I hope Simon saved a copy of the page, somewhere, because this is an issue of fraud at this point, not that fans will ever be able to collect from Booster Events, itself.

I have a copy of what was said but I don't know if it will prove anything apart from the organisers by that stage were running around like headless chickens and didn't have a clue what was happening.

I don't know what it will prove either, but I think it ought to be preserved, in case it can help in some way, and just for people's... I don't know how to phrase it, but when something this big happens in fandom, it leaves a scar for a long time. Sometimes, people just want to pick at the scar, but sometimes, the fans need to look the thing right in the face, in order to move past it. It's part of the fandom's history. When the whole weekend has passed and there's no chance for more confusion from the post, I hope you restore it, if you can.

Well the post does in theory belong to the poster who blogged it. If he/she is willing to have it made available then I'll see.

This has been an utter fiasco created by people who fell for their own press and hype, made some woeful and dubious decisions in terms of hosting cons for other shows and who bottled it when it came to cancelling Flan 2.

Simon summaries it up well.

The problem - well, one of - with the Whedonesque post was it wasn't directly written by the company owners. It was relayed via phone from somebody claiming to be a company owner (except legally he wasn't) to somebody who relayed it in the hotel lobby which then got relayed on Whedonesque. And, the person from Booster who had called (Dave) isn't even an owner of the company, so has absolutely 0 financial or legal responsibility with the company. I tried pointing this out at the time. Fact is, yesterday, there was zero responsibility or visibility from anybody associated with Booster Entertainment.

By the way, the Browncoat Backup Bash plans are fluid. The event might have to move outside of the hotel to west hollywood for various reasons.

Thanks, Simon and Kevin.

Narrator, are you around? And okay?

Guys, does anybody know how far Hollywood Blvd is from the Hilton that Flanvention is at?

google is telling me it's about 7 miles. someone in SoCal might be able to give a definite answer.

7 miles is about right.

However, timewise, it can take anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour to get there.

Not to excuse any of what BE did, which was horrible, but it is starting to look like attendees might get a really great Browncoat experience, perhaps even extraordinary. I hope so, and really appreciate the efforts made by folks like AB, Allyson, and a certain writer.