What's the atmosphere like at fan conventions

[heiditandy]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Paula Gaon <paulag5777 at y...> 
wrote:
>  
> I asked a question along these lines the other day and nobody 
responded, so will try again.  

Paula, are you very sure that the Dark Lord Yahoomort didn't eat 
your post? I just did a quicksearch using the Occasionally Pathetic 
Yahoo Search Engine and only saw one post from you on Saturday, and 
nothing else since November. Just a thought...

> What's the atmosphere like at conventions these days?  I've lived 
on the other side of the world from the US and Canada for many years 
and haven't been to a con for many years.  I remember the few I went 
to in the States were pretty *serious* affairs.  People moved around 
in a very orderly fashion from event, to event, to marketplace 
without much *esprit de corps*.  Has the web changed all this?  Many 
of us already have a sort of *report* with each other thanks to High 
Tech, so was just wondering if the seriousness is still there.  What 
was Nimbus like?<

Well, Nimbus wasn't a fancon, technically and in practice. While 
there were certain "fan" elements, like the movie and the 
exhibitors' room, we had a lot of academics among the presenters and 
attendees, and we didn't have anyone from the above-the-title side 
of the film in attendence. 

If you want to read a lot of semicontemporaneous accounts from 
Nimbus, look here: 
http://www.livejournal.com/community/hporlando/6895.html - and I am 
sure I could find some LJ postings about the various autograph-
events in Milton Keynes that have taken place in the UK, which are 
much closer to the fancon setup, in terms of movie showings & 
autograph sessions. 


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