It looks like, back in October they canceled another event they call a "Nano Event" that was supposed to be for either the weekend before or the weekend after this Flanvention. They were going to book Gina Torres for it. They only sold 35 tickets, and so didn't have enough, but they didn't cop to the problem 'til they were ready to cancel, and fans from the UK had booked flights over for that, too. ** [link] ** It looks like some of them were waiting for Flanvention tickets, and switching their flights.
judging by their website, it looks they cancelled the Backup thing after being told the Con would definitely be on. Ugh.
You can see them cancel it at Whedonesque, too.
[link] (it's the comment by lexigeek, on 12/2 who runs Black Market Beagles).
The back up bash is back on. The SoCal browncoat group will do the best they can.
Oh, thank goodness. Those poor fans.
so EMA is dead
Has it died twice?
Hey, how is Maya, anyhow? Is she on LJ or anything?
How much were tickets to this thing?
P-C, I think I read somewhere that they were $75.00. But it's the travel and hotels that kill people.
I have a couple of friends going to Flan and i think one left today from the UK.
Were they Bronzers, tiggy?
**edited because I had the wrong link in, before.
Were they Bronzers, tiggy?
one was, but probably not one you would know. helygen?
Just out of curiousity. Has anyone head of or tried:
Serenity Role Playing Game
I remember the name.
she's from the UK. the other person was one of my roomies for D:LA.
Here's a web archive of the Booster board, as it all went to hell, this afternoon. It seems to be fans talking. Gah. I want to punch these Booster people now, too. [link]
As far as I know from the bronzers helygen and Leish ( Who has flown in from Australia!) are in LA right now.
Allyson if you happen to get the chance to punch them, punch them for me, too.
Also I second tiggy´s sigh. Too bad we can´t resurrect them. Though I read somewhere that the were plans for a 10th anniversary PBP ... what happend with that?
I got the book, omnis, but I don't have RPG experience and it's taking me a while to get together folks who do and are interested and have time. A friend looked it over, and thought that the character info was good but it lacked something or other that I don't remember. I can ask for his comments again if you're interested, but I imagine you'll get better answers from others here.
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Adam Baldwin just showed up in Burbank, anyhow. I kind of love him all over again.
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Allyson, if you need an afterword for your book, this sucker is it.
What happened in a shorter version: a week or two ago they claimed they had no cash to run the event. Then they decided they had secured funding and put the event back on. Of course, the event was sold out in advance, so how did they not have the cash?
Their previous con had been cancelled. The con before that had 35 vistors. Paying customers. The one before that had 75 customers. And something like 20 guests. Spot the problem. Some of them were heavy hitters who everybody knows demand a lot to appear. In other words, they were very expensive conventions with very limited selling of tickets.
Anyway, yesterday they posted saying it was cancelled. I checked with Nathan's manager and Booster called them at this point and cancelled. Then they deleted the topic and advised it was back on. Two of the organisers (And business owners) then resigned. (Sinking! Ship! Help!). "Dave" (a paper hanger by trade - no really) then took over, and started driving from Oregon to the venue, and reassured everybody who was already at the hotel the event was still on and all the guests still booked. They even got a post on Whedonesque saying this. Simon from Whedonesque removed the item (thank you, Simon!). It was bullshit - I know for a fact the guests were still cancelled. I do not understand why they kept saying the event was still on.
Then they deleted their website and put up that message up.
They are not discussing refunds. I doubt they can afford to do them.
Also, Adam Baldwin showed up at the hotel anyway. He's in the lobby now.
