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[Rogi Ocnorb]

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[OusterSwarm]

Ok so here my view of how the availability of posters, pins, and codes as well as how the swag distribution went down.

Me and a friend only arrived just after almost all of the people had departed from the 7:10 event (it was around 7:30 didn't really note the time traffic sucked). And at that time I was only aware of them having extra t-shirts in large and extra large.

Towards the end of the main press conference a little before and after the flinn lives takeover had began they reminded people to stick around since they would be distributing space paranoids pins. I never saw any of them being handed out at the press conference but from what I found out back at the ball room they had handed out some but they ran out there. But it would be nearly impossible for me to verify this though since the encom employee section was rather isolated given how deep the crowded was and how long the crowded lasted after everything had concluded.

We tried waiting around till there was maybe 50 people still at the press conference location so we returned to the grand ball room to check to see if there was any one there (I think this was around 8:50). It seemed a small number of people had also decided to try the same thing. There they still had more pins and stickers but they were waiting for a guard (or someone) to let them back in so they could retrieve them form the locked grand ball room. At this point they were still all out of the poster they had for providing people who showed up at the ball room early my best guess was that they had more people show up for the pre event then they had posters and or had expected.

They did have some posters left which are like the second kind you saw on ebay but in all honesty looking at the scale of that picture and the fact that the date and time and location information not in orange the second posters not a poster but some sort of small flyer unless there doing some photo editing. But the second set of poster that were available from my understanding were not intended to be distributed as the giveaway posters (I think they were meant to be used to promote the event in the area and they were just left over but I didn't attend WonderCon so I don't know if there were any strewn about. Also they were not individually wrapped they were bundled together in roles. There were probably no more 20 of these available at least form what I saw) but they did gave them out to those of us who had not gotten ones earlier they really were trying to make sure no one was left out. And in their defense they didn't hand them out to any one that already had a poster. And in all honesty throughout the event I didn't see any one have multiples of anything except a few people with more than one posters but in every case I noticed they seemed to be with other people who were not carrying posters so I figured they were just carrying them for the hole group.

Also from what I saw of their supply of pins and codes back at the grand ball room there were more than enough for every one they just didn't all make it out to the press conference for whatever reason. So it seems to me they had planned ahead with enough pins and codes. And they most likely had more pins then poster because they were as much a gift form encom as they were from the Flynn lives group. Also the pins were never mentioned on the Flynn lives page so they may have meant them to be given out by encom exclusively I can't really know what 42E had planned so that's just post event speculation. Also I don't know how the pins and code were handed out earlier or even if they were given out together since I saw at least one case where I saw a code was attached to the back of the pin. But what was left at that point was just strips of codes and a box of pins. And the codes they handed out were only given out one sticker at a time so I don't know how the ebayer got a strip of 3. Also they did want to single any one out whether they had a badge or not since the stickers were meant for anyone attended the event regardless of their reason for being there (WonderCon or Flynn Lives).

Personally I wish they had handed out the posters, pins, and code after the main event. Since the posters were actually disruptive given the number of people shoving them in the way of the event cameras displayed on the video screen. That and any excess baggage on ones person felt slightly damaging to immersion if you were there in disguise as an encom employee in the employee section.

[SoCalSteve]

as for the strip of 3 stickers... my sticker has an unusually long strip of paper on it and i could easily stick 2.5-3 stickers on it. i am assuming thats what they did here.

[SoCalSteve]

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[DarkJaguar]

anyone have a code they'd be willing to share w/me? Please PM me!

[Rogi Ocnorb]

I'm still hoping for a code, too.
Had I known beforehand that something like that was going to be happening, I would have HUNTED SOMEBODY DOWN, SPECIFICALLY, to grab one.

ETA: Nobody's even shared a used code with me.

[Hazado]

My Used code from the Press Conference : VZ4NRX

[ShadowDragon1]

If anyone has a code from the Encom event please message me!

[Rogi Ocnorb]

Now I'm locked-out. Wonderful.

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[Rogi Ocnorb]

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