MediaWest*Con 28 -- Day 4

[the_other_sandy]

BF and I made one last pass through the dealer room this morning, turned in our ballots for the songvid competition, and hit the road. My least favorite part of MediaWest is when it ends.

This was a really slow year for the con. There were way fewer door decorations, room dealers, and songvids than in previous years. There seemed to be just fewer people in general. It was kind of disappointing, but even a slow year at MediaWest is more fun than I have just about anywhere else.

In summary:

• I attended 12 panels, the gen and slash competition vids, the movie trailer block in the film room, and 1 room party


• I met jensenrick for the first time (the poor guy had no idea that I do most of my talking on LJ; I'm actually very quiet in RL), and got to talk to wraithfodder, Holy Mother Grammatica, and lots of other fans


• I bought 16 zines in 3 fandoms (Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1, and Supernatural) along with 1 crossover, 2 buttons I had made ("Its uncredible how well at grammer I am" and one of my LJ Drama icon, which I wore to all the LJ panels I went to), 1 Stargate Atlantis tie-in novel, 2 keychains (both of Jensen and Jared), the season 2 Supernatural base trading card set, 2 luggage tags (1 Jensen and Jared and 1 Col. Sheppard from Stargate Atlantis), 4 magnets (3 Jensen and Jared and 1 Jared), and 5 photo charms for my Italian charm bracelet (Sheppard from SGA, the Petrelli brothers from Heroes, the Winchester brothers from Supernatural, the Man from UNCLE logo, and the Due South logo)


• I discovered 2 artists I like very much: Nigel Sade, and Mimi-Na, who draws the most adorable Doctor Who caricatures ever


• I had ridiculous amounts of fun

Counting down the days until next year.

Comments

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

For as many times as I've gone to MediaWest, I've actually seen very little of Lansing. We only venture outside to forage for food. The drive up through Michigan is beautiful though.

If someone rummaged around in my head to find what I thought the perfect con should be, MediaWest would be the end result. It's small (the attendance cap is 900, but the con doesn't always sell out); we literally take over the entire hotel, so every guest room, conference room, and public area is all fans all the time; it has tons of programming choices and activities, so there's always something to do whether you want to shop, go to panels, watch songvids, watch new shows in the video room, look at door decorations, check out the fan art, go to the masquerade or art auction, attend a room party, or just chat up random fans. It also has a strong focus on fan fiction and zines, which I love.

Like I said, even a slow year at MediaWest is great fun. It's always hard to come home again.