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30 minutes early and no one is here?

I'm curious to know if anyone went to the Miku Hatsune/Vocaloids Live in Japantown SF that one time there was a festival and Mori Chack came :S I totally forgot when this happened...but there was a concert in the Viz Pictures Cinema Hall in the New People building.

That was just a playback of the 39s Giving Day Bluray and not actually a concert. Although Hiroyuki (Crypton's CEO) came to the second viewing and gave a presentation.

Ok... the holographic stickers+hole punches were the worst ideas ever according to previous staff members. The hole punchers would ALWAYS jam, and it is hard to get a clean cut. Also that was when each card was laminated one at a time.

Ah, I wasn't aware that they put holographic stickers on pre-reg badges in the past.  I was exclusively referring to the paper ones used for early reg and at-con purchases.  The reason I bring this up is because one of the reasons for not mailing out badges was due to fear of counterfeiting.  This year's paper badges (not the cards) seemed to be especially prone to counterfeiting due to the lack of counterfeit protections such as the holographic stickers and holepunching.  If you got matching paper, you could have made multiple copies of those badges that look like the real thing.

I don't have much of an opinion when it comes to the laminated PRE-REG badges vs cards.  I'm guessing the cards were a timesaver for staff.  I did like that I had a pocket to put my hotel room key, though. :)

Ah, yes the early reg/at-con papers are a bit easy to copy especially if someone had the art. I believe there were plans to let everyone have the plastic cards like pre-reg, but then what would pre-reg get that others wouldn't other than the price? Also the printing machine is apparently huge, and would take a bit longer to actually make.

Ok... the holographic stickers+hole punches were the worst ideas ever according to previous staff members. The hole punchers would ALWAYS jam, and it is hard to get a clean cut. Also that was when each card was laminated one at a time.

It seems like such a fuss xD individual lamination is a pain compared the (super awesome) individual cards we had this year...

I don't know if it's been considered before, but if each stand were in charge of their own alpha group (A-D, E-H, etc by last name), then the people in charge of filtering through thousands of badges would only have a certain group of cards to look through? It's something we use at school to a fairly high efficiency, I just don't know if it would work out well at Fanime...Just an idea to consider...

The problem I see with that would be too many people waiting for their booth while other booths were virtually empty.

Perhaps it would be by badge number instead of last name.  What you could do is divide the number of badges by the number of booths that will be open.  That could be a more effective way to go about that idea.

Most people don't know/remember their badge number unless they had the email/paper with them, and the badges are already ordered by badge number on the pickup tables. Also I'm pretty sure that alot of people don't know the difference between early reg and pre-reg and it would suck to stay in the pre-reg line when you're actually an early reg for 2 hours.

Ok... the holographic stickers+hole punches were the worst ideas ever according to previous staff members. The hole punchers would ALWAYS jam, and it is hard to get a clean cut. Also that was when each card was laminated one at a time.

If anyone's looking at this for next year, picking up on Thursday is pretty much a nightmare. There's nothing like starting off the first real day of the convention with sore feet due to standing in line for 2.5 hours! I really regretted that ... Just go early Friday morning. (Though I guess if everyone does that, then it'll be just like Thursday. sigh. I love Fanime, but I do wish some things were done differently.)

There is one reason that the lines have been such a nightmare on Thursdays this year and last: letting Early Reg pick up the same night as pre reg. I'm hoping that Registration might re-consider this policy after having two years of pretty intense Thursday night lines.

The only reason the lines were a 'nightmare' on Thursday is due to ineffective management of human resources, further complicated by the design of the badges.

Please don't say "Remove the names off the badges, and remove badge number because its a waste of time" We had over 6 people working at the computers and a runner at each station to grab your specially made badge for you. We went as fast as possible, but searching through 10k+ badges is going to take a while, even when organized by 50 numbers each. But if you had an early reg, you just head on over towards the badge making table where we had 4 people going through and sticking the names on each badge and putting them in the lanyard for you. If you have any suggestions on how to IMPROVE this, please tell us.