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Originally Posted by Iacon
Seems like the Art Contest winners announcement was rather anti-climactic. Might be worth taking some photos of the winning entries to set up a little Powerpoint that could be shown in the panel room whilst the winners are actually announced, for those of us who hadn't gotten around to checking out the art table yet, and therefore had no recognition of the titles of the pieces...
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100% agree that the winning items should have been photographed and used on the big white screens for the audience to see. Maybe even have the winning entries on a continuous slide during the wait time for the next panel. The winning artists should get some more exposure for their items.
The trophy give-a-ways was pretty embarrassing, though, as I think only one winner was there to accept. Maybe have those awards and the cosplay awards given out during the same panel, next year.
A couple other cons:
One other thing that could have been better is the questions that were picked for Mr. Welker. With limited questions allowed to be asked, why were 3-4 of them practically the same, only worded a bit different? The man has hundreds of voice-over credits to his name, and did a dozen transformer voices alone...yet multiple Megatron questions that ultimately lead to him answering them the same way felt stale.
The second thing is the Sunday convention. With only a handful of new vendors/tables (all in the hallway), the so called 80's convention was a bust for me. It was basically 'TFcon' again on Sunday, with the same vendors, and little product replenishing from the previous day's vending table; there was nothing exciting for me.
On the plus side, location is great, parking was free and ample (even parking on the street was free and ample), water in hallway was great idea again, lines moved quickly, the panels this year were GREAT (watched practically every one); Flint and Dan guest panels were fun and interesting (great idea on movie commentary).
Suggestion for next year panel: how to take care of your transformers (eg. storing, displaying away from light; correcting yellowing; chrome wear; fixing broken items; cleaning them; sticker residue, etc, etc.)
