I should also note that I got there an hour or three before the show opened, and there was a huge line stretching out from the doors, across a hallway, and down a long hallway. Probably several hundred people in front of me, just to buy the tickets, and then we had to line up AGAIN after we got our tickets, to get in the door.

You had to line up to buy the tickets even if you have the VIP Pass that the Busse clan gives out. Not sure it will be done the same way again this year, but it was a madhouse last year.