RI Comic Con 2015 Recap: "Bigger and Better Than Ever"
GoLocalProv News Team and Kate Nagle
RI Comic Con 2015 Recap: "Bigger and Better Than Ever"
“We really adjusted to mistakes made last year, we knew we had to do a better job,” said Larry Lepore, on reacting to the 2014 Con which saw hundreds of ticket holders turned away for overcrowding. “And we did a great job this year.”
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Lepore noted the event didn’t max out, even still.
“We did not max out on Friday night, because people were still working — we did on Saturday though,” said Lepore. “Nothing come close to these numbers for [Con] number four. To think it started with 8,000 the first year.”
Big Wins?
Lepore said one of the keys the success of the 2015 Con was scanning passes this year.
“They had realtime numbers to know who was going in and out,” said Lepore of public safety monitoring. “But [Comic Cons] are not like boat shows, people want to stick around for the whole day.’
Lepore said that they also lucked out with the outdoor lines this year, for people waiting to get it in.
“Luckily the weather was warm. If were cold, people might not have been so happy to be waiting outside,” said Lepore. “I saw some rumblings early on over social media about the line size, and then saw people post things like,’Have you been to a Con before? It’s like this everywhere.’ And it is, but we can always do better. And we did throughout the day."
Lepore said they might try to wind the lines next year, like a bank.
“Next year, we might think of doing a tent out back, that would give us an additional 30,000 square feet,” said Lepore. “And we might see about starting on Thursday night. So we’ll see!”
Comic Con 2015
Lou Ferrigno and Mayor Jorge Elorza cut the ribbon with lightsabers and open up Comic Con 2015.
Jessica Rabbit (right) from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Captain Marvel in attendance
The Punisher took time out of his busy schedule to attend RI Comic Con.
Rapunzle from Tangled
Interesting costume
Heavy Star Wars presence at Comic Con with The Force Awakens just over one month away. Hugs for Chewbacca.
Deadpool took a break from filming his upcoming movie to come to RI Comic Con.
Raven from the DC Superhero team, The Teen Titans.
Someone let Scarecrow out of Arkham Asylum. Don't let him inject you with his fear toxin.
Bounty Hunters made their way from the Star Wars galaxy.
Hatsune Miku
Dynerays Targarian
Darth Vader was at Comic Con hunting Luke Skywalker.
Fans take thier costumes seriously, lots of effort put into this one.
She looks evil
DC Comics had a heavy presence as always. From left to right is Wonder Woman, Batman, Harley Quinn and Batman.
Hellboy made it to Comic Con
Rhode Island Comic Con was a success in 2015
Some of the more interesting costumes at Comic Con.
The NiRoPe brothers from Cardis showed up.
Lots of photo opportunities with all kinds of characters. Including unicorns.
A Pirate took a break from sailing the seas
Back to the Future anyone? The Delorean
Security please
Deadpool costumes are always popular, especially now with the movie in production.
Skeleton hands, eyeballs, a knife and more on this costume. Very creative.
Thor took a break from protecting Asgard to come and help protect RI Comic Con.
With Suicide Squad coming out early next year, Harley Quinn was a popular costume at RI Comic Con
A Dalek from Dr. Who
Editor's Note: GoLocal mistakenly identified this as a Droid from Star Wars - we apologize for the error.
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Beware the Court of Owls.
A creepy faceless costume.
The Joker and Harley Quinn. Two characters that will be featured in the Suicide Squad movie.
Cruella Daville andher friends.
It's the Mario Brothers. Two Mario's, a Luigi and Toad tagging along.
Roman from RWBY and Amy from Sonic.
RWBY is a web series and it stands for Ruby,Weiss, Blake and Yang.
Captain America, Gambit (fom X-Men) and The Winter Soldier
A creepy scene.
Chewbacca, Princess Leia and Han Solo inside the Millinium Falcon ready to make the jump to light speed.
Despite Carrie Fisher dropping out last minute, her character was well represented at Comic Con. Lots of excitement for upcoming Star Wars movie.
The imperial Storm Troopers were present at Comic Con searching for Jedi Knights.
Deadpool haning out with Spider-Man and Spider-Man wearing an alternate Spidey suit.
Another busy vendor floor at Comic Con. Cool Comics, T-shirts, toys, video games and more.
Fans bring all kinds of costumes to Comic Con from all different genera's.
