Prime is Friday to Monday. That has always seemed weird to me because Monday is usually the start of a new work week. Thursday seems to make more sense, but oh well, it seems to be working so far for Prime.
Noticed this today while looking at hotel rooms for something else. The Element and Aloft hotels right near the BCEC are currently scheduled to open before PAX East next year:
If OnPeak manages to get the April 21-24 block of rooms for these new hotels then this is fantastic news. East has been in serious need of more hotels that aren't a mile away from the BCEC.
The Element looks particularly good with actual kitchens in some of the rooms, but neither are inexpensive and the rates seem to be going up for that period in time as they wised up to PAX being that week. My group may stay there instead of the Seaport this year, we'll see!
With Prime done I'm eagerly awaiting the ticket announcement. Did Prime have multi-day passes. Wondering if this will still be a thing for PAX EAST.
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Nope, Prime only had single day passes.
Is it PAX <insert nearest future PAX here> yet?
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I'm willing to bet that multi-day passes are gone for good over all PAX (at least in north america).
Yeah, I'm confident that South will continue to have weekend passes. Not only did Sunday not sell out this year, but PA is also expanding the amount of the convention center that's being used for 2016. Weekend passes would help a lot with incentivizing people to go all 3 days, even when the convention is still in its early stages.
PAX South does indeed have 3-day badges available for 2016.
Anyway, the biggest issue with PAX East is the hotels. Hopefully Element and Aloft will help, but combined they're only adding about 500 rooms. The big plan Massachusetts wanted to improve the convention center area involved one or two new mega hotels adjacent to BCEC, plus several more cheaper hotels vicinity. They also wanted to add more convention space and at least one more big theater (ostensibly so they could run two conventions at once at BCEC, but I assume PAX would use both much in the way Prime now uses the Paramount and Benaroya Hall). I don't know what the current state of those plans are, but I hope they're at least making some progress. At least Element will add 180 rooms real close by, but that's a drop in the bucket compared to what the Massachusetts committee said they need (and, at least from my perspective, I agree).
I would love a fourth day of PAX East. Here's hoping they announce the dates soon, regardless.
Nothing official yet to my knowledge. It was listed as April 22-24, 2016 at one point on the massconvention.com site. However, it no longer appears listed there at all. I'm using those dates as I believe PA has a 10 year deal with the MCCA and the dates for the next several years were planned years ago. So far it has been accurate, it may be possible for PA to change the dates however. For a flight which is usually non-refundable, you certainly should wait to hear the official word.
If you live in MA, contact your Governor and get it moving again! The extra 1,000-1,200 hotel rooms alone will be a big help in making PAX more affordable and accessible.
it would work better for me if it was in march this year actually instead of april I already have a lot of plans in april so hope they change it guess we will just see
it would work better for me if it was in march this year actually instead of april I already have a lot of plans in april so hope they change it guess we will just see
I doubt it would move significantly enough to change months.
I'm stalking the twitter and here waiting for the ticket announcement! Can't' wait!
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Yeh, having AUS and SOUTH thrown into the mix threw the tickets sales schedule way off. This in and of itself doesn't bother me, but now all the extracurricular activities get thrown out of wack as well. Stuff like the Pre-Pax Dinner, the Poke-crawl, MMT, the Pre-Pax Board Game Night, the Challenge Coin, the official beer stein, etc. don't start to be planned as early. Not having as much planning time definitely put a kink in some of the above things. Zerzhul, would it be ok to start a new thread to see if we can pull together the usual people who plan these events so that we can get the ball rolling and then split them into their own individual threads?
you can always make threads for community events as long as they have the content to support their existence.
Most of those events have fairly established people or groups that are very likely to continue planning them. While I could comment on each separate event you mentioned, I doubt many will want to commit to planning any of them until after their badges are secured. I wouldn't expect much activity until after that. The only one that is likely suspect is the pre pax dinner, and again I doubt many would want to commit until they get badges.
Sorry zerzhul, I didn't think about that. Now that I think of it, probably the only stuff that could potentially be started early would be the design of the challenge coin and possibly the design for the forum badge. As for the challenge coin, if it was started now, they could be shipped to anyone who wanted one well in advance of the start of PAX east. Again, I know this is extremely early, but if the person who designed the coin last year is reading the forums yet, would you be willing to do it again this year?
As for the forum badges, if the same person is willing, we could start that also. We could also possibly do a gofundme sight to cover the cost of printing. If the person doing this doesn't end up going, i'm sure someone else could take over distribution during the con.
I'm just trying to let my excitement out a little at a time. I really miss talking about East directly after Prime ends. It's like a drug i'm trying to limit myself from or I'd explode and everything about East I want to talk about would just come out in one gooey mess (ok, i may watch too many horror movies at times
Hoping that the dates will be the same. It would be perfect for me. I work at a ski resort and it will be in the slow season by then. I don't have to worry about missing any possible overtime.
Hoping that the dates will be the same. It would be perfect for me. I work at a ski resort and it will be in the slow season by then. I don't have to worry about missing any possible overtime.
As it was mentioned above, it appears it may be for the third weekend in April but nothing official has been announced as of yet.
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I would think they would at least let us know the date soon. I mean if tickets are gonna go on sale in november like they did last year we are about a month out from when they went on sale last year
I would think they would at least let us know the date soon. I mean if tickets are gonna go on sale in november like they did last year we are about a month out from when they went on sale last year
I'm personally getting a little anxious myself. We knew the date for PAX East long before this date last year.
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I don't think it was significantly different from how it is now though. There was a date posted on the BCEC website and we all assumed it was correct. Now the date was posted and then removed. It was probably right, but we never know *for sure* until PAX tells us.
Yea just figured at this point they would have updated this site and stuff like that. Like I said we are around a month out from when tickets went on sale last year. At this point last year people were in the check here a few times a day to see if the tickets have gone on sale mode
I don't think it was significantly different from how it is now though. There was a date posted on the BCEC website and we all assumed it was correct. Now the date was posted and then removed. It was probably right, but we never know *for sure* until PAX tells us.
Well, the reason I'm getting so anxious is because I have to:
A) Book my vacation before anyone else does for that time at work book my flight before it gets too expensive
After I get that out of the way, I couldn't care less . Then it's just the count down to when the tickets are announced and making sure I have the money to pay for those.
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By the example of Prime being 4 days, they'd add Monday as the 4th day but I don't expect East to go to 4 days.
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Anyway, the biggest issue with PAX East is the hotels. Hopefully Element and Aloft will help, but combined they're only adding about 500 rooms. The big plan Massachusetts wanted to improve the convention center area involved one or two new mega hotels adjacent to BCEC, plus several more cheaper hotels vicinity. They also wanted to add more convention space and at least one more big theater (ostensibly so they could run two conventions at once at BCEC, but I assume PAX would use both much in the way Prime now uses the Paramount and Benaroya Hall). I don't know what the current state of those plans are, but I hope they're at least making some progress. At least Element will add 180 rooms real close by, but that's a drop in the bucket compared to what the Massachusetts committee said they need (and, at least from my perspective, I agree).
I would love a fourth day of PAX East. Here's hoping they announce the dates soon, regardless.
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Also any idea if the renovation plans are still going as planned?
http://signatureboston.com/bcec/bcec-expansion-plans.aspx
http://signatureboston.com/uploadDocs/1/expansion-grahpic.pdf
http://www.meetings-conventions.com/Newsline/Boston-Convention-Center-Expansion-Put-on-Hold/
http://www.nashobapublishing.com/breakingnews/ci_28020117/bcec-expansion-supporters-not-quitting-project
If you live in MA, contact your Governor and get it moving again! The extra 1,000-1,200 hotel rooms alone will be a big help in making PAX more affordable and accessible.
Ticket announcement likely will not start until November, so don't keep too close an eye on it
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Most of those events have fairly established people or groups that are very likely to continue planning them. While I could comment on each separate event you mentioned, I doubt many will want to commit to planning any of them until after their badges are secured. I wouldn't expect much activity until after that. The only one that is likely suspect is the pre pax dinner, and again I doubt many would want to commit until they get badges.
As for the forum badges, if the same person is willing, we could start that also. We could also possibly do a gofundme sight to cover the cost of printing. If the person doing this doesn't end up going, i'm sure someone else could take over distribution during the con.
I'm just trying to let my excitement out a little at a time. I really miss talking about East directly after Prime ends. It's like a drug i'm trying to limit myself from or I'd explode and everything about East I want to talk about would just come out in one gooey mess (ok, i may watch too many horror movies at times
Not sure what you mean about fan groups. There's no group registration available for attendees as far as I know.
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As it was mentioned above, it appears it may be for the third weekend in April but nothing official has been announced as of yet.
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Thank you. Your information was very helpful.
I'm personally getting a little anxious myself. We knew the date for PAX East long before this date last year.
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Its weird that we aren't constantly checking yet lol
EDIT: Looks like the tickets changed to soon on the 26th of October, so Id say dates will appear later this month
A) Book my vacation before anyone else does for that time at work
After I get that out of the way, I couldn't care less
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