What I learned at DragonCon
POSTED BY: GazerBeam
UPDATED: Monday, September 12, 2005 22:14
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* Storm Troopers won't miss a photo-op, even if it is with the characters from "The Wizard of Oz".
* If a vendor tells you that vibrating rats are quite popular with girls, don't ask why...
* If you stay at another hotel and there's a family reunion going on, be prepared to politely answer questions of grey-haired folk sharing the elevator with you as to why are so many people in costume.
* Funky headgear is cool.
* You may find out you don't live where you think you do after you talk to the people of the Society for Creative Anachronism. For instance, apparently I don't live in California, but rather in a kingdom with a compound name ending in "ay". Or something like that.
MAL: If anyone gets nosy, just, you know... shoot 'em.
ZOE: Shoot 'em?
MAL: Politely.
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Quote:
Originally posted by slayerfan1975:
Although in a place with hundreds of Browncoats, still didn't run into anyone from the boards and no one really talked to me. I tried but oh well....
Aww, me either. I hung out with some people but didn't meet as many browncoats as I would have liked to. Didn't know their was a browncoat party room until it was too late. :( Maybe next year.
*waves to serenity and litwolf*
Ok, things I learned:
When staying on the fifth floor of the Marriott it is better to run up and down stairs then to wait for the elevator that never comes.
People stare at you when you hold plastic dinosaurs and then when asked about them you act out a scene from Firefly, the lady just smiled and nodded I think she thought I was crazy.
Cunning hats will soon rule over the land, and they shall call it: THIS LAND!
Knowing useless facts about tv shows wins you prizes.
Following people wearing blue gloves leads you to shady places to stand or sudden doom.
The line for the Serenity panel is neverending, its like the stupid battery bunny...it keeps going and going and going.
Luke Ski is great and everyone should have gotten his cd, go Grease Wars!
Jewel and the other BDHs like to pick on Nathan.
Klingons(sp) dressed in robes will try to steal browncoat women away.
The masquerade is very crowded and long, but worth going to.
all for now, more later
Keep shiny!
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*If you wait until the line starts going in for a Serenity panel and get on the end of it, you will still find a seat in Centennial I-II-III, and you won't miss the two panels at 1:00 and 2:30 you wanted to see.
*Staying at the Westin is rather relaxing. You could not pay me to stay in the Hyatt!
*There are a ton of Browncoats in the South--d'oh!
*XanderLHarris/Ash is a woman! (and a sweetheart to boot.)
I was glad to hang with her, Browncoat1 and his wife, Sharon and Jadehand. You're good folks.
Cardie
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Ash
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Tracy hickman has a wonderful 6'x5' vinyl hexmap with the gorgeous firefly deckplans from the rpg printed onto it in scale, full color... and i want it.
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* If you go to bed early (by midnight) you will miss all the parties.
* Adam Baldwin gives the best hugs!
* One Jane hat is worth a thousand words.
* If you find a pair of boots you haven't worn in three years and decide they will be perfect for your Zoe costume, you will soon discover the reason you haven't worn them for three years. (and, it's hard to walk like a warrior woman when you are limping!)
* Ron Glass can say more with one facial expression than anyone I've ever known.
* Storm Troopers like to dance to "The Hero of Canton".
* Traveling Bedlam Bards makes waiting in line lots more fun! (Thanks Cedric!)
* Meeting fellow Browncoats in person is even more fun than meeting them on the Boards.
Shout out to BC1 and Miss Persephone (sp)and Fireflygal! So great to finally meet you. And to all the other wonderful Browncoats I met - I love you guys!
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Hey Callipe79!-It was great meeting you, too, you Smart woman who took an extra day off!! Don't forget, we're staring an SC Firefly group!
Slayerfan-Didn't I see you at the fan table? I wish I hadn't missed the opportunity of saying hi to you. It was crazy, wasn't it? I've seen you around here, of course, though. Are you coming to the NCBDMPP?
Hey LitWolf and Mima-I remember you from the fan table, too! Hi! *waves enthusiastically*
Kaylee4Simon-you're the shiniest!
(This girl knows her Firefly trivia. And the dinos were the best!! Plus, she makes just the cutest Kaylee you've ever seen.)
Have you gotten your pics up yet? I can't wait to see the one with me and the Male Companion (oh yes, ladies, that was something to behold.)
Cardie-if you were partying with BC1 and Ash, and I was partying with BC1 and Ash, why can't I put a face to your name? And I totally agree, Ash is great!
Ash-how's things?
Okay, enough shout outs for now.
Serenity, First Officer of Destiny
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Hey all :)
Finally made it here and signed on :) It was great to meet so many of you at Dragon this year.
Things learned at con:
*Six people in one hotel room makes for a very crowede room.
*Browncoats are the greatest people!
*Our BDH's are great people and very generous. They were all sending the money they collected to help the Katrina victims, or at least they were when I went to see them.
*It's a wonderful thing to wait until Tuesday to drive back so you miss the rush of everyone leaving on Monday :)
There may be more, but I'm at work and about ready to fall asleep. BTW, con-crud sucks...sigh...
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I really miss wearing my Jayne hat. Anyone else? I just thought it was very comfortable and I adore the ear flaps. I'm seriously thinking about making myself a matching scarf so I can wear it when it gets colder.
Serenity, First Officer of Destiny
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Quote:
Originally posted by wickedwren:
And next year I really am going to bring wire cutters and start cutting off fairy wings. If you don't know how large your costume is, don't wear it.
Funny con story on that note...
It just came about one con, after breaking up with my very-faery (and very CRAZY) ex, that too damn many folk see faeries as wimpy, scatterbrained and female, and thus, me and Z decided to do something about that.
I will endeavour to find pics of the getup if I can, but best described as a VERY masculine autumn-gold fae garb with HUGE fekkin maroon wings, the drapey kind (more manly) instead of gossamer, and the damned things were so hefty they had to be supported by a cut-off shovel handle as a 'spine' and 1/4" thick industrial-grade copper wire... you wanna talk wing-envy, well, there it was, bwahaha.
Design note to this, smart people with large wings design them to PIVOT on the spine mount, so you can pull an unobtrusive cord and fold them back out of the way when stepping through a crowd of folk instead of clobbering half of them... all "con-wings" should be equipped with said feature, in my opinion also - tho the one chick who did get beaned by my wing-edge was entirely deserving, and it was no accident, I assure you, heh heh heh.
Words can't really do it, so imma see if i cannot dig up a pic somewhere, someone's gotta have one.
Side note - damned things were *heavy* too, imagine lugging up and down 8 flights of steps with that getup ? SOOooo glad I put that pivot in there tho.
-F
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