Celebration IV: Attendance Record!

[lazypadawan]

starwars.com reports that C IV drew over 35,000 attendees, making it the highest attendance yet at any Celebration. The fact it managed to do that without a new movie to promote is extraordinary. This means:

1. GenCon is going to run Celebration V.

2. It's as inevitable as death and taxes that Celebration V will be back in Los Angeles. People who really wanted to go managed to scrounge up the money to fly from wherever, plus I think jawajames is right...a lot of Angelenos and other locals from SoCal attended this con while just about everybody at previous Celebrations was from somewhere outside of the host city. Sure there are SW fans in Denver and Indianapolis but they're also much smaller cities. And there's no town on this planet as into movies and popular culture as L.A..

Comments

[jadesfire55.livejournal.com]

Chicago might be large enough for a strong local pull from the city and surrounding suburbs. But you're right, it would take a Major Event to pull C5 out of LA.

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

Chicago is a wonderful town, except for the weather ;).

[jadesfire55.livejournal.com]

I'd take it over northern Minnesota any day. :D