On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 15:12:59 EST, sidecutter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
("Orson
\"Sidecutter\" Christian") wrote:
>""Soundblaster"" <scoots_13@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Another thing that did not at least surprise me, was the fact
>> that OTFCC once again did not start on time. It wasn't even a little
late,
>> it was over a half hour late, a half hour that well others couldn't buy
>> toys, or see the Hasbro display.
>
>I don't think it's very fair to blame this on the OTFCC crew. They had
to
>repeat themselves at least once regarding the need for all dealers to
remove
>their vehicles from the areas behind the red, white, and blue background
>shrouding curtains before they could be allowed to open the hall to the
>guests.
Given all of the other organizational inadequacies I've heard about by
now, I think one *can* blame this on the organizers. Why didn't stuff
like this happen at this year's BotCon? Though, if there weren't so
many other problems in the picture, a little thing like opening a
touch late, would never be a big deal.
I saw some pictures from the art contest and the dealers room,
and I was just flabbergasted. If I'd had a dealer's table at this
event, I'd have demanded my money back and turned around and left
again. Bare concrete floors and exposed pipes?? I expect a venue
like that at a reptile swap meet or a dog show, where you want a bare
floor that can be hosed down - but for a supposedly big-name sci-fi
convention, it's beyond tasteless and unprofessional. Did they make
people sit on straw mats for the panels, perhaps? Though again, if
there weren't so many other problems in the picture (for instance the
*reason* the convention ended up at such a junky site), it wouldn't be
that big a deal if the organizers said "Sorry guys, we tried our best,
but this is the only thing we could get. Bear with us." Any *one* of
a bunch of little slip-ups can be overlooked and forgiven. Any *one*
little thing can be attributed to extenuating cir***stance. But a
whole avalanche of them all together? They begin to form a pattern.
I think too many excuses are made for this event.
Incidentally, compare the positively gorgeous Pasadena
Convention Center from this year's BotCon ... a beautiful dealer's
room with a whole wall of windows to let in the natural daylight,
clean carpeting, lots of inviting displays ... oh, and organizers who
knew what they were doing, and a show that ran like clockwork....
>or in the case of the Viper sisters that OTFCC had the
>> gall to call remolds, which if you stop and think any deeper than "tee
hee
>> look pink lips" you start to wonder why the HELL does the Decepticon
one
>> have an Autobot symbol on its arm....Remold my ass.
>
>Might be because making a whole new mold for a single part runs well into
>the thousands of dollars.
>Aside from that, the emblem has been explained. She's Roulette's sister,
>and both were originally Autobots. The change in sides can be seen in
the
>Universe comics.
Funny, why wasn't there an explanation in the tech spec on the box?
Why wasn't there an explanation in the comic/program guide from last
year? Doesn't something that major, deserve at least a passing
mention? Yeah, it *could* have been turned into a plot point or point
of character development, but to the best of my knowledge it was
ignored, as though no one would notice the difference anyway. This is
another example of why so many of us wonder what 1H does with all the
money that's coming in ... with tens of thousands of dollars in
resources, there's really no excuse for the ongoing incomplete and
missing products and little mistakes upon little mistakes. Now, I
publish a magazine myself, and I will quite admit that I've never
turned out an issue that I couldn't go back to later and pick out a
tiny mistake or something that could have been done better (even if
I'm the only person in the world who would notice it), but I also
don't have the money and resources of 1H. A crew that can turn out a
box like CatScan from 2002, which was a truly amazing piece of work
(never mind that the toy inside it was worthless), should be able to
create a PVC card that doesn't cut off Skywarp's tech spec text in the
middle of the second sentence. Perhaps a little thing called "quality
control" is missing in this picture? Perhaps the quality control came
from the other 2 H's whose absence is now making itself felt?
>> My favorite moment of the convention was climbing into my car and
>> realizing that the 11 bucks I paid for parking does not go into the
>pockets
>> of Glen or his 3H Productions.
>
>This is just my view, but in that case, I think you attended the con for
the
>wrong reasons.
Of the people I know who went to the con, who don't have a vested
interest one way or another (in other words, who are neither 1H-haters
nor 1H-sycophants), and who will admit to having been there, their
main motivation was to meet friends who would also be there. Despite
knowing from past experience that the convention itself would suck.
So I'm not sure that's entirely a "wrong reason." *I* wouldn't go,
mind you, even if it was in my back yard and Frank Welker himself were
there ... but that's me....
--Raksha
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