![]() ![]() A handful of them became Anne’s best reasons for making Fanboy Expo Totally Awesome Weekend her birthday outing for this year. Note the new faces in their iced sugar cookie lineup!īeyond the dealers’ area in the center of the exhibit hall, that left the couple dozen actors, musicians, and other talents lining its perimeter for autographing and photo-op purposes. FBTAW’s entry line wasn’t colossal, but it was a manageable size for a modest affair.Īs long as we have cosplay, we know it’s some kind of comic con. You can always judge a show’s performance by the first line, whether it’s the village-sized masses of the gargantuan C2E2 or the handful of us who tried to get excited about the flop-tastic Awesome Con Indy three years ago. The show naturally had a line of fans waiting before showtime, but less than a hundred by my count. The Will Call roster was printed on paper instead of stored in digital devices, and didn’t include the names of anyone who’d bought tickets online within the past week (including us). 22 made from 3-D printer parts and wedged at the bottom. At best our bags normally warrant fleeting glances under the assumption that neither of us would be caught dead with a. A security checkpoint at the front door kept things safe, and looked more deeply into my bag than any other security guard ever has. For a second we considered double-majoring, but decided to focus.įBTAW had everything we’ve come to expect from the cons back home, but on smaller scales. FBTAW occupied the larger one, while the smaller was devoted to Food City Fest, a big foodie show held by a local supermarket chain. The Knoxville Convention Center isn’t the smallest we’ve seen, but was smaller than we expected. If you’re parked downtown, you can enter the handy skybridge opening at Locust Street and Clinch Avenue, and walk directly into the convention center’s upper levels. The ultimate destination for our 5½-hour drive: the Knoxville Convention Center, opened for business in 2001 at the foot of the world-famous Sunsphere, super-sized souvenir of the 1982 World’s Fair. It was only fair, especially since her birthday’s this coming week. There, I’d had the opportunity to overdose on comics this weekend it was Anne’s turn for a whirlwind reunion tour with familiar faces from the classic TV of her childhood. This time, however, we saw FBTAW as a companion piece of sort, the flip side of the previous weekend’s Cartoon Crossroads Columbus. ![]() My wife Anne and I are more satisfied when a show finds a fair balance comics and entertainment guests. That disparity doesn’t have to be a terrible thing. This is abnormal compared to the events held in our usual bailiwicks. I deduced this not from any public statements on their part, but on the fact that the guest list on their official website listed five (5) comics/animation artists and six tattoo artists. We’ve never been to a basic Fanboy Expo, but we gathered the Totally Awesome Weekend spinoff was built to focus more on the actor guests than on the “comic” in “comic con”. After a presumably successful show in June, this year they branched out to a second show in October, the Fanboy Expo Totally Awesome Weekend. Since 2012 Fanboy Expo has been a staple of the scene in Knoxville, Tennessee. Sure enough, she does have a Class 2 rating.Īs it worked out, our last out-of-state foray for 2017 took us to the longest-named event of our year. ![]() Ellen Ripley’s Caterpillar P-5000 Work Loader from Aliens.
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