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 **//Scrambling to Ready Bridge Set for November Event in Atlanta//** **//Scrambling to Ready Bridge Set for November Event in Atlanta//**
  
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 //**__ __**// <wrap lo>**By [[user>cpedraza|Carlos Pedraza]]**</wrap> //**__ __**// <wrap lo>**By [[user>cpedraza|Carlos Pedraza]]**</wrap>
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-ATLANTA — In a joint statement, a non-Star Trek science fiction convention announced it was hosting AxaCon, a long-promised Axanar fan event, as a "convention within a convention" scheduled November 2-4, 2018, at the Crowne Plaza Atlanta Airport.+ATLANTA — In a [[https://sphinx-con.org/sites/sphinx-con.org/files/2018-06/Axacon-Release-AXANAR-Revisions.pdf|joint statement]], a non-Star Trek science fiction convention announced it was hosting AxaCon, a long-promised Axanar fan event, as a "convention within a convention" scheduled November 2-4, 2018, at the Crowne Plaza Atlanta Airport. \\
  
-[{{ ::alec_peters_sphinxcon_2018.jpg?nolink|**FEATURED GUEST** OWC Studios head Alec Peters appears on the SphinxCon website as a featured guest. //Image/SphinxCon//}}]+{{TOC}} 
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 +<wrap lo><wrap em>UPDATE</wrap> June 22: AxaCon posts guest roster ([[#AxaCosts_Extra|pictured below]]): [[Axanar Lite]] writer-director Paul Jenkins, Fan Film Factor blogger and Axanar surrogate Jonathan Lane, //[[Prelude to Axanar]]// actor Steven Jepson and animator Mark Largent, creator of the Axanar parody, //[[yout>_cnHe0oIJIs|Stalled Trek: Prelude to Ax'd-We-Are]]//, joining previously announced guests [[Alec Peters]] and [[gerrold_repudiates|David Gerrold]].</wrap> 
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 +[{{ ::alec_peters_sphinxcon_2018.jpg?nolink|**FEATURED GUEST** OWC Studios head Alec Peters appears on the SphinxCon website as a featured guest. <wrap lo>//Image/SphinxCon//</wrap>}}]
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 The $150 memberships sold out, though the SphinxCon website did not specify how many were sold. "Everyone thought it would be a win-win,” Weiner said. The $150 memberships sold out, though the SphinxCon website did not specify how many were sold. "Everyone thought it would be a win-win,” Weiner said.
  
 +[{{ ::axacon_guests.jpg?direct&400|**AXACON GUESTS** Pictured clockwise from upper left: Author David Gerrold, actor Steven Jepson, blogger Jonathan Lane, filmmaker Mark Largent, writer Paul Jenkins. <wrap lo>//Images/SphinxCon//</wrap>}}]
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 +==== AxaCosts Extra ====
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 +While tickets allowing SphinxCon members to see the Axanar set are sold out, Peters told members of the Axanar Fan Group on Facebook they would be charged extra to attend AxaCon and see the bridge set:
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 +> These are only ticket [prices] to SphinxCon. We have yet to put up the page for tickets to AxaCon, which is an add-on.((Alec Peters {{::petersfbpost.jpg?linkonly|Facebook post}}, 6/19/18.))
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 While SphinxCon described Peters as a "noted sci-fi props expert," and //[[Prelude to Axanar]]// as having "won [[prelude_awards|46 film festival awards]] and the love and respect of Star Trek fans around the world," it omitted any mention of the controversial copyright case in which a federal judge found Peters had [[fair_use_denied#peters_personally_profited|personally profited]] from using Star Trek's intellectual property. While SphinxCon described Peters as a "noted sci-fi props expert," and //[[Prelude to Axanar]]// as having "won [[prelude_awards|46 film festival awards]] and the love and respect of Star Trek fans around the world," it omitted any mention of the controversial copyright case in which a federal judge found Peters had [[fair_use_denied#peters_personally_profited|personally profited]] from using Star Trek's intellectual property.
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 +<wrap em>COMMENTS</wrap> \\
 +Discuss this article in [[face>groups/axamonitor/permalink/403823406799179/|AxaMonitor's Facebook group]].
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 +**Keywords** {{tag>AxaCon sets conventions}}