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littlegreenwolf
 Posts: 4796 Location: Seattle, WA |
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Ok, so is the state of Florida now the #2 state to have the most conventions in the US? Because we now have a LOT of conventions.
Hopefully this will actually lead to getting some Japanese guest instead of just the usual American industry guest. |
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Sword of Whedon
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I doubt it. Less and less cons get real guests these days because the Toonami-heads don't care about the actual creative people, only the people willing to work at dimestore wages.
I don't know how much experience these people have with the actual convention scene, but, here's the things that stuck in my craw: "Anime South is honored to announce the first and only anime convention in northwest Florida " what, is it next year that we'll be seeing "only the third convention to happen this quarter in Texas"?
And of these amenities, exactly none will get used, except maybe the pool and hot tub. These are not benefits that virtually any of the attendees care about. And bragging about 32,000 square feet? There are cons with dealer's rooms 3 times as large as their entire event. Accentuate your positives, and camoflague the negatives. 32,000 feet was impressive in say, 1997. Not any more. |
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jmays
ANN Past Staff
 Posts: 1390 Location: St. Louis, MO |
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Yeah, terrible press release. So far they've given absolutely no reason to come, unless you just like hanging out with anime fans...
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marcyu
Posts: 28 Location: Destin, Florida |
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Northwest Florida, also known as the panhandle, is part of a rather large region. That region includes southern Alabama, southern Mississippi, southern Georgia, and almost all of north Florida. This convention is about 6 hours away from any other anime convention, which, ironically, comes out to about the size of Texas (250,000 square miles). Anime fans from as far east as Jacksonville and as far west as Biloxi, MS volunteered to assist us the same day the press release came out. It really is pretty dead out here in terms of anime conventions, although there is a strong and growing anime presence.
We'd love to get some Japanese guests, and we do have a very experienced guest liasion who has procured them before for other anime conventions. The amenities we are offering are part of the package we received from the resort. Since these are perks they usually do not give for free, we're hoping this being a family-friendly convention will entice other members of the family (i.e. parents) to join the younger members. We are certain that 2,300 acres of non-anime onsite activites is larger than any other anime convention. We gave our press release almost as soon as we received our dates. As noted, we probably should have added more about cosplay, karaoke, panels, video gaming, and the like. I am the former chairman of Anime USA, which had about 2,500 people this past year, so I probably should have known better. Learn by hindsight, I guess. |
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