(06-30-2009, 11:16 PM)missykitty Wrote: ...so I'm utterly and positively confused right now. Otakon has not said anything more about the special panel passes/badges, have they?

To my knowledge they have not. Therefore all this speculation is only going to cause more confused then do good!

I say we wait until Otakon announces what they will do before we go off the deep end planing anything! x_x

Normal pre-reg badge pick up is 7-9pm, yes? Doors for VAMPS are at 7pm. Otakon knows this. They won't make us go over there and get badges then, obviously. The way I'm assuming it will go is there will be something much earlier in the day for us VAMPS go-ers, and they will hand out passes for the panel then... and I'm also just figuring they have to do it somewhere very close to the venue, otherwise it doesn't make sense.

But until Otakon says something, I'm not going to try and figure anything out, it's just pointless. x_x


I think that whole Street Team shirt thing is really stupid as well. No offense. I mean, I would obviously be on that line! But how is that fair to anyone else? (Tokio Hotel fans are hardly ones to go by - I should know, I've been to enough TH shows, and those lines... ugh. Don't get me started at how pissed off I get at Tokio Hotel fans. >>;) That totally kills the point of those waiting in line! Everyone else will be so mad at us "street team" members... it wouldn't be fair at all.

Again, I feel like we're all thinking too much about this when we don't know how the panel passes/badge pick up for us is going to work. That's just my opinion.

(07-01-2009, 12:03 AM)yamiko Wrote: oh wow I didn't realize people would be planning to line up so early D:
but just so you guys know otakon just update they are opening pre-reg badge pick up at 5pm
http://www.otakon.com/registration.asp
i'm guessing this is the earliest they will open?

(06-30-2009, 10:12 PM)jrockisjoujou Wrote: What would be really cool... is if somehow Otakon set up this "special" booth at Sonar to do all this instead of over at the BCC. It would solve everything! But I guess the easy way may be too much to ask for. Easy for us but inconvenient for the Otakon staff for sure.

Or... what if we show our email confirmation letters for our payments for preregistration.
I printed mine out, would that work as proof instead of the badges?
I might be to busy in line to get away to the BCC, hard to predict.


I have a question...important to me, and anyone who may volunteer to help me in line with the t.y. album and glowsticks:
First... I'm not even going to be in line, not for more than a minute or so, all day! I'll be traveling down the line getting the thankyou album signed and passing out glowsticks. Do you seriously think anyone would be P.O.'d at the "glowstick lady" if I came back up front before the show starts? I mean, I am doing this voluntarily, but I would be so sad if I didn't get a pass for Otakon or got into Sonar last after doing all this volunteer stuff for the love of VAMPS.

What do you guys think?

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OMGosh... why didn't I think of this earlier!!!!

We are the "Street Team ~ fan club you could say"
We can almost do what we want if we get "J's" permission and let Sonar in on it!

When I went to the Tokio Hotel concert in Columbus Ohio, their fan club was there. The line for the venue lined up going South!
The fan club fans lined up going North of the Venue!
It didn't matter when they arrived to get in line, as long as they had the fanclub shirt on they could enter the much smaller "fan club line"

When the doors opened... the fan club line got to enter first!!!!!
Everyone with the identical tshirt got that privledge.

Soooo... how many of us got the Street Team Shirts?
Or could make something very similar in the days we have left?
This could soooooo work!
~ I feel so smart *LOL*

Downside: For this to work....If you have family or friends coming with you, that don't have a shirt, unfortunately, they have to go in the regular line. Like this would affect me, cuz I didn't order shirts for my 3 other family members. But it would guarantee us "die hards" our spot!

What do you think TOKIO?
What do you think "VAMPS+American Street Team+"?

(07-01-2009, 01:09 AM)Usagi Hoshino Wrote: [quote='jrockisjoujou' pid='4357' dateline='1246414322']
OMGosh... why didn't I think of this earlier!!!!

We are the "Street Team ~ fan club you could say"
We can almost do what we want if we get "J's" permission and let Sonar in on it!

When I went to the Tokio Hotel concert in Columbus Ohio, their fan club was there. The line for the venue lined up going South!
The fan club fans lined up going North of the Venue!
It didn't matter when they arrived to get in line, as long as they had the fanclub shirt on they could enter the much smaller "fan club line"

When the doors opened... the fan club line got to enter first!!!!!
Everyone with the identical tshirt got that privledge.

Soooo... how many of us got the Street Team Shirts?
Or could make something very similar in the days we have left?
This could soooooo work!
~ I feel so smart *LOL*

Downside: For this to work....If you have family or friends coming with you, that don't have a shirt, unfortunately, they have to go in the regular line. Like this would affect me, cuz I didn't order shirts for my 3 other family members. But it would guarantee us "die hards" our spot!

I don't agree with this idea, would you like tons of japanese VampsADDICT fans lining up whenever they want and arriving first? If they had and official US club then they could apply those policies but us trying to make non forum fans miserable is another thing.

Quote:As some of you may notice, Thursday Pre-Reg pick-up will be open 1 hour later than in previous years to help accommodate any of our members who may be attending the VAMPS concert Thursday night.

(07-01-2009, 12:20 PM)marigold Wrote: ok I read through the recent posts about badge pickup and your opinions, and I've come to the conclusion that sacrifices have to be made.

I planned to line up reeeaaallly early at Sonar (like most of you), but now think it'll be impossible. Obviously there are gonna be lots of people who aren't going to Otakon. It would not be fair at all to them if any of us were to be in the Sonar line early, then go leave our spot to pick up our badges, and then go right back, expecting them to be cool with us pretty much cutting the line. If making pre-reg badge pick up at 5pm is the best Otakon can do, then a whole lot of us are gonna have to give up on getting the 'best' views at Sonar. It sucks to think about, but it should be considered.

And they're giving out the special passes to Otakon members only, right?
As long as we have our badges when we're in line at Sonar, those passes will be waiting for us. Because honestly, that's the thing that worries me most XD;; No matter where we are in the Sonar line, they should give the passes out only to us, and I really think there'll be enough to go around. So let's try not to panic as much...it'll all be ok

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