Dragonmaster Lou
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For the sake of completeness my Otakon photos.
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Legally, those types of logos are not to be used in anything that you do not have permission from the companies themselves.
Yes, but legally, AMVs shouldn't use songs under copyright so that's nothing new. Also, the timing of Otakon deciding to remove the trailer/parody entries from the contest between Friday and Saturday is also curious. So, what changed?
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I'm praying to the stars that JAM shows up with Aniki (Mizuki Ichirou) for the con. It'd be an honor to see such a legend show up here. Though Isao Sasaki would be an equal honor to see live.
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The Best of the Best, the Legend of Legends (at least, that's how fans refer to him), Isao Sasaki. Just the titles given to him say it all; however, just as in the case of Ichiro Mizuki, I don't think we will ever hear a voice like that again (no Jrock star can equal that voice, and I am quite sure that the Jrock stars will willingly take a step back to give the stage to him.) Asians tend to have a lot of respect for age and experience.
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I have been working on preserving My works to Digital Media, and would like to do a Presentation on "The Early Years of AMV's (or , What a Determined Fan can do with 2 VCR's), at this coming Otakon, which is keeping in the Spirit of Anniveres.
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Treemont Park/Plaza. Any sort of testimonies from there? My group is planning on going there soon. Excuse my newbiness, as Im all sorts of new to this stuff. When you call to reserve the room, you're required to give a credit card number? If so they don't charge it, its just in case you dont show up correct? Next, when you do show up, its entirely possible to not pay with that card, but with cash or a different card correct? ^^/ Thanks~
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The Sheraton in general is a good hotel chain, and if it's the one I'm thinking of it's directly connected to the BCC, which should make it easy to get back and forth between the con and your room. The rooms also were pretty good, best I can recall from the last time I visited there.
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Not to mention they have outstanding crab cakes. =3
Baltimore born and raised, and yes with the mixture of Old Bay and awesome Chesapeake Bay Crab Cakes, we own when it comes to seafood.
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I wouldn't mind seeing another sentai/toku panel. Of course, maybe you could also branch out into kaiju?
I'm not as well versed in Kaiju. But I'm definitely going to see if I can get Mike Dent (R5 Central, Otaku USA, occasional Rangercast cohost and good friend of mine) to fly out from Milwaukee again next year.
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Another Southwest Airlines from PVD to BWI dude here, though I plan to crash with some friends in Baltimore who are also planning on attending.
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I wouldn't mind seeing another sentai/toku panel. Of course, maybe you could also branch out into kaiju?
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If a panelists does not show up they are banned from the next year's Otakon. (Banned as both participant and panelist.)
Or is that too harsh?
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...If not, they're out their pre-reg fee at the most...
And all the people that made plans around their panel have missed out on other opportunities.
Doesn't sound like much of a fair trade to me.
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It looks like the most reasonable compromise is to require all panelists to pre-reg. If they show up, they get refunded after the con. If not, they're out their pre-reg fee at the most. Refunds with canceled registrations would be allowed for panelists who notify panels staff ahead of time if they cannot make the con for a family emergency, work issues, etc. Really, the only people that we need to clamp down on are those who never show up at their panel without notifying the con ahead of time.
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Given how a lot of the most recent schedule changes were only reflected on the web site, maybe a monitor or something should be set up near the info desk (and/or any other suitable location) displaying the latest scheduling information right off the website?
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One thing that a smaller convention, AnimeUSA, utilizes is to dedicate a panel room to a topic. IE- all cosplay panels are in room 1, industry panels in room 2, web/fandom panels- room 3, international guest- room 4, domestic guests- room 5, etc. It makes it easy for attendees to find their favorite panels, and it prevents similar topics from being scheduled at overlapping times.
I've staffed conventions before, but not in the paneling dept. I'm not sure how Otakon panels are scheduled, but it could streamline the process.
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Does anyone know why Great Teacher Largo was cxl'd. I was really looking forward to it this year.
As for the panels themselves, I think they were handled well, I just would have liked to see a bigger variety of topics. Same went with the 35mm movies this year which just basically showed the same thing as last year.
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Grave of the Fireflies...
Gundam Deathscythe @ 2008
in Cosplay!
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