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by Kelspook
It's great to meet folks into the stuff you are, even if is can be a little surreal- seeing a hugely fat bloke crammed into an airforce flightsuit is a sight to behold- especially when you find yourself thinking "There's no WAY you'd fit into a plane cockpit!"

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*snigger*

That is all

I think you're all a bunch af nerdlings but you all know I love <3 ya dontcha

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by MonSTeR
Are Cons a con?

Or do you think you get good value for money?

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Those are actually two separate questions.

Starting with the second question, well, there's no doubt that they're expensive. Registration fee, hotel room, booze, photos etc all add up. Whether they represent value for money though is really down to each individual. I obviously think the ones I go to do so.

As for the very high priced events like the proposed Marsters/Boreanas one, I don't think they do and hence am not going. However, I don't have a problem with them setting the price levels they do. They're free to do so and I'm free to decide I won't pay those prices. Clearly, there have been other people who will.

The key thing is that everyone know what they're paying and what they'll get for it and that the con organisers deliver what they've promised. That's where the first question comes in, AFAIC. Cons are a con if the organisers fail to deliver what they promised and fail to make good on that (ie refunds of registrations if an event is cancelled), irrespective of whatever the asking price was, as has been the case at some recently well-documented and discussed events.

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by Kneon Light
Having never been to a Con (Is SFX the Event a Con or an event?)

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well i see it as a con..very much a 'con'.

I think the phrase used by friends who went to one was "complete and utter shambles"! Funny how coverage in the magazine doesn't seem to mention there being only ~135 people at the last one. Hell, we were thinking Eternal was severely underpopulated at ~180-190!

(Edited by Ming 22/07/2004 14:45)

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by Teresa
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*snigger*

That is all

I think you're all a bunch af nerdlings but you all know I love <3 ya dontcha

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Hey, I didn't say I was the person in the flight suit! LOL.

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by nemesis
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well i see it as a con..very much a 'con'.

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To be fair we had a fantastic time last year at the SFX event. Didn't go this year as the guests weren't as good. It helped last year that it was next door to the expo.

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by Kneon Light
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To be fair we had a fantastic time last year at the SFX event. Didn't go this year as the guests weren't as good. It helped last year that it was next door to the expo.

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ah see theres the problem with that year. If you went to the Expo due to the bad layout of the SFX event you could easily watch the talks without paying to get in to the SFX event. Im sure you enjoyed yourself, but since youve only been to this type of event and not some of the more fan run ones you havent experienced what those kind of conventions CAN be like.And sadly you said that your next event is the White Room, which due to Sean's hissy fit isnt going to be anything like a good fan run convention...

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by nemesis
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ah see theres the problem with that year. If you went to the Expo due to the bad layout of the SFX event you could easily watch the talks without paying to get in to the SFX event. Im sure you enjoyed yourself, but since youve only been to this type of event and not some of the more fan run ones you havent experienced what those kind of conventions CAN be like.And sadly you said that your next event is the White Room, which due to Sean's hissy fit isnt going to be anything like a good fan run convention...

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Can you recommend a good fan run convention? (preferably Buffy/Angel)