Convention News

February 9, 2017 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Crunchyroll, Crunchyroll Expo, Leftfield Media

Crunchyroll is Launching an Anime Con, Because Lord Knows Northern California Needs Another

Today Anime streaming company Crunchyroll announced that they are partnering with Leftfield Media to launch the Crunchyroll Expo. This new

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February 9, 2017 Trae Dorn Clarion Events, Con Scene, Conventions, Leftfield Media, Rose City Comic Con, Urban Expositions

Leftfield Media Buys in to Rose City Comic Con

The slow, eventual consolidation of conventions continues, as Leftfield Media announced yesterday that they are now a part owner of

Convention News The Mega-Blog

February 8, 2017 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, STX Brazos Valley Comic Con

Some Guests From 2016’s STX Brazos Valley Comic Con Are Getting Charged For Their Hotel Rooms

When conventions don’t pay their bills, it can cause headaches down the line for a lot of people not involved

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January 31, 2017 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Eternalcon, Frank Patz, New York Comic Con

Eternalcon Organizer Frank Patz Banned From New York Comic Con

At the end of last October’s New York Comic Con someone walked off with approximately $20,000 worth of toy manufacturer

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January 28, 2017 Celeste Startwin Con Scene, Conventions, Evercon, Harassment, Knotty Cobbler, Scott Windorski

Evercon Has Now Filed For a Restraining Order Against Scott Windorski (Updated)

Earlier this month, we talked about how Evercon quickly and professionally handled harassment by artist Scott Windorski. Windorski, after extended Twitter

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January 26, 2017 Trae Dorn Angry Goat Productions, Con Scene, Conventions, Cosplay Unplugged Los Angeles, Ray Jelley, Trilo3y

Angry Goat Productions’s Cosplay Unplugged Los Angeles Is Setting Off Red Flags For Sailor Moon Fans

So earlier this week we were pointed towards a supposed scam warning on Facebook about Angry Goat Productions‘s “Sailor Moon

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January 25, 2017 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Phoenix Comicon

Phoenix Comicon Dropping Volunteers, Shifting to All Paid Staffing Model

Earlier this month Phoenix Comicon made waves when it announced that it was going to make its volunteers pay dues

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January 23, 2017 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Front Gate Tickets, TicketLeap, Ticketmaster, Wizard World

Wizard World Switching From TicketLeap to Ticketmaster Subsidiary Front Gate Tickets

Wizard World announced last week that they would be switching from long time partner Ticketleap to the Ticketmaster subsidiary Front

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January 20, 2017 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Larry Smith Bookseller

Prolific Convention Bookseller Larry Smith Has Passed Away

Prolific convention regular and bookseller Larry Smith reportedly died earlier today. Collapsing this morning, he was rushed to the hospital

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Strum your sitar and prepare to launch all Eagles as Miles and Charlie once more become the Space Scamps as they make a second trip to the moon for three more episodes of Gerry Anderson’s ‘Event Horizon meets Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace’ show Space 1999. Miles is now worried he has created a monster by showing Charlie this show, and in doing so they get to talk about psychedelic trippiness and Kano’s obsession with Computer in ‘Black Sun,’ Christopher Lee (although he’s totally phoning it in) and the dispatch of a weaselly middle manager in ‘Earthbound,’ and then with ‘The Troubled Spirit’ Halloween comes a little early and it’s probably more spooky than whatever we’ll end up doing for our Halloween episode…

EPISODES DISCUSSED:
00:11:32 Black Sun
00:34:20 Earthbound
00:58:40 The Troubled Spirit

Talking Points Include: More Space 1999, Death Stranding, a trip to Scotland, the science is impossible, Moon Base Alpha’s limited resources, British Pessimism vs. American Gung-Ho, Gene Roddenberry would never, Hard SF has a tendency to go full magic weirdness, Bohemian Rhapsody deserves it’s rep, Christopher Lee is phoning it in, Simmons is the David Brent in Space, cowardly heroes, our brave explorers enjoying shouting MMMMUUUUUUUUTAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNT like in ‘Mission of the Darians,’ Charlie repeats a Johnny Byrne joke from the last episode, awesome sitar music this is the most Halloween episode we’ve done for the show, a wicked burn from Charlie’s old teacher Mr. Jafferji, is Moonbase Alpha a liminal space? M. Night Shyamalan films and surprisingly… some Star Trek.

[ Additional Show Notes ]

Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn. Read Miles’s blog or Charlie’s blog.

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