor route already!

It does look like there are going to be a few (more?) booths where you can buy stuff, other than the usual merch you can find with certain publishers. I guess there will be a few places to spend some dough!

Also - I'm from Montreal too

It's not a tumor

I'm still baffled at the fact that EA has 5 booths.

It's not a tumor

mentok1982 wrote: »

Parmaynu wrote: »

Planning my vendor route already!

How can you do that if you don't know where the entrance is?
Do you know where the entrance is? I don't see it on the map. Is it the two staircases?

Take a look at the floorplans. http://www.mccahome.com/download/floorplans_bcec/BCEC_ExhibitHall_Level0.pdf

zerzhul

It's not a tumor wrote: »

I'm still baffled at the fact that EA has 5 booths.

EA has lots of subsidiaries. They are likely doing the con as one happy large corp, but individual pieces will be at different booths.

lillb

David Coffman wrote: »

lillb pretty much has it, although why it's colored differently will make more sense once you see it in person.

Wait does that mean they'll be giving me free computer components? I could really use a new video card

zerzhul wrote: »

It's not a tumor wrote: »

I'm still baffled at the fact that EA has 5 booths.

EA has lots of subsidiaries. They are likely doing the con as one happy large corp, but individual pieces will be at different booths.

Yea as someone else mentioned, Bioware will be under one of the EA booths, I'm guessing two others might be for Crysis 2 and Bulletstorm (Cliffy B. said he'll be at PAX East so I figure he'll be promoting Bulletstorm which is coming out this week) Also Dragon Age or Mass Effect may have a separate booth than SWTOR.

trinistand

Intel and AMD are conspicuously absent hmm...but either way, this looks like a way bigger footprint than last year!

Propriety

SHIT SHIT SHIT

There are separate booths for POKEMON AND NINTENDO

YESSSSSSSSSSSSsssssssss

I just started making extremely high pitched squeeing noises.

OK, calming down.

Calming down.

NOPE NOT CALMED DOWN

Shit look at that huge Valve booth! Good to see Firehose games has a booth, played their game last year in the Boston Indie Showcase, it was a lot of fun.

Speaking of which... AUGH BOSTON INDIE SHOWCASE SO EXCITED

Last year's expo hall had some rather obvious omissions. I'm happy that this year looks bigger than last year.

61Ranchero

Pleased+1

So, it shows the "Show Store" on the expo hall floor. Forgive me if I'm slow but is that the PA store?

redshoepaul

Rdr, you believe me now about the 3DS being available at PAX?
You're welcome.

feitocomfruta

Okay, so if we were to overlay the expo floor onto the full layout floor from the link from It's Not A Tumor, does that mean that BCEC's Exhibit Hall B is the Queue room, and Exhibit Halls A and C are the Merman Theater and Expo Floor? Which is which?

Wingedillidan

feitocomfruta wrote: »

Okay, so if we were to overlay the expo floor onto the full layout floor from the link from It's Not A Tumor, does that mean that BCEC's Exhibit Hall B is the Queue room, and Exhibit Halls A and C are the Merman Theater and Expo Floor? Which is which?

Gang, we have another mystery on our hands... let's split up and look for clues!

feitocomfruta

Wingedillidan wrote: »

feitocomfruta wrote: »

Okay, so if we were to overlay the expo floor onto the full layout floor from the link from It's Not A Tumor, does that mean that BCEC's Exhibit Hall B is the Queue room, and Exhibit Halls A and C are the Merman Theater and Expo Floor? Which is which?

Gang, we have another mystery on our hands... let's split up and look for clues!

I look like Shaggy a bit, so *ahem*...

ZOINKS!

redfield85

zerzhul wrote: »

It's not a tumor wrote: »

I'm still baffled at the fact that EA has 5 booths.

EA has lots of subsidiaries. They are likely doing the con as one happy large corp, but individual pieces will be at different booths.

I know it won't happen, but I would LOVE for the EA NHL guys to be there and give them a piece of my mind.

Wingedillidan

What is this Show Store booth that this map speaks of?

monmon63

you guy think i should go to pax east

Heleor

Propriety wrote: »

SHIT SHIT SHIT

There are separate booths for POKEMON AND NINTENDO

YESSSSSSSSSSSSsssssssss

I just started making extremely high pitched squeeing noises.

OK, calming down.

Calming down.

NOPE NOT CALMED DOWN

Shit look at that huge Valve booth! Good to see Firehose games has a booth, played their game last year in the Boston Indie Showcase, it was a lot of fun.

Speaking of which... AUGH BOSTON INDIE SHOWCASE SO EXCITED

Last year's expo hall had some rather obvious omissions. I'm happy that this year looks bigger than last year.

Whoah, I just realized that. O.o;

redfield85

Wingedillidan wrote: »

What is this Show Store booth that this map speaks of?

Pretty sure it would be a booth selling PAX related merch, as well as PA merch (unless PA has a booth).

Deefuzz

Oh wow Capcom is going to be there this year? Looks like a small booth, but I would love to see them again. They had such a large area at SDCC.

territoires

Pumped for a Bioware booth. Would be lovely if they had something, anything, about Mass Effect 3.

zerzhul

feitocomfruta wrote: »

Wingedillidan wrote: »

feitocomfruta wrote: »

Okay, so if we were to overlay the expo floor onto the full layout floor from the link from It's Not A Tumor, does that mean that BCEC's Exhibit Hall B is the Queue room, and Exhibit Halls A and C are the Merman Theater and Expo Floor? Which is which?

Gang, we have another mystery on our hands... let's split up and look for clues!

I look like Shaggy a bit, so *ahem*...

ZOINKS!

No. The Exhibit area is the entire "Exhibit Level" (bottom level) of the BCEC. It fits right over top of the lower floor plan exactly. http://www.advantageboston.com/BCEC/floorplans/BCECExhibitLevel.pdf

Lindsey Lohan

Wow. So if I'm remembering correctly the exhibition hall was pretty much exhibition C & D for the Hynes (plus some hallway spaces). According to the map on their website those two rooms add up to 75,050 square ft - and that wasn't even entirely full last year. This year's is the three halls together plus the registration area for the indie games - the three halls alone add up to 516,000 square ft. This is almost 7x the space from last year!

zerzhul

Lindsey Lohan wrote: »

Wow. So if I'm remembering correctly the exhibition hall was pretty much exhibition C & D for the Hynes (plus some hallway spaces). According to the map on their website those two rooms add up to 75,050 square ft - and that wasn't even entirely full last year. This year's is the three halls together plus the registration area for the indie games - the three halls alone add up to 516,000 square ft. This is almost 7x the space from last year!

It's going to be impressive.

lillb

zerzhul wrote: »

feitocomfruta wrote: »

Wingedillidan wrote: »

feitocomfruta wrote: »

Okay, so if we were to overlay the expo floor onto the full layout floor from the link from It's Not A Tumor, does that mean that BCEC's Exhibit Hall B is the Queue room, and Exhibit Halls A and C are the Merman Theater and Expo Floor? Which is which?

Gang, we have another mystery on our hands... let's split up and look for clues!

I look like Shaggy a bit, so *ahem*...

ZOINKS!

No. The Exhibit area is the entire "Exhibit Level" (bottom level) of the BCEC. It fits right over top of the lower floor plan exactly. http://www.advantageboston.com/BCEC/floorplans/BCECExhibitLevel.pdf

Yea and the Merman theater is 052 which is in the lower left of that map where it says southeast pre-function

Caldvan

This is an approximate comparison of the Hynes expo hall and the expo hall at the BCEC.

lillb

Caldvan wrote: »

This is an approximate comparison of the Hynes expo hall and the expo hall at the BCEC.

Very nice. That means some of those booths are going to be MASSIVE!
Can't wait!

SwashbucklerXX

I like the section with a bunch of hardware companies and then Pokemon right in the middle. It's like, "Why so serious?"

Dear Bethesda: Please have something Skyrim-related in your both and not just like Hunted and stuff.

lillb

SwashbucklerXX wrote: »

I like the section with a bunch of hardware companies and then Pokemon right in the middle. It's like, "Why so serious?"

Dear Bethesda: Please have something Skyrim-related in your both and not just like Hunted and stuff.

From Pete Hines of Bethesda:

@DCDeacon wrote:

@kickstothejunk Doubtful. Skyrim won't be there.

in response to this:

@DCDeacon Nice! I don't think you were there last year, I was quite disappointed. Will you have any Skyrim/Fallout swag?

crackgoblin

Is irrational games going to bring anything hands on for Bioshock Infinite? i know theyre doing a panel but theyre not on the expo list (unless its under 2k) <3 all things bioshock