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Aug
4th
2019

Glad I went to Bronycon · 5:06pm Aug 4th, 2019

Decided to spend the rest of the day in my hotel room. I'm not the most social person normally, and I've already done basically everything I intended to do at the Con - attended the Equestria's New Groove panel, helped with the Family Feud panel, and hit up the dealer's room. I think I'm going to give my poor budget a break, since I actually managed to keep under it against all odds. And I even managed to finish off and update Treasure Hunt! Hence why this blog post is linked to that story.

It was great meeting everyone I did! I may show up for the closing ceremony, but for the most part I want this last day to be a "me" day in the hotel. Maybe finally beat the Beach Mode of Shantae: Half-Genie Hero (the Squid Baron and Hypno Baron fight is frustrating beyond belief). Also The Goonies is on TV right now and it's been ages since I watched it.

Final haul of swag, for those who care:
- Songs of the Sisters, by horizon
- Oversaturation, by FanOfMostEverything
- Spark Visions of Twilight, by Tangerine Blast
- A Trixie T-shirt
- A Thorax T-shirt
- An Ocellus keychain
- The Nightmare Knights comic arc of the MLP comics
- And issues #61 and 62 of the comics, the Convocation of Creatures comic arc.

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Comments ( 9 )

Will you be getting to the closing ceremony?

5099442
The people who came with me just got back from the con and told me about the line that's already forming...I don't think I'm up for joining LineCon 2019 again.

Sorry.

5099461
Why not just go there right before it opens? I don’t think it’s going to be over capacity or anything, you could just show up when everyone’s filing in.

5099464
Forget what I said, I’ve been waiting since four PM, the freaking charity auction has been holding us all up.

You play Shantae!? Woot! I kickstarted that game :D I've yet to finish any of the costume DLC though...Or the Friends mode... but I've done Shantae and Risky! Such a great game...

Have you seen the opening animation to Shantae 5? Insane!

Anyway, glad you had fun! I only ever attend a local Japanese culture convention myself, I just don't know how much stuff I'd do at a bigger con... I tried to attend a local comic con once and aside from getting Marina Sirtis to sign my Gargoyles DVD set I didn't have much fun. The whole dealer room was basically Funko Pop City >< augh.

5099719
Well, to be honest most of what I go to cons for is the hotel room and the chance to get away from real life and work for awhile. But I did like meeting people I knew online in real life for a change. And I was able to get some swag without needing to pay Amazon shipping fees. Plus it's just fun to go to Baltimore - I've never been to Maryland before.

And yeah, I've played Risky's Revenge, The Pirate's Curse, and Half-Genie Hero. And I'm definitely looking forward to Shantae 5 - and I really hope that the hype is real and Shantae dances her way into Super Smash Bros.

5099747

Shantae really needs to hit it big and get into Smash... Wayforward is just such a great company and I think they deserve all the hype!

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