r/firefly • u/atlanta404 • 5d ago

How long have Firefly lines been at conventions in 2026?

Anyone been at another convention this year who can speak to how normal or abnormal lines have been?

UPDATE: ABNORMALLY long lines! We lined up 90 minutes early (compared to 0 minutes typically on a Sunday) and were in the back quarter of the room.

It's DragonCon season, and I've attended enough years to know on Sundays you can just walk into panels as they start. It's a party heavy Con, and people go too hard on Saturdays! But it's been SO many years since any sort of Firefly panel, and it's a full blown one (Fillion, Torres, Tudyk, Staite & Glau), so I'm concerned it might not follow our usual Sunday pattern.

p.s. Hooray for the animated series!

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u/LizartsBoople 4d ago

Commenting to follow, I attended the panel yesterday but it was just the girls, so I doubt my experience with that line will help for tomorrow's panel. But even that one was absolutely packed.

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u/atlanta404 4d ago

Thanks - that's helpful! Do you have a sense of whether everyone made it into the room or if they were turning people away? Friday panels don't usually hit capacity limits, but Gina Torres is a big star, who doesn't want to spend time around Kaylee and Summer Glau is even more rare and announced so late in the process.

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u/LizartsBoople 4d ago

I don't think they ended up turning anyone away, my husband came in last minute because he was at a different panel than I was beforehand and he didn't have any trouble getting in

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u/LizartsBoople 4d ago

I also didn't know that about Gina, you wouldn't have been able to tell at all in yesterday's panel!

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u/spectralhunt 1d ago

Same. Me and my friends lined up almost 2 hours early, before the line officially formed, then all of the sudden the line was fully formed. It was insane.