I went the by weekly furmeet today and got a pleasant surprise; it looks like I be able to attend a fur con this year. Furlandia is a first year convention right in down town Portland Oregon. This will possibility change my panel planning, meant I need to get creaking on fury and anime panel.
2012 was a busy year for me. My con schedule was
Wonder Northwest, Multi Genre geek 26 to 27 Mar
Kumoricon, Anime 1st though 3rd September
The Otaku over 25 panel I hosted grew from 35 to over 55 attendees.
Rose city Comic Con, Comic industry general pop culture, 8th – 9th September
(My return to ) Rainfurrest, Furry, 27 through 30 September
Orycon, Science fiction, 2nd – 4th November
NewCon PDX multi-genre (anime, sf, fantasy) 29 -30 December
Except for Rainfurrest all other conventions were at Portland / Vancouver WA area. It had been a record breaking year. I also have gotten a reputation as the crazy guy with the big Hello Kitty plushie. There been some hitches including a car break-in where my giant Hello Kitty was stolen.
2013 convention planning
I am sticking local this year, with 19000 in debt and loss of job in May I not condition or desire to travel out of region. In addition to keep within a budget, I do not see to attend any every out of state furry con.
I will attend Wonder Northwest, a day at Steam Con (steam punk), Orycon, Kumoricon, and Newcon. I will do the Otaku over 25 panel and will work on a Fury 101 / furry in anime panel for Kumoricon; there may be an opportunity for a furry panel at Orycon and NewCon. Rose City Comic-con is a wild card; the news is they are partnering with Emerald City Comic Con. On the plus it will being a truly comic con to Portland, the bad is high price to attend, long lines, and $100 if one want an autograph con, I may give it a pass. I like when the geek con keeps it local, it is why we need Wonder Northwest and NewCon.
The CON : NewCon PDX
The Place: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Portland Oregon
Newcon PDX is a new a multi-genre convention (Anime, Fantasy and Science Fiction). Both my big Hello Kitties was my accompanying plushies.
Saturday: I when out for breakfast and headed out to the convention site, the line registration was not very large. I attended Bizarre War Machines of the Steam Punk Era; a panel examining real life war machines that look like out of a steampunk novel. Other than that I hung around taking pictures and stepped in and out of the Video Room for a triple header of savaging and lampooning movies I detest. Rifftrax is founded by three alumni of Mystery Science Fiction Theater 3000, their product is a separate mp3 commentary track that is synced to the DVD. I watched Rifftrax lampoon The Hunger Games and Avatar; two movies I detested and cannot stand and would not watch another way. I lost track of time and, went out to a late dinner before check out the con and going back home.
Sunday: went back to the convention after church. I exchange my 28in Hello Kitty Plush for the 32 In Hello Kitty plush. I attended the Lost in translation Lisle Wilkerson, a voice actress ran the panel. The issue was the problems translation from Japanese to English and vice versa. She answered one of my suspicions about how some of the story is lost during subbing anime. The loss of the story is why I watch anime twice, once dubbed and the second time subbed. The rest of the day I pop in an out of the panel room, video room and took more pictures. I went out for a early dinner at a Chinese Restaurant down town. Then I went back to squeeze out every last second out of Newcon. By that time things were winding down too fast, and were falling into disarray. The AMC and Evangelion panels were no-shows, but the dance was well attended. Guy kept the video room going until it was time to break things down and I stayed in the panel room playing word games until 12:00am before calling it a con.
The: Good: Just having a end of a year con replacing Mewcon. Second Guy keeping things going in the video room.
The Bad: lack of communication before the convention, I was not sure there were going to be a convention and the same issue how things seem to falling apart Sunday Evening. I been told these issue will be addressed.
The Ugly: Nothing
I as one missed MewCon and congratulate the staff for their success and thank them for their hard work. I look forward for Newcon 2013/2014.
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