We have the convention tickets. They don't say EE or bonus, so I'm pretty sure that they don't include that perk. I don't think I will even try to get in early since we'll just have to wait around, and that won't work well with DD's 3,4.
I agree that the price savings was worth missing EE (although last time I went to EE it was so great, I said it was priceless ...

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