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Postby narcted » Sun Jul 04, 2004 2:34 am

If you are going to Anime Expo, and have not registered, be warned. The registration line is ridicualously long this year. Wait time for both pre-reg and non-reg is going to be measured in the hours.

AMV contest was held. Computer that had the entries on it got destroyed before the event, which led to a one hour delay while another computer rendered and made the contest DVD. Sorry, I don't have the entry list. I'm sure someone will post it soon.

I have heard witness accounts that Man Faye was arrested for indecent exposure on Saturday and is banned from the convention.
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Re: Anime Expo

Postby madbunny » Sun Jul 04, 2004 3:29 am

narcted wrote:If you are going to Anime Expo, and have not registered, be warned. The registration line is ridicualously long this year. Wait time for both pre-reg and non-reg is going to be measured in the hours.


I wish I'd known that before I got there on friday morning. That place was a cattle pen. What were there, 5 guys going all the registration?
Anyway, if you are still going, it's still messed up, but at least there are less lines, mainly because most people already have their badges.

I saw man-faye there too.. ack. I didn't need to see what he was doing with those bananas either.
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Re: Anime Expo

Postby Castor Troy » Sun Jul 04, 2004 6:26 am

madbunny wrote:
narcted wrote:If you are going to Anime Expo, and have not registered, be warned. The registration line is ridicualously long this year. Wait time for both pre-reg and non-reg is going to be measured in the hours.


I wish I'd known that before I got there on friday morning. That place was a cattle pen. What were there, 5 guys going all the registration?
Anyway, if you are still going, it's still messed up, but at least there are less lines, mainly because most people already have their badges.

I saw man-faye there too.. ack. I didn't need to see what he was doing with those bananas either.


It was funny how Man-Faye was forced to wear a trenchcoat the whole con. :lol:
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Re: Anime Expo

Postby iserlohn » Sun Jul 04, 2004 10:26 am

madbunny wrote:I saw man-faye there too.. ack. I didn't need to see what he was doing with those bananas either.


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Re: Anime Expo

Postby TnAdct1 » Sun Jul 04, 2004 11:28 am

iserlohn wrote:
madbunny wrote:I saw man-faye there too.. ack. I didn't need to see what he was doing with those bananas either.


Got pictures?


This Toonzone thread contains photos of the Man-Faye incident complete with captions ("I'm the mean security guy! Rrrr. I'm tough! I'll eat your kids!").
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Postby dokidoki » Sun Jul 04, 2004 1:39 pm

Karl Olson wrote:man-faye = busted.

Yes and no... ;)
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Postby Castor Troy » Sun Jul 04, 2004 1:48 pm

When Man Faye was walking down the registration lines, there was a domino effect of groans.
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Postby aznfs » Mon Jul 05, 2004 2:02 am

REG HELL was already HELL and then there was MAN-FAYE *shivers so more*
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ugh..

Postby hyedevil » Mon Jul 05, 2004 4:13 am

you know whats worse than seeing man faye right? seeing him more than once! *goes and throws up* i did get to see him get chewed out by a security guard so yatta for that. :lol:
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yikes

Postby novablastr » Mon Jul 05, 2004 7:31 pm

i was on the brink of tears on the 4th HOUR of sitting the pre-reg line friday, from 1030 - 1:50pm....i couldn't believe that. ax totally sucked on friday for that reason. bsides the other line we waited in for the amv contest, and i never found out how to get my comp tickets after getting my friend to do it while i sat in pre-reg. he asked 5 different people, including the operations director, who didn't have a clue. luckily we had another pal with us who went back to the open voucher lines three different times.

i'd only go again if they figure their crap out. that was just ridiculous.
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btw

Postby novablastr » Mon Jul 05, 2004 7:34 pm

so when do we find out the winners of the amv contest?
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Re: btw

Postby dokidoki » Mon Jul 05, 2004 8:49 pm

novablastr wrote:so when do we find out the winners of the amv contest?

Right now.
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Postby hyperchica11 » Mon Jul 05, 2004 8:54 pm

Castor Troy wrote:When Man Faye was walking down the registration lines, there was a domino effect of groans.


lol, you were there then too? (what am i saying? There were enough people in those lines that EVERYONE must have been there. We waited from 9:30 to 1:30 to get thru the pre-register lines. Next year, I am sooo going a day early to register!) It was rather horrible. But again, there was the satifaction that he got put on trenchcoat-probation. My eyes were finally given a rest. :P
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Postby Castor Troy » Mon Jul 05, 2004 10:39 pm

Another word of advice.

At AX, NEVER fall in line alone and start playing your gameboy advance.

You'll attract sniveling dorks that will look over your shoulder and make stupid know it all comments that you want to elbow them in the face. :evil:
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Postby madbunny » Mon Jul 05, 2004 11:24 pm

Castor Troy wrote:At AX, NEVER fall in line alone and start playing your gameboy advance.
You'll attract sniveling dorks..


In line right behind me was this girl who had come on her own. (she was reasonably cute I guess), the whole time there were these clouds of weird guys that kept coming up to her and hitting on her. It was like she had a sign or something, I've never seen a feeding frenzy like that. One guy kept comming up and standing really close, and then when after comparing himself to his jewish grandfather, asking about what color she painted her toenails (really), couldn't think of anything clever to say, just kept saying "I can't think of anything to say" and "Am I boring you?"
You know how, when one person in a group of people is all sweaty for no reason at all it's sort of... creepy. It was like that.

As for the gameboy, I only wish I'd thought to bring it. That line was all pure hell. What was the deal with moving the lines sideways, just to make room for yet more lines? When I went to siggraph, there were almost as many people there, but the registration process was so easy and fast that it felt like a walkthrough. Maybe the guys from AX need to take some lessons.

The anime showings were sort of funky too, as they forgot to switch shows, or showed some without subs, or whatnot.

This was my first AX, are they normally like this?
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