Hey. Now this post may seem ironic, but I'm legitimately curious. There's a Dashcon DVD that was promised to backers for people at Dashcon. It was sold for $20. However, it isn't known whether someone has it or if it wasn't given out, that's why I'm making a post in "unidentified media".
DO NOT click on the link to the DVD or go to the dashcon site. It's no longer dashcon. I got one of those scam popups where they say Comcast has picked me for a special offer.
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DASHCON 2014-- ON FILM!
DashCon will be filming during the convention, and we would love to share what we capture with you! We'll be filming three different panels, and including the highlights, as well as providing exclusive content like guest interviews, attendee stories, and behind the scenes diaries! You'll be able to vote on two of the panels filmed for the DVD, making this DVD exactly what you want it to be!
These DVDs will be available for pre order only and will ship mid to late August! The pre order cut off date is July 31st! You will receive an email when your items have shipped, please allow two to three weeks for shipping.
What you need to know:
Ordering Price-- $20
2 hours of content
Highlights of a select 3 panels-- 1 hour – The Night Vale Q and A, and two fan selected panels
Extras-- 1 hour – interviews, behind the scenes, attendee stories, etc.
This DVD is the perfect way to remember DashCon by, and it's a great way for those who can't make it to be part of the action!
Let us know below which other two panels you'd like included in the DVD!
I am thinking that it did not come out. Here you can see the features that were to be included. i think the Night Vale panel would have been a big sell. But as we all know, Night Vale was not paid and their rooms were never pre-paid by the con. They were told they had to pay themselves and their events were cancelled. So was the raffle for autographed items. Fans were reimbursed, surprisingly. There would not have been many interviews and panels to put on the DVD. That's not to say that it does not exist. But I'm thinking that due to the colossal fail and the fact that all they really had going for them was that sad little ball pit I can't really imagine anyone who wasn't a troll buying the DVD. And maybe they knew that. Maybe they knew putting it out would make them look even worse. That is if it ever existed to begin with.
I have a feeling that if the DVD existed it would be all over Youtube by now. And if it was taken down it would be a known torrent. There's just no way that someone wouldn't have gotten their hands on this by now. The cutoff for orders was July 31st. That was long after the disastrous con occurred. I guarantee that they received a large spike in orders once the drama began on the 11th. So there's no way it wouldn't have been dumped already if it existed. Or should I say if it was released publicly. The DVD could have been made but never shipped. Methinks that orders were not refunded willingly if that was the case and people had to do chargebacks. It just sounds like something this scam of a con would pull.
Also look at the time frame for the DVD's production itself. Dashcon was the weekend on July 11th 2014. The DVDs were supposed to ship in mid to late August. That's not a lot of time to compile and edit footage then burn the discs and package them. I'm not saying its impossible. It's not like it's a professional concert or anything. But you're talking about very inexperienced people who probably aren't tech wizards trying to cobble together a DVD that is going to be missing a huge amount of features because guests were not paid or accommodated and the general mood seems to have been abysmal. I hear a woman was given more than she could handle due to staff issues and had a nervous breakdown. Wouldn't the con staff have to have permission from the guests to sell their likenesses on film? I'm not sure how it works. But I've seen celebrities sue over unauthorized videos before. So it's not out of the question that copyright came into play and agents and lawyers may have been involved. If they didn't want to be a part of a disaster that might make them look bad or cheap they may have refused to allow footage of themselves to be used or demanded some sort of compensation since it looks like that never happened for the con itself.
A good place to start might be trying to track down guests who did do their panels and see if they were filmed or asked to sign a release. It looks like Noelle Stevenson was forced to moderate her own panel because the moderator from the con staff never showed up. She also ended up sharing an Airbnb with other guests because it looks like no one's rooms were paid for as promised.
That might be the best bet if it's possible to speak with these people. I'm sure cameras had to be around. I'm actually curious because I don't remember hearing anyone talking about interviews going on. Just the awful ball pit, general misery and minors being led into 18+ panels. And that's on top of all of the scam stuff. If it exists I think it was either eventually deleted unfinished or is sitting on someone's hard drive for all of eternity.
Another possibility is finding someone who went to the con and seeing if they ordered a DVD or knows anyone who did. No one in my online circle attended so I don't know. But there has to be someone out there still pissed that their DVD never arrived. Because I'm pretty sure those discs don't exist.
Yeah, based on Adrastia's observations on this whole disaster of a Brony fan convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, I would have to think that the DVDs for the event weren't made because the guests probably had a terrible time at the event and would like to forget that it ever happened (probably the organizers of the event have the same feelings as the guests).
On the bright side, at least there wasn't ball pits involved like the go-to example of a disasterous fan convention, Dashcon ("Pay for an extra hour in the ball pit!") .
Oh sorry, I was thinking about a different fan convention in Las Vegas, Nevada; I didn't realize the title of this thread until now.
I believe you're referring to Las Pegasus, yes?
Yes, I was referring to the Las Pegasus fan convention before I realized this thread was talking about the existence of a DashCon DVD (which I have to say might be incredibly unlikely given how much of a disaster the convention was).
Yeah, based on Adrastia's observations on this whole disaster of a Brony fan convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, I would have to think that the DVDs for the event weren't made because the guests probably had a terrible time at the event and would like to forget that it ever happened (probably the organizers of the event have the same feelings as the guests).
On the bright side, at least there wasn't ball pits involved like the go-to example of a disasterous fan convention, Dashcon ("Pay for an extra hour in the ball pit!") .
The Las Pegasus DVD that you are referring to would be interesting to search for as well.
Hey. Now this post may seem ironic, but I'm legitimately curious. There's a Dashcon DVD that was promised to backers for people at Dashcon. It was sold for $20. However, it isn't known whether someone has it or if it wasn't given out, that's why I'm making a post in "unidentified media".
its unlikely that Dashcon made a dvd if the con, but it’s possible that a file was put together, and is lost somewhere on the internet...wondering off....