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  • #1

    Lack of convention badges

    Over this past weekend I vollunteered at Nan Desu Kan here in Denver. It's an anime convention if you didn't know or couldn't guess. Anyway, for much of my volunteer time I was posted outside the dealers room, checking props since you can't take them inside, as well as making sure no badgeless people made it in.
    I'd like to know A) why I had to stop 5 or 6 people (small amount I know, but when there's 4500 other people walking around with badges in clear view and a line wrapping around half the hotel to register and get said badges, it irks me since their response always was "We have to have a badge?") and B) why some people think they can walk in with their nice and pretty sword when we're sitting here with an entire arsenal ranging from daggers to handguns to swords to rocket launchers and two giant shuriken.
    PS Also, every single day I was tempted to tape every single Naruto cosplayer to the nearest wall.
    Pretend there's something here that sounds insightful, but is really just some pseudo-intellectual bull.
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    Whoo for denver. xD
    My friend went to the same convention and get pictures of all the Naruto cosplayers. I would have done the same as you wanted. They would work well taped to a wall.
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    • #3
      Slightly OT, but I went to my first Comic-Con this year, and was terribly excited to get a badge. I'm a nerd, I know.
      "In the end I was the mean girl/or somebody's in between girl"~Neko Case

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      • #4
        Quoth Skrae View Post
        Also, every single day I was tempted to tape every single Naruto cosplayer to the nearest wall.
        I'd be tempted to do the same...hell, I would do it and then use them for target practice with the foam shuriken

        Who would think they could just waltz into a con without a badge?

        (thought: were they actually registered and didn't think they needed that pretty pin? Or, maybe that it would "ruin" their costume...)
        "I am quite confident that I do exist."
        "Excuse me, I'm making perfect sense. You're just not keeping up." The Doctor

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        • #5
          Quoth Dreamstalker View Post
          (thought: were they actually registered and didn't think they needed that pretty pin? Or, maybe that it would "ruin" their costume...)
          No, they were completely unregistered, one was a family of three, then someone who looked like a clueless otaku, and two parents of a teenager who was registered and wanted them to pay for their stuff on a card I believe, despite the fact that he knew (or I at least hope he did since he had his badge) we wouldn't let his parents in without a badge.
          And actually it's not even a pin, it's a little clamp thing with the badge attached.
          Last edited by Skrae; 09-18-2007, 12:03 AM.
          Pretend there's something here that sounds insightful, but is really just some pseudo-intellectual bull.

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          • #6
            XD I'm a director at an anime con in the south, and friends with the SD of Revenue. I hear all the time about congoers who "loose badges" then when they are told that they have to buy new ones will walk around the con trying to get in places trying to get in with their registration confirmations and are DENIED. After being denied from some major event or concert they'll bitch to her about it. Sorry, you were told to find your badge or buy a new one.

            Then, suddenly, they're walking around with a badge when they haven't bought a new one. "Oh did you find it?" "What?" "The badge you lost." "You're thinking of someone else."

            Suuure. ;P They're lazy bastards. Some have even admitted to me that they left theirs in their room and didn't want to go get it.
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            • #7
              Ah, "there's something going on and why wasn't I invited". I should have guessed...wait, the kid wanted his parents to go into the dealer room and get him stuff?
              "I am quite confident that I do exist."
              "Excuse me, I'm making perfect sense. You're just not keeping up." The Doctor

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              • #8
                Quoth Dreamstalker View Post
                Ah, "there's something going on and why wasn't I invited". I should have guessed...wait, the kid wanted his parents to go into the dealer room and get him stuff?
                Yeah he wanted them to go in with him and have them buy him stuff.
                Pretend there's something here that sounds insightful, but is really just some pseudo-intellectual bull.

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                • #9
                  Quoth Dreamstalker View Post
                  I'd be tempted to do the same...hell, I would do it and then use them for target practice with the foam shuriken
                  Any action is worth taking to the extream. Nail the little suchandso to the wall with lawn darts. Using shuriken's would feed into their desires.

                  While I haven't been to a con yet (There is a gaming one this November I am going to) but I base my bias on the profound displeasure I have had meeting some people who live and breath anime/cosplay.

                  I am certain likable anime/cosplayers exist, but I haven't a clue what they would be like.

                  (As far as cosplay goes, I am ignoring Halloween only dress up.)
                  "Wait... he's alive, but his head's gone..." -Crow

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                  • #10
                    Quoth Skrae View Post
                    PS Also, every single day I was tempted to tape every single Naruto cosplayer to the nearest wall.
                    I've been to one con thus far, I went to AWA 200* (I want to say it was 2001, but my memory eludes me) I went as Freya Crescent, cause I'm tall, and so is she. The friend I went with was on a mission to tweak every single InuYasha's ears...
                    My absolute favorite moment of the con? Looking down at a Vash from the second level, seeing anther red coat go wandering by Vash, and realizing it was a Naomi Armitage! I zoomed to the escalator on the other end of the hall, and made it downstairs, catching the Naomi in the hall just under where I'd been standing to grab a picture. My ultimate goal is to someday pull off Naomi Armitage.
                    "I call murder on that!"

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                    • #11
                      Quoth Skrae View Post
                      PS Also, every single day I was tempted to tape every single Naruto cosplayer to the nearest wall.
                      I don't think there would be enough space.
                      Or tape.

                      I've seen some pretty well done costumes. One Vash was a dead ringer for the character, though the most unique one I've seen was a person dressing up as the SDF1 in robot mode.
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                      • #12
                        Okay, Somebody has to say it!

                        "We don't need no stinkin' BADGES!!"


                        I go now.....

                        Mike
                        Meow.........

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                        • #13
                          Quoth JustaCashier View Post
                          Okay, Somebody has to say it!

                          "We don't need no stinkin' BADGES!!"


                          I go now.....

                          Mike
                          OH MY GOD YES! I was actually waiting for that while volunteering! Course it wouldn't have gotten them in, it was have been amusing.
                          Pretend there's something here that sounds insightful, but is really just some pseudo-intellectual bull.

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                          • #14
                            After a bunch of people tried to crash the rave last year*, this year's Animazement was locked down. We had sheriff's deputies patrolling the area. The hallway leading to most of the panel rooms was closed off with a staff member looking for badges. Cut down on a lot of chicanery this year.
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                            * People would sneak in the back doors and hide in the video rooms to avoid getting caught by staff. They roamed the halls with the rooms. A couple tried to crash my room party. They tried to sneak into the rave, thinking "free party." And they hit on anything with tits. What caused all this? An article in the paper that day talking about cosplayers (my local cosplay troupe visited Duke Gardens the weekend before) and mentioning Animazement. You could hardly move on Saturday night.
                            A smile is just a grimace that's been edited for public consumption. -- Tony Cochran

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                            • #15
                              Animazement, Is that the one in NC at the Sherton in the Imperial Center office park? I know someone that helps run it.

                              I could be wrong too >.>

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