MegaCon 2010 this weekend!

After months of preparation and anticipation, MegaCon 2010 will be this weekend at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. Propeller Anime Club will be putting on many events in Anime Sushi's anime events track including the Ninja Olympics, Quickdraw! Contest, and Karaoke! We shall be hosting a wide range of panels in addition to our bigger events.

Anime Sushi will be hosting some impressive events that include the state's biggest Anime Costume Contest, the Cyberia anime-themed dance party, Iron Cosplay, the AMV Contest, and their Plants vs Zombies costume contest! They will even be holding a weekend-long Pocky Photo Patrol contest sponsored by Glico!

When we did our Guide to MegaCon 2010, we outlined what to expect at the convention in our introduction. I also wrote an extensive convention survival guide for those new to MegaCon(or still haven't figured out how to have fun at MegaCon yet).

Pre-registration is over, but you can buy your passes at the door. Keep in mind that the lines for registration will be long so come as early as you can so you can have more fun at the convention! If you park at the convention center, it will be $8 a day for their parking.

Anime guests this year include Sonny Strait, Darrel Guilbeau, Cherami Leigh, Chuck Huber, Neil Kaplan, and cosplayer Yaya Han. Some cool media guests showing up will be Levar Burton, James Hong, Billy Dee Williams, Ray Park, Jerry "The King" Lawler, and Nichelle Nichols. There will be lots of awesome comic book guests including George Perez, Alvin Lee, Frank Cho, Tim Townsend, and more!

There are a bevy of anime events lined up for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Try to see as much as you can and check out our events as well!

Main Events Schedule
Special Events Schedule
Workshops & Panels Schedule

As anything can happen leading up to the convention. Schedule and guests are subject to change. Other than that, see you all this weekend and have fun!

Guide to MegaCon 2010: Karaoke

The Propeller Anime Club will be handling karaoke at MegaCon this year on Sunday, March 14th from 4pm to 6pm in W224B of the Orange County Convention Center. This will be one of the last anime track events at MegaCon this year and a grreat way to wrap up the convention experience. We keep updating our karaoke track list every convention so we will have some new songs in addition to a lot of old favorites!

Here are some guidelines:

Karaoke is first come, first serve. Make sure you show up to the event early and sign up as soon as you can so you can get the chance to sing.

You may sign up for another song only after you have sung your song. We will know if you try to sign up several songs at a time.

We try our best to have as many fun karaoke songs as we can, but it is not guaranteed that we will have everything.

We will not play your CD or hook up your MP3 player. That takes time and we really want to get in as many people singing as possible. What we have is what you get to choose from.

If you smell bad, we will kick you out so that people who have had the decency to shower get more of a chance to sing.

Due to the always high demand of the karaoke event, we have decided to check passes at the door for those who want to participate in the event. We feel that it sucks to turn away people who paid to go to MegaCon because we couldn't fit them in the alloted time provided while those who did not get a pass get to sing.

Propeller Anime Club, Anime Sushi, MegaCon, and the Orange County Convention Center are not responsible for any lost or stolen items that you have left unattended. Please be responsible for your personal belongings.

Karaoke is a fun event, we hope to see you guys there! The vast majority of our songs are in English. It is rather hard to find .cdg karaoke tracks of popular anime and J-Pop songs but we will try. If you have any requests for what tracks for us to acquire, please comment on this post. Try to keep your requests to a few songs, and check back every now and then to see if we got it. I'll simply reply to your comment as soon as progress has been made.

Guide to MegaCon 2010: Quickdraw! Contest

This year's Quickdraw! Contest will be on Sunday, March 14th from 2:00pm to 4:000pm at Megac=Con 2010 in room W224C. We will have three 20 minute sessions that you can participate in! Each session will have a different theme that you will use to create a drawing. We will break up artists into novice and advance categories based on what you think your skill level is. At the end of each session, the judges will pick the top three novice and advance works and then we will announce them at the end of the contest.

Pencils and paper will be supplied by the Propeller Anime Club but you are welcome to bring your own if you wish!

The first place winner of each session - both novice and advance - will get to pick from our prize pile. This will include items like manga, dvds, figures, posters and other anime merchandise. We will scan the the top three entries for each session from both categories and post them online for everyone to see and enjoy!

The Quickdraw! Contest is definitely a great time for artists to get together and create some interesting work and share them with their peers. The contest is fun for everyone and we look forward to seeing you there!

UPDATE: We have recieved word that the Quickdraw! Contest will now take place in W224C! Post has been updated to reflect that!

Guide to Megacon 2010: Ninja Olympics

Do you and your buddies want to become supreme ninja masters? Of course you do! Being a ninja means you get to stand on a mountain top, play guitar, and make people’s heads explode with the sheer power of your awesomeness! The first step in the way of the ninja is to compete in the Ninja Olympics. Test your abilities in events of stealth, cunning, strength, and endurance against other ninja teams!

There will be many challenging events in the Ninja Olympics that your team of three ninjas will participate in, and some even require teamwork to win. Choose your fellow ninjas wisely! The team with best harmony will be the supreme ninja masters who take the golden shuriken home to their ninja village! Not only that, the top ninja teams will win prizes provided the ninja elite of MegaCon!

Full Sail Students game for FREE at Hard Knocks in January!

Lan gaming center Hard Knocks(5707 Dot Com Ct. Oveido, FL) will be offering free gaming to Full Sail students for the month of January from Mondays through Thursdays! Make sure you have a valid student ID! We'll talk more about this at the upcoming club meeting this Sunday and figure out when we should carpool!

More details here.

Ultimate Gaming Showdown 3 Winners!

Hey everyone! Ultimate Gaming Showdown 3 was a blast last week and I'm glad that many of you could make it. We had some fun tournaments and casual gaming going on. Here are our winners:

Goldeneye 007 (N64) - Adam Matis

Mario Kart 64 (N64) - Rogelio Mosqueda

Street Fighter II: Turbo (SNES) - Kent Ward Clyde Campbell

Sonic the Hedgehog 2(not 3) Race Mode  (GEN) - Zak Wilson

Super Smash Bros. (N64) - Clyde Campbell

Fun times were had by all and our next meeting will be Sunday, October 25th, where we will be celebrating the third anniversary of the club's founding!

I also want to give a big THANK YOU to all the Propeller Anime Club students who helped make this successful, as well as Eric Loader from Tech Support for bringing us screens and other equipment to play our games on! Thanks man!