Passing through MEWcon (Friday)
Dec. 31st, 2010 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scott_sanfordI'm not actually attending MEWcon, having other demands on my weekend, but with a few hours open in my Friday schedule I dropped by the hotel to see what might be happening.
My first impression was that cosplay - hall costuming - is very popular here. That's predictable; the MEWcon demographic is very much like that of KumoriCon and other anime conventions, and in only its third year hasn't had time to grow its own crop of Fannish Old Farts. Not that that kept experienced fen away; I ran into Sam Axemaker almost as soon as I walked in the door (having just missed her parents, she said), and soon saw Guy and Andrea Letourneau, Pengin, and other familiar faces. Taking a load off at the abandoned OryCon fan table caused me to be hit up by passers-by wanting to know about OryCon; apparently the early evening is not as barren a time as whoever stocked the table thought it would be. Or maybe they'd just gone to dinner.
Apparently the panel tracks are very busy for such a new convention. Video is well attended, more so than I've seen at most conventions in recent years. Overall, there are lots of people wandering the halls and they're having fun.
My first impression was that cosplay - hall costuming - is very popular here. That's predictable; the MEWcon demographic is very much like that of KumoriCon and other anime conventions, and in only its third year hasn't had time to grow its own crop of Fannish Old Farts. Not that that kept experienced fen away; I ran into Sam Axemaker almost as soon as I walked in the door (having just missed her parents, she said), and soon saw Guy and Andrea Letourneau, Pengin, and other familiar faces. Taking a load off at the abandoned OryCon fan table caused me to be hit up by passers-by wanting to know about OryCon; apparently the early evening is not as barren a time as whoever stocked the table thought it would be. Or maybe they'd just gone to dinner.
Apparently the panel tracks are very busy for such a new convention. Video is well attended, more so than I've seen at most conventions in recent years. Overall, there are lots of people wandering the halls and they're having fun.
