Sup, can we have a thread to talk about them? I'm going to one tomorrow and havent gone for a while. Share some of your experiences, tips or whatever. Have you ever met someone important at one of them?
Probably not what you wanted to hear as a new attendee, but you need to temper your expectations.Conventions back in the day were incredible. It was the highlight of your entire year whenever you went and it would genuinely feel like your life was worth living for one to three days. It genuinely gave you that feeling of stepping into another world that you’re probably wanting and expecting. It got a little bit more sparse in the 2010s, but it was still there, all the way until around 2017. After a certain point around then, every single person who defined the original American “con culture” just didn’t show up any more. Nowadays, they’re superficially the same, but they simply feel empty and pedestrian in a way you’ll be familiar with if you’ve been in a fanbase that went mainstream and was taken over by Instagram users.You’re going to have to make your own fun if you go. Expect to meet a lot of seemingly charismatic people who flake on you after one day. Bring 300 USD for food and merch or you won’t really enjoy yourself.
>>153272804I miss when Comic Cons used to smell bad because it was full of actual fat neckbeards I can still remember the Doritos / old gym socks smell
Nowadays I only go to see if i can get some stuff with discounts, cosplay events and other shit like that dont really interest me.
>>153273128i dont understand why they dont just crank the AC, knowing everyone's gonna be in hot costumes.
>>153272804Have fun. Buy stuff.
>>153273866I long for the days when these two things were not so intertwined.
>>153272804mysterio should be sucking of green goblinin that pic
>>153274022I long for the days when we had a functioning economy built on the premise of 'have fun, buy stuff' instead of 'be poor, blame the rich, feel like shit all the time'
>>153274249>Mysterio when told 'blow me'
>>153272804The last con I went to I remember them asking a "Spiderman" cosplayer to leave because he was clearly not wearing underpants and you could easily see his Weiner through the flimsy costume.
>>153274409Same, anon. But one can long for both.
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>>153274702and what did he do fight you or left?
>>153272804I stopped going to comic conventions. The last time I went was in Spring 2024. I have no desire to go to the spring 2026 convention. My city puts on 2 per year, but the only celebrities are comic artists, cosplayers, voice actors, and wrestlers. My most memorable celebrities I met were Kurt Angle, Booker T, and Veronica Taylor. I no longer even want to buy comics because I already have enough and my eyesight is so bad that I can't even read print floppy comics anymore. My city does have a pinball festival once per year that I'm more interested in.
>>153277698I didn’t know people this old even posted on 4chan.What were old cons like? Better than the soulless holes they are now? Is the pinball festival anything similar? Genuinely curious. I’m too young to have been to any cons before they became these big corporate things.
>>153277736You think I'm old because the last convention I went to was in spring 2024? I think the first convention I went to was in 2012 or so. Conventions are a lot older than that. This is really just a local convention in a city that is about 70,000 people big. So all there really is are a bunch of tables of merch sellers and some independent artists selling their stuff. I don't imagine it's any different today. It's so crowded that it eventually just gets into this "soup mode" where a bunch of people are jammed together and you really can't move. There are costumes, but I don't really care anymore. I'm 39. The pinball festival is a lot more fun, it's a ton of different machines all set on free-play for only $20. I just go from one machine to the next playing them.
>>153277808I think you’re old because you’re discussing having eyesight too poor to read floppies and your enthusiasm for a pinball festival, which I’ve never seen anyone under the age of 50 attend. It’s not meant to be an insult, I’m just surprised. 39 seems more average for the board, so just ignore my previous assumption please.The first con I attended was in either 2014 or 2015 (can’t remember), so even just 2012 is different enough. I have a local con in similar circumstances that’s just about the same thing, save for the crowdedness. I think I’ve only ever seen like 25% capacity at anything but the single-room cons. It’s 90% web artists selling badges or keychains, toy resellers showing off mechs or anime figurines alongside crap they probably found off of temu, and slabbers trying to speculate on cards/comics, 10% LCS owners trying desperately to offload multiple longboxes worth of very recent inventory. I think a few of them sell old floppies, too, but they’re often for pretty high prices (like, a random issue of some C-lister’s solo from 50 years ago for $30) and never the good issues. There are a scant amount of cosplayers around; mostly sweaty kids or even sweatier hamplanets that don’t leave the house at any other time of the year. Some people bring dogs (without costume); I don’t know why. Most of the cosplayers are very elaborate, advertising their social media profiles somewhere (and sometimes getting their own booths for whatever reason), not really fans of what they’re cosplaying. The main exception I can remember was a Captain America who was so fat that his head-sized shield was eclipsed by his stomach.Nobody in the staff really knows anything about the event. Some of them are extreme casuals trying their best to appeal to very young children, for some reason, through very childish events.This has been pretty typical for most of the smaller cons I visit. I want to know if it’s standard or a new development.
>>153272804my gf
>>153272804Simple as they are the Mysterio, Kraven and Hobgoblin costumes here are legit solid.
>>153272804>>153279311Mysterio looks like the Hammer of Boravia
>>153272804Did comic cons ban Furries when they realized they were sexual deviants ? They used to be at the cons all the time but people just thought they were cosplayersnow you never see them. I assume they made some rule about NO FURRIES.
>>153272804Are "hook ups" after the convention at the hotel really that big of thing or is it just a meme? Ive never gone to the after parties or travel to a convention people make it sound like a huge sex party afterwards.
>>153280242Depends on the convention and how the convention operates. The biggest "party" convention is Dragon*Con which has a pretty active hookup scene due to being held primarily in hotels - which means the actual convention extends well into the night and people have ready access to their rooms - and because of the sheer amount of people attending.
Who are the coolest and most dickish creators you've met at these things? For me Daniel Warren Johnson and Brenden Fletcher were great to chat to, both super keen to gush about the projects they were working on at the time, while John Allison and Cameron Stewart were both only interested in taking cash out of your hand and getting to the next sale.
>>153280216They made their own cons to go and be degenerate in. Now there’s no real reason to bother with non-furry cons.
>>153272804I hate going to cons but my dad keeps dragging me to them still. I can barely met any one their anymore and i almost always feel more depressed after i go to them
>>153280216As >>153281054 said, most furries just go to furry conventions. You still do see furries at other cons, though those will usually be split between not going full fursuit, cosplaying furry characters, or are showing off sophisticated suits.
>thread still upmight as well post what I bought. Give me like 20 minutes to get home
>>153280723I never do meet and greets because I can't imagine me saying anything to an artist/VA that they haven't been asked a billion times I think the last person I saw was Wade von grawbadger and I got to see his unused spread page from Starman thst had been hidden in a DC office since 1995
>>153282390Well It was a bit of a disappointing year, barely any books to buy so I just bought 2 that had interesting art, and the Superman figure looks cool as hell. Ignore the /a/
I went to comic con New York in 2010 and spent the whole 3 days in either the artist alley or the parking lot or the lobby never got to see any of the celeb panels ,but I was in the same room as Stan Lee I assume. They had a massive amount of people around him so I never got to visually see himNever felt an interest in going back to a comic con though by the time I went it was already nothing like the stories I heard. The anime cons were funner they had the Homestuck orgies lmao
>>153272804Imagine a physical embodiment of scrolling through the catalogs of /co/, /v/, /tv/ and also tumblr. Just a generalized feeling of grime. The thing that stuck out to me when I went to my first convention was how weird I felt mentally. Because people are dressed up as characters that are designed to draw your attention, it feels like everywhere you look you multiple things are demanding you to observe, recognize, and recall where you know them from. Then again, maybe that’s just me.
>>153282743WHats the plushie from? Also what con did you go to?
>>153272804>old 80s toys (parts missing)>long boxes of comics (all x men comics from the last ten years)>bootlegged unlicensed t shirts / plastic stuff>old comics (prices jacked up 10x than you can find on eBay)I think that about covers it....wish comic cons had better deals but I guess the dealers need to pay for the table so they need to make as much money as possible.Some people have their arts and crafts fables which are nice but its nothing I'd ever buy
>>153286546I went to BCX in Brazil. the plushie is Funny Valentine from JoJo.
>>153287903>brazilIs it anything like the smiling friends episode?
Cons are as fun as you make them. I got to see friends, buy merchandise, and got to attend cosplay photo shoots.
>>153272804Zoomer here. I went to 2012 and 2017 SDCC and then some Chicago ones. I saw Peter Cullen and Gregg Berger at 2012 where we saw FoC gameplay before anyone else did and I stumbled across WfC at a Best Buy and that was a super kino moment for me when I saw that game, played the demo, and eagerly awaited getting it. FoC was extra kino at the TGA announcement with that trailer. After the gameplay ended, the Q&A happened and a horse show acolyte got Cullen to say some shit about Twilight Sparkle and everyone laughed and it wasn't as cringey as it could have been. Much more fun. My parents saw Don Cheadle walking the floor and my mom saw like Vampire Diaries and Matt Groening at a panel while I was stuck walking the floor with dad. He found it all gay and lame while I got to see ass hanging out, a bunch of 2010's era Bravest Warriors, Breaking Bad type merch, and comics stuff I would understand much later. The height of Deadpool and Harley Quinn cosplays and Tumblr mash ups of characters. One time in Chicago we had gone to a Kojima panel but he never showed up. Fucking bullshit. But...I heard a voice. A distinct one...it was motherfucking Pan Pizza and I got a Loki IRL card for recognizing him. He turned around and his mascot logo shirt was on him. I felt like I had inside knowledge knowing what he looked like.Anyway, over time I stopped going for panels and more for actual comics until it got too expensive and the movies got lame. I found cool shit here and there, I got an ASM comic signed by Ryan Ottley and I also "saw" Stan Lee. Once at a panel where he talked with Frank Miller and another time where I got ASM annual 6 signed by him. It was a ratty copy and his big black bouncer/handler who might have been taking advantage of him basically shuffled me off before I could say anything but whatever. For Ottley, I just said I liked his Spidey and that was it. I might not like it as much as 2018-me but I was riding off the high of Spencer obliterating Slott.
>>153286963You forgot the cosplay whores demanding attention from all the fa/tg/uys walking through the con’s doors
>>153285168I get that feeling. One time I was like looking at too many things at once. Like I was turning my head or darting my eyes so fast, I got sick and disoriented. Like literally that trope of a cartoon character looking all over and then getting dizzy. Weirdest fucking feeling. Something like primal in humans where too much visual stimuli causes your survival system to go out of wack and you need to retreat to a less busy spot like how a deer needs to go somewhere it doesn't need to have 360 degree vision so it doesn't get ambushed.
>>153272804I play piano for random cosplayers that walk past at our local anime/comic convention, there was one year when some Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy cosplayers ran into a Man Ray cosplayer and I quickly broke out The Lineman on the piano. They reenacted a battle and the crowd cheered, that was kino. Wish I saved some photo or video from that con
How do i get laid at a con? Seriously i dont even know how to met anyone at cons anymore either
