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- | ====== Axanar | + | ====== Axanar |
- | //**See the Tentative Schedule of Events for the Three-Day Con**// | + | //**Ticket Price Slashed More Than 40% After Complaints, Sluggish Sales**// |
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- | With its November 2-4, 2018, convention | + | With weeks still to go before Axacon, the long-awaited Atlanta |
- | [{{ ::trekguests.jpg|**TREK GUESTS** Star Trek actors J.G. Hertzler, Gary Graham, and writer David Gerrold, fill out Axacon' | + | After many people told him the entry price was too high, Peters announced September 26, 2018, tickets were being slashed by 41 percent, hoping to counter sluggish sales. |
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+ | Meanwhile, Axanar raced to pull together the event, pleading with fans to volunteer their time, and slashing ticket prices after initially charging what some believed was a high cost for attending the three-day event in Atlanta. | ||
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+ | ===== Expected $5,000 Loss ===== | ||
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+ | In an interview posted September 24, 2018, on the Fan Film Factor blog, Peters admitted | ||
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+ | > Honestly, I expect to lose about $5,000 on Axacon. | ||
<wrap lo indent> //**See also: [[sphinxcon|Axanar Piggybacks Convention atop SphinxCon]]**//</ | <wrap lo indent> //**See also: [[sphinxcon|Axanar Piggybacks Convention atop SphinxCon]]**//</ | ||
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+ | ==== Sluggish Sales Spur Discount ==== | ||
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+ | Peters did not explain to Fan Film Factor whether the expected loss was due to slow sales of tickets some had complained were [[# | ||
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+ | However, just days after **AxaMonitor** compared Axacon' | ||
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+ | > Feedback was most Axanar fans didn't want to go to SphinxCon, and while I'm a huge Honor Harrington fan [the book series honored by SphinxCon], we can't expect everyone to be.(({{ :: | ||
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+ | Tickets now range from $54-82 instead of $91-129, including ticket processing fees. | ||
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===== Convention Schedule ===== | ===== Convention Schedule ===== | ||
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**Location** While Axacon is officially housed at SphinxCon' | **Location** While Axacon is officially housed at SphinxCon' | ||
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--> Friday, November 2 # | --> Friday, November 2 # | ||
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- | | SphinxCon | + | | SphinxCon |
- | | Axacon " | + | | Axacon " |
- | | **Total** | $91 | | + | | **Total** | **$91** | **$54** |
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- | | SphinxCon deluxe admission | **$74** | | + | | SphinxCon deluxe admission | $74 | $27 | |
- | | **Total** | **$129** | | + | | **Total** | **$129** |
+ | | * <wrap lo>All prices include processing fees</ | ||
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===== Cost ===== | ===== Cost ===== | ||
- | Axacon' | + | Axacon' |
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+ | At the new discounted Axacon price, SphinxCon was to receive $25 from each Axanar entry — half its original take. Axacon attendees who want access to any SphinxCon sessions would now have to pay extra. | ||
==== Price Comparisons ==== | ==== Price Comparisons ==== | ||
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By comparison, Atlanta' | By comparison, Atlanta' | ||
- | **Star Trek Las Vegas $300-$1000** \\ | + | **Star Trek Las Vegas $173-$1000** \\ |
- | The official Star Trek convention, a five-day star-studded annual event, costs a bare minimum $300 if tickets are purchased on a daily basis; daily admission ranges from $50-75. Premium packages go for about $1,000. | + | The official Star Trek convention, a five-day star-studded annual event, costs a bare minimum $300 if tickets are purchased on a daily basis, though shortly before the con tickets can be discounted as low as $173 for five days' admission; daily admission ranges from $50-75. Premium packages go for about $1,000. |
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**Treklanta $45-60** \\ | **Treklanta $45-60** \\ | ||
This local Star Trek convention also in Atlanta, and like Axacon also three days, costs $45 in advance, $60 at the door. Attracting more than 300 attendees a year, it offers many more celebrity guests than Axacon for less than half the admission price.(([[wp> | This local Star Trek convention also in Atlanta, and like Axacon also three days, costs $45 in advance, $60 at the door. Attracting more than 300 attendees a year, it offers many more celebrity guests than Axacon for less than half the admission price.(([[wp> | ||
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===== Bridge status ===== | ===== Bridge status ===== | ||
- | Peters has led the effort | + | Despite volunteers' |
- | ==== Volunteers ==== | + | Despite his locked script Peters told Fan Film Factor he has not yet determined if the set will even appear in the two Axanar short films he says is coming in 2019. He said completing the set has cost him personally several thousand dollars. |
- | Meanwhile, Peters pleaded with supporters to volunteer | + | ==== Con Volunteers ==== |
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+ | Meanwhile, Peters pleaded with supporters to help to pull off the convention, with no discount for volunteering: | ||
"I need you sounding off if you will be attending Axacon. I will ask each of you to volunteer 2-3 hours a day. I can't give away any free passes as SphinxCon is not giving me any, and I am putting in a ton of my own money to make this happen." | "I need you sounding off if you will be attending Axacon. I will ask each of you to volunteer 2-3 hours a day. I can't give away any free passes as SphinxCon is not giving me any, and I am putting in a ton of my own money to make this happen." | ||
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=== Guests' | === Guests' | ||
- | Convention guests, such as actors J.G. Hertzler and Gary Graham, are paid to appear. Guests such as pro-Axanar fan film blogger Jonathan Lane and Axanar podcaster Keith Sedor do not have to pay to attend. {{page> | + | Convention guests, such as actors J.G. Hertzler and Gary Graham, are paid to appear. Guests such as pro-Axanar fan film blogger Jonathan Lane and Axanar podcaster Keith Sedor do not have to pay to attend. {{: |
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