Con Panel
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Nathan Fillion is scheduled to be in St. Louis at the beginning of April. One of those Wizard World Cons. Has anyone been to one of those? I have a question. How do you get into the panel?
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Depends on the con and how many high profile guests are conducting panels and how many fans show up. I haven't seen Nathan at a con yet, but I have several other of the crew. In Dallas, they have changed the procedure every time I've been there, plus they've changed the venue three times to my recollection. When I saw Adam, Jewel, Ron and Sean a couple of years ago, there were three levels of admission, VIP, Priority and General Admission, depending on how much you were able to spend. The VIP people always got to go into the panel room first and got the prime seats, then the Priority group came next. In that instance, there was standing room only for a few of the general admission crowd, but there wasn't enough room for the majority of them.
Nathan is supposed to also be in Dallas in May, and he better not cancel the way he did last year. They've moved once again, from the Irving Convention Center to the downtown Dallas convention center, so they have five or six times the space as before, so hopefully there will be at least one very large panel room so that all who want can get to see him. Of course, I don't know if he will conduct a panel yet, as they are in the process of re-doing their website.
The best way to find out details is look at their site - http://www.wizardworld.com/home-stlouis.html - and if you don't find the information you're looking for, there is a "contact us" link at the bottom of the page.
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Hi
Further to the last response, I'm afraid it is really easy - you queue.
All of the US cons that I have attended generally allow you to queue approximately an hour (give or take) before the panel starts. The only one where I didn't have to queue was, funnily enough, the Fan Days in Dallas in October 2012 (with Gina and Alan); I remember just wandering into the panel about half an hour before it started. All very civilized as I recall.
I also attended the Philadelphia Wizard World (Adam, Gina, Jewel and Summer)last year and by the time I was able to get Summer's auto, if it hadn't had been for the Take Back The Sky/Pittsburgh CSTS lads, I'm pretty certain I wouldn't have got in. I think some fans started queuing for almost 2 hours before the panel. The undisputable fact is that now Nathan doesn't attend as many cons as he once did, his panel is going to be very, very, very popular and I would say be prepared to queue for a not inconsiderable amount of time.
I hope you enjoy yourself at the con.
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I went to the panel here in ATL right before the BDM came out. The place was jammed full. Hard to believe it'll be 9 years , come next September. Wow.
I suspect the crowds are still decent in size, and w/ Nathan doing so well on CASTLE, that has to help.
You'll have a blast. I did. 
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For Nathan I'd either line up early or get his VIP package for guaranteed seating. Last year in STL there were no issues with panels, but it was also the first year of that con. Jewel just spoke to a standing room only crowd in Kansas City, if that means anything.
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