Galaxy ConReviews of galaxycon.com

Not the most Organized or planned out convention. I am having to mention this because I went to the Gabriel and the Guardians premiere organized by Galaxy Con, and they put the wrong scheduled time of when the panel started, regardless of the event being at a movie theater. They still didn't 100 percent have the correct time. Also, it's almost not worth it buying the fast passes for the con. I bought the fast passes for Animate Columbus, and the lines for the con are not fast at all, same with trying to find the lines for the autograph booths, they are just pieces of tape,not explained. The VIP extra experience isn't worth it in my opinion. Just buy a regular ticket - honestly, I feel like I wasted $ 400 on VIP that barely even gave me the VIP experience or a Disneyland fast pass line, as I had hoped.

Refundable.Me is a scam. I purchased tickets for Galaxy Con Columbus 2024 as well as the insurance through Refundable.Me in case something should happen. I ended up being too sick to travel and attempted to get the refund. Not only was the process to get the refund ridiculous and asked for information they had no right knowing, including my full bank account number and routing number they were requesting a doctor's note on order for some proof that I was sick. When I provided a note from my doctor stating I was too ill to travel, they decided it wasn't worded exactly how they wanted and denied my refund. They did offer me "money from their emergency fund" as a "show of good faith". So basically I get a partial refund and they get to pocket the rest of my ticket money as well as the money I paid for the insurance and I just get screwed over. Not only will I not return to Galaxy Con or any other convention they sponsor I won't patronize any events associated with Refundable.Me, it's not worth the risk should something come up.

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.

A disorganized mess. Ive been coming to this con for years. As far back as when it was called supercon. They overbook on tickets. I know they want to male money but saturdays are shoulder to shoulder with people all day. They made the vendors be card only this year so most people didnt bring cash. But turns out the celebs take ONLY cash. And on Saturday there was a massive lime to get in for people getting their badges. And people who already had them had to stand in the same line. There should be a seperate line for people who already have their badges so they can go straight in. And the panels are a mess too. I went to a photoshoot. I go to one every year. Online it said it was at 2:30. Thank god i was way early because the sign outside the door said it started at 2. And we only did one group photo. Every photoshoot people do themes, good guys vs bad guys, character groups ect. We got one group photo by the main photographer and that was it. The next photoshoot kicked us out and they got to do multiple photos and poses and themes. I was so angry. My cosplay took an hour to get on and I got one group photo taken and have no idea how to get a copy. Galaxycon is more about greed than the fans. They also charge the vendors insane prices to rent a booth and then take 30-35% of their sales. I was told this by multiple vendors. Seriously thinking about crossing this con off my list.

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.