Bryan R
07-09-2007, 04:22 PM
Here is my personal review of P21/TT21 (I may add more later but this gives you an idea).
"I thought I would post my Con wrap-up from Toronto Trek 21/Polaris 21.
I can say this year had some marked improvements over TT20. The photo ops were by far and away much better this year! The photographer was a professional, the back-drop was plain black and there were no name-plates or banners in the picture!! This photographer knew exactly what to do. The cost was $25 CDN for a phot with the guest and you could put up to 3 people in the picture along with the guests, more than 3 you had to pay additional costs.
The autograph lines were well organized and ran very smooth – I was pleasantly surprised!!
The pre-reg was an absolute dream, we got there Friday around 4:45pm and got our badges and ready to go in all of 5 minutes – the volunteers working there were friendly and knowledgeable.
I thoroughly enjoyed meeting Ron Glass and Katee Sackhoff (Katee was gorgeous!!) and even Marina Sirtis was a joy over the weekend (I had no interest in the other 4 guests so I cannot comment there).
The hotel room was clean, quiet (that was a blessing!) and watching Polaris/TT TV on channel 54 was a joy as well!
The Dealer’s room had some really neat Dr Who toys – yes I splurged in there!
I was surprised to see SFX’s booth in the dealer’s room – they were also selling lots of autographed pics – actually at a very reasonable price – again pleasantly surprised!
The Constellation Awards were ok, it would have been nice if any of the winners could be there but would be hard to get David Tennant or Michael Shanks there. ;)
The masquerade itself was a good show (37 entries) BUT the one hiccup there was it started more than 1 hour late!! Somebody in their infinite wisdom decided to stick this “CSI Game” before the masquerade and it “totally wasted” about 30-45 minutes. I found this terribly disrespectful to the masqueraders who were in the Green Room 2 hours before the scheduled time and also to the audience (there were quite a few kids/little kids in the audience too!), we were there for the scheduled time and letting some contestant in the “CSI Game” (which was NOT scheduled for the main room!) ramble mindlessly for over 15+ minutes was crazy! Thank God “Chil” The Security guy finally came out and gave him the hook! This also caused the dance to start late and there was no reason this “CSI Game” could not have been done in a panel setting or if they wanted “stage time” – do it on Sunday!
It was great seeing Sid getting a rousing “Happy Birthday” sung to him by the audience!! “Jayne” (Adam Baldwin) would have been proud!!
The volunteers at this years P21/T21 were awesome and especially the ones running the photo op – they did tremendous and also you could pick up your photo op shots about 2 hours after they were done as they rented the printing equipment – brilliant idea this year (you could also have them mailed to you if you could not stay to pick them up at no additional cost)!"
I give a personal rating of 9 batleths out of 10 for P21/TT21
"I thought I would post my Con wrap-up from Toronto Trek 21/Polaris 21.
I can say this year had some marked improvements over TT20. The photo ops were by far and away much better this year! The photographer was a professional, the back-drop was plain black and there were no name-plates or banners in the picture!! This photographer knew exactly what to do. The cost was $25 CDN for a phot with the guest and you could put up to 3 people in the picture along with the guests, more than 3 you had to pay additional costs.
The autograph lines were well organized and ran very smooth – I was pleasantly surprised!!
The pre-reg was an absolute dream, we got there Friday around 4:45pm and got our badges and ready to go in all of 5 minutes – the volunteers working there were friendly and knowledgeable.
I thoroughly enjoyed meeting Ron Glass and Katee Sackhoff (Katee was gorgeous!!) and even Marina Sirtis was a joy over the weekend (I had no interest in the other 4 guests so I cannot comment there).
The hotel room was clean, quiet (that was a blessing!) and watching Polaris/TT TV on channel 54 was a joy as well!
The Dealer’s room had some really neat Dr Who toys – yes I splurged in there!
I was surprised to see SFX’s booth in the dealer’s room – they were also selling lots of autographed pics – actually at a very reasonable price – again pleasantly surprised!
The Constellation Awards were ok, it would have been nice if any of the winners could be there but would be hard to get David Tennant or Michael Shanks there. ;)
The masquerade itself was a good show (37 entries) BUT the one hiccup there was it started more than 1 hour late!! Somebody in their infinite wisdom decided to stick this “CSI Game” before the masquerade and it “totally wasted” about 30-45 minutes. I found this terribly disrespectful to the masqueraders who were in the Green Room 2 hours before the scheduled time and also to the audience (there were quite a few kids/little kids in the audience too!), we were there for the scheduled time and letting some contestant in the “CSI Game” (which was NOT scheduled for the main room!) ramble mindlessly for over 15+ minutes was crazy! Thank God “Chil” The Security guy finally came out and gave him the hook! This also caused the dance to start late and there was no reason this “CSI Game” could not have been done in a panel setting or if they wanted “stage time” – do it on Sunday!
It was great seeing Sid getting a rousing “Happy Birthday” sung to him by the audience!! “Jayne” (Adam Baldwin) would have been proud!!
The volunteers at this years P21/T21 were awesome and especially the ones running the photo op – they did tremendous and also you could pick up your photo op shots about 2 hours after they were done as they rented the printing equipment – brilliant idea this year (you could also have them mailed to you if you could not stay to pick them up at no additional cost)!"
I give a personal rating of 9 batleths out of 10 for P21/TT21