Wai-Con is a weird beast. It's huge and monolithic, and also bizarrely unwelcoming and standoffish. It was an odd experience going last year. I felt it was how an "average joe" would feel coming to a Swancon, which I'm ridiculously familiar with, and then suddenly I was trying to wrap my head around 97 hour costume parades.

I didn't realise WASFF had said it wouldn't succeed. I always figured a big anime con was always a good bet - although admittedly I didn't predict it would be *that* big. If anyone in Perth was clever enough to do a comics/pop culture con, I suspect you'd get similar numbers.