North Carolina Bronies at Animazement! We all had a great time meeting and greeting as well as dressing up as our favorite pony characters!
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Hey, look. I’m in the second and fifth picture if you can find me.
Since Animazement is really my first official time going to a con for anything geeky, there’s a few things I learned…
PONIES ARE EVERYWHERE
There were like at least 80, if not more people cosplaying as ponies. I never expected this many to be in NC. Most of them weren’t even a part of the NC bronies group as far as I’m aware.
Homestuck is a thing
Apparently Homestuck is an even bigger thing than ponies, I think I saw more trolls than ponies, and that sort of infuriates me. It’s not even a show! It’s a webcomic! Dafuq man? People still haven’t been able to explain the appeal to me.
(Pokemon is still bigger than everything though, yay)
Non-professional panels suck
There was this one panel called “How to Train Your Pokemon” and I was assuming it would be about the games and such, but nope, they were just messing around with people cosplaying as Pokemon, and it wasn’t even the good cosplayers they were using.
Cosplayers sometimes really get into character
There was this zombie that was like, really convincing, and scared people and shit. There was also a heartless that attacked my friend Hirosashii after he started humming the battle theme. There was also an Ezio that shanked me. I played along and started falling over.
Cosplayers can sometimes be really good/unique and you’ll want a picture taken with them
Travis Touchdown from No More Heroes
Bring lots of money
There will be a lot of stuff that you might want to buy. I just got a few buttons and stuff, but there was so much more that I wanted. (There wasn’t anything of Dragonair suprisingly, I was looking for a Dragonair hat because I saw a bunch of other Pokemon hats, but one vendor gave me their card and said they’d commission one for me.)
Here’s the stuff I bought:
(Hirosashii gave me the Twilight badge when I arrived, didn’t buy that.)
Remember where you parked
I forgot which parking deck I went in when I arrived and had to have Hirosashii help me find it. :c
Overall, I had a lot of fun. It was my first con and I hope to go to Animazement again next year!
WOOHOO! Thank you SO much to the people who have pledged! :D
There’s still 8 more days left until the Kickstarter fund ends, so if you still want to help out or if you want one of the rewards, now’s your chance! There’s a limit to the physical rewards but if you donate even a dollar you’ll be in the credits of the film!
Saberspark and I will be working on this all summer with as much effort as we can put into it.
Now THAT’s a better video for this, Saber.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1738023998/brony-documentary-working-title
Thank you all so much for what you’ve contributed so far!
Oh crap, this has released alre-
Wtf? Only 23 minutes? Geez. Welp, I wasn’t really too excited by the trailer with the guy they were interviewing.
As Tom/Bronycurious told me, “Paleo, I hope you’re taking notes, this is an example of what not to do.”
Though, let me reserve my judgement until I watch the whole thing.
This was a nice thing to wake up to.
We’re almost there! Saberspark’s video about it today should boost us over the goal.
This documentary sort of got overshadowed by the de Lancie led effort, but regardless they appear to be close to their goal!
Thank you for pointing that out, Calpain!
WHAT!?
Someone made this for us. <3
Just on the voting page right now: http://bronies.memebase.com/vote/page/2/
That this is getting updates, yet we never got our own post with our project.
Right now I’m not sure what to think about the commercial, the changes are good, and the fact that they’re giving to charities is good, but… just…
Man…
I asked Michael Brockhoff about helping me out with advertising the campaign for the project since we’ll be meeting at BronyCon and he said this:
Paleo,
I was contacted by somebody yesterday regarding this issue. Honestly, I just don’t feel comfortable promoting your project via ours. Not that it won’t be great or that we don’t wish you well. We just don’t know you or the quality your work or feel like we are in any kind of position to endorse your content. The promotion that really worked for us was the postings on Equestria Daily and other fan sites. Most of our traffic came from that. I’m sure if your project content is interesting and respectful, the community will support it and you will do just fine.
Best,
Mike
Hrm… that’s a bit of a problem with this fandom, most of the traffic for anything comes from EqD, but they can be choosy. FiMFlamFilosophy had to make a joke about EqD’s posts to get featured. EqD doesn’t even seem to post as often as they used to. What is the staff there doing?
I really hope Mike’s right about that last part in his message…
Sigh… hurry up and get past 10,000 subs Saber, then EqD will HAVE to pay attention to us. Maybe…
Bleh, I should sleep.
Our Kickstarter Campaign:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1738023998/brony-documentary-working-title
BronyCon: The Documentary:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/257527888/bronycon-the-documentary
If we actually pull this off, this might be the best summer ever!
The two films seem like they’re going to be very different. The one that John de Lancie is doing is a bit more from an outsider’s perspective since he’s just getting into this. The one Saberspark and I are doing will be covering all bases and going a bit more in depth with the sociological aspects like Saber has stated before.
By the way, our documentary will be uploaded to youtube once it is done, so if you’re worried about not being able to see it, don’t worry, it’ll be free to view for everyone. The DVDs will have some bonus footage, but that might be uploaded much later down the line.
We appreciate all the help you all have given us so far and we’re glad to have you as an attentive audience, we couldn’t have made it this far without you. Thank you.
I messaged these guys about meeting up at BronyCon and they said yes!
