Chiller con in Springtime and Grand Prop trip

[racprops]

Note I think this is on topic as I am a propmaker and plan on selling props at the show and one stop is the Smithsonian Air and Space:

Friends,

First a question: Has anyone done a Chiller.con in the spring??
I would like details.

Two: Anyone live in Boston and Washington DC, and maybe Philadelphia, would like a couple house guests and would like to show off their city?

I want to make this a grand last trip: do the Chiller Con in the spring and tour all these citys on the way back and hit all the major sites I have never made in the east. (From PHX AZ it is two to three days across the Great Plains (Color them BOREING) and the same back, so once there...)

We can sleep in my van as it is set up as a sleeper cab, just need to plug into a wall outlet for A/C.

At my age I would really like someone living it these citys to guild us around, each has some rep and having place(s) one should NEVER go into.

(Like East LA.)

Email me at racprops@cox.net to talk.

Thanks.

Rich and Jackie

 

[TheSt.LouisKid]

You mean this one?
Chiller Theatre Expo - Main Page

 

[racprops]

They doing a few in the spring time as well, not their normal time, but a LOT better for someone driving 3000 miles to do and let us do some touring back east as well.

So yes somewhat...

Rich

 

[TheSt.LouisKid]

So is that a "yes" to my question? If so...

I'm not aware of Chiller doing "a few" unless they have some out of state from where I was. Chiller does one show in spring and one in fall(specifically Halloween). The turnout is better in fall. I have been to the last six shows and only once has somebody sold props which were some of the worst painted dummy recasts I have ever seen. At the show I went to a year ago I overheard a seller of action figures and related collectables say his sales didn't pay for his expenses. Most people are there for the signatures from actors. I met Mark Goddard but he announced he wasn't going to Chiller anymore. The hotel where they have the show is a safe nice area.

As far as doing sales I'd advise against it. The locals are just not into big dollar cosplay from what I saw. Even at Halloween I find that many northeasterners don't come in costume which always struck me as wierd. Some(and I say some) of the better costumes were store bought. You would be better off at NY Comicon. Being that the show is in NJ I don't have to even go into how friendly they are.

 

[racprops]

I have heard of the Chiller winter con for some time.

The spring ones seem new...

Sad to hear that sales are so poor...

Perhaps if I plug my coming and with props people might make a effort to show up and get them.

Rich

 

[TheSt.LouisKid]

I have heard of the Chiller winter con for some time.

From who? I went to each show for 3 1/2 years and never heard of a winter convention. People I worked with at McFarlane Toys never mentioned there ever being a winter show in the past and we were always invited by Chiller to attend.

 

[racprops]

For years and years...at lease for the past 10 or so years. It was the "got to do con back east" along with Dragoncon.

It seems these are the last few Fan run cons left.

So I am trying to do it.

Rich

 

[TheSt.LouisKid]

Just saying there is no winter show and you don't want to be driving out in the NJ snow anyway. My first winter there was brutal. If you are going to go then do it in fall for Halloween. I must say it is interesting to see that actors close up. Met Leslie Nielsen, Joanna Cassidy, cancer man from X-file(I ferget his name :rolleyes ), Walter Koenig, and yes, Gary Coleman about 1 1/2 years before he died. Met a bunch of others as well. I always had fun since I went with a bunch of friends from the toy company. I don't what it would be like to go and not know anybody since they are not exactly the most social by western standards. Their idea of fun and humor are very different.

I'd put my money on DragonCon. I know I'm going to the next one.

 

[racprops]

OK I think of Halloween as the start of winter, too cold for this AZ Boy...I totaly agree with you about that.

Meeting the stars is great, met a lot of them.

I like working the cons, giving a talk show and talking with the fans.

AND then making like a tourest and seeing the sights, which the Halloween show looks too close to winter to make that possable.

Dragon con is also one I want to do but it looks like that may have be next year, it maybe to hard to get set up for this year, tables and hotels rooms are gone.

Rich

 

[racprops]

Anyone else got some views and news??

Anyone like a private prop show in their own home??

Anyone willing to show their home town?

Rich

 

[racprops]

Anyone???

Rich

 

[racprops]

Last call.

Last try.

Rich