Sarah Connor Con 2011

[roxybisquaint]

Over at savethescc, we've talked off and on for several months about organizing a TSCC con. The Freaking Big Push took priority, though, and we're now trying to get more going on Push 2: The Resurrection. So any con talk is still saved for later, but we all really want to plan one

Comments

Mid week?

[tackdriver56]

I like the idea that April 19 is Patriot's Day, and the 21st is Judgement Day, but thinking logically, won't mid-week Tu-Th be a problem for a lot of folks?

Any interest in including a real firing range in the venues?

Re: Mid week?

[castellan_craft]

Considering all the regulations that need to be met to have a firing range plus the accommodations needed to run a convention of this scale well are rarely found in the same building? No. If it'll help though, I'll make print offs with directions to the closest firing range to the hotel so people can run off and make things go boom if they're interested. LOL.

Re: Mid week?

[tackdriver56]

I honestly don't know the realistic scale of a single show, TSCC convention. Or would it be a Terminator convention?

I'm imagining anything from a few dozen, like the recumbent cycling "convention" I attended, to a few hundred, like a Star Trek: OS mini-convention at UConn around 1980. With the internet as an organizing tool, I guess it could be something larger.

How many attendees might you expect?

Re: Mid week?

[castellan_craft]

We wouldn't know how many to expect right now as this is still nothing but a concept. A Single Interest convention I'm helping out right now on their low end get 30 people and on their high gets 200, but it's a smaller fandom. Point is, any convention from the size of 20 up through a couple thousand works best in a hotel. It's only when you hit San Diego Comic Con proportions that you need to start thinking of a convention center instead.

Re: Mid week?

[roxybisquaint]

won't mid-week Tu-Th be a problem for a lot of folks?

You're right. A weekends is a much better choice. Judgement day, though, man! Judgement day!!!!

Any interest in including a real firing range in the venues?

I don't see that happening.

Re: Mid week?

[tackdriver56]

You're right about the firing range. Anything more than about a dozen would be too nuts for me to take responsibility for.

What pushed me in that direction was an invitation from my paddling buddy, to a paintball party.

With Judgement Day as a theme, Laser Tag or paintball might be fun, but certainly not for everyone. Terminators versus resistance Laser Tag.

Any cast members willing to appear could be put to work as team captains.

Who wouldn't want a post-match team photo with a hot, sweaty, cast member? (oh. yeah. the cast member wouldn't.)

Re: Mid week?

[roxybisquaint]

I've never played laser tag, but that might be a fun thing to do and it could totally fit with the theme. We'll could just call it plasma tag ;)