Folks are sending me a lot of "complaints about WonderCon" and I put that in quotes because most of them seem to be complaints about the California freeway system and/or the weather. I can check on this but I don't think the convention staff directs either or can do anything to improve those things except not to have their convention next to Disneyland.
I'm not suggesting they not have another con in Anaheim, though I preferred San Francisco; just pointing out that the traffic situation in this area (I'm still here) is about as uncontrollable as the rain. If it could be improved, the Disney folks would have made darn sure that had been done. Few parts of Southern California operate well when we have that water stuff coming out of the sky…and weekends near The Magic Kingdom, freeway bustle slows to the rate of the line into Space Mountain. Until the Santa Ana Freeway institutes FastPass, that is how it shall be.
I was not wild about the Anaheim Convention Center…though perhaps other parts of it are better. WonderCon was one of three gatherings here over the weekend and the place was otherwise full of volleyball players and cheerleaders. From our hotel room, Carolyn and I had a nice view of the swimming pool wherein some of them rehearsed routines. (We were on the twelfth floor. At one point, I got into an elevator with six uniformed cheerleaders, all about 15 years old. I couldn't get to the elevator controls so I told them, "Gimme a twelve!" And none of them laughed.)
Anyway, I just wanted to remind you all that I am not the Complaint Department for this or any other convention I attend. And really, some of you: If you're driving on the 5 near Disneyland on a Saturday morning in moderate-to-heavy rain, what do you expect?