Polter-Cow: I need to correct a misunderstanding. It's $5000 each, and they sold 5. Ergo, $25000.

Aha, okay! That's still crazy.

Attrition rates can be huge.

Okay, this makes sense. It shifts the burden of cost from the fans back to the corporation.

It's not nice, but it makes sense.

Wow, up one side and down the other.

Thoughts:

1. What Hec said.

2. Someone(s) need to sue Booster's collective corporate ass and put them fully and permanently out of business. If not because they've done anything illegal, because it's clear from their verbiage and management that they are dumb hateful people.

3. I try to keep the real live talent people types separate in my head from the product. That way, I can appreciate a movie even if I have a personal dislike for the actor, say, or dislike a script by a writer I adore as a person. The Firefly folks are really blurring that for me: I loved the show, and the more I learn about the people behind it, the more I love them too, and that feeds back into my love of the show.

4. The fans are pretty okay, too.

On a lighter note (and we could probably use one) today's Penny Arcade discusses the Firefly MMORPG. [link]

ETA: I also e-mailed Tycho to let him know my opinion of the Multiverse folks is pretty high because of their actions during the Flanvention fiasco and linked a couple relevant blogs. Might get even more people looking at the craptacity of Booster Events and the greatness of all the folks that came through after the cancellation.

Now, I know I don't go to media cons, and SF-lit cons are different animals, but, (a) the two cons I go to are in their 44th and 18th years, respectively and (b) neither of them costs more than $50 for the whole weekend.

Of course, the special guests appear for reimbursement of expenses plus cheez crackers, and the autographs are free.

I go to two Cons a year. One is very much like Nutty describes. The other a gimungous anime con, with voice actors, creators and musicians flew in from Japan, tons of programming, etc. Both of them don't charge much more than $50, (less if you pre-register), no cost for autographs or photographs (and a lot of artist guests will draw quick sketches for free as well).

Of course, none of these have (in the US anyway) movie and TV stars, so it could very well be a different thing.

I was supposed to be interviewing the Multiverse people tomorrow, but I forgot I am going on holiday tomorrow. I had to sheepishly schedule, looking like a dumbass. If anybody has any questions for them, shoot them over. I didn't find out until today that Jim Cameron negoiated getting the Firefly rights from FOX for it, which will probably upset the Dark Angel fans.

which will probably upset the Dark Angel fans.

It doesn't take much.

How many people are attending your cons, Kalshane? It looks like one of BE's promises was a good star:fan ration, which ups the per guest cost and therefore asking price considerably.

I've never seen any of the Dark Angel fandom. The only thing I really remember is they hate Firefly.

I think they also believe Jensen Ackles is hot.