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Title: Furfest midwest?
Post by: Takarah Luna on September 07, 2010, 01:39:08 AM: ARE THERE ANY CONS IN THE MIDWEST???? I would like to know where midwest furfest is held!!!
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: Zephri on September 07, 2010, 01:57:28 AM: Midwest Furfest is being held in Chicago Illinois on November 19-21 at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare hotel.

Google Midwest Furfest and you should get their website and all the info.

Oh yeah I'm attending this one too. :D
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: Xavier on September 07, 2010, 03:14:12 AM: Sadly, I won't be able to go although on the upside next summer vacation I'm going to Pittsburgh..Hopefully the Con over there will be going on the same time I go for vacation!
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: The Past on September 07, 2010, 04:50:33 AM: OMG! I was wondering if anyone was going to MFF! I want to go super bad, but I don't have anyone to go to it with. I think would be more fun to go with other furries than by myself. :/
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: Buddywolf on September 07, 2010, 10:21:20 PM: Id be forced to go alone if I could go at all. 2012, I will be there for I will find a way to go to all fur cons that year.
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: Zephri on September 07, 2010, 10:32:49 PM: I plan on staying at my friend's friends's place when I'm there.
Although knowing his punctuality record I'm going to have a hotel rent on standby as I won't really know if those plans are set in stone until closer to the con date.

I'm not going to miss this one like I did with most of Indy Fur Con, course that was less than 11 miles from my place :P and it twas my first convention.
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: The Past on September 07, 2010, 10:38:11 PM: I need to figure out how to get there. It'd take about an hour and 45 minutes to get to Rosemont from where I am. Dunno if my dad would be too happy about driving me there. ._.;;
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: Takarah Luna on September 07, 2010, 10:40:37 PM: :/ I wish I could go... But maybe i could a few years from now... Unless the world explodes in 2012 :o
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: Zephri on September 07, 2010, 11:16:54 PM: Quote from: Takarah Luna on September 07, 2010, 10:40:37 PM
:/ I wish I could go... But maybe i could a few years from now... Unless the world explodes in 2012 :o

Hehe I hope it doesn't.

Just out of curiosity why can't you go?
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: Takarah Luna on September 08, 2010, 01:38:25 AM: I'm underage... And my parents don't happen to approve...
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: The Past on September 08, 2010, 01:41:24 AM: Underage? What do you mean?
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: Takarah Luna on September 08, 2010, 01:43:25 AM: 14... Can't drive... Don't even have a tail... :'(
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: The Past on September 08, 2010, 02:13:41 AM: Aww... I can't drive either. I'm hoping I'll be able to persuade my dad to take me to Midwest Furfest, or even better, find and become friends with a furry from my school and possibly go with them. But I think I may be the only furry. X_x
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: Takarah Luna on September 08, 2010, 02:17:59 AM: That and I don't know ANYONE who would go clear to Chicago with me for something they're probabaly not going to partake in... So I'm going to hope I have enough money when I turn 18 and go that year... :o that was a mouthful...
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: Zephri on September 08, 2010, 02:20:51 AM: I feel for your situation Luna.

But on the bright side in 4 years you'll be 18 and should be able to drive, and should (hopefully before 18) have a job and some money saved up.
Then you can attend all the fur cons you want, :D and your parents can't do anything about it.
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: Takarah Luna on September 08, 2010, 02:23:56 AM: Quote from: Zephri on September 08, 2010, 02:20:51 AM
I feel for your situation Luna.

But on the bright side in 4 years you'll be 18 and should be able to drive, and should (hopefully before 18) have a job and some money saved up.
Then you can attend all the fur cons you want, :D and your parents can't do anything about it.

Yep! But again... That's if we don't all die in 2012
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: Zephri on September 08, 2010, 02:36:00 AM: Hehe true true, I like to keep a positive out look on the future though. ;)
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: Takarah Luna on September 08, 2010, 02:41:25 AM: That, and They've predicted the "apocylapyse" like six hundred times... And none of them were right... Not even y2k was right...
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: The Past on September 08, 2010, 02:47:28 AM: Blah, we aren't gonna die in 2012. There have been end-of-the-word predictions for thousands of years, and none of them were right. Why would this one be right? Honestly, I think the world will "end" suddenly before any prediction can be made. But that's going off topic...

If I have to, I'll wait until I'm 18 to go to Midwest FurFest. Heck, I have to wait until then to see Sekoshi. I have no freedom until the day I turn that age.

EDIT: Dang it, you posted it right before me, Luna! XD
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: Redclaw on October 16, 2010, 05:33:13 AM: Man... I'd really wanna go, but

1. i dont have a fursuit (probly dont need one, but id still like one if i went to a con)

and 2, my biggest issue, that would include coming out to my parents, who I really dont think need to know. They're restrictive enough without adding the wild and crazy furry to the list of reasons to do mean parental things to me.

have fun guys! maybe I'll show up after I'm in college!
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: Renamon on October 25, 2010, 05:19:03 PM: Quote from: Lita Julgaupe Renard on September 07, 2010, 04:50:33 AM
OMG! I was wondering if anyone was going to MFF! I want to go super bad, but I don't have anyone to go to it with. I think would be more fun to go with other furries than by myself. :/

Quote from: Takarah Luna on September 07, 2010, 10:40:37 PM
:/ I wish I could go... But maybe i could a few years from now... Unless the world explodes in 2012 :o

Well, I am driving from Oklahoma, and I can pick up people on my way if you want to pay for the extra gas!!! I hope to be there on the 18 or early the 19th.

I also have a room there: http://forum.furfest.org/index.php/topic,1102.0.html

Let me know if anyone is interested.
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: Ares the Ram on October 25, 2010, 05:28:02 PM: I think im gonna go next year. time to save up money and get a partial suit. 140$ per night hotel room!
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: Renamon on October 26, 2010, 03:18:13 PM: The Furfest room rate is $124, and for the airport Hyatt O'Hare, that is VERY good. Oh, yes, they also negotiated with the hotel to have FREE parking for con attendees! It is around $14-18 a day for the hotel parking normally.
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: Redclaw on October 26, 2010, 07:21:21 PM: is it like, required that you have a suit? or a partial suit? cuz i dont, and i dont has moneys...
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: Ares the Ram on October 26, 2010, 07:23:24 PM: I dont think its requiered, but Id feel awkward without at least a head
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: Redclaw on October 27, 2010, 04:29:28 AM: yeah, awkwardness would def be a problem
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: Renamon on October 30, 2010, 03:35:30 AM: Quote from: Redclaw on October 26, 2010, 07:21:21 PM
is it like, required that you have a suit? or a partial suit? cuz i dont, and i dont has moneys...

No it is not required. In fact there are usually only around 400 fursuiters out of the 2000+ attending. I have been coming for years now, and last year was the first year I fursuited!

Of course, you can do what I did before I fursuited: I cosplayed. The first time was as a Gothic Lolta (aka EGL). I was super cute! I plan to cosplay in addition to fursuiting! I look super cute in the right cosplay!
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: Riyeko on December 12, 2010, 05:25:38 AM: Earlier this year I helped one other person organize a furmeet in northern MO/KS.
They did it around Sept.
Plus theyre thinking of doing it again this year.
It was a small furmeet, think there was possibly about 10-20 people there and not much happened but games and furriness.
Its called the Central Midwest Furmeet... you can find it on the wikipedia version for furries.
Title: Re: Furfest midwest?
Post by: marix27 on January 28, 2011, 05:28:14 PM: I've been thinking about going to this, but i've heard some bad stories.
See, i got to ACen (anime con held at the same place earlier in the year) and i've heard horrible things about attendees of MFF getting way too rowdy and such :S