Comments on: Conventional Wisdom: Tips On Picking A Convention

By: USS Hera CMO

USS Hera CMO — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:39:10 +0000

as an insider looking out, Slanted Fedora had only one thing going for it 2001-2004: Jim Rennie. When the actor’s checks started bouncing, people like Armin Shimerman would call Jim at home and ask if HE could guarantee their getting paid. Jim often busted his butt making things happen, as in stage lighting and sound, security and star accomodations. He was my friend, and I started helping out at some shows. At a 2002 Philly con, I was able to utilize my “all-access” resource and obtained the most prized photo taken..standing in between Sid(Bashir) and Andy Robinson(Garak). also, to date, my autograph collection is larger than I would have thought possible..all thanks to Jim. Unfortunately, Jim Rennie passed away two years ago..so now all I have is my collection..both signatures and good memories.

By: Mike from Indy

Mike from Indy — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:07:47 +0000

I’ve always enjoyed the Slanted Fedora events. I especially liked it when Dave (the organizer) had a Q/A session at the end of every convention in hopes of making their convention better for next time. Do you ever see this with a Creation convention?

By: stompy

stompy — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:29:14 +0000

Ben Stevens runs a great series of shows here in Texas. They started as Toy Shows with no guests at all-admission was about $3 or so…

Then they started getting “The Men Behind the Masks” Star Wars tours and things took off for them.

Ben does Fan Days and Comic Shows mixed in with traditional science fiction conventions.

He had Shatner at the last show and it was awesome. The only downside is he usually only charges $10 for general admission day passes and those folks have to stand in long lines for everything. Speed passes and upscale tickets are the way to go if you attend his shows.

http://www.scifiexpo.com

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By: Jorg Sacul

Jorg Sacul — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:07:39 +0000

Vulkon can be added to the list of Epic Fail conventions. They have gone the way of Slander, er Slanted Fedora and JumpCon. Attorney General action is on the horizon.

By: JimE

JimE — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:53:57 +0000

Typing too fast
…It helped THAT the Babel Cons had the resources of STCOGR
…I’ve NOT been out to a real convention in a while. Marcon’s in Ohio is a lot of fun. I have friends that really love DragonCon.

By: JimE

JimE — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:02:58 +0000

Here I was just Googling the net and I stumble across my name here of all places.

Wow. It’s not often I see someone wax poetic about the old Babel Cons. Thanks for the praise DuneCee (26). I think you failed to mention Roger Sorensen in that honors list. I think that covers all the old convetion con-chairs. Mention should also go to a number of lovely ladies (Cathy Van Lopk, Julie Hondrid, Val Levering, Bert and Betty Stout, Laurel Mulendyke) ((please forgive any misspellings) who kept the wheels going at art shows and registration and a lot of other grunt work.

Those conventions were great times. It’s too bad they imploded. It helped the the Babel Cons had the resources of STCOGR (The Star Trek Club of Grand Rapids) to draw upon for the labor, that we were all younger, and commitment free.

As I recall, coming up with the ideas for the Saturday night skits was almost as much fun as the skits themselves. I seem to recall a lot of time sitting in local restaurants with legal pads, beer, soda, free popcorn, chicken tenders, and beer.

One to the things DuneCee didn’t mention was that, unlike most conventions, Babel Con was able to pull-off ten years of good cons without the one thing that seems to be a convention ‘must have’. Babel Con’s never to my memory had a big name guest.

The Babel Con’s had fan known guests like filker “Julia Eckar” or guest of interest like 1930’s Buck Roger’s comic strip artist Rick Yager. (I remember he had a good tale about drawing Buck Roger’s got him into trouble with the FBI.) The con just concentrated on having fun things to do, like midnight film showing of Jaws in the hotel pool (Garvin Czetli honor mention), group convention outings to the movies, dances, and all night filking.

I’ve been out to a real convention in a while. Marcon’s in Ohio is a lot of fun. I have friends that really love DragonCon.

By: Sena

Sena — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:36:20 +0000

Have been to Dragon Con. Swore I would never go there again. My daughter and I waited over 2 hours for passes, just for the vendors and to see what it was like. As we made our way to the vendors with newly printed passes at 5:00 we, and a crowd of others with the same intention, learned that the vendors were closing. Could we have been told this at 4:50 when the credit card was sweetly taken or when the passes were printed by a very tired, surly convention volunteer. Yes, I wanted to pay for an 11 year old’s 1 day pass for the after hours parties. :P

By: Jim Nightshade

Jim Nightshade — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:48:18 +0000

jjwere#60, I am sorry you had such a bad experience. The only Star Trek Con Ive been to was the Vegas Creation a couple years ago for the 40th anniversary…I loved most of it but did cost me over $2000 and I did not even get any autographs. Sooo couldnt afford to do that again but it was great…My gal is mildly hanicapped and we were accomodated for the photo ops and also allowed to be in the front of the line for the champage toast etc…when we did have difficulties I just saw adam or gary, mostly gary. they really went out of their way for us. However My gal is not wheelchair bound just cannot stand for long periods….Of course I love star trek the experience and attending the party with the fans was great….I keep hoping it will not close and hope that Paramount buys it back and deals with the vegas hilton….But in your case as they stuck you off to the side it would be hard for you to go get gary or adam and ask for their help. They should have accomadated you and that was totally wrong and unfair to treat you like that. I hope they have improved with those requiring wheelchairs since then….and I really dont blame you at all for being very upset and mad at them. I would be too…

By: John Gill

John Gill — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:10:43 +0000

#53 Chuck Soileau;

You’re in OPELOUSAS?!!!!!!!! I am in Eunice!!!! We are just a couple of miles from each other, LOL! I do the news reports daily on KEUN 105.5 FM and 1490 AM here as “Rick Nesbitt”.