Okay, time to wrap up. What better way to end the TitanCon Coach Tour Sunday than with a proper medieval feast?
After an eventful day we were called away from the archery area – where I was a veritable Greyjoy, sending two of the three shafts straight to gold – to join the long queue (incidentally, this is the only English word where you can drop the last four letters and it’s still pronounced the same) for dinner, the main ingredient of which was a roasted pig. Served in a long hall by girls in period costumes, the delicious pork, with crackling, stuffing, and veggies on the side, was a real treat.
There was time for a bunch of thank you’s (a big round of applause from us to the organisers and everyone who made TitanCan possible is in order here, we hope we presented the event well on this site, and perhaps generated additional interest for next year), some Dothraki singing by Lord Jo the Spearwife, and promises of an even bigger, even better TitanCon 2012. FaBio and I took the stage during this wrap-up improvised ceremony, and I dare say we represented WiC.net rather well. You be the judge, as here is a video of it, courtesy of Jackie (as I am fond of saying, it was the only time I talked more than FaB):
The webpage for TitanCon 2012 is already up. See you next year – we’ll be there! Until then, the memories of the superb guest line can be partly relived in this gallery of official event portraits by the photographer Jim Corr.
Fire And Blood: Not much more to add. The second day was as cool as the first (just wetter), and it was just a complete blast being able to hang with Kristian, Miltos, and all the Game of Thrones fans. We need to make this a yearly thing. TitanCon was freaking great.
Marko and FaBio, signing off
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Team SansaQuote Reply
I miss Syrio. I want to see more Miltos. Hopefully, when his stage work is finished he’ll land a big role in some screen production which will be available for viewing in the USA.
LangkardQuote Reply
By the end of that day, boy did I need some roast hog!
Nick LarterQuote Reply
Hog was delicious! nomnomnom :)
I was also enjoying the conversation with our swedish friends sitting next to me at the feast table.
p.s. everybody was praying that no band would come and play The Rains of Castamere at the gallery ;)
The RabbitQuote Reply
So, you went ahead and feasted on the boar that killed King Robert, huh? Was it as tasty as I imagine it was?
SunspearQuote Reply
I start smiling just thinking about it. Phil (of TitanCon), I want to sign up for 2012!
Johan SporreQuote Reply
The link for the photo gallery doesn’t lead to anything. :(
JacksonQuote Reply
To be completely honest with you:
In my opinion most reports for TitanCon strechted for waaaay too long if you know what I mean.
For future convention I recommend to post all the reports within a week of the event when people are still curious about it. By now it’s just kind of boring.
No offense, it’s just my opinion. It feels like reading a report about a football match three months later.
G_LeeQuote Reply
I get you, G. We were kind of thinking the same thing around the halfway point of all the TitanCon posts. It just sort of happened this way.
In a sense we probably ended up with too much coverage. Just two guys, with loads and loads (and loads) of footage. How do you break all that up into palatable, bite-sized bits?
It’s sort of like, “Well, we do have more we can show. It’s either more or nothing at all, since we basically have no news in the GoT realm right now.”
… Possibly “nothing at all” would be a better choice once we got past like… seven posts. But we don’t want to say, “We held stuff back” when we still had more content.
Part of it is also our slightly-OCD need to put an End stamp on the whole thing. But hey.
We know. I’d say we’re still learning!
Fire And BloodQuote Reply
Next year I will make it there as well…
Off topic: While not exatly thrilled for the GoT RPG, I think I will at least check it out, since it was announced that it will come out on consoles as well…
Chris77Quote Reply
Fire And Blood,
I can totally understand your position… it’s hard to maintain a news blog with hardly any news these days. But I’m sure it’s just the quiet before the storm! :)
G_LeeQuote Reply
Jackson,
I fixed the gallery, now open to everyone with a link. Sorry guys!
Fire And Blood,
Well put. That’s exactly it.
Hear Me RoarQuote Reply
Militos seems like the nicest guy in the world! Just so!
UdiQuote Reply
Miltos is defo one of the nicest guys in the world. Also a very good photographer – I’ve got some really nice photos from Inch Abbey that he took for me.
All in TitanCon was a blast. A bit of a downer that I was ill by the end of it, but it was mainly Monday that I really did die so I didn’t miss much to my bleghness. I am defo up for TitanCon 2012 and would urge anybody who can come, to do so! It’s gonna be brilliant. And if you can, sign up for the Coach Tour. We got pissed wet through, but it was a blast. I might pack my foulies next year though, and keep dry. lol
Can I just poke the committee now to try and get a con discount at the Days Hotel. :D
Samantha HirstQuote Reply
Fire And Blood,
Personally, I have to say ‘thank you’ and let you know I am still interested in hearing about TitanCon. I wasn’t able to go this year, and I still am interested in hearing about it now, and I enjoy the reports, pictures and videos, even if they aren’t as ‘hot’ of a news item as they were when it first happened.
It takes a long time to write articles, edit them, and edit photos and video, and I know this is something you guys do in your spare time because you have other jobs too, so I understand it all takes time, and I appreciate your hard work, and your willingness to help share the experience with those of us who couldn’t make it.
So Iwant to add a big THANK YOU! and say I don’t mind seeing these TitanCon tidbits WHENEVER you get the chance :)
purplejillyQuote Reply
purplejilly,
Awww, Jilly, thank you :) Hearwarming. We’re done for this year … but there will be another drawn-out report next year, heh heh.
Hear Me RoarQuote Reply
I hope I can attend next year! I’ll be visiting the family in England at some point during the summer, so it may not be out of the realm of possibility. XD
Steve Hugh WestenraQuote Reply
Thanks to FaBio and HMR for their stellar coverage of TitanCon. I’ll get in touch with you guys soon to talk about our plans for next year.
I can confirm that we are working on it, plans are coming together and soon you’ll be able to buy TitanCon 2012 memberships and Coach Tour tickets. The dates have been announced as 21-23 September 2012 and we’ll be back at the Europa Hotel.
I can also confirm that WiC’s very own Silverjaime will be taking on a much larger role as co-chair of the TitanCon committee alongside myself so please join me in wishing her the best of luck!
theMountainGoatQuote Reply
Miltos might be the coolest person ever. Syrio Fore(l)ver! It’s really cool that you guys got to do all this and I’m glad you had fun. You deserve it after all the hard work you put into WiC.net.
I’m also jealous you all got to hang out. We need another NYC meet-up!
LinaQuote Reply
Great, let’s start a thread on this.
Miltos: Coolest person ever.
What do we need to get that started?
I have an opinion on this subject I am dying to share with you people.
On the above thread: I don’t mind the year long footage of a good weekend. I can’t help to assume the hesitation was directly caused by the weirdly personal in yo’ face nature of the footage. And the bad lighting. Why is Adrien Brody standing there in the video still while Fabio is laughing in the background? (doesn’t it seem like Fabio is in on an inside joke 24/7?). (I like to talk about the mods in the third person for some reason). (I used the b a lot in this post for some reason).
Epic WunderscheisseQuote Reply
theMountainGoat,
Yes! Yes! Yes!
See ya next year :)
The RabbitQuote Reply
I consider myself adept at detecting Internet sarcasm, but I honestly can’t tell if you’re being snarky or not. It might be the use of bold.
Explain yourself, Wondershit!
LinaQuote Reply
OT……
GOT just got a nomination (sadly only one) on the People’s Choice awards that were just announced yesterday. It’s for Favorite Cable TV Drama. The winners of these awards are determined by the public voting. You can vote as many times as you want so vote a lot for GOT!
Here’s the link……
http://www.peopleschoice.com/pca/vote/
Once you scroll through to the GOT category, then all you have to do to repeat your vote again is click on “Previous Category” in the UL corner, then click on “Next Category” in the UR. It will bring you back to GOT and then you can repeat this process as many times as you want to vote.
Sean FanQuote Reply
Voted at least 100 times.
sjweningsQuote Reply
Tim over at Ctrl Alt Del is putting out a GoT inspired shirt for the holidays. Just thought i’d drop it here sorry for the off topic. http://www.cad-comic.com/images/temp/wemas2012shirt.jpg
BartQuote Reply
TitanCon 2012?! Bring it on! Well done Silverjaime on the promotion! :)
JacMac30Quote Reply
Hey guys, GoT is finally being aired in Germany and the German itunes-store is getting the episodes at the same time, both in German and in English. So if you look for a legal way to get the series, look for tutorials to make a foreign itunes profile and buy itunes cards from german on ebay (you cannot register a foreign credit card so you have to resort to gift cards).
Chris77Quote Reply
Hear Me Roar,
Gallery isn’t working for me : (
QthulhuQuote Reply
Two FeathersQuote Reply
That’s exactly why Adrien Brody (who’s pretty darned hot, if you ask me, ) is just standing there, carefully watching the ever laughing FaB – yes he DOES laugh a lot, and the best thing is to stand still until his attention shifts, or back away slowly, very very slowly. And whatever you do, don’t try to distract him by waving anything Indigo. Oh no,look out, Adrian Brody, RUN!!!
And on the Miltos topic, he’s awesome, and I hope D&D decide that Roz needs to be trained in the manly arts to protect herself, so they can bring Syrio back for some more work.
“What do we say to the abusive customer who refuses to pay? Not Today!”
purplejillyQuote Reply
purplejilly,
Needle? Just sew!
QthulhuQuote Reply
Qthulhu,
LOL!
purplejillyQuote Reply
How about now?
Hear Me RoarQuote Reply
cool video, Jackie!
and Miltos for the epic win!
Thiago SlashQuote Reply
Hear Me Roar,
Works for me now, thanks!
QthulhuQuote Reply
Qthulhu,
Great :)
Hear Me RoarQuote Reply