Worst and Best Convention Panel Experiences?

Worst:
Some panel called "the philosophy of anime" made by a bunch of white weeaboos who were like "Japan is so advanced and better than everyone else" but all they did was just point out tropes in anime. Like how black hair characters tend to be conservative, blonds tend to be hyper, and redheads fiery. Honey that ain't that deep. I also told them that you can't say "Japan is better than Americans because they have words for things we don't have." and that "large vocab = intelligence". I was explaining that some languages don't have words for "cousins" but they know what a cousin is. I mentioned Hebrew and they gave a snide antisemetic remark back. In hinesight, after studying some Japanese, you quickly learn that they have a ton of borrowed words from English and Chinese. But you can't judge the intelligence of a culture based off of borrowed words, it doesn't work that way.

Best:
The director and book author of the Last Unicorn giving live commentary to the animated film.

I unfortunately have never been to a convention panel before. Almost went to one with YouTuber JohnRiggs, but I was eating at a restaurant with some family when it happened. I still met him, he's a nice guy.

There is a comic convention near me, and they did have one or two Bee Movie actors. But that was before I found out about all of the deleted scenes.

Only have gone to one and I honestly was too young to remember anything notable.I did get one of those defective Dr Robotnik Sonic 3 happy meal toys from the mid 90s tho.

Plus I’d go to certain conventions but the ones I want to go to always seem to land around a family members birthday and also just me being busy in general.

Wow, like toddler age? I feel that's a bit too young for most cons that AREN'T specifically child-focused, or have super child-focused areas. It's sort of a similar problem I have with taking 2 year olds to Disney to make "childhood memories"-like they AREN'T going to remember any of it, they'll probably be as grumpy as they are delighted with the sheer crowds and sheer size of Disney, and it's so expensive! Why not wait until they are like 8-9 and CAN remember it? 

I get that. I personally had no transportation until my late-ish teens and almost all the cons were in a major city, and I didn't feel comfortable driving there. I had to beg family for money to go to cons (and also beg for their approval, they didn't particularly like the con scene) until I reached my mid 20s and got a semi-steady career AND could actually afford cons on my own too. It was still fun to go when I was younger, but not the extent because I could hang in the hotels for long periods of time or go to random restaurants or experiences at 10 at night.

Not toddler age,more like 7.

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I agree completely with you though.

My memory is a mixed bag so that’s why I don’t remember.


God,I could’ve phrased that better…

I would not be surprised if they think Nokia is Japanese due to their name sounding Japanese(you can actually thank Finland for such impervious phones & its name actually ties back to a city over there as well). Also, if Japan WERE more advanced & better than everyone else, they would've been the ones to invent Bluetooth back in the 1990s, but in reality it was invented in the Netherlands... again, in the 1990s.