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(entrance be on level 1)
Shit! Too much paprika!
WHY IS THERE SO MUCH VOMIT IN THIS HAT?!
Stairs? Where we're going, we don't need stairs... *magical moving platforms GO!*
Check the BCEC floorplans here. Looks like level 0 is about the same size as levels 1 and 2, and the Main Theatre on level 3 sits more or less above the north lobby area on level 1. Entrance appears to be through that lobby as well.
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Esclator to main theater is in the north lobby I believe.
It does Seem a bit odd to me that the expo hall queue room and expo hall are divided by the tabletop freeplay room. But whatever, I'm sure there is some master plan that makes sense of it.
Speaking of the queue rooms, does anybody know if the line-entertainment guys from last year are going to be back? That was such a brilliant idea. It made the queue room so much more bearable.
It was alluded to in the Concerts thread, but not confirmed that Evil Genius Designs/Get In Line Games will be present for the queue room.
My main concern is that I hope the Queue isn't a logistical nightmare like last East, with the potential for line jumpers due to other panels and events occurring on intermediate rooms and floors before reaching the main theater. Enforcers, please don't let this happen, as that was the main thing that sucked for me last East, and I missed most of the Keynote because of it.
I don't think this will be the case this year. For main theater events, the queue is NOT in the queue room, it is right outside the doors of the main theater. My assumption then would be that the queue room would only be used for morning entrance to the expo hall and maybe a very small handful of other popular non-main-theater events.
There is space outside the main theater that is set up for queuing. It shows it on the map.
Yeah but that doesn't answer the question.. what does one do to get to the morning lines FOR the main theater? In year's past there were 2 lines before PAX opened, one for the Expo Hall and the other for the Main Theater, is this true for this year? Or does everyone have to be processed through one before being able to go into the other?
Yes, about that. The map shows an icon for Jam Space "areas", with "Freeplay Stage", "Dance Central", "Bandland" and "Jam Space" labeled as such. Are all these maintained by the Magfest guys, with there be a Jam Space setup in Bandland, and what will "Dance Central" be exactly?
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The PAX East BCEC map says, "Queue Room: Head here in the morning before doors open to hit the exhibit hall first. If your first stop is the Main Theatre, go directly there!"
Jamspace is the only "official" magfest area with the instruments. I think every other guitar icon indicates that there are related musical activities such as rockband and band merch.
I believe there is an escalator directly to level 3 and main theater from the North Lobby entrance. So as you come in (before opening hours), if you want main theater, take escalator up to 3, if not, head to queue room. Keep an eye out for enforcers guiding or signs, we want to help you get where your going. Or as the Info Booth is right there in the north lobby, you can always ask there.
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Well, according to this, there's almost 20,000 square feet of queue area outside of the ballroom, and the expo queue is in a different location this year. I think it'll probably be plenty, and worst case it would snake down to the level 2 prefunction areas (assuming I'm reading the map right).
1). Through the airwall. At 10:00am each day, traffic will flow from the queue room (B2), through Tabletop (B1) and into the expo hall on the north and south edge of the airwall.
2). Down the escalators. The escalators feed from North Lobby on the first floor, and will likely be the main entrance into the expo hall during normal show hours.
3). There's another entrance in the south east corner that feeds from an awkwardly named "East Registration". That's the building's name, not ours...there will be no registration there.
Sure, sure, I know, shrink it down, but why such odd dimensions?
Probably the middle sheet in the custom printed program. There are print shops that can customize the paper size.
It's a creative company... they have the creativity to do anything in regards to proper paper-printing dimensioning, don't question the masters. I believe the PAX Prime 2010's expo hall was even CRAZIER... with like 3-segments in an odd-shape formation. This is just a simple rectangle thingy... looks smaller than it should be
It's the one with Gabe and Tycho fighting, and a fruit fucker... fucking??? And it says PAX 2010 on it.
With any luck, we're going to rock so hard that we'll knock down the walls between the rooms.
Gotcha, mystery solved. Well, if anyone else wants to print these on single sheets of paper, I've done some quick and dirty re-arranging in the GIMP to make the maps more or less the right aspect ratio for standard letter paper.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20753712/bcec_map.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20753712/expo_map.png
(Yes, the files are big, because I wanted enough DPI for even the small printing to be legible)