Aw, that sucks, Dracomancer.
Ski, if I go I will definitely be taking pictures. It sounds like these things are fairly colorful events.
There is one thing I’m wondering, for those of you who have gone before: Is it very loud? I know there are supposed to be J-rock concerts and that sort of thing, but do they generally blast music in the convention center? I ask because if I were to drag my dad along, he would, well… complain verbosely about anything obnoxiously loud. (And I must admit, loud noises scare me, too.)