Anyone attending Ohayhocon '09?

[niyyuu]

Official Site for Ohayocon '09
Tiffany Grant is listed as one of the guests. Hopefully there will be a good amount of Eva-related stuff there!

I went to my first con, Colossal Con, over the summer, and I was rather disappointed at the severe lack of Eva-related stuff (apparently no one in Ohio likes the series). The Dealer's Room had a limited Eva selection, (though I was able to nab a pretty nifty Sachiel hat), there were no panels, and the only event was a screening of Rebuild 1.0 that was cancelled in favor of some video game tournament.

[IrkenEvangelion]

I wish I could make it to conventions, another few years and I will.

[Iron Rooster]

Are both of you by any chance Ohioans?

[IrkenEvangelion]

Western New York, but my sister attends college in Ohio so we travel there very often.

[niyyuu]

Northeast Ohio. It's about a 2-hour drive from where I live to Columbus (where the convention is being held).

[niyyuu]

Texas: I actually used to live in Houston, where ADV is located, but I moved away right before I started getting into anime.

My experience at ColossalCon, which was held in Beachwood, Ohio (a 10-minute drive for me), was rather bland. Most of the fun came from random hi-jinks rather than any Con-related stuff. From what I had heard, their attendance rate was much higher than they'd planned. A lot of the panels got cancelled, usually at the last second (there was a line of 90+ people for the "Zombie Survival 101" panel that got cancelled 2 minutes after it was supposed to start for reasons unknown). It seemed that they were focusing more on cosplaying and video games than any real anime/manga-related stuff.
[And, as I mentioned, I'm almost 100% positive that I was the only person representing Evangelion there, what with me wearing my Nerv logo shirt and the Sachiel hat I bought while I was there. Just about all of the cosplaying was from mainstream series like Naruto and FMA.]

Some of my friends have been to Ohayocon and, according to them, it rarely disappoints.

[Gilgamesh]

I went to Ohayocon '08 and I may go next year as well. It was the first big con that I ever went to (previously I had only gone to Tsubasacon, a small anime convention in West Virginia), and it was a very enjoyable experience.