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| My Buddy Barry and I being dropped off at our first day at Gen Con 50! Whoo hooo! | This convention center was HUGE!! The map has no scale but the length was at least 3 blocks! | They had a mini museum with the agenda for Gen Con 2... wow! |
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| The Mascots for Mayfair Games - they have a great 2 minute video series on Mayfair Games. | Lots of Photo Shoot locations for the public like this. | This year the expected crowd for Saturday was 75,000 people so Gen Con rented the Colts Stadium for gaming. |
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| The area was used for Game Base 7, Mayfair, Kids games, and open gaming. | Games we played... Biotix... thought it would be stupid... ended up buying it and have played it over 15 times here in Ft. Worth with our game group. | I would call this the suprise game... Booty... I really liked it and Barry and I took 1st and 2nd from a group who play with the game designer who made the game. |
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| We have played this game every time we went to a Gen Con (or even Origins in Columbus).Conquest of the Star Lords... always ready for release but never is released... sigh... | Finally got to play the full rules set of Formula D... own it but learned all of it here. | A sample game by Smirk and Dagger... went to buy Biotix and sat down and played this one. Barry really liked it... me...meh.... |
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| I think this game might have been really good but one guy was trying to run 3 games and we all struggled with each level of play making it so so... | A goofy and easy game to play to be the best manager for a redneck trailer park. Bought it and have played it with the game group. | One of the neat parts of any large gaming convention is seeing the large scale models that are made for gaming. |
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| I don't know if there is a competation or not but there are always very nice creations. | Some guys can just make stuff... wish I couuld do that!! | Some of the war games are large scale with little tiny minatures so that you move literly an inch or two a time (using rulers). Some of these games take up to 6 hours. |
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| but you can defintely see the scale and believe you are in the battle in the French Countryside. | Always wanted a full set of Dungeon like pieces like this... maybe after Ed McMahon or the Texas Lotto or Publishers Clearing House gives me a mill!! | |
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| And then there is the people who want to dress up... cosplay it is now called ... | And lordy did they come out in droves for this one... | |
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| And they just stay there for hours letting you see them.. | Some are really good outfits.... | And some are really so bad you can't believe they would be seen in public with them... |
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| But they just stand there and pose for all of thier adoring fans.... | sigh... get a life! (says the guy who is at a 4 day Geek Convention!) <grin> | |
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| Now this dude... I could believe he's a Jedi... and old guy like me!! | This chick was over 10 feet tall on stilts! | nevermind... |
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| The coolest group I saw... from SpaceBalls!! Love it!! | There is an actual Star Wars chapter there in Indy complete with their working droid | |
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| On the way home stopped at a c-store and got to look at the eclipse though some wealding glasses... cool! | ||
