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TFF 2018 report
7 years ago
Went well! I like the new hotel :)
Thursday Buddy (the gnoll, not the raccoon) drive up with me and we unloaded at the loading dock right off Marsalis. Super convenient except for the lugging up the loading dock stairs. (the dock is truck height and we drove a cargo van) Ty showed up and helped up get stuff up and running, the stage was little but it looked great!
The HDMI splitter was a pain...we were putting a 32" monitor up on the truss and splitting to a small TV on a mic stand for kareoke lyrics, and it was just really fussy and tempremental. Fie on it!
There were good crowds there thursday night. Definitely pushing into four-day con territory.
Rooms were great. A bit pricy, but big and snazzy looking with fridges. No complaints. We got to be on the third floor overlooking the atrium!
Elevators were always busy but on the third floor you can take the stairs so I mostly avoided taking the elevators.
The corral was never crazy busy. I think friday was the post packed time. It was so freaking large, even split in two for laser tag, that it's hard to judge. I think we need more signage though, some folks said they didn't know it was there. Story of my life at TFF. :)
I got to do the parade as Sumadeepika! Of course I had electrical problems, Corbeau was running late due to family crisis and I had to make do with some batteries that didn't like the current draw I was subjecting them to. But everything but the eyes worked, so no complaints. A young lady with a DAD head asked to walk alongside me in the parade, and proceeded to pingpong around squeaking at everyone and having a blast. Good for her. :)
Our live act, Exit Mouse, was fun, glad to have him. His audience wasn't huge but there were folks there. I'm happy we had front row seats with blower fans on them for the suiters. Karu the lop-eared puppybun was sitting there so I aimed a fan at him and his ears went flopflopflop the whole time which amused me greatly.
I got to dance with Corby a bit dressed up as Sumadeepika. While I'm happy with the suit, I was imagining that it would be more dance-ok than my other ones and that isn't the case. Partly it's the lit eyes that are hard to see through...also you can't actually see through as much of the eye as there is mesh, I should have trimmed away the sockets more before furring. Also the long curved neck is restrictive; you really can't lift your head up. This is unavoidable with the LED mane the way I made it.
I had a lot of fun suiting with Yejide though, further cementing her as my fave suit. <3 The boob fans were helpful, I left the cooling pack at home and didn't regret it. Lots of dancing, more enthusiastic than skilled, but hey whatever. Bumped into Karu again in the headless lounge during the dead dog dance and chatted a little bit, turns out we know each other from online! (it's a small world) Danced with him a bit, that was a lot of fun. I'd been noting that the dancers tended to just face the DJ and ignore each other which is a little sad. I can't really do my flailing dance style up close to someone, but bunnies and lions snuggling and swaying on the dance floor is cute too so no complaints. :)
Looking forwards to next year! <3
Thursday Buddy (the gnoll, not the raccoon) drive up with me and we unloaded at the loading dock right off Marsalis. Super convenient except for the lugging up the loading dock stairs. (the dock is truck height and we drove a cargo van) Ty showed up and helped up get stuff up and running, the stage was little but it looked great!
The HDMI splitter was a pain...we were putting a 32" monitor up on the truss and splitting to a small TV on a mic stand for kareoke lyrics, and it was just really fussy and tempremental. Fie on it!
There were good crowds there thursday night. Definitely pushing into four-day con territory.
Rooms were great. A bit pricy, but big and snazzy looking with fridges. No complaints. We got to be on the third floor overlooking the atrium!
Elevators were always busy but on the third floor you can take the stairs so I mostly avoided taking the elevators.
The corral was never crazy busy. I think friday was the post packed time. It was so freaking large, even split in two for laser tag, that it's hard to judge. I think we need more signage though, some folks said they didn't know it was there. Story of my life at TFF. :)
I got to do the parade as Sumadeepika! Of course I had electrical problems, Corbeau was running late due to family crisis and I had to make do with some batteries that didn't like the current draw I was subjecting them to. But everything but the eyes worked, so no complaints. A young lady with a DAD head asked to walk alongside me in the parade, and proceeded to pingpong around squeaking at everyone and having a blast. Good for her. :)
Our live act, Exit Mouse, was fun, glad to have him. His audience wasn't huge but there were folks there. I'm happy we had front row seats with blower fans on them for the suiters. Karu the lop-eared puppybun was sitting there so I aimed a fan at him and his ears went flopflopflop the whole time which amused me greatly.
I got to dance with Corby a bit dressed up as Sumadeepika. While I'm happy with the suit, I was imagining that it would be more dance-ok than my other ones and that isn't the case. Partly it's the lit eyes that are hard to see through...also you can't actually see through as much of the eye as there is mesh, I should have trimmed away the sockets more before furring. Also the long curved neck is restrictive; you really can't lift your head up. This is unavoidable with the LED mane the way I made it.
I had a lot of fun suiting with Yejide though, further cementing her as my fave suit. <3 The boob fans were helpful, I left the cooling pack at home and didn't regret it. Lots of dancing, more enthusiastic than skilled, but hey whatever. Bumped into Karu again in the headless lounge during the dead dog dance and chatted a little bit, turns out we know each other from online! (it's a small world) Danced with him a bit, that was a lot of fun. I'd been noting that the dancers tended to just face the DJ and ignore each other which is a little sad. I can't really do my flailing dance style up close to someone, but bunnies and lions snuggling and swaying on the dance floor is cute too so no complaints. :)
Looking forwards to next year! <3
Will be attending next years if all goes well.
(now if we can just book a room IN THE ACTUAL CON HOTEL for next year XD)