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Returned from Megaplex!
14 years ago
Allon, the Cookie Dragon
Weeee, I'm back! What a wonderful time it was too! I had a great blast of a time, the staff was wonderful, the people wonderful, and they had great food too! (Fresh Made Sushi, sure I just eat it vegetarian, but it is still very good!)
Got a couple pieces of Allon Art I'll be posting up soon after getting this done here.
I was a Megaplex sponsor and for me it was worth it, between the breakfast and having Sushi in the lounge and also sandwiches one day as well I actually didn't buy any food the whole con.
I helped out a bit here and there too and it really is nice to do that, I try to though anyway because helping makes people happy and that is one of my things, I like to spread happiness. That is what cookie dragons do!
I had brought Sugar Cookies, Chocolate Peanut Butter cookies, and Chocolate chip cookies. I also brought some Buckeyes as well for a few people and one nice sized batch in trade to
amethystthedragon in exchange for a little mini Allon dragon cake and some of her chocolates, and lots of hugs too! She is very huggable and I recommend hugging her if you get the chance. Thank you so much Amethyst for the sweets, they are delicious and so adorable! I'll have a pic of them up as well too. And a thank you for mentioning me in your feedback at the end of the con too, and saying I'm an inspiration and such. You really embarrassed me (In a VERY good way) and it was nice to hear that. I appreciate that I helped to inspire you to become a dealer and sell sweets like that and that I've helped! It's nice to hear that! ::big hugs::
A special thanks out to as well
vopisca and her mate, Jofree, for being my room mates for the con and for her making me this adorably cute Allon dragon curled around a monster cookie! Absolutely so cute! My concerns though to her in that I'll hope she'll be okay, the hotel was giving her allergic break outs and hopefully getting home will help them die down. I came away from the hotel with a horribly sore throat now myself, yuck, makes me wonder if the rooms had mold issues or some such? I don't get con crud to often. Nyquil is going to be my friend later I think.
Vopisca also did a couple of great panels at the convention that I attended as well. They saw quite a good turn out and things that got people to open up and take a look into ourselves and the fandom as well. The fact she is looking at Furry Cyberculture as part of her Anthropology Internship is really great! Thank you for the great panels!
Another thank you goes out to Manny Cartoon (http://mannycartoon.deviantart.com/ He doesn't have an FA, YET... But I am sure he will...) (Edit: He does now
mannycartoon ) who did an awesomely cute pic of Allon the Cookie Dragon landing Super-man style with a platter of cookies, just as a gift to me for all the cookies I ended up feeding to him. Thank you much to him for it! I'll have it posted up soon as well.
Thanks be to
genesisw for great conversation at her table and for her art, and giving me some Perky Jerky! It's caffeinated beef jerky, and it's beef jerky that isn't crazy with salt and tastes really good too! Also she gave me one of her art cards of a dragon eating ramen that I had eyed back at FWA, just as a nice gesture for all the cookie givings I give to others. That is really sweet. Thank you Gen!
A big thank you as well to
romanov and 
peanutbutterjellydragonpants for hosting a couple nights of awesome room parties that were fun, casual, and filled with pizza and booze. Thank you much for that, and some great hugs too! P.S. And thank you for letting me help you take away some of the extras too! I think the first con I've ever been to I left with more alcohol than I arrived with... normally I don't bring much, though this year I brought a few things since I had room mates, alas it didn't get touched to much.
Megaplex was a bit of a drinking con for me, I admit... It has fun room parties, nice people, casual, and I brought some along for casual enjoyment. While I don't like using it as a crutch it does help me overcome this occasional bit of shyness I have when I'm not just handing out cookies, I'm not to shy then!
Thank you to
fen-fen For an awesome badge in trade for some cookies to! I need to check with her to see if she made a full scan of him to post up, if she didn't I'll get him scanned and posted.
I was happy my cookie tray went for $25 at the charity auction! It's a smaller tray than what I do at FWA, but it's a smaller convention as well. I probably overall only did about eighteen dozen cookies and some Jumbo cookies in total for the convention as a whole. FWA I do at least twice that much, and have more variety. Maybe next year with Megaplex I can arrange offering Cookie dragon Cookies at a desert event or some such? That could be fun, I really loved that the one fellow was doing Sushi in the sponser's lounge. I loved that.
I took 205 pictures at the convention! You can see them ALL here. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v.....gaplex%202011/ The only thing I did to modify these is make sure the pictures are facing the correct direction. If you see something you like feel free to snag it, it's a complete photo dump so it has a lot of blurry stuff in there too. Sadly my camera is horribly in low light situations and I can't seem to figure out how to get it to work right. If you see a picture of yourself or a scene you want for putting together memories of Megaplex and want a slightly larger pic let me know and note me here with an e-mail. I can e-mail you the pics from my computer, Photobucket likes to shrink overly large files sometimes. I'll be posting my favorites from the con here on FA once I get them cropped and adjusted in photoshop.
The wedding at the convention was quite neat to see as well! That was really a sweet time.
Matthew Ebel's concert was awesome! I love seeing him preform, he has such great energy on the stage and such a wonderful singing voice and performance skills... Plus, well, he's real! Even at one point when the audience caused him to slip up in distraction he laughs it off, makes a comment, and goes right back into things. He doesn't try to hide it or cover up, I like that. Looking forward to his next album, especially since he preformed one of the new songs as well on the stage which was great. I admit I "Tried" to be sneaky and have my camera record it via video recording... sadly, it was after shortly into the song that my camera decided "Change my batteries, NOW!" And conked out. I changed and recorded some more after that. No though, I won't post it up anywhere. I'll covet it on my computer to listen to since it hasn't been actively published yet I won't go posting it on the net, that would be disrespectful to the artist! I'll definitely be buying the album though when it comes out.
I really enjoyed the Retro Arcade theme as well... Though to that, all I can really say is... Joust... I loved Joust the game and the fact they had a Joust machine there brought back memories. It also made me realize how unpracticed I was, but I picked up some tips from Chad Krueger that helped improve my game... but I could come no where near his top score from 130K that he had up there... he's damn good at the game!
Enjoyed Uncle Kage's Story hour, as always, and I'm really glad they had him on at a Late Hour, it let Kage be slightly more tipsy than usual I think going onto stage. What's not to love in that? He's always hilarious to listen to.
Loved the Hot Sauce Challenge that Gryfter was hosting after the con was over. My word, that "Vicious Viper" hot sauce is amazingly hot... Even one drop and BAM! The pain, it hurts so good!
The Sniff tracks event they held after the JR's Comedy show (Which was also amusing, it took me a moment to get into his humor but once I did he had me laughing a good bit!) was pretty neat! I didn't stay for the whole thing, but it really does wonders to break ones childhood when we look at things like the old Super Marior Brother's Super Show cartoon and just how WRONG some of it can be if you don't look at it innocently. If I had to make a comment to the event that might have been more negative it would be I actually would have enjoyed being able to hear the actual movie just a little more over the volume of the commentators, yet at the same time it's the commentators that make it hilarious.
Overall just having to say it was a really great time! Thank you to
megaplex Staff as well as all the friends I made, both new and old, there are MANY of you I met to the point I can't really go naming more names here properly. Thank you everyone for helping to make this dragon feel good and special and quite happy.
I look forward to next year's Megaplex! Anyone have cookie suggestions they would want to see? Oh yes that reminds me...
I did bring some Maple White Chocolate bacon cookies with me, and they proved to be a surprisingly good hit with a lot of people, once they got over the idea that there was Bacon in a cookie.
Bacon!
Got a couple pieces of Allon Art I'll be posting up soon after getting this done here.
I was a Megaplex sponsor and for me it was worth it, between the breakfast and having Sushi in the lounge and also sandwiches one day as well I actually didn't buy any food the whole con.
I helped out a bit here and there too and it really is nice to do that, I try to though anyway because helping makes people happy and that is one of my things, I like to spread happiness. That is what cookie dragons do!
I had brought Sugar Cookies, Chocolate Peanut Butter cookies, and Chocolate chip cookies. I also brought some Buckeyes as well for a few people and one nice sized batch in trade to
amethystthedragon in exchange for a little mini Allon dragon cake and some of her chocolates, and lots of hugs too! She is very huggable and I recommend hugging her if you get the chance. Thank you so much Amethyst for the sweets, they are delicious and so adorable! I'll have a pic of them up as well too. And a thank you for mentioning me in your feedback at the end of the con too, and saying I'm an inspiration and such. You really embarrassed me (In a VERY good way) and it was nice to hear that. I appreciate that I helped to inspire you to become a dealer and sell sweets like that and that I've helped! It's nice to hear that! ::big hugs:: A special thanks out to as well
vopisca and her mate, Jofree, for being my room mates for the con and for her making me this adorably cute Allon dragon curled around a monster cookie! Absolutely so cute! My concerns though to her in that I'll hope she'll be okay, the hotel was giving her allergic break outs and hopefully getting home will help them die down. I came away from the hotel with a horribly sore throat now myself, yuck, makes me wonder if the rooms had mold issues or some such? I don't get con crud to often. Nyquil is going to be my friend later I think. Vopisca also did a couple of great panels at the convention that I attended as well. They saw quite a good turn out and things that got people to open up and take a look into ourselves and the fandom as well. The fact she is looking at Furry Cyberculture as part of her Anthropology Internship is really great! Thank you for the great panels!
Another thank you goes out to Manny Cartoon (http://mannycartoon.deviantart.com/ He doesn't have an FA, YET... But I am sure he will...) (Edit: He does now
mannycartoon ) who did an awesomely cute pic of Allon the Cookie Dragon landing Super-man style with a platter of cookies, just as a gift to me for all the cookies I ended up feeding to him. Thank you much to him for it! I'll have it posted up soon as well. Thanks be to
genesisw for great conversation at her table and for her art, and giving me some Perky Jerky! It's caffeinated beef jerky, and it's beef jerky that isn't crazy with salt and tastes really good too! Also she gave me one of her art cards of a dragon eating ramen that I had eyed back at FWA, just as a nice gesture for all the cookie givings I give to others. That is really sweet. Thank you Gen! A big thank you as well to
romanov and 
peanutbutterjellydragonpants for hosting a couple nights of awesome room parties that were fun, casual, and filled with pizza and booze. Thank you much for that, and some great hugs too! P.S. And thank you for letting me help you take away some of the extras too! I think the first con I've ever been to I left with more alcohol than I arrived with... normally I don't bring much, though this year I brought a few things since I had room mates, alas it didn't get touched to much. Megaplex was a bit of a drinking con for me, I admit... It has fun room parties, nice people, casual, and I brought some along for casual enjoyment. While I don't like using it as a crutch it does help me overcome this occasional bit of shyness I have when I'm not just handing out cookies, I'm not to shy then!
Thank you to
fen-fen For an awesome badge in trade for some cookies to! I need to check with her to see if she made a full scan of him to post up, if she didn't I'll get him scanned and posted.I was happy my cookie tray went for $25 at the charity auction! It's a smaller tray than what I do at FWA, but it's a smaller convention as well. I probably overall only did about eighteen dozen cookies and some Jumbo cookies in total for the convention as a whole. FWA I do at least twice that much, and have more variety. Maybe next year with Megaplex I can arrange offering Cookie dragon Cookies at a desert event or some such? That could be fun, I really loved that the one fellow was doing Sushi in the sponser's lounge. I loved that.
I took 205 pictures at the convention! You can see them ALL here. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v.....gaplex%202011/ The only thing I did to modify these is make sure the pictures are facing the correct direction. If you see something you like feel free to snag it, it's a complete photo dump so it has a lot of blurry stuff in there too. Sadly my camera is horribly in low light situations and I can't seem to figure out how to get it to work right. If you see a picture of yourself or a scene you want for putting together memories of Megaplex and want a slightly larger pic let me know and note me here with an e-mail. I can e-mail you the pics from my computer, Photobucket likes to shrink overly large files sometimes. I'll be posting my favorites from the con here on FA once I get them cropped and adjusted in photoshop.
The wedding at the convention was quite neat to see as well! That was really a sweet time.
Matthew Ebel's concert was awesome! I love seeing him preform, he has such great energy on the stage and such a wonderful singing voice and performance skills... Plus, well, he's real! Even at one point when the audience caused him to slip up in distraction he laughs it off, makes a comment, and goes right back into things. He doesn't try to hide it or cover up, I like that. Looking forward to his next album, especially since he preformed one of the new songs as well on the stage which was great. I admit I "Tried" to be sneaky and have my camera record it via video recording... sadly, it was after shortly into the song that my camera decided "Change my batteries, NOW!" And conked out. I changed and recorded some more after that. No though, I won't post it up anywhere. I'll covet it on my computer to listen to since it hasn't been actively published yet I won't go posting it on the net, that would be disrespectful to the artist! I'll definitely be buying the album though when it comes out.
I really enjoyed the Retro Arcade theme as well... Though to that, all I can really say is... Joust... I loved Joust the game and the fact they had a Joust machine there brought back memories. It also made me realize how unpracticed I was, but I picked up some tips from Chad Krueger that helped improve my game... but I could come no where near his top score from 130K that he had up there... he's damn good at the game!
Enjoyed Uncle Kage's Story hour, as always, and I'm really glad they had him on at a Late Hour, it let Kage be slightly more tipsy than usual I think going onto stage. What's not to love in that? He's always hilarious to listen to.
Loved the Hot Sauce Challenge that Gryfter was hosting after the con was over. My word, that "Vicious Viper" hot sauce is amazingly hot... Even one drop and BAM! The pain, it hurts so good!
The Sniff tracks event they held after the JR's Comedy show (Which was also amusing, it took me a moment to get into his humor but once I did he had me laughing a good bit!) was pretty neat! I didn't stay for the whole thing, but it really does wonders to break ones childhood when we look at things like the old Super Marior Brother's Super Show cartoon and just how WRONG some of it can be if you don't look at it innocently. If I had to make a comment to the event that might have been more negative it would be I actually would have enjoyed being able to hear the actual movie just a little more over the volume of the commentators, yet at the same time it's the commentators that make it hilarious.
Overall just having to say it was a really great time! Thank you to
megaplex Staff as well as all the friends I made, both new and old, there are MANY of you I met to the point I can't really go naming more names here properly. Thank you everyone for helping to make this dragon feel good and special and quite happy.I look forward to next year's Megaplex! Anyone have cookie suggestions they would want to see? Oh yes that reminds me...
I did bring some Maple White Chocolate bacon cookies with me, and they proved to be a surprisingly good hit with a lot of people, once they got over the idea that there was Bacon in a cookie.
Bacon!
Hopefully, you didn't get too drunk and forgot you did something crazy. :P
But, welcome back, and I'm glad you had time off for yourself.
I didn't snag a shitty camera picture of your badge, but if you're able to scan it please do! I simply loved how bright it turned out :)
Glad you liked it, though.
Also. PB Drops FTW
And Note has been sent. :)
Then, behold, as I'm desperately digging through my entirely-too-many-pockets National guard bag, what do I see? I see a big saran-wrapped baked good, still whole, with a halo of light around it and a heavenly choir singing gently in the background... *sigh* Well, maybe it was the turbines whining, but still!
It was a cookie, the same sugar cookie you pulled out of your bag to make room for booze. The booze-allowing cookie. The cookie sent from on high at the most critical moment possible, when deerbutt was about to go nuts.
That cookie... was the most delicious cookie... evar. Never before has a cookie been so satisfying to me as that moment. A little part of me squeed, another joygasmed, another simply sighed at the first two and called them morons... Not a single one of them spoke English.
:D