You know I'll say this about the Dealer's Room. It's always crazy with people going backwards, stopping, whatnot. And while staff may shoot this down, I for one have no problem telling people to move it along if they're just stopping in the middle of the path, or in some way hindering traffic. I think honestly if more of the regular con goers actually stepped up and tried to make people aware that they're causing problems it may help all around. Again, maybe I'm overstepping myself in doing so but it's a habit I guess plus having to stop while I'm trying to browse because a couple people stop suddenly to chat in the middle of the Dealer's Room annoys me.
So NDK is far and away behind me, but I felt things went pretty well in NDK '10. The hallways were a little annoying at times but that might be my own personal ire, since I feel if you're in the hallway you need to be moving, and not at a pace that would embarrass a snail. If you're going to chat, step to the side, if you're going to putz along like a crippled snail move to the side and let people who know how to move get by. Again, probably just me and I don't mean to offend anyone obviously I understand some people have handicaps and various other reasons for why they may not be moving fast through hallways, but those people aside there were plenty I just wanted to tell them to move it.
But that aside, it went well. Dealer's Room is crazy as always but manageable. The only thing, and obviously little can be done because it's because of the size of the con nowadays, but it's kind of a shame that every panel seems to have a long waiting line. Or at least the ones I wanted to go to which may just be because they're all popular, who knows. Does make things problematic especially when on Saturday I find myself having to plot out a schedule between autographs and panels and now having to get in line where unless you get there a half hour-an hour before the panel you'll most likely never get in kinda blows but hey, NDK has grown so it's something that next year I'll try and plan for more. Or learn how to duplicate myself...yeah...that might work.
Oh one thing though, that bugged me. The elevators. Mainly the fact that during the con a couple times they divided the elevators by floor. Which was all well and good except generally the vast NDK populous was on floors 1-5 so the line for that elevator was extremely long yet the other elevators had NO ONE waiting for them but we weren't allowed to get on those elevators. Now this didn't happen all the time, some staff were cool about it. And I get the need to divide elevators, not arguing that. But next year I guess it'd just be nice if whoever was staffing the elevators would be more aware that if there's a huge line behind one elevator and the others are empty, let us use the other elevators. Again, it wasn't every staff member, and I do know they were just doing their jobs, but it was irritating.
