Well, I happened to get my mail the other day as I often do. What's that got to do with Anime? Well, I happned to get a nice little flyer to register for Otakon 2001. So if your thinking about going, here's the lowdown(copied right off the pamphlet!).

Otakon 2001 will take place in Baltimore, MD in the Baltimore Convention Center on August 10th - 12th.

The prices for registration are:
$35 if you register before 2/28/01
$40 if you register before 05/19/01
$45 if you register before 07/21/01
$45 if you register at the door
$30 for a day-pass on Saturday
$25 for a day-pass on Friday
$15 for a day-pass on Sunday

Accommodations:

Otakon 2001 will be held at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore City, MD. Our 4 Primary hotels for this year as of January 27th, 2001 are the Days Inn Inner Harbor, the Holiday Inn Baltimore, and the Wyndham Baltimore Inner Harbor. The BCC is lcoated right in the middle of the Inner harbor area and is within walking distance of plenty of attractions.

Important:

You must make your hotel reservations before July in order to take advantage of the room rates we have arranged. Room rates will revert to normal after this date, and normal rates are at least double what we have arranged! You must mention Otakon to get disocunted rate when you reserve your room. In addition the special room rate only holds as long as the hotel has room left. Be Warned, we usually fill our hotels well before the convention, if you don't act fast you won't get a room!

Now that you've got registering out of the way you can begin to salivate at what they have in store for you at the actual Con!

Events:

Otakon is proud to bring you the premiere anime convention experience. We offer anime and live-action video programs, panels with leading industry figures, artists and fan personalities; a cosplay; a dance; an art show featuring both fan and professional works; video gaming tournaments; an amateur music video contest; game shows; live action role playing; karaoke; and more! We also have one of the biggest dealer's rooms; so bring plenty of cash, because you'll find things here that you just can't get anywhere else.

Art Show:

Otakon is once agan sponsoring a fan-produced anime art show and auction. Both wall art, and 3-Dimensional art will be accepted. For more info contact Nick Duartex.

Otakon Video Program:

Otakon 2001 will feature seven theatres for showing you the best anime around! We have the latest in fan-subtitled and commercially available anime, and the best live-action films Hong-Kong have to offer. All theatres feature new state-of-the-art video projection systems(NO TVs) and full stereo sound. Anime never looked so good.

Mystery Anime Theatre 3000:

Watch the center for Mad Science in the Public Interest's fiendish experiments on the hapless Joel Saotome and his robotic pals. Another year of pointless plots, horrible dubbing, and bad acting, plus the invention exchange. Enjoy the fifth season of Mystery Anime Theatre 3000!

As for confirmed guests, Scott Frazier, Gilles Poitras and Adam Warren will all be attending. That's not all! Hikaru Midorikawa the voice actor of Heero Yuy(Gundam Wing), Tamahome(Fushigi Yuugi), and Zelgadis(Slayers) will be hanging out as well!

Otakon look to be shaping up to be pretty good this year. I can say that last year was a blast(of course, Bôa being there might have something to do with that ^_^). So if your going, make sure to sign up early to get the discounts and please, Dear God Please, if you can't sing......DON'T!