Con Badge?

Nope; you're confusing your badges, which isn't that hard to do, really.

*grins and dons studious-looking spectacles*

Some years ago, the AC registration badges used to be heavy paper with the registrant's and AC's names on it. A lot of ppl would have artists do character sketches on them, to help identify who they are online to friends they might meet offline.

As the con grew, however, i think (and this is only my guess, being nonstaff) that security became a problem. It was a bit too easy to just buy a ream of coverstock and print your own con badge without registering; serial numbers helped, but not unless security had a registration list right there on hand. :=8(

SO AC decided to upgrade its badge system. The new ones are thick plastic with a clip and an official AC picture (along with your name and the con's) that changes every year. Those are still fakable, but faking them is more trouble than simply paying the registration fee. Ppl still wear "con badges" with renderings of themselves in all their furry glory, but these are now just pieces of paper or coverstock cut to fit a standard nametag sleeve.

Hope that helps. *grin*

--dester'edra, showing her age?

I saw a guy last year who had a trenchcoat FULL of badges, his goal was to fill the isnide and out of the coat o.0

It can be anything you like - it's yours, after all!

The very first convention which I attended was called ConFURence 9, in Buena Park, CA. The theme(s) revolved around "Furries Down Under" and "Furries in Love", and yes, it WAS an odd combination...

While waiting for registration to open up, I was sitting at a coffeetable in the lobby with a gentleman from Australia, who was folding a piece of orange origami paper into an Origami Fox. I asked him if he does this often, and he said that it was an engaging pastime, and that the largest one he had made was from a large square of construction paper, and the smallest was from a Hershey's Kisses wrapper (a very small square of tin foil). He left the finished fox laying on the table, and walked off to do something, somewhere else (or I bored him). I picked up the origami fox and admired its shape and general design, the sharpness of the creases, and then left it on the table for others to admire, and got in line for my badge.

The supersponsor's (or patron's - I can't remember which they called it at that time) line took about 45 minuters to move. during that time, I kept looking back at the table, now occupied by others. I saw one person set a can of soda down on the origami fox, as though it were a coaster. I saw a later person, in leather boots, leather trousers, and leather jacket, put his booted feet up on the glass tabletop, right on the the origami fox.

He was still there when I had finally received my "official" badge. I walked over to the table, begged pardon of the folks sitting there - and lifted his leg up off the table, and peeled the origami fox off the heel of his boot. I dropped his leg, tucked the origami fox into the front of my badgeholder, tipped my hat, and left to enjoy what I could of my first day at a furry convention.

The little Origami Fox has been riding in each of my convention badges, ever since - only since last year, it now rides in my "unofficial" badge, in front of the image that you now see as my icon, up here in the corner - that was a gift from Dark Natasha, who thought that I should have a "Vulpes Rex" badge.