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| jumpcon can be done on the cheap. yes there's loads of guests but you don't have to see them all if you don't want to!
and holby hasn't aired yet. dominic didn't mention much except he talked as if it hadn't aired yet. since it's filmed approx 8 weeks before airing.... current rumour is sometime in april the episode should run. not official but it comes from someone else who is in the same episode so I guess he should know!
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| The Jumpcon thing is expensive if you do the all-in ticket. But you can buy individual bits off the menu, and then it's not bad at all. I'm considering doing that.
Jumpcon is new, and thus there is no track record. So I am nervous.
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| | The fact that the Jumpcon people are new is one of the reasons I hesitate to do anything at the moment.. And it seems to me that these events.. like the meals.. you sit and stay with the one person all the time? Where at the other cons, you go to breakfast with four or five people and they rotate. So you are seeing more people for your money. This is what I mean because what if you /do/ want to see more people? The first thing I did when I got back from NJ was look at Jumpcon, to see how much I need to think of saving and the whole concept, plus their being new .. just bothers me a tad. 
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| at jumpcon you do breakfast lunch and dinner fri/sat/sun so you get about 6 meals out of it and therefore can see different actors. plus it's, i'm assuming, the same as every other con dinner i've ever been to where you sit with one or two actors then mingle after the meal, during desert etc and when just sitting with drinks at the end of it all.
and i didn't think jumpcon were new, not with about 20 cons a year they seem to be running and the one in boston is in july so as far as I can tell they have the experience. i'd never heard of them before but there are plenty of cons I've never heard of either though that I've done since coming here that are all well oiled machines.
also casey biggs mentioned the EBB tour for the summer they were doing which seems to be with jumpcon as almost every con they're doing has an EBB concert and photo op and stuff. So I'm pretty sure it's not going to be a hatchet job convention. pretty sure. not 100% though!
I hate to say it though, but almost anything is better than a creation con!
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| Mirrani (3/14/2008)
So you are seeing more people for your money. Oh my god, I sound horrible! lol. I really have stooped to the low of "I want my money's worth!" lol! (It's a Nanites thing.) That wasn't at all what I was trying to say, what I was /trying/ to say was that if you only sit with the same person the whole time, you then have to go to three or four meals to see a variety of people. 'Course the plus side is there's no one having to hover and push actors out of their chairs to get them to the next table. (I hated that job.) I guess that sounds like the same thing, only put nicer... but.. you know what I mean?
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| linsey (3/14/2008)
at jumpcon you do breakfast lunch and dinner fri/sat/sun so you get about 6 meals out of it and therefore can see different actors. plus it's, i'm assuming, the same as every other con dinner i've ever been to where you sit with one or two actors then mingle after the meal, during desert etc and when just sitting with drinks at the end of it all.Aha! Now this clears things up for me.. and answers things in my later post.. er.. earlier post.  So, though you can buy breakfast/lunch/dinner separately, it's one ticket for everything? This boggles. And I only assumed they were new 'cause no one had heard of them. The whole thing sounds run like Dragon*Con.. I think I've said that before... so I'm kind of used to it, but still, not having been to one I don't want to think I'm doing one thing and then have all hopes shattered when I've gotten the reverse. :p I agree that anything's better than creation. Shame we don't know anyone who's done a Jumpcon before, we could have asked what to expect and if it's a good one to do. 'Course I haven't seen anyone but those in NJ and while I enjoy Dragon*Con I know some people hate the scheduling, so I don't think that would have been helpful. :p
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| Shame we don't know anyone who's done a Jumpcon before, we could have asked what to expect and if it's a good one to do. 'Course I haven't seen anyone but those in NJ and while I enjoy Dragon*Con I know some people hate the scheduling, so I don't think that would have been helpful. :p
It is a shame we didn't think to ask them, yeah... there might still be a way to ask before July of course. Still... I know it kind of makes me nervous too - not that they're new, just that they're 'new to us' as it were. I do agree thought with the sentiments over Creation. However, having been bitten by the con bug at last - (hey, took me long enough. I've not been this enthused since my Robin of Sherwood days... LOL there's a blast from the past) - for which, of course, I have our wonderful Nanite friends, and of course Dominic (and Connor) to blame.
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| Homegirl (3/14/2008)It is a shame we didn't think to ask them, yeah... there might still be a way to ask before July of course. Still... I know it kind of makes me nervous too - not that they're new, just that they're 'new to us' as it were. I do agree thought with the sentiments over Creation. Hm.. yeah, but I hate "calling in favors" you know? Hey, at this point I'm still leaning to thinking it'll be an adventure. Shame Girl-Bob won't join us. Well, maybe she will, it'd depend on distance for her and time off and whatnot. But I don't think it'd be as easy for her as Philly was a year ago... wow.. was it a year ago. Holy cow.
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| yeah, as I said I think it's similar to the way they do the dinners in the UK where you sit with one or two actors and mingle at the end. same as they do with the vulkon dinners as well which I've always preferred to the cocktail party style where you get a few minutes with everyone but in a group, so sometimes you're not the one who gets to say anything to them if you're kind of quiet in the first place.
the package deals they have for jumpcon, the big ones include all meals but you can buy each meal seperately too. they advertise as a build your own con, if thats what you want to do. if you are just there one day etc, but the emperor package for 850 dollars includes all meals all days. and you say in advance which actors you'd like to be there with in order of preference too.
it seems similar to the likes of london expo or collectormania. the actors aren't paid a set fee as such, they get a minimum appearance fee and then make their own money by staying at the autograph tables 90% of the day (with a quick on stage Q&A and break for lunch when they want to etc). I prefer that kind of con anyway since you can see who/what you want to see and aren't curtailed by a schedule of events that sometimes clashes hings you want to see on stage vs a photo session etc,
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| linsey (3/14/2008)
yeah, as I said I think it's similar to the way they do the dinners in the UK where you sit with one or two actors and mingle at the end. same as they do with the vulkon dinners as well which I've always preferred to the cocktail party style where you get a few minutes with everyone but in a group, so sometimes you're not the one who gets to say anything to them if you're kind of quiet in the first place.Yeah, the shuttling around always bothered me as well. Though at the same time I do enjoy getting to talk to everyone.
the package deals they have for jumpcon, the big ones include all meals but you can buy each meal separately too. they advertise as a build your own con, if thats what you want to do. This is what confused me because that was the first thing I'd read and I thought it would be .. you know.. if you wanted more than one meal, that's going to add up, but then you'd made a comment about there being six meals on a ticket and that's where you lost me.  We had never intended to buy more than just a single thing here or there, unless we decided on another meal with someone else. I'm sure I just understood something wrong in what you posted. you can see who/what you want to see and aren't curtailed by a schedule of events that sometimes clashes hings you want to see on stage vs a photo session etc, Yeah, see since I don't really like cons all that much it's one of those things I just kind of push aside.. I don't run into many scheduling conflicts 'cause there's nothing much in the day I'm after. Usually I'm there for one person, for one hour and that's all. So then I have to wait for the show after the Q&A is over with. No autographs, no photos, none of that stuff for me unless it's a real strange circumstance. This is why I bring cards.
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