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half a year and no new updates he says..Well it would be nice if fanime could be planned, get every thing done, get all the guests of honors, grab all the bands, have people make their costumes, allow us to make hotel reservations with discounts, plan the festivities, and what not all in oh so much time with only oh so many people to help out.  Yeah...that would be nice...
BTW i like the new site ^-^ however i wish you could have kept the old timer where it also kept track of the seconds and milliseconds. but hey cant have everything >.<

i never asked for fanime to be completely revamped and updated. i was stating that there were NO new updates within half a year of 06's fanime. no new guests of honor, no new events, no updated website. the website has been updated, and that's good.

now, i'm not a part of staff or whatever, but as a paying attendee, i would like to see that my money is going to be worth it. and in the past, there have been years where it wasn't.

Where's the new website? Where are the updates? 07's Fanime is only about 1/2 a year away.

I hope this isn't going to be reminiscent of Fanime 05, which was fairly crappy and plain.

i live in stockton, but i go to ucla so this year i had to fly down (too damn expensive). luckily i was able to get a ride back to la.

this topic brings up an interesting question. can we sell food/other things to the public during the con? i know that there are food places open during the day in the convention center, so that might pose compettition that they wouldn't like. if we can sell, what do you need to do so?

i think the hard thing about letting the audience judge is that the contestants would have to make a CRAPLOAD of food to be able to let everyone taste some. that's why i think it'd be easier to just have a set amount of judges.  :)

oh man, i LOVE texas hold'em! this would be awesome. it would probably need to be something you sign up for, or at least participate in tournament style. i think it would be too much of a hassle if people came in and out as they pleased. black jack would be more of a game to do that with. but yes, texas hold'em! i'm sure a ton of people would be interested.

and if money is an issue, you could charge an entrance fee of something like $5 or $10

after reading through the japanese cooking panel, i thought it would be really awesome to do - iron chef panel/cooking compettition!!!

you could either do it the way they do it on tv (where it's a random main ingredient and 2 or a few more compete in a limited amount of time), or make it some kind of big cooking compettition where there are different categories and a certain amount of people can enter to win prizes (i think this idea might work better).

for example, you could have the categories of

- sushi
- main japanese course
- japanese dessert

anyone could enter in either of these categories. there would be set rules such as a time limit, the amount of people you could have in a team/group, what equipment may/may not be used, etc. of course, people would provide their own equipment and ingredients.

at the end of the compettiton, there would be judges to grade the different foods based on presentation, taste, uniqueness, etc. you could even make some of the fanimecon guests judges!

i think it'd be a fun way to involve people more with japanese culture and learn new things.

Glowticks!

Ohhhh man.. I gave out soooooo many glowsticks.. I think it came to be around 100 actual sticks and about 300 bracelet types

i thought that was really awesome of you to do that for us people. thanks for last year. hope to see you at this years dances.  :)

Since this is the year of the portable gaming systems, it would be awesome if there could be a room open for gamers who have a PSP, DS, N-Gage (o_O), etc so that we could play with other people at Fanime. I'm sure this would be a bit hit, since many anime watchers are also gaming fans.

It would be really fun to connect to others at Fanime to play some of our favorite DS and PSP games. In case you don't know, both systems allow for multiplayer games, but you have to be within a certain limited area, so a room is perfect for this problem.

Please look into this (if it hasn't been brought up already)!