Re: [CON] GZG East Coast Convention

Ground Zero Games wrote:

> I'm already planning to ship whatever is ready in time by mail in 
> advance; the only stuff - if any - that I'll actually have in baggage 
> (checked-in, not hand luggage, to avoid any problems about pointy 
> metal bits...) is perhaps a few advance samples of any last-minute 
> releases that miss the postal consignment, and of course they will be 
> gifts for the friends I'm meeting over there... 

A polite warning, John (yes, yes, another one). Put any miniatures in 
something easily opened and checked through - and bear in mind the 
people who will be doing the looking. Last summer I took a small cache 
of miniatures to GenCon in my checked luggage, all in (labelled) 
carboard boxes lined with bubble-wrap, clearly telling everyone what 
they were and not having any trouble...until I ran into a guy at San 
Diego aiport who gleefully upended the lot onto a solid metal table, 
shaking the box repeatedly to make sure every small piece of 
easily-damaged metal fell out.	It didn't think you /could/ bend a IJN 
DN's forward hull...and naturally a few pieces were lost forever >.<

Sorry to add yet another scare story to the list, but if these are 
all-new stuff or prototypes...

 >I'm coming over to meet some friends (Indy, Jon et al) and attend a 
SciFi convention  (they probably won't >understand about gaming...).

They might do, actually - in fact, I had more trouble explaining the 
concept of a convention than what went on at it! If in doubt, grit your 
teeth and say "like Games Workshop stuff"...

- Lachlan Atcliffe