Anime Festival Orlando

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Anime Festival Orlando
Status Active
Venue Wyndham Orlando Resort
Location Orlando, Florida
Country Flag of the United States United States
First held 2000
Official website

Anime Festival Orlando (AFO) is an annual three-day anime convention held at the Wyndham Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida in early August. AFO has a variety of anime events and programming, guests, and many of the things to be expected an at anime convention.

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[edit] Programming

Anime Festival Orlando holds many events that are typical of anime conventions, including cosplay, dances, panels, workshops, game shows, karaoke, video games, artist alley, and dealers room.[1]

[edit] History

[edit] Event history

Dates Location Atten. Guests
August 19–20, 2000 Ramada Plaza Hotel and Inn Gateway
Kissimmee, Florida		 450 Steve Bennett, Marshall Hash, and Wendee Lee.[2]
July 27–29, 2001 Hilton Orlando/Altamonte Springs
Altamonte Springs, Florida		 1,000 Steve Bennett, Chynna Clugston-Major, Marshall Hash, Wendee Lee, Doug Smith, and Yoshiki Tokushu.[3]
August 16–18, 2002 Renaissance WorldGate
Kissimmee, Florida		 Hiroshi Aro, Steve Bennett, Keith Burgess, Lindsay Cibos, Chynna Clugston-Major, Robert DeJesus, Ben Dunn, Marshall Hash, Jared Hodges, Wendee Lee, Jan Scott-Frazier, Doug Smith, Miyuki Sugimori, and Yoshiki Tokushu.[4]
August 1–3, 2003 Wyndham Orlando Resort
Orlando, Florida		 Steve Bennett, Lindsay Cibos, Robert DeJesus, Tiffany Grant, Jared Hodges, Wendee Lee, Chris Patton, Jack Povlitz, and Jan Scott-Frazier.[5]
August 6–8, 2004 Wyndham Orlando Resort
Orlando, Florida		 Steve Bennett, Sandy Fox, Lex Lang, Trish Ledoux, Wendee Lee, Jan Scott-Frazier, Doug Smith, and Toshifumi Yoshida.[6]
August 5–7, 2005 Wyndham Orlando Resort
Orlando, Florida		 Tom Bateman, Steve Bennett, Bob Bergen, Michael Dobson, Sandy Fox, Lex Lang, Tony Oliver, Chris Sabat, Jan Scott-Frazier, Doug Smith, and Steve Yun.[7]
July 28–30, 2006 Wyndham Orlando Resort
Orlando, Florida		 Lindsay Cibos, Aaron Dismuke, Quinton Flynn, Marc Handler, Jared Hodges, Vic Mignogna, Jeff Nimoy, Chris Sabat, Doug Smith, Veronica Taylor, and Travis Willingham.[8]
August 3–5, 2007 Wyndham Orlando Resort
Orlando, Florida		 Lindsay Cibos, Colleen Clinkenbeard, Jason David Frank, Marc Handler, Jared Hodges, Chris Sabat, Doug Smith, Sonny Strait, and Travis Willingham.[9]
August 15–17, 2008 Wyndham Orlando Resort
Orlando, Florida		 Colleen Clinkenbeard, Richard Epcar, Jason David Frank, Chris Patton, Monica Rial, Doug Smith, Ellyn Stern, Travis Willingham, and Stephanie Yanez.[10]

[edit] References

  1. ^ LLNN Coverage of Anime Festival Orlando 4. Linus Lam News Network. Retrieved on 2007-03-07.
  2. ^ Anime Festival Orlando 2000 Information. AnimeCons.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-12.
  3. ^ Anime Festival Orlando 2001 Information. AnimeCons.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-12.
  4. ^ Anime Festival Orlando 2002 Information. AnimeCons.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-12.
  5. ^ Anime Festival Orlando 2003 Information. AnimeCons.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-12.
  6. ^ Anime Festival Orlando 2004 Information. AnimeCons.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-12.
  7. ^ Anime Festival Orlando 2005 Information. AnimeCons.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-12.
  8. ^ Anime Festival Orlando 2006 Information. AnimeCons.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-12.
  9. ^ Anime Festival Orlando 2007 Information. AnimeCons.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-12.
  10. ^ Anime Festival Orlando 2008 Information. AnimeCons.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-08.

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