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Okay, here is my input.
We arrived at about 11 on Friday, the second day. We parked across the street and were in the convention after only 3 minutes in line. We went right into the con store, which was set up like a huge department store---shirts on one wall, sweatshirts on another, posters in one section, and so forth. There was no line to get in, and they handed you a giant shopping bag to collect everything. When you were ready to pay, you went to a huge area where they had about 30 registers lined up. The store took maybe 30 minutes, but that involved all the browsing for items, too.
The dealere room was cool, but very obviously smaller from the California tax/union loophole that kept many vendors out, including Master Replica. Gentle Giants had a life-sized Jabba that rocked. The fan club room was gigantic, and very poorly filled--too much space and not enough fan clubs.
We played laser tag with Stormtroopers, saw Star Wars in 30 minutes (same as C3), a pretty cool display of 60 M.R. Vader helmets all decked out by different artists (I'll have to post those pictures...they were pretty unique), the R2 builder room, the Family Room (lots of arts and crafts for kids), and the Lucas Film Archives room (about 6 costumes--Padme, C3P0, Boba, Luke from RTOJ, Slave Leia, and Hans Hoth coat; also various Vader belts and chest boxes, some models of different vehicles, and Luke's severed head from ESB).
We left at 5 pm.
All in all, it was very, very similar to C3, but much better executed so far as lines and space. The LA Convention Center is huge! I'm glad I went, but I will not be going again unless they mix it up a bit. It definitely was not an "all-weekend" thing like C3 was, but I have to wonder if C3 would have been an "all-weekend" event if the lines had been shorter.
I have about 150 pictuers I'll have to link to Photo Bucket of something like that, but it won't be until after Sooner Con. Too busy getting the JediOKC and GB tables ready for that.
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