Tips and Advice for Supernatural Conventions!

Usually a month in advance. However, I’ve seen them go up two or three months ahead before! Just keep checking the site every couple of days and  you won’t miss it. The auctions run about a week so you’ll be able to catch it if you check frequently.

They do not allow you to at the Creation conventions. I don’t know for sure at the other ones, but Creation does not permit it.

It’s reasonably fast paced. They keep things going and there isn’t always a lot of down time, especially if you put in a lot of photo ops, since those tend to go in between panels. I think you’ll be okay though! They don’t put photo ops and autographs at the same time as panels so you don’t have to worry about that! Autographs are usually the last thing of the day, after all panels and ops are done. Photo ops are squeezed in between panels, though occasionally one might be cutting into a panel by a few minutes if they fall behind or make a tight schedule. I’ve never missed anything major though, and I tend to go overboard on ops.

I’ve covered this a few times, but it’s a tough thing to answer. Basically, you won’t know until the schedule is posted the week of the convention. However it does start reasonably early on Friday, anywhere between 8am-11am depending on how many guests there are scheduled. You’ll definitely miss panels and photo ops. Sunday is harder to answer because I’ve seen some wrap as early as 6pm and some go pretty late into the night. Sorry I couldn’t help more.

I really don’t know how to go about doing that. I know that the cons that run the smoothest are run by actual companies who only run conventions such as Creation Entertainment or Rogue Events. I do know that there are a lot of moving parts to it, between making sure the guests have accomodations, taking payment and organization… I’d recommend talking to someone that runs a convention and seeing what they’d say. Sorry I couldn’t be more help!

You’re welcome! It depends on what you’re looking to get out of it. I’ve gone over cons in depth to give you a realistic view of what you’ll get for interaction for every single event here. I personally think it’s worth it, especially meet and greets and photo ops! They’re worth the money for me, so I budget what I can.

Well missing a day is just one of those things that’s up to you! You’ll miss the guest panels on friday, and all the events then. Karaoke does start pretty late at night so you could definitely make it! They keep registration open a long time, so you should be able to make it. You’re welcome!

Sure, I’m not sure which tickets you’re referring to so I’ll answer about all possible tickets to help you out!

• Admission tickets - you buy them online before the convention. The staff will email you the PDF of your ticket, and you bring that printed PDF to the convention. During pre-registration/registration, you hand the PDF to a staff member. They will exchange it for a lanyard and a wristband. Those are your admission in and out of the convention, and to the exclusive gold parties, if you’re a gold ticket. That’s all! Registration and pre-registration times are going to be outlined on the schedule when they post it. Sometimes they will be the Thursday night before the convention, but mostly they are Friday morning bright and early. You won’t know until the schedule is posted a few days before the convention.
• Photo ops and autographs that you buy online will also be emailed to you as a PDF ticket. Those are your actual tickets! If you choose to buy them at the convention, you receive a paper ticket there.
• IF you buy any J2 photo tickets, you need to go to the registration table when there is no registration going on sometime over the weekend, because they want everyone to change in their printed PDFs for their convention paper tickets. The reason for this is - printed PDFs have a barcode on them that make them unique and secure. The J2 pictures are so immense that if the barcode scanner fails, everything on Sunday gets held up time-wise. The paper convention tickets are colorful tickets something like a raffle ticket with unique numbers on them and small holographic stickers to make them legitimate. So, on Sunday, it’s easier for them to have paper tickets than to scan barcodes and get held up.

Hope that helped!

Sure!

1. I’d reserve the hotel immediately. You don’t have to pay until you check out, but you need a reservation ahead of time, especially in case the block of discounted rooms sells out.
2. Get your silver ticket as soon as you can. You want a good seat and the good ones go quickest! Especially if you’re sitting together.
3. Make a list of the photo ops/autos you want ahead of time. The ones you need to get first are all Jensen and Jared related photos/autos. Those will sell out before the convention even starts. Especially Jensen. He always sells out his tickets first.
4. After any J2 tickets, look at the limited edition photo ops. They do a smaller run of tickets for those, so if you want one, buy it a few months ahead of the con.
5. Last but not least, if there’s a guest you REALLY want a photo with (let’s use Mark Pellegrino as an example), buy his photo op before the con. This way, if something happens and he sells out of tickets, you have one! It rarely ever happens, but just in case.
6. Other photo ops and autograph tickets, I would recommend buying at the convention the first day. There is no $7 fee when you buy the tickets in person, so it saves a nice big chunk of money.

Hope this helps!

it depends what you’re looking to get out of the convention! the panels are a lot of fun! but if you’re looking for one-on-one celebrity experiences, you’re not going to get those without paying extra money, unfortunately.

i recommend staying one more night, because it can go as late as 6-8pm and maybe later if they schedule it that way. it’s impossible to tell until the schedule is posted the week of the convention.

it’s hard to tell, because every convention has a different pricing scale. your best bet is to go to creationent.com and check the prices for the conventions that are already selling those passes to see the range your con might go up for.

the chances are pretty good you’ll get your photo ops just fine. i don’t think many guest photo ops sell out at the convention itself, other than jensen and jared. i know i’ve never seen misha sell out at the convention - and he is the third biggest draw after the boys.

that is up to the artist, as it belongs to them.