Scare LA 2016 report!
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I came out on Friday afternoon & had a couple hours to hit the fabric district & get fabric for our Mike Tyson Mysteries (cartoon show) costumes… of course I got totally distracted at Santee Alley & had to buy appropriate sized hair flowers for myself instead. But when I finally did hit the fabric district, I couldn’t find any sweatshirt type material that was either thick enough & the correct color… and I HIT EVERY STORE & showed the employees the picture… no luck. I thought about making it in velour but it wouldn’t be exact.
I was also really proud of myself for going INTO the Cecil Hotel & sitting in the lobby while waiting for Cat to pick me up!! I got scared just walking outside of it but I know now that I don’t think I want to stay overnight in it. I can’t tell if I’m either too scared or just over it.
We went to Little Tokyo because neither of us had ever been there & managed to not buy a lot of cute crap we didn’t need.
Stayed at Carols house both nights as she was just 10 mins away from the Pasedena Convention center. We walked all the way to Alhambra downtown & witnessed a crazy car crash that randomly happened in front of the bar we were at.
So I was Twisty the Clown on both days… I really wanted to be Samara Morgan but my fucking hair is too short and I realize now that my hair isn’t going to be long enough for Halloween…. especially since our haunt starts the beginning of October!!! This is the worst… I FUCKING HATE GREAT CLIPS.
Ok, so it was a clusterfuck of hoardes of random lines on Saturday morning & the staff wasn’t prepared for the amount of people. I got my badge & hit the show floor & haunts… Saturday was only like 2 classes & the rest of the time I got to see the mini-haunts, 1 presentation & the exhibition floor… THis year I went by myself because everyone was working but it was EVEN better alone because I talked to EVERYONE. I just started random conversations with lots of awesome people and connected with our love of haunts & Halloween. I bought a book & a couple other small things, did all but 2 haunts (the lines were ridiculous!!!) and went to the Haunters: The Movie panel where there was mega drama between Russ & a more “traditional” haunt owner…. like serious drama, but it’s all on Youtube anyways. I sat with a really hyper haunt enthusiast at lunch at Rubios & tried to encourage him to do his own Youtube review channel. It really is amazing that there are so many legit “haunt enthusiasts” to share this with and it’s amazing that I can now label myself one as well. I am extremely grateful for shows like ScareLA & Midsummers Scream for bringing us all together.
So Carol picked up at 6 & we went to check out the big, new Din Tai Fung at the mall. It was her last meal in Los Angeles & we wanted to go somewhere really good. I don’t think they have the same array & authentic asian food in Philly but I could be wrong. The wait was 90 minutes, so we walked around the mall & had a snack. Dinner was awesome. I hope they open a Din Tai Fung in Vegas because it would be packed from open to close.
Sunday morning, I got ready in my costume & as I was leaving, Carol & her mom were packing up the car to do their cross country drive to Philly… I’ll miss her!!
So I literally was in classes from 11am-6pm. Non stop… I didn’t get to even go into the show floor or anything. I had to run across the st to the shopping complex to get a coffee because the Starbucks at the convention was too packed. It was a good thing I brought some lunch because I only had 10 mins in between each class. All the classes were useful except for the sound class…. he didn’t have any knowledge of actually setting up the speakers or anything technical, he only talked about making soundtracks. I realized that we couldn’t run pneumatics off ONE generator… we are quite limited as to what we can do with one generator……
SInce I registered late I couldn’t get into any of the make n take classes & they were making some cool shit this year.
It sucked because I really wanted to buy some more books on the show floor & talk to a few other booths but didn’t have time. There is just SO much programming packed into 15 total hours that you really need to be fucking organized. The first year I was in total AWE that this even exsisted and this year I was well versed in manuevering it better. The NEXT year (this will now be an annual event unless I check out Midsummers Scream) I will be sure to register early & get into ALL the make & take classes. Some of the bigger panel presentations are on youtube so I caught up on those once I got home. It was extremely worth it again… especially at such a low price with discounts & this year the class pass included all the make & takes with no additional fees. Midsummers was like that as well.