Distracted wrote:Ew...
I don't want to EAT them. That's like eating a dog. No thanks. (And the people probably don't taste too good either.
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My attitude about that sort of thing is that if it's in a foreign country, and they can make it
look like chicken, beef, or fish - I'll eat it. Unless it's a testicle.
Ok so the list of prospective attendees is now
Distracted (needs the hubby onboard - and more people to say they're going)
Elessar (needs a job)
TPoptarts (needs the money)
Priso (needs to sell the house)
Enterprikayak (needs to sell the house)
JustTripn (needs more convincing from Elessar)
Anybody else?
The thing about Vegas is that attendance fees are by far the most expensive.
Here's the thing about Vegas... you either invest in gold patron tickets for $700 back in January - or you invest in 1 or 2 of those little dinner/lunch ceremonies where you get to talk to the stars at your table. Those are the greatest.
Because basically the general admission tickets are great if you have a favorite star that only a few people really care about because nobody will be in the room and you can sit way closer than your tickets indicate. However, if you want to see any of the big names - Nimoy, probably Jolene since she hasn't done a convention SINCE FRICKIN PASADENA!, Shatner, Bakula, etc... You're going to be in the nosebleed section with General Admission tickets so you don't want to bank on that being the highlight of your trip. Unless you have like a $1000+ camera, because then you become the envy of the entire site by having these amazingly good looking pictures like
Boushh's friend did in Cherry Hill. By the way. You WILL see a dozen or more $10,000 lenses there.
Even today if you get "Preferred" tickets... you'll be 50-75 rows from the front. Your row will be "UU" or "WW" as mine was when I got "Preferred", lol. I think A-G is Gold and G-Z is Captain's Chair or something ridiculous like that.
But the dinner/lunch deals are really neat. And the entire atmosphere is awesome fun, you get a star at a table of 4-6 people and just get to BS and ask questions. The face-time is basically the entire REASON people want to go to cons.
The bottom line is that you don't really go to Vegas specifically to get close to the stars unless you have a Gold Patron ticket, or you're satisfied by about 20-40 seconds at the photo-op. Those are really neat but they're kind of fast. You go for the entirety of the convention. And who knows, you could get lucky and wind up takin a piss next to Shatner. I've heard of it happening before
I would knock Creation before and say that I want to go to one of these little conventions that I hear about where you get to hang out w/ the stars in the bar and talk to them in the elevators and all that good stuff. Yeah. Then I went to NonCon in Dallas
. Which was FANTASTIC because of meeting Priso, Ek, and D and hubbies; but it's something that will NEVER happen at a Creation Convention. We had to find out that Anthony Montgomery wasn't there (Dallas) by grilling a door-man at the auditorium as to why the place was empty. In Vegas, there won't be a single schedule change without a big blaring announcement all over the hotel and the convention center.
And the dealers room is amazing. It's a Trek Palace. You can find everything from a 1966 board game with anatomically correct figurines of Kirk and Spock to a baby klingon-embroidered ringer that says "Q'plah!"