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ConnectiCon will be held the weekend of August 1-3, 2008 at the Connecticut Convention Center on Columbus Boulevard in Hartford, CT.
ConnectiCon is New England's largest pop culture event of the summer! Expecting nearly 6,000 members and boasting over 7,000 hours of events; and focusing on the genres of anime, gaming, web-comics, science-fiction, fantasy and related genres, ConnectiCon is bound to have something of interest for everyone in the family. Convention members will find many forms of entertainment including (but not limited to!) console gaming tournaments, video screenings of anime and major motion pictures, informative panels, workshops and demonstrations, scores of talented young artists, over 40 exhibitors selling all sorts of fun stuff! Fans will have the opportunity to learn about the inner workings of their favorite entertainment industries as well as meet special guests of honor including Hollywood actors, anime voice actors, comic artists, game designers and more! It's gonna be a blast! The fun begins at 8am on Friday and ends at 6pm on Sunday evening! Are you game? Register today for a weekend of fun!
Looking for Directions? Click Here... Hotel Information? Click Here
Last day to pre-register for $40 - July 5, 2008!
Saturday 07/05/2008 06:32:21 AM - by: thehappyguy
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Today is the last day to pre-register to attend ConnectiCon for all 3
days for only $40!
Starting tomorrow pre-registration will
be $50, the $50 pre-registration will cut-off on July 19, 2008. After
that you'll have to register at the convention.
Also,
we'd like to mention that we have another voice actor attending
ConnectiCon this year:
Michelle Knotz
We hope
you're having a happy and safe 4th of July weekend, we know that
some of you are probably attending AX or PCM this weekend.
See you all in 4 weeks!
Also, we're going to add a
room block at another hotel this week, as the Marriott is COMPLETELY
sold out on Saturday night, this block will likely close on July 19,
2008.
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Volunteering Read this
Wednesday 07/02/2008 08:42:29 AM - by: SolidJimmy
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With less than 30 days to go, I have been answering emails like
mad. So if your Volunteering, interested in volunteering or just
thinking about volunteering. read the following There will be 3
classes for Volunteering on July 31st at the convention center at 1,3,
and 5:30pm, there you will learn the ropes and get to know me if you
dont already. Also the classes however long they are count as 1 hour
volunteer time. After the classes you are free to go or you can
stay and help the con staff set for the next 3 days. people thinking
about crash space are encourge to help out. (an average of 10 hours is
usally given for thrusday)
Important. If you volunteered
last year, and think you got free membership, please go to the
volunteer link and email me. ALSO IF YOU HAVEN'T REGISTERED
PLEASE DO SO, VOLUNTEERS MUST BE REGISTERED MEMBERS.
And on
a final note this year I will be closing Volunteer Registration on
July 15th, due to the high number of email I get and the fact that a
new job within the con makes me need to prepare for other things. See you on the 31st
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ConnectiCon 2008 Cover Art and T-Shirt Art Contest Winners!
Friday 06/27/2008 06:27:01 AM - by: thehappyguy
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We'd like to announce this year's winners of the Cover Art
and T-Shirt Art Contest:
Cover Art: Jon Kneeland T-Shirt Art: Paul Jacovino (Yuureikun)
We'd like to
thank everyone who submitted art, it was a tough call making the
decisions but we finally came down to the winners. The winners of the
cover art and t-shirt art contest receive a complimentary table
(including 2 memberships) in the Artist's Colony each year.
Congratulations winners, hopefully some fans will swing by
your tables to have their program book and/or t-shirt signed by the
artist!
For those of you who are curious, you'll just
have to wait until the convention to see what the art will look like.
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Just a few rooms remaining at the attached Marriott Hotel!
Thursday 06/26/2008 02:05:04 PM - by: thehappyguy
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Unfortunately, the attached Marriot has informed me today that they
are all out of rooms with double beds! There are still a few rooms
left with King Beds, as of this afternoon (Thursday, June 26, 2008),
the following quantity of rooms are available, before the hotel is
SOLD OUT:
Wed. - 8 Rooms Thurs. - 13 Rooms Fri. -
26 Rooms Sat. - 11 Rooms Sun. - 9 Rooms
ConnectiCon 2008 attendees are invited to stay at our official
convention hotel, Hartford Marriott Downtown.This is the hotel that is
attached along the exhibit level to the convention center, so you
won't have to walk 15 minutes from the hotel to the convention
center, or wait for the downtown shuttle service.
It is of
great importance that ConnectiCon members stay at our official
Headquarters Hotel so that we may book a larger room block in future
years as well as receive function space for additional events at the
hotel.
The rates for rooms this year are $135/night for
both single/double occupancy rooms. Rooms MUST be reserved by July
14th, 2008, last year our room block sold out quickly, so reserve your
room soon!
Room bookings will also require a non-refundable
deposit for the first night of your stay.
You can book your
room online:
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/bdldt-hartford-marriott-downtown/?groupCode=concona
Alternately you can call 1-866-373-9806 and ask for the
ConnectiCon room block. Make sure you mention the ConnectiCon group
rate/discount.
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Another Play and news on parking!
Tuesday 06/24/2008 02:18:13 PM - by: thehappyguy
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"Housecall"
Robert Picardo and Ethan Phillips
reprise there role as the Doctor and Nellix... in which Nellix is in
the delta Quadrant and the Doctor is in the alpha Quadrant and Nellix
asks the doctor to please come and treat his son, but the doctor is
getting ready to go on a date with 7of9...The doctor reluctant to give
up his date, finally agrees to help Nellix's son and the fun
begins.
Tickets for this event will be $15 (my memory
malfunctioned when I entered this as $10, the correct price is $15)
and may be picked up at the tables of Robert Picardo or Ethan
Phillips.
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This year LAZ parking will be offering our members $15/day
parking passes, these passes will be good from 8am until midnight on
Friday and Saturday (you'll need a new pass each day). These
passes are flat rate and will allow our members unlimited in and out
privelidges, which means you'll be able to leave the garage, pick
up some friends and come back later on in the day, hurray for LAZ
parking, it only took what... 4 years to get a deal like this worked
out?
Parking passes will be purchased at a LAZ table near
the registration area (hours tbd).
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More webcomic guests to announce!
Tuesday 06/24/2008 02:13:11 PM - by: thehappyguy
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Pete Abrams of Sluggy Freelance Rich Stevens of Diesel
Sweeties Meredith Gran of Octopus Pie Jeff Rowland of Over
Compensating and WIGU Aaron Diaz of Dresden Codak
will
all be attending ConnectiCon 2008!
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Only 3 weeks left to pre-register for $40
Monday 06/16/2008 01:47:55 PM - by: thehappyguy
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Just wanted to give everyone a heads up - there are only 3 weeks left
to pre-register to attend ConnectiCon for all 3 days for just $40.
Membership rates for all 3 days will increase to $50 on July 6,
2008.
See you at the convention!
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More guests to announce!
Monday 06/16/2008 01:46:39 PM - by: thehappyguy
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Ethan Phillips- best known as the character of Neelix on StarTrek:
Voyager and will be available for autographs during the weekend. He
will also be performing a play with Robert Picardo on Saturday evening
based on their characters in Voyager.
Along with Armin
Shimerman and Tim Russ, he is one of only three "Star Trek"
regulars to appear in three different "Star Trek" series
("Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987), "Star Trek:
Voyager" (1995) and "Enterprise" (2001)).
Ellen Muth- probably best known for her performance as
Eighteen-year-old Georgia "George" Lass, in "Dead Like
Me", as the show's protagonist and narrator. George dies
early in the pilot episode, leaving her mother (Cynthia Stevenson) and
rest of her family behind at a point when her relationships with them
were on shaky ground. She becomes one of the "undead", a
grim reaper. George soon learns that a reaper's job is to remove
the souls of people, preferably right before they die, and escort them
until they move on into their afterlife. The show explores the
"lives" and experiences of a small team of such reapers —
led by Rube (played by Patinkin) — as well as the post-mortem changes
in George and her family as they deal with George's death.
Not only is Ellen an actress but she is a member of Mensa, a
student at the Lee Strasberg School, drives and races a six speed SS
and collects Burmese cats. Her awards include Best Actress at the AFI
for The Young Girl and the Monsoon (1999) and best supporting actress
at the Japanese Film Festival for Dolores Claiborne (1995).
Speaking of Mensa... Mensa will be at ConnectiCon 2008 conducting
tests this year, for our members interested in joining MENSA. If you
don't know what MENSA is please visit MENSA.org.
We're also pleased to announce a few new webcomic guests:
Sam Logan - the man behind Sam & Fuzzy will be attending
ConnectiCon this year.
Pontus Madsen & Christian Fundin
- the crazy Swedes behind the scenes over at Little Gamers will be
attending this year!
We're still working on convincing
the fine folks at Wigu (Jeffrey Rowland), Overcompensating (Jeffrey
Rowland), Dinosaur Comics (Ryan North), Dresden Codak (Aaron Diaz),
and A Softer World (Joey Comeau). If you want to see these guys attend
ConnectiCon, send them an email expressing your interest in seeing
them at the convention.
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Additional Rooms Added to the Hotel Room Block
Monday 06/16/2008 01:27:48 PM - by: thehappyguy
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We were able to have some additional rooms added to our room block! If
you still need a room, we recommend that you book your room soon,
before space is no longer available:
As of this morning
(Wednesday, June 18, 2008), the following quantity of rooms are
available, before the hotel is SOLD OUT:
Thur. 7/31/08 -
16 Fri. 8/1/08 - 58 Sat. 8/2/08 - 48
ConnectiCon
2008 attendees are invited to stay at our official convention hotel,
Hartford Marriott Downtown.This is the hotel that is attached along
the exhibit level to the convention center, so you won't have to
walk 15 minutes from the hotel to the convention center, or wait for
the downtown shuttle service.
It is of great importance
that ConnectiCon members stay at our official Headquarters Hotel so
that we may book a larger room block in future years as well as
receive function space for additional events at the hotel.
The rates for rooms this year are $135/night for both single/double
occupancy rooms. Rooms MUST be reserved by July 14th, 2008, last year
our room block sold out quickly, so reserve your room soon!
Room bookings will also require a non-refundable deposit for the
first night of your stay.
You can book your room online:
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/bdldt-hartford-marriott-downtown/?groupCode=concona
Alternately you can call 1-866-373-9806 and ask for the
ConnectiCon room block. Make sure you mention the ConnectiCon group
rate/discount.
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AMV Contest Deadline Extension
Monday 06/16/2008 08:31:33 AM - by: Zxurian
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I've been informed that the deadline for the AMV
Contest has been extended to June 20th.
That givies
everyone a little more time to put the finishing touches on their
masterpieces.
Enjoy!
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