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| MomoCon |
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| Location |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Years in existence |
2005 to present |
| Attendance |
700 (2005 est)
1,800 (2006 est.) |
| List of events |
Video rooms, masquerade/cosplay, dealers' room, panels, workshops, karaoke, and artist's alley |
| Official Website |
MomoCon, held in Atlanta, Georgia at Georgia Tech, is one of the top five largest free fan conventions in North America (as of 2006). The multi-genre convention is orchestrated by Anime O-Tekku every year in March since its inception in 2005. The convention encompasses Anime, Video Games, LARP, webcomics, Comics, costuming, card games, board games, and prop armor construction, among other things.
MomoCon is unusual in that the convention began without any starting capital, and there is no entry fee to cover the costs for the next year. Every MomoCon to date, including the upcoming 2007 event, has been free admission, with sales of T-shirts fueling the next year. The convention offers a DVD of the highlights of the 2005 event, and a 2006 DVD is set to be released in the future, featuring a customizable extra 1 to 4 disk option.
[edit] Future conventions
[edit] MomoCon 2007
- Estimated Date: March 17-18, 2007
- Location: Georgia Tech Student Center, Student Services Building, and Instructional Center, as well as the Kessler Campanile, Skiles Garden, and surrounding green space.
- Theme: The staff theme is being kept under wraps in preparation for a theatrical opening ceremonies and a tied-in charity event. Theme colors for 2007 are cream and hunter green, and the feature T-Shirt will be hunter green.
- Planned Events and Features:
- The video game tournaments will be reworked to feature a few large tournaments, as opposed to many smaller tournaments.
- Many of the past guests and new presenters will be present.
- A larger costume contest will be held at the Georgia Tech campanile. The new costume contest location will provide seating for a greater number of attendees, and will be held earlier in the evening.
- Local area groups are stepping forward to run workshops and seminars on their respective expertise, including a plethora of costuming panels and workshops, Japanese ceremonial demonstrations, game demos, and many more events.
[edit] Past conventions
[edit] MomoCon 2005
- Date: March 26-27, 2005
- Attendance: Attendance was estimated at over 700 attendees.[1]
- Theme: "Southern Hospitality" and T-Shirts were black and featured the MomoCon mascot, as created and drawn by H. M. Ogburn.
- Events:
- MomoCon 2005 was presented by an estimated 35 staffers, and opening ceremonies included a mock Patton speech by convention chair Jessica Merriman.
- The convention welcomed over 30 guests and many special demo teams, as well as several special events and feature movies.
- An article on the anime club and the convention was featured in the February 2005 issue of Newtype USA, and professionally-made commercials were seen around Georgia Tech campus before on-campus movies in the Student Center.
[edit] MomoCon 2006
- Date: March 18-19, 2006
- Attendance: Attendance was estimated at over 1800 attendees.[1]
- Theme: T-shirts for 2006 were black and featured the same MomoCon mascot in a purple kimono in the moonlight, to coincide with the Tsukimi theme.
- Events:
- MomoCon 2006 had a convention motto of "Because You Shouldn’t Have to Pay for Quality" and featured an opening ceremonies video that was a parody of Iron Chef (Japanese version), with "Chairman Panda" and the "Iron Staff."
- Key events for 2006 included a Tsukimi festival with kimono-clad wait staff, a Gaming Decathlon, a Pocky Stop cafe, and a rain-cancelled Sidewalk Art competition.
- Guests included numerous webcomic and comic artists, voice actress Amy Howard-Wilson of Starblazers fame, prop maker Robert "Vaderpainter" Bean, and various other guests.[clarify]
[edit] Peripheral events
MomoCon is also sponsor to local events that bolster awareness of the convention and of Japanese culture. Anime O-Tekku began this tradition by bringing many movies and gatherings to Georgia Tech campus and Atlantians, and MomoCon continues it.
- Savannah Photoshoot 2005 – In January of 2005, a crew from MomoCon and Peach State Cosplay Society brought professional photographer James Garner and numerous costumers to Forsyth Park in Savannah, Georgia for a free cosplay photoshoot and benefit spaghetti dinner. The photoshoot was attended by approximately 30-35 people and provided an opportunity to the anime fan community in Savannah. MomoCon welcomed students from Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah College of Art and Design, as well as many Savannah locals.
- ^ a b A hard number is not available because of the lack of convention registration.
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