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I am never going to Fanexpo again. I am probably never going to any corporate-run convention again.
The short version is (a) their event planning assumes everyone is young, able-bodied, and not traveling with small children, and (b) that such people have no need for chairs or benches over the course of a long day.
My thanks to the various fans who gave us water and generally tried to help. Security, OTOH, tended to be standing over green_trilobite whenever I cam back from a reconnaissance or beverage-finding mission, and would then ask me why I wasn't helping him.
We gave up after a few hours of green_trilobite semi-collapsing, ate the ticket costs and came home without seeing Stan Lee. Oh, and getting out of the building was fun, too - I finally steered green_trilobite through what turned out to be a fire door, and got yelled at by another security guard; but at least he let us leave.
The short version is (a) their event planning assumes everyone is young, able-bodied, and not traveling with small children, and (b) that such people have no need for chairs or benches over the course of a long day.
My thanks to the various fans who gave us water and generally tried to help. Security, OTOH, tended to be standing over green_trilobite whenever I cam back from a reconnaissance or beverage-finding mission, and would then ask me why I wasn't helping him.
We gave up after a few hours of green_trilobite semi-collapsing, ate the ticket costs and came home without seeing Stan Lee. Oh, and getting out of the building was fun, too - I finally steered green_trilobite through what turned out to be a fire door, and got yelled at by another security guard; but at least he let us leave.
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Date: 2010-08-29 01:33 am (UTC)From:Hear, hear! One of the things I love about fan run conventions is that most of them are run by people who actually give a shit about access. The implementation varies, not everyone 'gets it', but there's a general tendency to try for some level of accessibility.
I don't like having my arms pulled on either. In theory, the person who is helping is supposed to let the person trying to rise hang on to their forearm[s]. Much less likely to get something dislocated or just yanked painfully, that way.
"I see a lot of those folding camp chairs that are also canes in fan line-ups." Shooting sticks.
Fanexpo is creepy as hell. They target successful fan-run media cons and schedule their gate shows right before hand to suck up all the disposable cash. The local one recruited some fans to run a masquerade this year and I'm seeing a lot of FB statuses about how utterly messed up the fanexpo side is.