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A PAX brochure/guide?

Goose!Goose! That's me, honeyShow me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
edited July 2008 in PAX Archive
Forgive me if this is covered somewhere, or if you already do this because I've never been to one, I know this forum has a lot of solid information, but is there a physical, tangible guide/brochure available at the convention? Something with a schedule, a list of booths and the different things to do at and around PAX?

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  • CaptainTapoleCaptainTapole Awesome in the Possum - Yee-Haw! Northern CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Goose! wrote: »
    Forgive me if this is covered somewhere, or if you already do this because I've never been to one, I know this forum has a lot of solid information, but is there a physical, tangible guide/brochure available at the convention? Something with a schedule, a list of booths and the different things to do at and around PAX?

    A book. That will be issued once you get in...if I remember rightly.

    But beforehand...basically once they give the schedule, it will be in PDF format--I think.

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  • Ukali.KulaUkali.Kula Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Goose! wrote: »
    Forgive me if this is covered somewhere, or if you already do this because I've never been to one, I know this forum has a lot of solid information, but is there a physical, tangible guide/brochure available at the convention? Something with a schedule, a list of booths and the different things to do at and around PAX?

    Well if you can manage to wait for 1-3 weeks it will be announced. And when you get to PAX head to the front desk thingy.(which was on the 2nd floor last year??) and get a bag of PAX things...With a brochure and shit...And by shit i mean HAWTNESS!!!

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  • CaptainTapoleCaptainTapole Awesome in the Possum - Yee-Haw! Northern CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Ukali.Kula wrote: »
    And when you get to PAX ehad to the front desk thingy.(which was on the 2nd floor last year??) and get a bag of PAX things...With a brochure and shit...And by shit i mean HAWTNESS!!!

    Definate. But, now that I think about it, I remember reading everything in the brochure book thing while waiting in line.

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  • SnickersSnickers Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    You don't have to go to the front desk. They hand bags full of promo things, as well as the PAX guide book thing, to everyone in line. Last year they had whole boxes of excess bags left over, so don't worry about not getting one. :P

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  • Moe FwackyMoe Fwacky Right Here, Right Now Drives a BuickModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited July 2008
    I have multiples from every PAX I've been to

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  • dyaballikldyaballikl PAX Main Theatre House & Security Manager • PAX Community Cartographer Gold Coast QLD AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    i have soooo many of these things lying around my house and car from every year, here's the closest one i could grab from my bed:
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  • Ukali.KulaUkali.Kula Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Snickers wrote: »
    You don't have to go to the front desk. They hand bags full of promo things, as well as the PAX guide book thing, to everyone in line. Last year they had whole boxes of excess bags left over, so don't worry about not getting one. :P

    ...If you are a lazy man like my friends...and they give the rides from Oly to Seattle and decide to be late and you aren't in line...You get them at the desk..which i didn't know til the last day so i got my PAX bag the last day...

    _And by the way... we arrived like 10 minutes late and just walked right in... no waiting...LINES??

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  • Moe FwackyMoe Fwacky Right Here, Right Now Drives a BuickModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited July 2008
    That's what we keep trying to tell people. The lines only form before the events. Once the events start, the line rushes inside, and anybody not yet in can just walk right on in. No waiting. Yet people still form lines.

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  • SnickersSnickers Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Hey, the lines are half the fun of the first day of PAX!! we partially BROKE the DS wi-fi fer gnads sakes!

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  • TimeCruiserMikeTimeCruiserMike Past Organizer of the West Coast Train Trip San Fernando ValleyRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Snickers wrote: »
    Hey, the lines are half the fun of the first day of PAX!! we partially BROKE the DS wi-fi fer gnads sakes!


    partially? i think you mean totally . . . the wi-fi got so saturated that i couldn't play anything in line . . . until busted out my psp . . . there were only 2 other people who had one so i connected with them real easily. (jk . . . i never actually touched my psp the entire weekend.)

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  • SnickersSnickers Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    TimeCruiserMike wrote: »
    Snickers wrote: »
    Hey, the lines are half the fun of the first day of PAX!! we partially BROKE the DS wi-fi fer gnads sakes!


    partially? i think you mean totally . . . the wi-fi got so saturated that i couldn't play anything in line . . . until busted out my psp . . . there were only 2 other people who had one so i connected with them real easily. (jk . . . i never actually touched my psp the entire weekend.)

    Ok ok ok, I was TRYING to be nice. Yes, we broke it. I could never get connected either through game, or pictochat. Couldn't even get a solid number of people in ANY of the pictochat rooms :P

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  • CaptainTapoleCaptainTapole Awesome in the Possum - Yee-Haw! Northern CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Snickers wrote: »
    TimeCruiserMike wrote: »
    Snickers wrote: »
    Hey, the lines are half the fun of the first day of PAX!! we partially BROKE the DS wi-fi fer gnads sakes!


    partially? i think you mean totally . . . the wi-fi got so saturated that i couldn't play anything in line . . . until busted out my psp . . . there were only 2 other people who had one so i connected with them real easily. (jk . . . i never actually touched my psp the entire weekend.)

    Ok ok ok, I was TRYING to be nice. Yes, we broke it. I could never get connected either through game, or pictochat. Couldn't even get a solid number of people in ANY of the pictochat rooms :P

    Ditto. Plus, lines are like Disneyland. Instead of singing random songs, you play with the DS--and destroy the Wi-Fi in the meantime!

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  • dyaballikldyaballikl PAX Main Theatre House & Security Manager • PAX Community Cartographer Gold Coast QLD AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    CaptainTapole wrote: »
    Snickers wrote: »
    TimeCruiserMike wrote: »
    Snickers wrote: »
    Hey, the lines are half the fun of the first day of PAX!! we partially BROKE the DS wi-fi fer gnads sakes!


    partially? i think you mean totally . . . the wi-fi got so saturated that i couldn't play anything in line . . . until busted out my psp . . . there were only 2 other people who had one so i connected with them real easily. (jk . . . i never actually touched my psp the entire weekend.)

    Ok ok ok, I was TRYING to be nice. Yes, we broke it. I could never get connected either through game, or pictochat. Couldn't even get a solid number of people in ANY of the pictochat rooms :P

    Ditto. Plus, lines are like Disneyland. Instead of singing random songs, you play with the DS--and destroy the Wi-Fi in the meantime!
    i loved owning in star wars trivial pursuit last year while watching the guys in the next row build a bawls tower. i crave lines so much that, although i'm not even a huge halo guy, i was first in line in issaquah for halo 3. i have a problem.

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  • tr0tskytr0tsky Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    ds wi-fi was ok if you were just trying to play with people right next to you. Other than that it was a crapshoot due to so many people playing.

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  • TimeCruiserMikeTimeCruiserMike Past Organizer of the West Coast Train Trip San Fernando ValleyRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    it got so bad in some places in line that i could not play tetris with my brother with our ds systems touching. that being said i still loved the lines.

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  • TransparentTransparent Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Trying to make a single place to organize all the info strewn about the forums is why I created the wiki. I'm trying to keep it up to date, I'll probably do massive updating once the schedules and stuff are out.

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  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    TimeCruiserMike wrote: »
    it got so bad in some places in line that i could not play tetris with my brother with our ds systems touching. that being said i still loved the lines.

    There's a gay joke in there somewhere D:

    Anyway, thanks for the answers, pardon my naivety.

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