Galaxy ConReviews of galaxycon.com

I've been reading the reviews and I have to agree. The previous year 2023 was amazing. 2024 was awful. Why are you continually competing with San Diego ComicCon. The guest were not what l expected to see like in the previous year. Are they all in San Diego? And how many times are you going to have William Shatner the man didn't make any since this year. I opted for 3 days in 2024 as opposed to 2023 just Saturday. Well this year 2025 I'm opting out until they can get some proper guest and programs. They were a little lame 2024. There was really nothing I was interested in. What was with tattoos? When did that become a vInue for comicon's.

My son and daughter in law attended in Raleigh 7/28/24. It was their first time attending an event like this. They poured over all available information online and made every effort to do anything we could before the event. They got to the event and arrived before the doors opened planning to meet one of the featured celebrities and it was absolute chaos from the moment doors opened. They had invested in a keepsake item to have signed and had $140 to purchase the artist signature and a selfie. They never had a chance. It was chaos and the people that appeared to be staff told them rudely that unless they had paid for a premium meet up before the event, they were not going to even have a chance to have a paid encounter with the artist. They were essentially kicked off the property by someone and told to come back two hours later and maybe they could get in, and they came back when instructed and they were treated even worse by the next apparent staff person. They had no misconceptions about having to wait to have the encounter. They were prepared to spend hours in line. But they were never given the opportunity. The last "staff" member was so rude towards them that they left. We will be never attend an event with Galaxycon again. When I emailed to explain what happened and ask for an apology or acknowledgement of how they were treated, the only thing I was told was that they encountered "volunteers" not paid staff, and there is nothing Galaxycon can do.

I've been going to Galaxycon for 6 years and so far this year has been the worst year. it was unorganized and honestly to say bluntly lame. there weren't any panels and meetups for people other than celebrities on the Friday schedule(the only day I went) and from the looks of the magazine provided there weren't many if any at all for the other days. Some of the other people I spoke to reported the magazine missing pages specifically between pages 30-35 which hold the schedule for the days. I went around the convention multiple times and we couldn't find any rooms open for cosplay meetups or friend opportunities like last year. I also went through the shopping and artist ally and everyone was shoulder to shoulder which made it very uncomfortable. There was also a lot of more aged up events rather than all ages like tattoos, piercings etc making it hard for me and my friends to do things as we are all minors. it seems like everything there was made for adults to spend money rather than fandoms to have fun. I'm honestly very dissappointed as this was the closest convention to me and I looked forward to it every year.

Awful experience. I had been planning this for months, because some of my favorite actors were gonna be there and after spending a lot of time, effort, money, it was all for nothing. Nowhere on the instagram or on the website was it clearly stated when the celebrities left. It’s a long drive to Raleigh from where me and my friends lived, so we got there kinda late, around 9. When we got there initially, we had problems with some of the tickets going through, so already around $100 was wasted because they had a problem with finding my friend’s ticket. The lady telling us about ticket details was horribly rude despite us being as nice as possible even after the months of stress, confusion, and only having a few hours of sleep. We had to go outside and ask people if they’d be willing to give us one of their passes while they were leaving. After gaining entry into the con, we were wondering what was even happening so we asked some people who worked there, they didn’t even know. So we ran around this whole maze like place trying to figure out where we can meet the people we came here for, just to find out that they had left right before we even got there. Not wanting this all to go to waste, we searched for things to do, and it was all explicit, disgusting activities like watching naked pole dancers, hentai stuff, and “Pokémon smash or pass”. None of these were appealing in the slightest form. We met some nice people though, me and my friend went as Rick Grimes, and Dale from The Walking Dead and we got recognized and took a couple of pictures with people, and we even ended up on the local news. Overall, this was a bad experience, unprofessionally handled by the people holding the event and the people working there designed to take your money by falsely advertising the event to you. I will never go to another Galaxy Con, and I would not recommend anyone to either.

After years of having fun, getting autographs, watching fun panels and meeting stars, the past few years have been a sh*tshow. The last time we went was 2023. It was GROSSLY oversold and the volunteers horribly under-trained. Friday was the most crowded we had ever seen. We stupidly assumed they SURELY had stopped selling tickets at the door since it was getting difficult to walk down the aisles in the dealers room and around the autograph booths. No. By Saturday we were packed tighter than a Tokyo subway at rush hour. Literally forced to stand still because it was IMPOSSIBLE to walk!!! When that happened the abusive staff screamed profanities at people telling us to "Move of I'm escorting you out right now!!" That happened so often we eventually tuned them out. The result, some of them literally got in the faces of people (not me because I already threatened them if they tried that nonsense) and screamed inches from their faces!!! Meanwhile, people who were in line with cash for autographs were pulled out even if they had been standing in line for 6+ hours. They were told they should have pre-bought or bought a VIP pass! Speaking of which, the so-called VIP passes were worthless. I saw a few of THEM trying to pay cash getting dragged out screaming THEY DID have a VIP badge. No one cared. I've been going to cons since the 70's. Loved this con back before GalaxyCon took over. The first year they had it I overheard some guy from GalaxyCon talking a little too loud (and a little too drunk) and realized he did not give a flying fig about fandom and was just there to grab as much cash as he could. A couple of years later, he and the rest of the GalaxyCon crew let us know EXACTLY HOW LITTLE they respect fans by treating us like human garbage. NOTHING could every make me want to attend ANY event, be a con or a carwash, affiliated with GalaxyCon!!! To this day I do NOT understand HOW the local fire marshal did not shut their ticket sales down since we HAD to be in violation of max capacity laws. Add to that their horrible, foul-mouthed staff who did NOTHING to help anyone? Hard pass.

I am a new person going to cons and this was way to disorganized. Way to little staff, to many tickets sold, to little info given out to the volunteers, they couldn't help anyone! Got here at 12:30, took 30 minutes to find parking, then it took from 1pm- 2:45 to even get in the building? and they had us hopping from one line to another. first was for the main building, then they said if you had Saturday only passes to go to the Marriott hotel entrance, then a volunteer said it was only registration for the gaming lounge, and not for redeeming tickets i had already paid online for. Luckily a employee that was near heard it and told everyone near us it was for ticket registration, and they only had one guy doing it, and guess what, HE WAS A VOLUNTEER. They need actual employees who know what's going on instead of cheeping out and just getting people to volunteer for a day pass and 20$. The volunteers can't help if they aren't being communicated with. Got yelled at several times by employees, one from across the street who was also telling us it was only for the gaming lounge and that we needed to move or we wouldn't get in and was being hateful. Eventually me and my family got in, and it was SHOULDER TO SHOULDER almost anywhere you went, we went into the exhibition about 3pm. you could not walk, it was a terrible experience, causing me to have to walk out from how many people were in there to breath. they sold to many tickets. People with wheel chairs or disabilities couldn't even move and some had to leave. the panels I was able to go to with the time left were all jut about messed up in some way with audio, to not being able to hear the speaker etc. only good panel was how to craft a foam knife and he gave a kit to the first 100 people. it was really good when it came to new cosplayers. I also had a email from galaxy con stating I was aloud to enter the cosplay contest and to arrive 45 minutes before show time for pre judging. I showed up at 7:05pm (8:15pm is when the contest started) and saw the contestants already going back. I asked if this was the line to go for pre judging for the cosplay contest and craftmanship etc, and the short brown haired woman yelled at me and my dad despite us being next to her saying you already missed it they already did pre judging, and i asked if there was anyway i could still enter the line due to me having my email, and she yelled back saying no i couldn't get in even with my email saying i was aloud to? after her doing this was my absolute breaking point ever in something and at this point I've never felt any sort of anxiety and discomfort in public and started bawling my eyes out from being yelled at, to more people than 8 thousand people (which is what the greater Richmond center can hold maximum look it up.) being shoulder to shoulder. and not even being able to hear my own voice. they need better management, a better team, and need to thoroughly rethink how they plan cons because this was NOT IT. Never will i be going back to a galaxy con nor will i recommend anyone to ever.

Was my first time at this con. Never again. The line to get in was all over the place. Only one door to access. Getting badges was terrible. I’ve been to other cons before and this one had way too many people. Finding parking spots was horrible. I can tell they sold way too many tickets. I was standing in line to meet celebrity and one of the volunteers became very loud and aggressive because they saw me with my phone out while I was texting. They thought I was going to take a picture. Wi-Fi didn’t worked for vendors. People were lined up at ATM machine because everyone had to switch to cash, and then ATM machines began misbehaving.

I’ve went to this convention for 3 years now, and by far, this year was the worst. The line to get in was confusing and all over the place, and the signs didn’t help. We waited for 2 hours JUST TO GET IN. But once you do get into the building, it’s packed to the point where you can’t move. Not only that, but cellphone service is nonexistent. Even if you have a new phone with a good plan, you can’t call ANYONE. No texts, no calls, your phone may as well become a brick. Not only that, but this messed up the vendor’s experiences as well, because their card readers also suffered as a result! My god, what a mess! Not worth $60 in the slightest.