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axacon_schedule [2018/09/26 21:59] – Updates with tix discount throughout Carlos Pedrazaaxacon_schedule [2018/10/30 16:44] (current) – updates with ticket sales, Peters' justification for money-losing event Carlos Pedraza
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 ====== Axanar Fan Convention Expected to Lose Money ====== ====== Axanar Fan Convention Expected to Lose Money ======
  
-//**Ticket Price Slashed 50% After Sluggish Sales**//+//**Ticket Price Slashed More Than 40% After Complaints, Sluggish Sales**//
  
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 With weeks still to go before Axacon, the long-awaited Atlanta convention for Axanar fans, OWC Studios head [[Alec Peters]] revealed the event is likely a big money-loser. With weeks still to go before Axacon, the long-awaited Atlanta convention for Axanar fans, OWC Studios head [[Alec Peters]] revealed the event is likely a big money-loser.
  
-After many people told him the entry price was too high, Peters announced September 26, 2018, tickets were being slashed by half, hoping to counter sluggish sales.+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.
  
-Meanwhile, Axanar raced to pull together the event, pleading with fans to volunteer their time and charging what some believe is a high cost for attending the three-day event in Atlanta.+<WRAP important> 
 +<wrap lo><wrap em>UPDATE</wrap> In an October 24 blog post, Peters revealed "we have sold a couple dozen [Axacon tickets] so far." Despite his expected loss of thousands of dollars to stage the event, Peters justified the con as a "launching point for serious pre-production … so [the production team] can all get on the same page and get fired up for shooting"; "a celebration of the Star Trek that we all love and the fans who have supported us"; and a means to "create content for our website, our Blu-rays and to promote what is coming."</wrap>(([[https://axanarproductions.com/captains-log-october-23rd-2018/|Captains Log]], Axanar Productions website, 10/24/18.)) 
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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.
  
 [{{ :alec_peters.jpg?nolink&150|**Alec Peters**}}] [{{ :alec_peters.jpg?nolink&150|**Alec Peters**}}]
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 ==== Sluggish Sales Spur Discount ==== ==== Sluggish Sales Spur Discount ====
  
-Peters did not explain to Fan Film Factor whether the expected loss was due to slow sales of tickets some have complained are [[#Cost|exorbitantly priced]], higher than expected expenses or some combination of both.+Peters did not explain to Fan Film Factor whether the expected loss was due to slow sales of tickets some had complained were [[#Cost|exorbitantly priced]], higher than expected expenses or some combination of both.
  
-Axacon's entry required attendees to pay to get into [[sphinxcon|both SphinxCon //and// Axacon]], a minimum $91 cost with ticket processing fees.+Axacon's entry originally required attendees to pay to get into [[sphinxcon|both SphinxCon and Axacon]], a minimum $91 cost with ticket processing fees.
  
 However, just days after **AxaMonitor** compared Axacon's price with other conventions, Peters admitted: However, just days after **AxaMonitor** compared Axacon's price with other conventions, Peters admitted:
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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.(({{ ::peters_axacon_tickets.jpg?linkonly|Alec Peters post}}, Axacon 2018 Facebook group, 9/26/18.)) > 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.(({{ ::peters_axacon_tickets.jpg?linkonly|Alec Peters post}}, Axacon 2018 Facebook group, 9/26/18.))
  
-Tickets now range from $50-75 instead of $91-129.+Tickets now range from $54-82 instead of $91-129, including ticket processing fees.
  
 [{{ ::trekguests.jpg|**TREK GUESTS** Star Trek actors J.G. Hertzler, Gary Graham, and writer David Gerrold, fill out Axacon's celebrity roster. <wrap indent lo>//Image/Axanar Productions//</wrap>}}] [{{ ::trekguests.jpg|**TREK GUESTS** Star Trek actors J.G. Hertzler, Gary Graham, and writer David Gerrold, fill out Axacon's celebrity roster. <wrap indent lo>//Image/Axanar Productions//</wrap>}}]
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 ===== Cost ===== ===== Cost =====
  
-Axacon's cost had been criticized by some Axanar supporters as high for such a small, three-day convention, ranging from $91 to $129; attendees are required to purchase admission to SphinxCon. They were also required to find their own transportation for the 80-mile roundtrip to OWC Studios outside Atlanta.+Axacon's cost had been criticized by some Axanar supporters as high for such a small, three-day convention, ranging from $91 to $129; attendees were required to purchase admission to SphinxCon. They were also required to find their own transportation for the 80-mile roundtrip to OWC Studios outside Atlanta. 
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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's immense five-day Dragon*Con, featuring dozens of well-known guests from many genre films and TV — especially Star Trek — costs a minimum $85, if purchased a year in advance. Closer to the event, admission is $95. By comparison, Atlanta's immense five-day Dragon*Con, featuring dozens of well-known guests from many genre films and TV — especially Star Trek — costs a minimum $85, if purchased a year in advance. Closer to the event, admission is $95.
  
-**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.
  
 [{{ ::starfleet_ui.jpg?direct&350|**BRIDGE PANELS** Volunteers are working against a November 2 deadline to complete the Axanar bridge set, featuring artwork like this. Click to view full size.<wrap indent lo>//Images/Axanar Productions//</wrap>}}] [{{ ::starfleet_ui.jpg?direct&350|**BRIDGE PANELS** Volunteers are working against a November 2 deadline to complete the Axanar bridge set, featuring artwork like this. Click to view full size.<wrap indent lo>//Images/Axanar Productions//</wrap>}}]