![]() Just posting this here as well….because I can.ĩ:00 AM        Yawara! Eps. Planning for Anime Los Angeles 7 in 2011 begins in two weeks. slides outside the room for people to see as they walked by) as well as our Rin display (thanks to Funimation for the cool promo items). Here are a few pictures from the room including our slide-show monitor outside the room (showed ‘now playing’, ‘coming next’, etc. Your help is very much appreciated as things would not have gone nearly as well with-out your help! A very big thanks go to the folks who helped with the room this year (yay for having more then just two people!). Other then running a little over (5 minutes or so) on Sunday, we were pretty much exactly on schedule the whole weekend. Thanks to whoever in Logistics ordered the pizza, that was a life-saver on Sunday night. move-out and after that helped with Logistics load-out for the truck and POD. Staying the extra night (Sunday night) was an extreme help as we were able to just pack up the video room and move things into our hotel room for the night. Sunday we ran until 4 PM and then cleared things up. We started on-time at 9 AM and ran until just after 3 AM late Friday (Early Saturday) night. Opened up Friday morning and while we did have a minor problem with one of the DVD players, it was easily resolved since we had back-ups. Tested everything and even showed a few things before closing up around 10 PM. Got set-up in our room on Thursday afternoon. People do need to have a little more common sense and not walk down Century Blvd with their Airsoft guns out in the open.įor my little part of the con, things went oddly smoothly. Some problems of course, but all were handled in quick time. It was pretty fun with no major (really major that is) issues. It was almost a full week for me, arriving on-site on Wednesday for pre-day-zero set-up and leaving on Monday after final move-out. Summary: Do you still maintain a laserdisc collection? Have more than one LD player? This round-table discussion focuses on the anime laserdisc collector and their collections.ĪLA 6 was this past weekend at the LAX Marriott. Warning: this panel may be harmful to your wallet. Summary: Looking for that hard to find item? Questing for an out-of-print DVD or manga? Look no further as we show some of the various different places, both on the web and off, that one can look for that anime treasure you have been seeking. Here is the information on both (subject to change, please check final schedule): I hope to have some prizes and give-a-ways at both panels. The two panels are “Anime Treasure Hunters†(which I did somewhat of a trial run at Anime Conji last month in San Diego) and the “Laserdisc Collectors Forumâ€. The days and times they slotted me for are pretty good as well, pending any changes of course. I received confirmation the other day for the two panels that I had submitted to run at this year’s Anime Expo. However after the fact it was brought to my attention that if it were me (who had died and whose collection was being sold off) wouldn’t I want my stuff to go to someone who would really treasure these items? I had to take a moment before realizing that yes that would be the case. ![]() The person at the table then informed me that the owner had recently died in a car accident. At that point I felt rather vulture-like as I held a couple dozen CDs in hand like I had just won the lotto. A little surprised, I didn’t let my mind think it out before I asked why they were selling such an obviously great collection. He indicated that this was all from one person’s personal collection. ![]() While I was grabbing up these treasures before anyone else could see what was there, I realized that there was a lot of older stuff so I asked the person working the table where the collection came from. This was basically a compilation series of anime opening songs from the late 80’s and early 90’s. You can see the rest here, here and here. The most notable of these were volume 3 and 4 of the ‘Anime Hot Wave’ series. To my joyous surprise, I found amongst this lot a number of older CDs I had been looking for since I had actually sold off my copies way back in the early 90’s. ![]() They were used of course, but all appeared to be in great shape all things considered. While making an obligatory pass though the room I spotted a table selling, among other things, a large number of old anime CDs from the 80’s and 90’s. The past few years I haven’t really bought anything in the dealer’s room mainly because nothing screams out to me. Earlier this month I was in Dallas for A-Kon. ![]()
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