** MidwestFurfest 2014 ReCap ! **
11 years ago
Another MWFF has come and gone way to quickly ! Meaning it was a ton of fun as all the past MFF cons were.
- This year some friends from Austria flew here to Canada 3 days prior to the con, ( Charismatic/Darcus, Shade/Ataki, and Corrandilla/AusiWedge )
Then we shared the same flight to Chicago on Wednesday Dec. 3rd for 5 days of Convention fun.
Again it was awesome to see so many old friends and new friends there, much way to many to list here.
There are so many this hear i never got to see or meet up with either sadly.
was great to see my poofy shy
garthwolf again there, and we roomed with
Granitethewolf and
aurawolf again this year.
There was some down moments as i discovered Dakkota's head is really showing the wear and tear of 7 years of use, and requiring much maintenance and repairs to keep him together. its likely that this con is the last for this head, as a 2.0 will be built soon to replace it.
We did the SSC Group photo on those stairs in the atrium area, with a total of 21 suiters on the photo, but another 12 SSC suiters were at the con were not present.
The photos were taken by
tontigfox ,
skyfox1 , and
silvrwolf
- On Sunday both my evil partner-in-crime/Dance Legend/instructor
skyryd3r and i had planned to mess with the minds of the everyone, judges and spectators with an unexpected Dance performance by Zeke Hyena AND Dakkota Wolf, who took over from Zeke Hyena who started of the dance set in the MWFF 2014 Dance Competition, taking second place in the pro-division. ( Not all that appears is what you think though, but i will say both of us were in those suits. :P
There is another Journal on it here: >> http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6334992/
and video:
Awesome video footage is by:
Neo-RevenG
The convention overall was a great time as always, except for the mess on Saturday night when some criminal decided to release Chlorine Gas in the stair well between the 9th & 10th floor near the North/East wing, evacuating the 4000 plus people from the Hyatt for some 4 - 5 hours. A few of us spent the time over in the Hilton across the street in TontigFox & Synthfox's room with many other refugees from the Hyatt. As a former Firefighter of 12 years and a former Municipal planning commitee planner, i can confirm how large cities have bloated to wasting so much excessive emergency resources on every call-out from a cat stuck in a tree to a someone stuck in a portapotty.
what i seen confirmed the bureaucracy wasting of how much was at the scene. When i counted four Ariial-Rescue Appratuses there along with some 50 other fire vehicles, an army of Police, and others, its a classic case excessive resource wasting and City mismanagement.
Don't get me wrong, the emergency teams present did a great job of controlling the scene and performing operations protocol, but its what i seen that is Remanent of what Toronto used to do 10 years ago until they re-worked the emergency planning and response protocol to refine the services for better efficiency.
Either way i hope the investigation will conclude with the capture of the person(s) responsible. I don;t know if its the same in the US, but in Canada any attack on a group of people like this to cause multiple casualties and mass-fear and panic is considered a terrorist attack.
Other than that as i said the con was awesome. Again i would like to thank the staff of MWFF & the Hyatt for hosting such a great con that not many others are able to do at this level. This was my 8th MFF, and they keep getting better.
after a fun con, the flight was great, except for when i got home and discovered that the TSA decided to damage one of my suits ans they seem to be known to do with travelers property..
I will not go into the details here as there is another journal already on what happened: >> http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6329575/
Other than that the amount of fun at a great convention over-shadowed those bad moments.
It was great to see all those i sen there this year ! :D
- FS6
- This year some friends from Austria flew here to Canada 3 days prior to the con, ( Charismatic/Darcus, Shade/Ataki, and Corrandilla/AusiWedge )
Then we shared the same flight to Chicago on Wednesday Dec. 3rd for 5 days of Convention fun.
Again it was awesome to see so many old friends and new friends there, much way to many to list here.
There are so many this hear i never got to see or meet up with either sadly.
was great to see my poofy shy



There was some down moments as i discovered Dakkota's head is really showing the wear and tear of 7 years of use, and requiring much maintenance and repairs to keep him together. its likely that this con is the last for this head, as a 2.0 will be built soon to replace it.
We did the SSC Group photo on those stairs in the atrium area, with a total of 21 suiters on the photo, but another 12 SSC suiters were at the con were not present.
The photos were taken by



- On Sunday both my evil partner-in-crime/Dance Legend/instructor

There is another Journal on it here: >> http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6334992/
and video:
Awesome video footage is by:

The convention overall was a great time as always, except for the mess on Saturday night when some criminal decided to release Chlorine Gas in the stair well between the 9th & 10th floor near the North/East wing, evacuating the 4000 plus people from the Hyatt for some 4 - 5 hours. A few of us spent the time over in the Hilton across the street in TontigFox & Synthfox's room with many other refugees from the Hyatt. As a former Firefighter of 12 years and a former Municipal planning commitee planner, i can confirm how large cities have bloated to wasting so much excessive emergency resources on every call-out from a cat stuck in a tree to a someone stuck in a portapotty.
what i seen confirmed the bureaucracy wasting of how much was at the scene. When i counted four Ariial-Rescue Appratuses there along with some 50 other fire vehicles, an army of Police, and others, its a classic case excessive resource wasting and City mismanagement.
Don't get me wrong, the emergency teams present did a great job of controlling the scene and performing operations protocol, but its what i seen that is Remanent of what Toronto used to do 10 years ago until they re-worked the emergency planning and response protocol to refine the services for better efficiency.
Either way i hope the investigation will conclude with the capture of the person(s) responsible. I don;t know if its the same in the US, but in Canada any attack on a group of people like this to cause multiple casualties and mass-fear and panic is considered a terrorist attack.
Other than that as i said the con was awesome. Again i would like to thank the staff of MWFF & the Hyatt for hosting such a great con that not many others are able to do at this level. This was my 8th MFF, and they keep getting better.
after a fun con, the flight was great, except for when i got home and discovered that the TSA decided to damage one of my suits ans they seem to be known to do with travelers property..
I will not go into the details here as there is another journal already on what happened: >> http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6329575/
Other than that the amount of fun at a great convention over-shadowed those bad moments.
It was great to see all those i sen there this year ! :D
- FS6
And yeah, I am a little shy sometimes. It helps a lot just being in suit, though.
I'm glad you had so much fun at the con. :)
I'm sure you'll have some drinks for me in a couple weeks. :)
Glad to hear that you're safe and had an awesome time.
The MFF generally was a amazing convention, what was running again too fast, I can't wait till this Con starts next year again
*hugs*
Was good to meet you, and thanks again for the little repair on my suit head
hope u still enjoyed
anyways
wicked dance set
sorry ur stuff was ruined after
can u do anything bout it?
Hope to see you at MCFC in a few months!