News — Minnesota convention

Twin Cities Con is a first come first serve event from what I was told. I managed to snag a table January 1st. In October we got information for load in. Since I had already attended MadEx by the same parent company, I had a pretty good idea of what it would be like. What is interesting is that the map made me think a lot more about how Galaxycon organizes things in the end. They were using different halls than what I had experienced at this convention center previously. I had been in Hall A for GeekCraft, they were using...

I applied for Anime Fusion in March and I was accepted in June. Dealers room has a contract and I don't remember much about it at this point. I did also sponsor this event for $250. They advertised my business on their socials before the event.I received my load in information from them on October 11th. My kid still has swim stuff so the load-in hours only being from 2pm to 9pm are fairly restrictive. I'll bring it up at later, but I definitely like it when load in hours have more flexibility on the day before the event.Thankfully Friday hours...

I was told at some point in 2023 that my products would do really well at a furry convention. We have a local one in Minnesota called Furry Migration, so I opted to go ahead and try it out. I applied January 21 for dealers as the way the artist alley works is much different than other conventions. If I understand it correctly, you can show up for a table or if you apply you have to be doing commissions or something? I don't remember. I was accepted into the dealers den in May. Since I'm local I didn't have...

Convergence sent out their load in information a week before the event, so this is of course they day I will start my blogging about it so here are my notes before the actual load in starts.They have optional masking policies but strongly recommend people to mask up. I will bring some with me but we'll see what everything looks like since it is a 4th of July convention. I have only been to the Hyatt Regency prior to this when I was attending Anime Detour, so I will say I am a little familiar with the area at least. This...

So I am starting my pre-writeup about this event the same week it's happening just because I can. We got our maps today to see where we will be in the event center which was really nice. Brittany isn't on the map but we're table sharing since they give us TWO - yes you read that correctly - TWO TABLES at this event. Obviously it's Monday, the load in is Friday - meaning if you're attending this con with plans for a stamp rally, I hope you live close and can get your cards printed quickly. This is still a...