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GB CONVENTION
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boogiman
Ghosthead
Joined: Aug 04, 2002
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 Posted: Aug 05, 2002 12:30 PM
Hey guys why don't we all get serious and grab some real attention. I'm talking to all the real GB fans. Everyone strap on your homemade packs and lets get a huge ghostbuster convention under way. If we get enough people to attend we'll attract major media attention. This will show the suits that there is still a large market out there for ghostbusters and there's still plenty of money to be made.The only problem know is where can we host this convention and how do we spread the news. Please guys, lets pull together and grab some attention. Lets do this!!!!!!!!!
"when there's a will there's a way"
bustin makes me feel good
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GBVA
Banned
Joined: Jul 15, 2001
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Posted: Aug 06, 2002 11:07 PM
Good flippin luck man. I have tried to get the very IDEA of a Ghostbuster convention going. I would like to see it happen. If i had the money i would do it, but since i dont, and no one seems to have the guts to do it. I doubt we'll be seeing it happen. Sorry to the one bursting your bubble.
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borzou99
Ghosthead
Joined: Oct 25, 2001
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Posted: Aug 07, 2002 10:06 AM
or you could go to the san diego con...
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spangler13
Ghosthead
Joined: Jul 08, 2002
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Posted: Aug 07, 2002 11:24 AM
Well yea everyone is afraid of doing this, but look at how many people we would have going. I never been to and Sci-Fi convention, but I have been to Sports conventions. And there are more than 4,000 fans there. And on this site alone we only have under 4,000. But hey I may be wrong. Thanks for posting section because I think that we need a convention.
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Death is but a door, time is but a window, I'll be back!
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stembob27
Ghosthead
Joined: Nov 13, 2001
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Posted: Aug 07, 2002 12:08 PM
yes, we do have about 4000, but they live all accross america (and several live in other countries). Not only that, but go weed through the SN of the people who belong to this site. You will notice that most of them either never post, or have only logged on once, like 2 years ago. There are a bunch of usless members to this site. I don't know why they haven't been deleted. Ever wonder why we never seem to break 20 for the number of memebers on the board at one time? And besides, most of the members are under 17 anyway. How do you expect them to get to the convention? I'll remind you again that these people are all throughout the U.S., so where would we hold it anyway?
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ecto-3
Ghosthead
Joined: Oct 21, 2001
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Posted: Aug 07, 2002 12:08 PM
The best you can do right now is to just attend as many conventions as you can. Hosting one is a whole different story. 
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Epyon0083@hotmail.com (IM)
jordan@eastprops.com
The East TN Prop Shop
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boogiman
Ghosthead
Joined: Aug 04, 2002
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Posted: Aug 07, 2002 2:48 PM
Guys, the franchise needs this to come back to life, so stop your bitchin and moanin and lets do this email me at CRAZYKEMIT86@AOL.COM so we can all plan this out. If you are all true ghostheads we should be able to get this done. We want to hold the convention in Florida so all the fans that u know who live in Florida tell them to Email me!!!!! Lets stop saying "wouldn't it be great if they had a GB convention" and instead say "We have to go to GB convention"
P.S. Email me if u live in Florida
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back
Moderator
Joined: Jul 15, 2001
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Posted: Aug 07, 2002 7:02 PM
Alright, It was said. throughout the GB community, here. there is not enough attention to this topic. if this idea could be spread outside of the walls of the internet to other sci-fi fans perhaps things may change.
im gone.
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ECTO-135 A Site Dedicated to the Notorious Ectomobile or visit The Ectoplasmic Archive, the sister site of ECTO-135
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borzou99
Ghosthead
Joined: Oct 25, 2001
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Posted: Aug 07, 2002 9:34 PM
until then, San Diego Con is the way to go.
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boogiman
Ghosthead
Joined: Aug 04, 2002
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Posted: Aug 09, 2002 4:27 PM
COME ON PEOPLE DON'T WANT THIS TO HAPPEN!STOP WHINNING AND E-MAIL ME SO WE CAN GET THIS STARTED! WE NEED TO DO THIS AS A TEAM!
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GBVA
Banned
Joined: Jul 15, 2001
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Posted: Aug 09, 2002 11:24 PM
Guy Im sorry, but i really have to interrupt again here, I recently spoke to the runner of Imagen Con, and several other small conventions in Virginia. He explaind to me that even the small ones cost a few THOUSAND dollars to mantain and run. Thats only if you get a place to do it. Then there is worries about lodging, guests, security, vendors, events. I will start thinking about it if you have a few thousand dollers to just blow ona convention that wouldnt get many guests...
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boogiman
Ghosthead
Joined: Aug 04, 2002
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Posted: Aug 09, 2002 11:53 PM
GBVA
If there is any other convention that deals ghostbusters please let me know.
"kinda makes you wonder doesn't it?If shes naked under that toga. She's French, you know that right?"
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GBVA
Banned
Joined: Jul 15, 2001
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Posted: Aug 10, 2002 1:34 AM
There are no spacific conventions that deal with just Ghostbusters, BUT in most cases all science fiction and gamming convention welcome anyone dressed as a ghostbuster with lots of attention no matter how good or bad the costume is. I recomend Dragon con, Origins, Gen Con, and i'll look into some others.
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gbwhitlock
Ghosthead
Joined: Jul 21, 2002
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Posted: Aug 10, 2002 8:47 AM
hey why not host it in oklahoma people could get companys to host it
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spangler13
Ghosthead
Joined: Jul 08, 2002
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Posted: Aug 10, 2002 11:22 PM
ok well since nobody wants to get info on covention centers I'd thought that i would start. There is a convention center that has over 100,000 square feet of carpeted floor for vendors. About 27,000 square feet for presentations and junk like that. And not to mension a pre-view room, so I thought about showing Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters 2. This is in Pennsylvannia. Any interest please let me know, I'm dead serious about doing this. They are letting pro proppers sell things and fans dress up and show off. I would like to get some serious answers on if I should continue. If so you can expect a site to be up by October at the most w/ all info. The costs will come out of spectators and vendors for the spots.
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Death is but a door, time is but a window, I'll be back!
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GBVA
Banned
Joined: Jul 15, 2001
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Posted: Aug 11, 2002 1:05 AM
You all have already shown a real problem and not even addressed it...Location. Im sorry but a ghostbusters convention should only be held one place, New York City. No place else. Another thing, guests, more ont he lines of the big time guests like Movie Actors and directors rarely show up, and even if they do, they are lousy at it. Vendors...200,000 somewhat square feet of Ghostbusters vendors? please people use your god giving minds here. Ghostbusters is great, but an event like this would have to be small and i mean SMALL at least when View Askew pulls off a convention they have 5 movies to show automaticly. We have two, oh and maybe RGB episodes. Okay costume contest, a big flipping no no for us ghostheads. We all know "ranking" gives us a problem, could you even fathom the problems if someone marks one propper better than the others? We all communicate with each other people, at normal cons winners will most likely never see the other contestants again, much less remember them. back to vendors, there is only so much Ghostbusters stuff to sell out there that people are really willing to sell at a good price. Prop vendor..okay...Kenner merchandise..okay, maybe Movie stuff, and then what? Really it comes down to money. I can tell you money will NOT be made on a convention like this. If i had the money id do a con like this without worries of it. But you will loose money on this, unless you make the entry fee too high, or vendors price too high. This would be a donnation thing. im all for a convention, i would gladly take an American west air line to the Con hall and set up shop. Id maybe even purchase a stand just for GBVA. To dot his right it would go like this:
Contact people of NON ghostbuster origin to get vendors there(VERY HARD)
get ghostheads to get off thier lazy ghostass and attend(ARE YOU A GOD?)
Get people that worked for GB anything to attend(You musta said "yes"...)
Advertisement(costly)
And there are other things im not naming, security, food, operations, and attractions.
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