If you are unable to locate the email, please reach out to the office in advance to have them send you a copy. If you purchased your membership in advance, merely head to the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel in the Capital Ballroom with your email receipt containing your QR code to pick up your badge. You will also need proof of vaccination or a negative test result with 72 hours of badge pickup for each member of your party that you are picking up for.
No replicants, please. Dragon Con takes place annually on Labor Day weekend. The convention opens at p. With so many amazing things going on all hours of the day, we recommend you check the app for times.
Friday p. First and foremost, you get an entire lifetime of fun with membership to the most fun and jam-packed convention of the year. Ask to advertise outside events and conventions.
Advertising for outside events and conventions need to be approved by a moderator. Limit ads. Ads for geek oriented products, podcasts, websites, webcasts, novels, videos or conventions, artwork, cosplay, etc will be limited.
Excessive ads will be removed and banned. No personal ads at all. No crowdsourcing petitions or asking for money. No exception. No kickstarter or patreon or go fund me. Not so much a problem at Dragon Con. Five hotels,each with their own restaurants and bars , plus the downtown location means that everyone should be able to find food that suits them somewhere nearby. In fact, it is entirely possible to travel from the Hyatt, obtain food from a food court , and then proceed into the Marriott, without stepping outside.
It also allows you to locate yourself in close proximity to the items that interest you most, since programming is divided amongst the hotels. Attending Dragon Con requires a membership. These are available from the Dragon Con store on the official website.
Membership rate increase over time, buying early is advised. For more in-depth information about registration and memberships, see the article Registration FAQs.
So your interest is piqued? You want to know more about the convention? Below are a selection of articles in the wiki to get you started. If that's the case, then sign up!
Due to spammers, all accounts are manually approved by Greenwitch, the administrator of the wiki. Once approved, you can create new articles and edit existing ones. Tip: To turn text into a link, highlight the text, then click on a page or file from the list above. Cosplayers tend to save their best for the nighttime, though, promenading through the hotel lobbies and posing for photos. From time to time, even the celebrity guests get in on the act, borrowing a costume from a friend or bringing one they made themselves.
Or, they say, it allows them to indulge their inner fanboy or girl. The typical daytime costume consisted of jeans and T-shirts. They wanted cosplay to be a featured part of the convention. Beginning with the first year, volunteers armed with Polaroid cameras and a pocket full of film cartridges photographed attendees in their best outfits, with fan voting at the end of each day. And rather than have a standard costume contest in the evening, showcasing one cosplayer at a time, they created Masquerade, in which cosplayers performed in small groups.
Cosplayers started to see Dragon Con as the place to show off their best work. Costume contests were added for each night, and eventually the bigger programming tracks added their own costume contests. Masquerade remains a staple of Dragon Con and is among the longest-standing costume contests in all of fandom. In the early to mids, Dragon Con was a small, fast-growing show that attracted con-goers from around the South. Even as attendance jumped around — up in some years and down in others — Dragon Con was the rising star on the Atlanta science fiction convention scene.
With the tremendous success of the convention, the organizers looked to grow the convention in new directions. The key to evolution, they believed, was to respect the core interests of their fans — fantasy, sci fi, gaming and comics — while continuing to incorporate new and interesting things. Friday Night Wrestling and Robot Battles, convention staples today, were added in the early s.
Around that time, Sherry Henry joined the convention to strengthen its relationship with vendors in a way that distinguished Dragon Con from other conventions held around the country on the same weekend. She weighed in on programming choices, leading the convention to drop some programs, add family-oriented programming and move the adult fare to the nighttime hours. Some of the notable guests included Dr. Rock bands, including GWAR, continued to have their place. Though a record number of fans came to Atlanta that summer, the show was a low point from an organizational point of view.
Dragon Con bounced back in , though. In addition to a roster of great guests and an expanding line up of programming, Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell presented Dragon Con with a certificate of acclamation for hosting its 10th anniversary convention in the city.
The next year, , saw a change of venue as Dragon Con moved to the Hyatt Regency. Most of that responsibility fell to the Pat and Sherry Henry, who spent the spring and summer of each year traveling the convention circuit talking about Dragon Con and handing out fliers. By , Dragon Con had grown significantly — some 10, people attended the show that year — and the Henrys were exhausted. The toll of running a business — a small chain of comic book shops — and the convention — essentially, a hobby — had worn them thin.
They were giving serious thought to stepping down from Dragon Con.
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