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Post PAX West: Welcome New Members and Community Event Feedback!
evanephrine
ev-an-eff-rinnSeattle, WARegistered User regular
ev-an-eff-rinnSeattle, WARegistered User regular
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Hi Pinny Pals!
Now that West is over and we're sinking into the throes of Post PAX Depression let's look back on the good 'ol days of last week and rehash our PAX West experiences!
To all the new members joining us from PAX, WELCOME! We are so happy to have you here, and I for one would love to hear your story. How long have you been going to PAX and/or collecting? How did you stumble here? What was your favorite part of West? Hit me!
For everyone, we had many different community events this event: Pre-PAX Dinner, the Game of Pins Panel, and Community Trading Meetups to name some. I'd really like to get some feedback on these events since we as a community, and I as a person, should constantly try to improve them. Did you like them? Were the panel topics interesting? Was the dinner tasty and fun? Are the Trading Meetups any less than perfect? What went well? What went poorly? Did you like the handouts? Please please let us know!
Thank you all in advance for the input, and if you're a new Pinny Pal, welcome to the family.
Now that West is over and we're sinking into the throes of Post PAX Depression let's look back on the good 'ol days of last week and rehash our PAX West experiences!
To all the new members joining us from PAX, WELCOME! We are so happy to have you here, and I for one would love to hear your story. How long have you been going to PAX and/or collecting? How did you stumble here? What was your favorite part of West? Hit me!
For everyone, we had many different community events this event: Pre-PAX Dinner, the Game of Pins Panel, and Community Trading Meetups to name some. I'd really like to get some feedback on these events since we as a community, and I as a person, should constantly try to improve them. Did you like them? Were the panel topics interesting? Was the dinner tasty and fun? Are the Trading Meetups any less than perfect? What went well? What went poorly? Did you like the handouts? Please please let us know!
Thank you all in advance for the input, and if you're a new Pinny Pal, welcome to the family.
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So thanks for being such a fun group to be a new member of! Now I just have to figure out how to keep up with all of the slack channel chats and get to know the people in there!
The handouts were great! I grabbed a small handful from one of the community events and handed them out to people when they asked "What's with all the pins? Why is this knot of people at the end of the merch booth staring at these binders full of pins?"
The Pin Quest handouts that were given to the line at mini-merch on Friday morning rocked. It really helped my wife and friend to figure out what pins they wanted to go for as they are not full collectors.
And I really liked the handouts. I was pretty aware of the pin quest before the show, but I can never keep all the staff pins straight so having that handout was incredibly helpful.
I feel like I graduated probably from newbie to intermediate trader (I got my first pins at Prime 15 and spent the last year honing my collection and skills). One interesting thing was people would stop me and look at my pins on my lanyard and remark, "Oh my gosh! You have so many!" And I wanted to say, "No I don't! Not really! Just around 150 or something," and then I realized that is a ton of damn pins! So it was good in that sense, especially at the trading events, to seethat even though I don't stack up against a lot of the more active folks in the forums/slack, I have a pretty decent collection compared to what is probably the majority of people in the hobby.
Also as a sidenote, I came with three friends all of whom started the weekend making fun of my pins. Then randomly on Friday morning two of them were at Merch Lite with me at 7 am and they were grabbing pins by the handful. My third friend was more reluctant, but he ended up leaving with more than a dozen pins himself. So it's spreading.
Unfortunately, I couldn't make any of the Community events due to other commitments. This being said I have heard nothing but great things. My only feedback would be to attempt to vary the locations so people who are locked into location (or are limited in mobility) and such may be able to better access them. By the time many of the later ones finished, the shuttle had stopped running.
Next year I am going to attempt to make sure my schedule for booth work has more flexibility!
I collected the PAX Prime set the first year Pinnys were released but didn't expect the community to explode. I took a year off the second year and came back into it last year once I saw how much it had grown.
I was late to the Pinny community panel this year and apparently missed getting entered into the drawings for the pins at the end- wasn't too concerned but how do I get the "PAX West community panel" stamp on the Pinny Pals site?
The Pre-PAX Dinner was good, the people I met there I ended up seeing a lot at various pin events throughout the weekend. The little Pin Quest sheets were GREAT not only for me but for the people I ended up chatting to about the various pins that were out there.
Loved the Pre-PAX dinner, it was awesome. Missed the panel, but staff trading and community trading were both awesome this year.
www.pinnypals.com/pals/d0rkangl
Trade me pins! - https://pinnypals.com/pals/TheAggroCraig
https://www.pinnypals.com/pals/thefawnn
There was probably a code handed out as you entered. If someone can vouch for you being there @grgemonkey can probably hook you up?
....and I just remembered I forgot to get my pal to get me one... Hey grge hook a brother up?!
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I was the first person to ask a question during the Q&A- about which cartoonist/artist they'd like to see next, now that Bill Amend released Quincy. :-)
Also @grgemonkey my pal got there late and needs a code as well!
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I've already given every one strict instructions not to tell you what to do to get it. I will give you a hint though, there's only one code, it's the same for everyone.
Good luck.
http://pinmash.info - Head-To-Head battle of pins! Choose the most desirable.
http://pinnywise.com - iOS pin collection tracking app.
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My Delicious Pins For Trade
:P
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I have always seen the pinny arcade events but figured I wasn't hardcore enough to get involved. Now I can't wait for East to check out the community. I am reading up on all of the stuff in the forum now to try and get caught up. There is a lot of information and different ways to connect, it is a little overwhelming at the moment, but I'll get it sorted.
I don't know what (if any) the solution is, but I figured it was worth pointing out just get some gears turning. Maybe some smaller trading events? (The staff tables are great for this I think, 1-1 trades are awesome for newbies! ... but is it enough? I dunno.)
www.pinnypals.com/pals/d0rkangl
When I was a new trader, the Staff Trading was actually the most stressful for me; I was extremely shy, and trading with PA staff was really intimidating. I think the group trading events would have been a little easier (had I attended them in the past, haha).
https://www.pinnypals.com/pals/thefawnn
I'd like to see something that identifies PinnyPals (other than the messenger bags as not everyone has (or can get) one). It's nice to put faces to names.
@maywest offers bags several months leading up to most PAXen on the forums to any and all who want one.
My wife started working on pics with faces at West. We didn't get them all done though for various reasons. We will try to figure out how to compile them.
THIS ONE GIRL...
Time to t-t-t-t-trade! ⭐️http://www.pinnypals.com/pals/Renfamous⭐️
yeah I don't think you made the photo collection