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I'm pretty sure we don't have a thread about conventions we may be going to, so here's one.

Gen Con is next weekend in Indianapolis, but I don't think we're going this year.

I will be going to Dragon Con Labor Day weekend in Atlanta. Anyone else going to that?

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Yeah, you can't be all willy nilly about this. Look at Tyrphanax and I, we've known each other for years, even lived in the same state, never met!

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We need an OTcon. That would be cool. I've never been to a convention of any kind.

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OTcon would be pretty dry.

Tobar, we lived in the same CITY for awhile.

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I don't really know what we'd do if we were all in one place.

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timdiggerm said:

I don't really know what we'd do if we were all in one place.

e.g., watch a few fanedits and a few preservations on a big screen; attend a talk by Adywan|Harmy|Poita|Team_Negative1; attend an Adobe AfterEffects speed-tutorial; count petition signatures with pat man; check out booths publicizing new fanedits and preservations; meet TV's Frink; be a part of a short movie documenting the convention; <insert your idea here>.

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AntcuFaalb said:

We need an OTcon.

 All of us in one place would be a good way for Lucasfilm to track all of us down and confiscate our non-sanctioned versions of the movies. It would be a day long remembered.

However, I may muster the courage to go to Celebration next year. Maybe.

I worry what I may see there (EU/PT fanboys), but cherish the possibility to be around for some huge announcement (OOT release, VII details, 3D, whatever.) If I go, I will definitely be representing the Holy Trilogy all the way.

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AnctuFaalb said:

e.g., watch a few fanedits and a few preservations on a big screen; attend a talk by Adywan|Harmy|Poita|Team_Negative1; attend an Adobe AfterEffects speed-tutorial; count petition signatures with pat man; check out booths publicizing new fanedits and preservations; meet TV's Frink; be a part of a short movie documenting the convention; <insert your idea here>.

Ah, no! You are getting my hopes up only to be surely crushed!

 

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I would spend countless amounts of dollars to see the real negative1 speak.

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WedgeCyan said:

I worry what I may see there (EU/PT fanboys)

 Oh they'll be there in droves. What I'm curious about is how all of this boiling rage they have building right now will manifest. Also whether or not Lucasfilm will fess up to them about Legends being an in-house decision.

The whole thing has real potential for turning into a powder keg.

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Tobar said:

WedgeCyan said:

I worry what I may see there (EU/PT fanboys)

 Oh they'll be there in droves. What I'm curious about is how all of this boiling rage they have building right now will manifest. Also whether or not Lucasfilm will fess up to them about Legends being an in-house decision.

The whole thing has real potential for turning into a powder keg.

Yeah, I have my tickets already. I feel like it could shape up to be a bullet to the knees of PT apologists everywhere as the OT Era returns.

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WedgeCyan said:
confiscate our non-sanctioned versions of the movies.

Confiscate our digital files which have been distributed via public computer networks? Oh no!

AntcuFaalb said:

timdiggerm said:

I don't really know what we'd do if we were all in one place.

e.g., watch a few fanedits and a few preservations on a big screen; attend a talk by Adywan|Harmy|Poita|Team_Negative1; attend an Adobe AfterEffects speed-tutorial; count petition signatures with pat man; check out booths publicizing new fanedits and preservations; meet TV's Frink; be a part of a short movie documenting the convention; .

 I just realized we can't meet until Jay builds his own convention center.

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I used to go to Comic-Con every year before it was cool. 

No wait. It was already cool.  It went before it was expensive. That's it.

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timdiggerm said:

WedgeCyan said:
confiscate our non-sanctioned versions of the movies.

Confiscate our digital files which have been distributed via public computer networks? Oh no!

True... though it seems just stupid/evil enough for them to try.

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TV's Frink said:

I would spend countless amounts of dollars to see the real negative1 speak.

 I wonder if 

he would pause

after every few words

Dboman said:

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AntcuFaalb said:

We need an OTcon. That would be cool. I've never been to a convention of any kind.

publius over at the LDDb forum runs A-Kon.

I've been saying that for years. ;)

We could figure out some sort of meetup at Celebration in Anaheim next year. I want to go, but I'm going to need a costume wrangler.

As for fans with a different point of view, I think most people behave a bit better in person than they do online.

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Gen Con is a very celebrity-lite convention. It's pretty much the official Wizards of the Coast (D&D/Magic The Gathering) and Mayfair games (Settlers of Catan) convention, so there's a lot of that mixed with other brands and indie games. They'll have one or two celebrities. We've seen, but not talked to, Nichelle Nichols and Walter Koenig, but got to meet Wil Wheaton (who now just goes to hang out).

We've also been to Adventure Con in Knoxville, TN. It's a tiny convention. There are almost more celebrities than there are booths. It's a big space, but only about half the area has booths and only half of the booths are rented out. In 2006 we met Adam Baldwin and in 2012 we met Alan Tudyk, which I suppose makes it our personal Firefly Con.

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SilverWook said:

AntcuFaalb said:

We need an OTcon

I've been saying that for years. ;)

We could figure out some sort of meetup at Celebration in Anaheim next year. I want to go, but I'm going to need a costume wrangler.

 We should totally get a hotel near Celebration. Meet up... watch ESB:R if it's done, then go out for pizza and beers. 

We all would need to make badges with our avatars on them.

Hypothetically, if this was gonna happen, who might conceivably consider maybe going?

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When is it?

I would conceivably consider maybe going.

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If an OTcon did happen in conjunction with SW Celebration '15, I'd totally go. It's a 7 hour drive, or a 1 hour flight.

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I attended a convention of white witches once. Using an enchanted spear wrought from the armour of Yeshua, we were able to thwart a Satanist cult's plans to open a portal into the Outer Darkness which would have allowed the long-exiled Ancient Ones to return to our plain of existence and end all life in the observable universe as we know it.

Oh, wait, it that was my counterpart on Earth-20890 who did that, not me exactly. My bad.