Announced two weeks ago, Con of Thrones, the fandom’s biggest annual gathering of fans and stars of Game of Thrones, will be returning next summer. Next year the con will make its home in Nashville’s Music City Center, with the dates set for July 12-14, 2019. Year three will once again be produced by Mischief Management, with Watchers on the Wall joining in the fun as the official programming partner, creating panels and events that celebrate GoT, A Song of Ice and Fire and the fandom we love.
Today more news rolled out, with the announcement that con tickets will go on sale to the public Wednesday, October 10 at 11am ET, in just two weeks. Pricing info came along with the news, naturally, so you can start planning accordingly!
Con of Thrones will offer three ticket types for 2019:
- single day pass for $49
- full-weekend General Pass for $149
- a Valyrian Pass for $349 (available in limited numbers), which includes exclusive perks like premium seating in MainStage programming and limited edition merchandise.
Full details on the different ticket types can be found at ConOfThrones.net!
In addition to the ticket news, there is another exciting announcement. The Con of Thrones Call for Programming has begun! The con is looking for a select number of attendees to present on their favorite subjects from Game of Thrones, A Song of Ice and Fire and George R.R. Martin’s works. We welcome all kinds of proposals from informal discussions to formal academic presentations. Have fun and be creative, we want to hear your voices! The deadline for submissions is March 13, 2019 so you have time to plot out your ideas. I can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with!
Make your panel/programming submissions at the official site.
For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit ConofThrones.net, or visit Con of Thrones on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Preliminary Characters’ Actors Appearance
Wish List:
1. Hot Pie
2. Myranda
• “We welcome all kinds of proposals from informal discussions to formal academic presentations. Have fun and be creative, we want to hear your voices! The deadline for submissions is March 13, 2019 so you have time to plot out your ideas. I can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with!”
Question:
• The Con is July 12-14, 2019.
• The submission deadline is March 13, 2019.
• Season 8 might not conclude until sometime after March 13, 2019.
So… isn’t it possible or likely that a timely submitted proposal for a discussion or presentation topic could be obsolete four months later after the show has (presumably) concluded?
Hypothetical: An ardent Sandorologist might propose to discuss The Hound as the anti-hero who’s actually protected and saved the Stark sisters, and forecast his trajectory as aiming towards sacrificing his life for one or both them – with his dying words to the sobbing sisters: “Remember where the heart is.”
But by the time of the Con. after the show has presumably concluded, the last scene of S8e6 could very well be Lord Commander of the Queensguard Sandor Clegane writing in the White Book about his great deeds, e.g.:
• “Saved Lady of Winterfell from gang rape and murder.
• Saved the future Queen from Frey idiots and Polliver’s goons. Helped her retrieve Needle and get a pony.
• Defeated Night King in single combat.”
…. and then – because he’s not one to toot his own horn – use White-Out to erase all of that, and in its place write simply:
• “Ate every f*cking chicken on this planet.”
I hope Preston Jacobs gets picked for a formal academic presentation.
I attended the first, but not the second. Did they actually follow through with the Valyrian ‘perks’ in Dallas? Our experience was that we got very little out of the extra pass except a session of Water Dancing, as they didn’t enforce any of the special lines or seating areas that were supposed to be for Valyrians.
Ten Beers,
To avoid confusion with mine, may I kindly ask you to use a different, more distinctive screen name?
(A few times, in the past, I’d exploited the homonym and used ten 🍺 emojis in a posted comment.)
I don’t doubt you didn’t intend to mislead. It’s just that if you continue to post comments – and I hope you do – it’d be helpful if you have a distinctive screen name.
Of course, if you’d like to choose one like I did as an homage to a favorite movie, here are some other characters’ names or terms you could use: Zukie Limmer; Captain Redlegs Terrill; Lone Watie; Little Moonlight; Mr. Carpetbagger; Granny Hawkins; Mr. Chain-Blue Lightning Himself; Grandma Sarah Comanchero; Rose of Santa Rio; Tom Turner; Sim Castairs; Bloody Bill Anderson; Laura Lee Turner; Missouri Boat Ride; Bushwhacker; Jayhawker; The Grey Rider; Dyin’ Ain’t Much of a Livin’; The Double-Tongues.
Man, worth the trip if only for Hattie B’s hot chicken!
Ten Bears,
I think it be cool if they had a stand for hot pie to sell his baking goods since the actor owns a bakery now. He could have a set up for direwolve shaped stuff and what not
Ten Bears,
My first thought when I saw that Con dates were announced before air dates for the final season were, “Gee, I wonder if someone at Mischief Management got word from D&D about when the final episode is going to air?” I mean, it would be epic beyond belief if a few hundred die-hard, cosplaying fans watched it together at the Sheraton bar… 😂