MoyaMobile-Canada's Trip To ScaperCon 2003

"Registration? Hmmm, yes, must be this way..."

Lesson of the day: Paypal sucks for Canadians. I've said this many times before, and the experience of registering for ScaperCon just reinforced this opinion. It took DRD-Karenza over a half an hour to register with her credit card because of how utterly unfriendly Paypal can be to non-US residents. My plea to vendors and sellers of all kinds in the USA who accept payment by paypal: Write paypal and let them know that you are annoyed that they make things so difficult for your Canadian customers. We thank the ScaperCon Registation staff for being so understanding of the fact that members of our crew had difficulties with PayPal.

Random Friday Convention Photos

The Save Farscape table was definitely the most impressive and important table at the convention, given a prominent place near registration outside the Dealer's Room doors.

At that table, John found a Leviathan from a parallel universe, which we dubbed "PlushMoya".

The crew of PlushMoya (a set of custom-made 12" figures made by a member of the Save Farscape group).

PlushMoya's PlushRygel.

DRD-Andrew and DRD-Suse. The MoyaMobile-Canada crew dressed their ScaperCon badges with Canadian flags, and gave Canadian flags to any other Canadians they encountered at the convention.

Disappointed that Anthony Simcoe wasn't speaking on Friday, D'Argo decided to take the main stage himself.

Surprisingly, a casting agent spotted D'Argo at that talk, and cast him as a spokesperson for Subway.

The One Problem With ScaperCon It's hard to criticize ScaperCon. The event was clearly a product of a considerable amount of fan love and effort, and given that there were very few real "hitches" (a couple of things ran a tad late, but how many fan-run conventions don't run on "con time"?), the organizers should really be thanked and commended for a job well done. Thanks, folks, good job! That said, no event can is perfect. What is surprising is that the one huge problem we found with ScaperCon was a problem that one never generally finds with fan-run conventions. It's an incredibly basic error that is usually only ever made by pro-run conventions... The problem was that ScaperCon was extremely single-track. That is to say that there was generally only ever one thing to do at a time. This was made worse by the fact that, as you can see in the schedule at the top of this page, some of the events were special "meetings" of specific groups, with nothing left to do for those people who were not members of those groups.This left our group (many of whom are not at all involved in Farscape fandom outside of Canada, and thus were completely unfamiliar with the groups in question) with long periods of time where the convention had nothing for us to do. It wouldn't have taken a lot to fix this problem. Obviously a track of scheduled fan panels would have been the best solution, but other easier options were available. A TV in a room running Farscape episodes would have been one way to go. An impromptu panel room (i.e a room with "panel suggestions" scheduled in without official panelists - walk in at 2:00 for "Humour In Farscape" and just start chatting with whoever shows up) would have been another. Really, anything to do during autograph and private-party breaks would have been welcome.