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April 16, 2020 - April 19, 2020 | Table Cost: $330
https://www.megaconorlando.com/en/home.html
Anonymous
For a price of $350 for a four day show is ok if the hotel cost in their surrounding area aren't too high.
Load in is a nightmare since their email didn't give a clear address nor the entrance of getting the inventory in. Maps are crappy since their exhibitor hall is huge yet there's no aisle numbers to be found but the overhead ceiling of signs that said vendor hall, tattoo alley, artist alley, and celebrity signage. Even the booth number are only left with chalked number on the ground. Which isn't helpful when attendees want to find a specific booth number to find their favorite artist. Staff wasn't helpful at all since they said we can't do anything for you to find the load in entrance.
Celebrities cancelled their appearance last minute so not a lot of attendees show up. Plus it's around the same time where people are starting to go back to school and many shows happening before megacon.
I would come back for the show in a few years but will wait when the economic situation is better in Florida.
Anonymous
MeT
By Saturday morning I had only done about 30 sales, artist ally was empty, but the vendor area and the celebrity area were packed. By the end of Sunday I had barely covered my tables, everyone of the artist I talked to said they either barely covered the trip, or barely cover their table. Everyone was spending money on the celebrities. I think there are to many artist/vendors, I understand they want to have a big selection but it gets overwhelming and also it makes it hard for everyone to make back what they put into the show.
Loading out was a whole crazy time, I did like that they made sure attendants where off the floor before even opening the loading dock, good safety choice and helped keep foot traffic down so artist/vendors could get out quick. But they told us we had to wait an extra hour to get into the loading dock, so I went on an adventure to find someone to ask where we could just load out into the parking lot (because the door they had been letting us use was closed) and no one could answer my question, I got told by one staff member that the loading dock was the only option, another told me to use the door we had been using to come in (the one that was closed) and another said that we would have to park in front of the building in the drop off area and walk our stuff up stairs.
In short, staff needs to be more available (I only saw a handful of staff members the whole weekend, that weren't working celebrity tables) and be on the same page, they also need to have info about loading in and out. The prices are crazy for artists, vendors and attendants, it's forcing people to chose between a ticket and buying from artists/vendors. With the ton of cons in the Orlando, you would think they would want to keep admission low to get more people in the door. The only way I would go back is if they lower the prices for artist tables/admission.
Kelly