Wow. Big convention news going on right now, and it’s not a happy thing.
Flanvention 2 (aka The Big Damn Flanvention, Part 2), a professionally-run convention based around all things Whedon (Buffy, Angel, Firefly) was supposed to take place this weekend. Tickets were amazingly pricey, which I suppose is to be expected given that relatively small niche we’re talking about. Tickets for the weekend started at $229, with premium packages going for $2,000 and up.
Except yesterday Booster Entertainment announced on their website that the event was cancelled. Now everyone is asking what happened to the approximately $200,000 in revenue went, and the Booster people aren’t talking. You can follow the developing story on the Whedonesque message boards, or on the LJ community. This is Big and Ugly.
The one good thing in all of this is that so far Adam Baldwin (“Jayne”) and Mark Sheppard (“Badger”) have shown up, uncompensated, to meet and greet the fans. That’s pretty darned cool.
Time either to do a credit-card chargeback, or to rev up your lawyers….
Wow…surreal.
Sounds like time for fire and brimestone…. or thunderbolts and lightning, your choice.
Please tell me that this missuve has nothing to do with your REAL life!?! ‘Nother question: Id “Badger” the same Badger from Durham?
To confirm ‘s reply, I am indeed not the actor who played the character Badger on _Firefly_. I’m certain he’s a perfectly nice person, though.
While there are certain similarities (quiet, you over there), distinguishing between myself and the actor (Mark Sheppard) is quite easy: *I* wear a top hat, or perhaps a fedora. *He* (as the character) wears a bowler, also called a derby on the American side of the Atlantic. (Also, he’s the one on television 🙂 .)
Heh. No, this is on the Left Coast, and I’ve got nothing to do with it. And no, that’s definitely not the same person as 🙂
Wow. This is one heck of a trainwreck.
The closest thing I’ve seen to an explanation so far is this:
http://con-dom-wank.livejournal.com/4166.html?thread=637510#t637510