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Vger’s SoS 2010 Roundup

August 13th, 2010 by vger

Okay, I’ve put together some thoughts from this years Summer of Sonic hopefully I’ve covered all the important stuff.

Preparation

This year it was a minor miracle we managed to pull it off as everything seemed to be working against us on Friday, starting with the venue not being cleaned out, discovering holes in the floor, to suddenly having our people capacity number dropped less than 18 hours before the doors open, and I’m only scratching the surface here. We then had, a faulty Wii, a DS that couldn’t take a dev cart, a stolen laptop and camera, and the less said about the Pavilion staff the better. It is a true testament to the commitment of staff that we managed to overcome these problems.

Tails judges as the Pavilion staff dawdles.

So what did I end up doing? Well to start with not much, getting to the venue and finding it in the state it was, we had to just sit off the side lines and watch the Pavilion staff clean up very slowly. Once most of it was cleaned up it was a case of all hands on deck to get as much done as possible, setting up the stage, tables, pods, chairs, sound checks etc. A couple of hours later and we had something approaching a convention hall.

The next morning went a little more smoothly with everything falling into place, we ended up opening the doors half an hour late, but hey the year we we open the doors on time will be the year where everything goes to plan, and that is never going to happen.

Looks okay from where I am.

My Job

My duties this time round were a bit more varied than normal, starting out with my usual role of door man along with Urtheart, I think I must have got about 200 people through in that first half hour or so, all the time saying, “if you leave you may not be able to get back in,” over and over again, in the end though capacity wasn’t a problem.

Convention hall filling up nicely.

After about half an hour and a case of dry throat later it was to take on my next role… as Wentos… or so I thought, as it was all a clever ploy by AAUK to get me on stage to perform my forfeit for failing this years wrecks factor. Damn him for playing on my willingness to help out! As it turned out it wasn’t so bad as I had feared that I would be forced to sing something… which would have cleared the room faster than suddenly discovering it was really a Mario convention, no instead I had to do Caramelldancin.

Once my humiliation was over with it was on with my third role of the day, Sonic’s helper. Which on it’s own doesn’t sound like much but when your in a convention hall filed with Sonic fans it suddenly turns into a real hassle. In the end it involved me (politely) asking people to move aside, a role my voice seems to be well suited to, and taking photos hopefully most of them didn’t come out too blurry.

The Event

I’ve talked a lot about what I was doing at the event but what about the rest of the event? What was actually going on? Well we had a lot more than last year, for a start the place was bigger which was a good thing however the ventilation wasn’t as good as last time some of those cos-players must have cooked.

The merch cabinet was back with the usual stock of Sonic curiosities old and new including some of mine, and a very special addition from First 4 Figures, after seeing Super Sonic light up for the first time I was glad I’d pre-ordered the special edition. peaking of merch this year we actually had a shop this time round where some of the staff flogged some of there merch and of course there was the magnificent Crush 40 merchandise.

This year we had two new games on show Sonic Colours for the Wii and DS which I didn’t get around to but it will be out soon enough, and the much anticipated Sonic 4 which I did take a few minutes to try out it was okay but I felt it’s a good thing they are taking the extra time to refine it a little more, and lets not forget the Allstars racing contest which was one by someone playing as Tails which pleased me no end.

Then there was the stage where we had me humiliating myself, the Wrecks Factor, Nevermind the Buzzbombers, Afternoon Tea with Jun Senoue, an amazingly busy cosplay contest that I still think Sally should have won, and of course the Crush 40 concert to round off the day (videos of which should be forthcoming soon on my end).

I’m sure I’m forgetting a pile of things but when your dashing around the place it’s hard to keep track of everything that’s going on.

In the End

Overall it was once again an experience that left me mentally and physically drained, with barely enough energy to find the after party, but I wouldn’t change a thing about it, I love helping out where I can making the day the best it can be for you guys. Now I hope everyone will join me in thanking Svend ‘Dreadknux’ Joscelyne for creating the event, Kevin ‘AaUK’ Eva for doing his SEGA magic, Adam ‘T-Bird’ Tuff for all his work organising the stage and the rest of the staff who helped to make this the best Summer of Sonic ever!

14 Responses to “Vger’s SoS 2010 Roundup”

  1. Donna says:

    Aw Vger, you are too kind! :D All of the cosplayers were awesome, and they all deserved to win :)

    You asked me if I was hot in my Sally costume, and the answer was most definitely “yes”
    I didn’t realise the extent of it however, until I took the damned thing off. What was left underneath wasn’t pretty! XD

    Can’t wait till next year. I’ll have to see if I can come up with something else before then so I can cosplay again!
    Was a great first SOS for me, I’ll never forget it. Thanks to everyone for making it all happen. You are all magical beings.

  2. I think I’ve said a lot about how impressive the event was and how thankful I am to have attended; it really was a magnificant effort on the staffs part.

    And I remember you having to do Caramelldancin. I have to say that I laughed very hard. XD

  3. t-bird says:

    One day Vger will learn how to spell everyone’s names right =3

  4. See Svend and his constant capitalisation of the second A in ArchangelUK.

  5. vger says:

    Sorry guys, all fixed.

  6. Timo Ward says:

    Wow, sounds like you guys had a rough ordeal trying to fix everything up this year. I can now appreciate why you had to open late. I can imagine the chaos.

    I’d like to thank you guys for the awesome day I (and everyone else) had, and say that I can’t wait for SoS 2011!!

  7. Aggron says:

    @Donna – it was your first SoS too?
    I have to say, I’m still surprised you didn’t pass out wearing that thing :V

  8. Donna says:

    @Aggron, yes it was my first year at the event. I was suffering a bit when I stayed on stage for so long, I did feel terribly hot under those lights. I was glad I went offstage when I did really.
    When I took the suit off before I left, I was like a shriveled prune underneath.

  9. Heaven the Hedgehog says:

    i think, you should have won too… your costume was sooo awsome, when i saw you comeing out of the toilet (i was shahra) i was shocked!!! WOW!!!!

  10. Harry says:

    kind of out of the blue here, but quick question: who invented using pingas and why is it all over youtube? XD

  11. Heaven the Hedgehog says:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzRC-fgUWlI

    This is the scene, PINGAS really came from… snooPING AS usual, i see. i don’t know, who found that out, but it got most popular… just like “Find the Computerroom”…

  12. Linno says:

    Yay, can’t wait for Summer of Sonic 2011

  13. It sounded fun!
    I wish there was something like this in the United States!

  14. sheezy93 says:

    hey guys since i dont have facebook or something like that

    can i say something very important? since summer of sonic 2010 changed my life (not yet but ti shall be!) i was thinking of making summer of sonic 2010 (although i havent got any bright idea to change title XD) it is for any deaf people who wanted to come summer of sonic (deaf stuff) and i really needs some very very very importants tips from you guys!

    it can be here UK every year and i have wrote the lists i can thinks and umm how do you guys afford likes xbox, ps3, wii? ai dont really know how :s i wanted any deaf people to make these dreams come true im happened to be deaf as i saw many wonderful things in there 8D thank to you i already fill the list :p but just say if it is okay to you?

    please rely back (very important!) and need to know about it! oh yeah by the way how did you get any really good stuff? like for example comics, toys and anything like that

    thank you for read and please also rely to me!
    sheezy93

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