Future Dates and Themes
Even as we're gearing up for Anthrocon 2009, we want to remind folks to mark their calendars for future Anthrocons. We like to plan ahead and we encourage our attendees to do so as well. Barring any additional alien invasions, our venue will continue to be the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, PA.
June 24-27, 2010 "Modern Stone-Age Furries"
June 23-26, 2011 "The Anthropomorphic Institute of Magic"
June 21-24, 2012 "A Midsummer Night’s Dream"
July 4-7, 2013 "TBA"
July 3-6, 2014 "TBA"
If you have any ideas for themes for future years, feel free to email them to us and we'll consider them. That's EMAIL -- don't post them here, since we may not see them.
I was waiting to find out what the dates were for Anthrocon 2010. I hope I can make it there because I am really looking forward to this event.
Thanks! I'll be bummed in '13 and '14, but just getting a few years before that when i can probably go is a definite happy.
"Modern Stone-Age Furries"
I hope someone comes as Furred Flintstone.
I thought those flintstones were already pretty furry...
Just adding a list of past themes so we don't inadvertently suggest a theme which has already been done.
1997 - "An East Coast Furry Con"
1998 - "Here Be Dragons"
1999 - "The Furry Revolution"
2000 - "Furries of Myth and Legend"
2001 - "Furries in Flight"
2002 - "Invention"
2003 - "Creatures of the Night"
2004 - "Summer Games"
2005 - "Heroes"
2006 - "Making History"
2007 - "Looking to the Future"
2008 - "It's a jungle out there!"
2009 - "OMG Aliens!"
Oh my gods, thank you for posting future dates, i'm always so worried about getting time off to come, nice knowing when to ask for!
"Modern Stone-Age Furries"
I hope someone comes as Furred Flintstone.
Or Bafurry Rubble, or "Furreds" boss Mr. Furlate.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream theme for 2012 sounds interesting however, paying homage to Shakespeare's play perhaps best known for its usage in a certain Disney cartoon. I bet everyone is gonna be dressed up like Robin Goodfellow, servant to Oberon, and the mischievous elf who creates fun at others expense.
Speaking of which, Id kill to see a play reenacted by furries.
I live in Texas, the home state of George W. Bush. I apologize.
thanks Uncle kage for posting future AC times. But i do wounder what AC in 2100 would be like. maybe have star trek like transporters to go from panel to panel and such. lols.
Maybe we have them now and we're just not telling you. 
If that were the case, Kage wouldn't be running all the time at the con.
we do have them they are just rather inconvient... they can only move 3 or 4 molicules a few feet and they destroy the origional.....
im the image fox.
Oh he'll run anyway, he can't be stopped. Scittering from one near crisis to another has been burned into his cockroachian soul.
"If that were the case, Kage wouldn't be running all the time at the con."
...We saw him enter the staff lounge, never leave and after a minute or 5 he enters teh staff lounge again!
So if they do not have portals what is the right answer?
A. Kage is a Samourai Cockroach! He sneaks in and out without anyone noticing
B. Revenge of the clones?
C. They DO have portals afterall
Or he just knows the floorplan really well. I can do the same thing at my place of employment by going through the staff-only areas. Especially amusing when I surprise the other staff this way.
Kage might just zip behind the walls.
Alternately, Kage is like an electron, and only has a distinct position when being directly observed. At other times, he exists in potenia in a waveform.
someone needs to insert a schroedinger's cat joke here. I can't come up with one, though.
Does "Schroachdinger" not come to mind?
D. Kage is a cockroach. For every chairman you see, there are dozens more crawling around in the walls.
E. The Chairman Uncertainty Priciple states that at any given time, you can know where Kage will be or how fast he's moving, but not both simultaneously (although he may form a stable orbit around a nearby bottle of cold sake)
*mutters something about quantum entanglement and wormhole applications...* >_>
we need a pirate theme! <3
Looking forward to wearing her new fursuit to AC 09~
I agree more Pirate Action also Ninja's.
Anthrocon 2013: Pirates taking over Pittsburgh!
FTW all the way. =D I can almost bet anything that a group of furries will take over a boat, and cruise it down the Allgeny River right in front of the convention center with a familiar-looking pirate flag waving in the air (Disney fans will pick up on this no problem).
and maybe by 2013 the Pirates across the river playing in PNC park might not be one of the worst teams in baseball.The owner should be ashamed of himself since the other Pittsburgh teams win championships left and right.
But yeah to get back on topic, a pirate theme sounds good.Maybe get some parrot fursuiters..would be funny to see some of them show up at PNC park since there is an offical parrot mascot of the Pirates.
Gooooo Pirates...lol
Well... Midwest FurFest in 2007 (which I attended!) did "Critters on the High Seas". We like to give themes 'space' as much as possible, as most conventions do. Though 2013 is a few years away, so maybe by then it'll be time.
Ah, very good.
Perhaps if I start working on it now, I can come up with a decent short story in line with the theme for future events.
-The two saddest words in the English language are "Good bye"
"Furs of the Silver Screen"
I don't know if I should bother to email that or not XD
Megaplex 2006 (approximately).
Here's a page for those who are brainstorming ideas for future themes:
List of Furry Conventions And Their Themes
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Well hey, did a "Furries in Flight" theme, should do a driving theme. "Fast and Furrious" or "Furry Theft Auto" or "Smokey and the Furry"
OMG!
I don't know about an AnthroCon theme, something might work quite well with that - but you've given me an idea which might appeal to the City of Pittsburgh, itself...
A Three Rivers Grand Prix!
Yeah, imagine a Pittsburgh version of Monaco, Formulae I open-wheel racecars zipping under the DLCC, across the Allegheny river on those beautiful old iron-link suspension bridges, down Liberty Avenue, Penn Avenue, around The Point...
...I need to look at a streetmap, there must be _some_ curves in the streets of this town, and not all right-angle turns; find just 3 or 4, and it could be DONE!
Heck - it might even put Pittsburgh ON THE MAP!
Long Beach just doesn't have the same character, yet it has a Grand Prix...Las Vegas made a track layout, but not incorporating THEIR "strip", primarily to attract more tourists when the city was going for a more "family" image.
No, Pittsburgh NEEDS a Grand Prix; nay, it should be ENTITLED to one!
It'd turn out just like Wacky Races.
Pittsburgh is already on the map.
more to the point, unless your map is particularly detailed, Pittsburgh is one of 3 major cities shown on the average map of PA (not including road maps, which obviously show more than 3 cities). The other two are Harrisburgh and Philly.
nice idea though. It would be interesting watching drivers navigate nice sharp 90degree turns at 200+ mph.
It would be interesting watching drivers navigate nice sharp 90degree turns at 200+ mph.
Ahh, but that's the beauty of it - you can't make nice sharp 90 deg. turns at 200+ MPH, nor the sharp hairpin turns at Monaco or some of the other courses; the drivers have to decelerate going into the turn, and accelerate coming out, meaning lots of heel-and-toe work on the clutch and brake and accelerator, as they palm the gearshift through it's gates and go up and down the range for best advantage(*). And since the drivers actually have to make right turns as well as left ones, it means that they actually have to drive the car, instead of merely pointing it, flooring it, and hanging on. Real racing!
yeah, my initial impulse was to toss this out in response to someone else's theme idea, but aftet thinking about it for 5 or 6 seconds, it dawned on me that - as a serious endeavour - it is something that the people and the City of Pittsburgh ought to consider!
You are a Pittsburgher; get out a street map, and plot a course that will take cars up and down the river, crossing a couple bridges, and going past open spots that might provide good public viewing. Ignore directional streets for the moment, but include both straightaways and grand curves around landscape features which will lead to a challenge for the drivers, and places to pass, pull away, or catch up. I think Pittsburgh could do it, and much better than Detroit or Chicago or Las Vegas, and CERTAINLY better than Long Beach.
Here's to the Grand Prix de Pittsburgh!
* NOTE - OK, for all I know, Formula I racecars may no longer use a gearshift lever per se, they may use paddle shifters or buttons or some other sort of electric shift actuator on the steering wheel, nowadays - but you STILL gotta shift up and down, and turn BOTH ways.
OOO,, 2013 and 2014 may get fireworks again, YAY!!!
WOOF WOOF, cuddle time now plz?
Wild At Heart. "heh Maybee that is less of a theme and more of a statement"
Based upon the song "Wild At Heart" by Gloriana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv3PJ1YSHFs
When I hear the song. I think of Furries dancing and having a good time.
Would be sweet to make a furry vid based upon that song.
"Heck - it might even put Pittsburgh ON THE MAP!"
lol I thought that was your guys job to do that.
We were on the map during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Think we were #3 on the list, because of the steel industry.
Pittsburgh is still recovering from the decay of the steel industry from the mid 80's.
Here is more info if you like.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh
Well, I have quite a number of themes that could be toyed with.
Big Band Era (WWII, Depression Era, musical and artistic themes)
Classical and Baroque Periods (Musical and art periods, Victorian themes)
Mediterranean Themes (many different possibilities there!)
Islanders (a whole realm of cultural and cross-cultural ideas)
Feudal Europe (lots of stuff here, monarchies, plague, conquests, fallen civilizations, Holy Wars... including the Holy Grail... and Monty Python...which could be a theme unto itself!)
The Enlightenment (Galilleo, Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Donatello, Raphael... those last four sound familiar from another year's theme. ;3 )
Oddities of Physics (the quantum realm holds interesting possibilities!)
And these are just broad themes, with many possible nuanced themes within.
Big Band Era?
Furries in zoot suits!
Already done by FCN, but I'd love to have a proper big band at AC all the same.
I love it! "The Enlightenment" sounds like an elegant and lovely theme. We, as modern people, have much to thank for individuals of the Renaissance. Roaming around the con with theories, concepts, and philosophy seems so elegant...
A little earlier than Big Band, you had the Roaring Twenties: Prohibition, the birth of Jazz, postmodernism, and those flapper fashions!
Not to mention... "Lackadaisy" creator Tracy Butler would fit in quite nicely. Hmmmm... *plots and schemes*
The only trouble is, FCN did that *exact* thing in 2009. Down to Tracy Butler. 
Awesome Uncle Kage
Now i can to my boss and be like..SEE?! I have the future times i need off 
:D Btw, what kind of candy do you like? My mate gave you a bag of jolly ranchers last year and you seemed to be thrilled...
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