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So I appreciate my sister in law trying to apologize for my husband's rants on here (which yeah, he was rude and a *bit* (mainly just rude) out of line, BUT he is right, this whole system is way lame) Anyways though I just want to throw in my two cents (I'm the wife btw, and all three of us, my hubby, his sis, and me, have been crazy stressed annoyed and frustrated by this whole process) 1) this should be run better 2) we still have not received an e-mail about whether we got in. Assuming at this point we didn't but woulda been nice to have gotten some kind of confirmation. and last but not least 3) we are considering not going to fanime next year. this year's tickets are already bought and paid for, but we have been considering other cons in passing, and this whole experience makes me not want to return again to fanime. probably we will have an awesome time and will end up trying again next year, but be aware that you are pushing customers away by running things poorly is all I'm saying.
   Ok so reading comments to this will only piss me off sooo I'm out, any future posts will be from my sis or hubby, just needed to vent a bit. Peace out.

sooo the front page of fanime.com says that AA is now full.... Haven't gotten an email, does that mean we aren't in?

Listen kid, this is how it worked. they told us that they were going to have AA up by the end of February. We waited for a really long time and didn't hear anything about it until the 22nd of March when they announced that registration would occur in 3 days. They told us the link would go live at noon on Friday. We checked the link at noon and it was down until 6. Rather than fixing it the forum moderators posted a link there rather than on the front page of the website where we were told to register! The day after registration they told us that they were planning on getting approvals finished within a week. we checked our email, forums and the front page multiple times every day during that whole week. 3 weeks later they finally got back to us and notified us of the lottery. In the notification they stated that the lottery would occur on the 16th. They then said that they had no idea when the lottery would occur. We got an email on the 17th that stated that the lottery had been complete and they would let us know the results within 2 days. It's been 3 days and no word yet. We have been checking out email and fanime registration 5x/day for the last month. We have 3 foot cubic box full of merchandise we have been creating for this since last year. We have spent over 400$ on supplies for all of this. I don't know what the deal is with everyone who is defending the utterly lackluster organization displayed by fanime this year. This just really is not ok

Ok, srsly? TWO volunteers? UNPAID? I hope to GOD that's not how they are running things (if so i am very very sorry for those two people) this is a con that over SIXTEEN THOUSAND people go to. I imagine they got at least 300 applications for AA, to put that on TWO, UNPAID people would be CRAZY.

I mean that just logically makes no sense, tickets are what, 50$ (ave?) X 16,000= $800,000 , not to mention the merchant's fees and other stuff... they better dang well pay the people running a show as big as this.

If they don't then I am sincerely sorry. I understand having volunteers for things like running info booths or selling tickets at the show, but for something as time consuming as registration and running the web site there should be a paid team of people on things.

I do really really value fanime and the awesome times it brings us all, I just hope that the people running it get to enjoy it and not have unrealistic workloads put on them. And I think the idea of two unpaid volunteers running such huge aspects of it is crazy.

thanks guys, it really really helps to know I am not the only one freaking out. It is just getting so CLOSE! T_T and numerical or no, I am still freaking out just because the con is only a little more than a month away and I STILL don't know what's going on TT_TT please please let the answer come soon. It would really really really help if we knew WHEN they were going to be done, even if it was "hey we won't have them done until the day of the con" (which would SUCK but at least I would not be so CONSTANTLY checking and hoping)

thanks guys, I hope we all get in :) if not I dunno what I am gunna do with all this STUFF I have :C

...btw this has to be said, sorry if it is bitchy, but "fielding 15 emails a day" is REALLY not much work if you ask me....um sorry XD just yeah I have to do an awful lot more than that on a daily basis sooooo.... *whistles* ok ya  XD

in srsness though, I so value what fanime brings me and my family we've always had a blast, but f'reals? I cannot believe how hectic and time consuming and stressful this whole process has been.

k don;t hate me I've been up all night better get some Z's XD

I am going so crazy checking my status every day 10X a day. When will we know if we are approved!? is there any kind of date by which we will know??? we have put a lot of time, money and effort into this and are really really anxious. Please, give us something here T_T

Ps we've been checking the fanime website for months trying to register then when it finally opened it didn't work and we got a late # (in the 400's) and I feel like we've done everything we possibly can. Just please please help we are going CRAZY

yeah this whole thing is just completely unfair and ridiculous. I've been making merchandise for this thing for 5 months. On the day the registration for AA was supposed to go up the link was broken for hours and I couldn't get on it until late in the night. Found out later through this forum that some links were posted somewhere else and now my account number is in the 400s. I just can't believe how long all of this is taking. Anybody hear what happened with masquerade registration? What's going on fanime?

Hi, I am pretty new to cosplaying, and have a question: My husband has written a hilarious skit that I am really hoping me, him, our sister, and her friend can perform, but I need to know if having a costume change offstage is ok. important to note is that I would be changing from street clothes (skirt and longsleeve shirt) into a costume so technically I would only be donning one "costume" on stage. is this ok?

(idea is that I am a normal highschool teacher then go offstage and then am somehow converted into the goddess belldandy through azumunga daioh's chiyo singing the cooking song...it's funnier than it sounds I promise)

I just wanted to say thank you for answering all my questions. Unfortunately we won't be able to participate since my husband is graduating on saterday. Oh well, maybe next year :)
So I just wanted to say thanks and don't worry about answering all the e-mails and ect. I sent before.
See you all at fanime! ;D

ok so I get that it is tomorrow night, will do. But how do I do it? where is the link/sign up/????

I have been trying for weeks to figure out the rules and requirements for the cosplay event and have gotten no response yet. I know/think I am supposed to be signing up tonight but I have no idea how to. Somebody please help!

[Saturday, May 24th, 2008]

Hello everyone,

The Cosplay Spectacular will be held on Saturday, May 24th, 2008 at the Civic Auditorium.

(C&P'd from the other thread)
For now, here are some basic answers to common questions:
- Skit is 3 minutes, maximum. We -strongly discourage- walk-ons, please try to come up with a skit!  :D
- 12 people per group, maximum.
- Online Signups open on April 1, 2008, @ midnight (and close on May 20).
- Event is Saturday, May 24, 2008.

Please see this thread for more information. All other questions may be directed to [email protected].

Good luck everyone!




ok, so how/where do we sign up? (it's supposed to be open in three hours, but where is it?/how do I do it?)