| On first year cons and ambition |
 On first year cons and ambition
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Mar. 14th, 2013 @ 08:40 am 
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So, this Las Pegasus Unicon brony convention meltdown thing.
I can't help wondering if the "real" problem is that a lot of bronies don't really seem to have much past experience with being in fandom, or something, and don't/didn't get that setting up a convention is kind of a big deal. Because, seriously, there seem to have been so many red flags going in to this that it's sort of astonishing that it seems only to be drawing notice now.
I mean... first year convention, calling in two dozen pro guests? Claiming they expect about 2,000 attendees, but have room for 10,000?
No. Right there, your costs are already out of hand, and possibly out of control. That's an expensive rack of attendance fees, and you are spending way, WAY too much on your venue.
Add in vendors expected to accept a con-specific fake currency with not even a contract to back it up that was also hand-drawn and who apparently accepted that and, wow, bronies. Your trust is kind of touching, adorable in the way the faith of small children is adorable, but... aren't most of you supposed to be grown men?
Tara Strong, unpaid pro guest at the con, said on twitter that the organisers had ruined it for all first year cons, but no first year con should really be attempting this kind of scale of event, so I'm not sure I agree, really.
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I can't even begin to comment on the situation without it turning into several pages of text. The downside of so many years of con running / staffing ^.^
I know someone who had over 10k in personal debt over trying to start a small con. She couldn't even make payments on said debt for years so the mind boggles at what it must be now.
Wow.
Yeah, I'm not sure if it's a 'brony' thing as much as 'people have no idea how much work conventions are.' Or that it's easier to start small and build.
Bronies were ripe for this kinda of drama only because *any* fandom or market sector that grows so fast is ripe for this sort of disaster/rip off. They didn't have an old guard checking up on who was running this and when you are part of a group that seems so vibrant, huge things seem possible.
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