SaikouCon 2018 Releases Full Programming Schedule for 6th Anniversary Show
Convention also teaming up with DreamWorks Animation for special Voltron: Legendary Defender Promotion
6/14/18 Allentown, PA – SaikouCon, which means "best convention", is the large scale, annual anime convention of the Lehigh Valley. Boasting a dedicated staff of longtime Japanese anime and manga fans, SaikouCon is excited to be the only large scale annual convention dedicated exclusively to anime, manga, and Japanese culture and pop culture in this area of Pennsylvania. The convention grew out of web magazine Anime Ate My Brain Magazine (relaunching in 2019); the sibling to music focused web magazine, Tastes Like Rock Magazine. Both journalistic endeavors fall under the publishing wing of Nerdy Rock 'n Roller Productions.
The convention will always remain very hands on and attendee friendly every year, while also maintaining a safe atmosphere for attendees to enjoy the convention to their carefree fullest. SaikouCon promises to remain an all inclusive event where all are welcome to enjoy the fun, friendship, and saftey the con has offered in the past. As always, Cosplay =/= Consent is a very important issue to the staff of SaikouCon, and the same rules and regulations that made SaikouCon Years 1-5 safe havens for cosplayers will be enforced just as strictly at SaikouCon 2018.
SaikouCon has released its full programming schedule of panels, screenings, concerts, events, and activities on its website! Over 70 hours of content crammed into three days, the convention aims for there never to be any down time for attendees during hours of operation, and this year they may just have achieved that! The con chair made this announcement upon the release of the full schedule on June 13 across the con website and social media, “The moment you've been waiting for is here! The full programming schedule for SaikouCon 2018 has been released for your perusal! Visit the Events page here on SaikouCon to check it out, you may notice some down time where there usually isn't, don't worry, a few of those spaces will be filled in soon; we didn't want to make you all wait any longer with a third delay to the release of the schedule, keep your eyes peeled for some special events yet to be added to the schedule for this year's show! Coming over this weekend also keep an eye on our Facebook page at www.Facebook.com/SaikouCon, we will be adding Facebook Event pages for every panel, screening, activity, concern, and event from Friday night through Sunday afternoon... so if you Liked and Follow us on FB, get ready for your feed to be filled with our schedule all weekend long! Each panel, screening, events, and concert listing on the schedule here on SaikouCon.com will be linked to the corresponding FB Event Page for easy access to review what we've got going on so you can plan out your person SaikouCon schedule in advance of showtime!”
Full schedule for SaikouCon 2018 may be viewed at www.saikoucon.com/events.html along with several other events the convention will be present at or is hosting such as their Anime Night Free Screening events with Allentown, PA based The Encounter Comics & Games.
In other SaikouCon news, DreamWorks Animation is teaming up with SaikouCon to give attendees Voltron posters! The first 500 pre-registration Bag Holders (both General Admission and VIP) will receive a poster design just for them, and the first 500 at door registration Badge Holders will receive a different design poster just for them! One poster per Badge Holder. The convention is incredibly excited to team with DreamWorks Animation to bring this awesome gift to 2018 attendees, but also to help promote Voltron! The con's chairman, Michael Meade, has been a fan of the original frachise since childhood, often lauding the 1980's Voltron as one of the series that made anime a lifelong love and passion for him, so the opportunity to team with the company behind bringing Voltron to a new generation of fans is an opportunity he could not let the convention pass up. The news season of Voltron: Legendary Defender launches June 15, on Netflix!
Official Voltron: Legendary Defender information from DreamWorks Animation:
Don't miss DreamWorks Voltron: Legendary Defender, now streaming on Netflix!
Five unlikely heroes and their flying robot lions unite to form the mega powerful Voltron and defend the universe from evil. To learn more, visit https://www.Facebook.com/VoltronOfficial/. #Voltron
Available now on Netflix!
www.Netflix.com/voltronlegendarydefender
SaikouCon 2018's Complete Guest List:
Guests of Honor:
Christina Marie Kelly - Voice, Film, & Stage Actress
Gigi Edgley - Film, TV, & Stage Actress
Erin Cahill - Film & TV Actress, Pink Time Force Power Ranger
Charles Dunbar - Anime Anthropologist, Scholar, Lecturer, Pubished Author
Featured Guests:
Koralene Cosplay
Foxxy Cosplay
Dolly Love Cosplay
AE86 Toyota Corolla from Initial D presented by InitialDream86
Musical Guests:
The Adarna
TiA
Kohei Hattori
DJ Awesomus_Prime
REAKT
The Wanderland Tour feat. Gigi Edgley & Jake Edgley
DJ OZNO
Special Guests:
Bfarve Cosplay
8BITAmbitions Cosplay
Stellure Idols
To Pre-Register for SaikouCon 2018 badges visit www.saikoucon.com/registration.html and make sure to note the returning designations for Teen and Adult badges to attend the convention, the designations do away with the need for parental consent forms for SaikouCon guests age 13-17, attendees 12 and under receive free admission but MUST be accompanied by a SaikouCon Badge Holding Attendee chaperone age 18 or older at all times! SaikouCon is family friendly, but is not designed for young children under 12 to fly solo. Pre-registration closes July 20, 2017 at midnight (the midnight going into Saturday July 21 not 12:01 AM on July 20 to clarify), there will be no extensions this year, so get the pre-reg savings while you can! There will also be no price jumps during the pre-registration period this year! Full registration details at the link provided above, please review before registering to attend SaikouCon 2018. VIP Registration is only available during the Pre-Registration period in advance of the convention once more this year, VIP Registration closes on June 23, 2018 at 12 AM.
The Econo Lodge Conference Center is located at 1151 Bulldog Drive, Allentown, PA 18104. The Econo Lodge Conference Center offers several on-site amenities to SaikouCon attendees; the 904 West Restaurant for breakfast/lunch/dinner, the 904 West Lounge for adult beverages and non-con nightlife, free WiFi, outdoor swimming pool for attendees that book rooms with the Econo Lodge, ambiance for photoshoots, 200+ sleeping rooms in total, and very friendly staff!
Rooms in the convention's block of rooms at the Econo Lodge Conference Center, may be booked by calling (610) 395-3731, and requesting a room in the SaikouCon Room Block; there will be no booking link on their website just for SaikouCon as in years past, Econo Lodge's website is controlled by the master franchise and they are unable to set up specials for individual locations. Booking through their website will not place you in our block of rooms and may result in higher room rates than our Block's $99 plus tax per night for two occupants. Rooms with three or more people will be an extra $10 per person over the initial two occupants (i.e. three person rooms will be $109 per night plus tax, four person rooms will be $119 plus tax per night etc.).
To get the latest up-to-the-minute news follow SaikouCon on http://www.saikoucon.com, http://Facebook.com/SaikouCon, http://twitter.com/SaikouCon, http://instagram.com/officialsaikoucon, http://saikoucon.tumblr.com, and SaikouCon's listing on animecons.com: http://animecons.com/events/info.shtml/9619/SaikouCon_2018
6/14/18 Allentown, PA – SaikouCon, which means "best convention", is the large scale, annual anime convention of the Lehigh Valley. Boasting a dedicated staff of longtime Japanese anime and manga fans, SaikouCon is excited to be the only large scale annual convention dedicated exclusively to anime, manga, and Japanese culture and pop culture in this area of Pennsylvania. The convention grew out of web magazine Anime Ate My Brain Magazine (relaunching in 2019); the sibling to music focused web magazine, Tastes Like Rock Magazine. Both journalistic endeavors fall under the publishing wing of Nerdy Rock 'n Roller Productions.
The convention will always remain very hands on and attendee friendly every year, while also maintaining a safe atmosphere for attendees to enjoy the convention to their carefree fullest. SaikouCon promises to remain an all inclusive event where all are welcome to enjoy the fun, friendship, and saftey the con has offered in the past. As always, Cosplay =/= Consent is a very important issue to the staff of SaikouCon, and the same rules and regulations that made SaikouCon Years 1-5 safe havens for cosplayers will be enforced just as strictly at SaikouCon 2018.
SaikouCon has released its full programming schedule of panels, screenings, concerts, events, and activities on its website! Over 70 hours of content crammed into three days, the convention aims for there never to be any down time for attendees during hours of operation, and this year they may just have achieved that! The con chair made this announcement upon the release of the full schedule on June 13 across the con website and social media, “The moment you've been waiting for is here! The full programming schedule for SaikouCon 2018 has been released for your perusal! Visit the Events page here on SaikouCon to check it out, you may notice some down time where there usually isn't, don't worry, a few of those spaces will be filled in soon; we didn't want to make you all wait any longer with a third delay to the release of the schedule, keep your eyes peeled for some special events yet to be added to the schedule for this year's show! Coming over this weekend also keep an eye on our Facebook page at www.Facebook.com/SaikouCon, we will be adding Facebook Event pages for every panel, screening, activity, concern, and event from Friday night through Sunday afternoon... so if you Liked and Follow us on FB, get ready for your feed to be filled with our schedule all weekend long! Each panel, screening, events, and concert listing on the schedule here on SaikouCon.com will be linked to the corresponding FB Event Page for easy access to review what we've got going on so you can plan out your person SaikouCon schedule in advance of showtime!”
Full schedule for SaikouCon 2018 may be viewed at www.saikoucon.com/events.html along with several other events the convention will be present at or is hosting such as their Anime Night Free Screening events with Allentown, PA based The Encounter Comics & Games.
In other SaikouCon news, DreamWorks Animation is teaming up with SaikouCon to give attendees Voltron posters! The first 500 pre-registration Bag Holders (both General Admission and VIP) will receive a poster design just for them, and the first 500 at door registration Badge Holders will receive a different design poster just for them! One poster per Badge Holder. The convention is incredibly excited to team with DreamWorks Animation to bring this awesome gift to 2018 attendees, but also to help promote Voltron! The con's chairman, Michael Meade, has been a fan of the original frachise since childhood, often lauding the 1980's Voltron as one of the series that made anime a lifelong love and passion for him, so the opportunity to team with the company behind bringing Voltron to a new generation of fans is an opportunity he could not let the convention pass up. The news season of Voltron: Legendary Defender launches June 15, on Netflix!
Official Voltron: Legendary Defender information from DreamWorks Animation:
Don't miss DreamWorks Voltron: Legendary Defender, now streaming on Netflix!
Five unlikely heroes and their flying robot lions unite to form the mega powerful Voltron and defend the universe from evil. To learn more, visit https://www.Facebook.com/VoltronOfficial/. #Voltron
Available now on Netflix!
www.Netflix.com/voltronlegendarydefender
SaikouCon 2018's Complete Guest List:
Guests of Honor:
Christina Marie Kelly - Voice, Film, & Stage Actress
Gigi Edgley - Film, TV, & Stage Actress
Erin Cahill - Film & TV Actress, Pink Time Force Power Ranger
Charles Dunbar - Anime Anthropologist, Scholar, Lecturer, Pubished Author
Featured Guests:
Koralene Cosplay
Foxxy Cosplay
Dolly Love Cosplay
AE86 Toyota Corolla from Initial D presented by InitialDream86
Musical Guests:
The Adarna
TiA
Kohei Hattori
DJ Awesomus_Prime
REAKT
The Wanderland Tour feat. Gigi Edgley & Jake Edgley
DJ OZNO
Special Guests:
Bfarve Cosplay
8BITAmbitions Cosplay
Stellure Idols
To Pre-Register for SaikouCon 2018 badges visit www.saikoucon.com/registration.html and make sure to note the returning designations for Teen and Adult badges to attend the convention, the designations do away with the need for parental consent forms for SaikouCon guests age 13-17, attendees 12 and under receive free admission but MUST be accompanied by a SaikouCon Badge Holding Attendee chaperone age 18 or older at all times! SaikouCon is family friendly, but is not designed for young children under 12 to fly solo. Pre-registration closes July 20, 2017 at midnight (the midnight going into Saturday July 21 not 12:01 AM on July 20 to clarify), there will be no extensions this year, so get the pre-reg savings while you can! There will also be no price jumps during the pre-registration period this year! Full registration details at the link provided above, please review before registering to attend SaikouCon 2018. VIP Registration is only available during the Pre-Registration period in advance of the convention once more this year, VIP Registration closes on June 23, 2018 at 12 AM.
The Econo Lodge Conference Center is located at 1151 Bulldog Drive, Allentown, PA 18104. The Econo Lodge Conference Center offers several on-site amenities to SaikouCon attendees; the 904 West Restaurant for breakfast/lunch/dinner, the 904 West Lounge for adult beverages and non-con nightlife, free WiFi, outdoor swimming pool for attendees that book rooms with the Econo Lodge, ambiance for photoshoots, 200+ sleeping rooms in total, and very friendly staff!
Rooms in the convention's block of rooms at the Econo Lodge Conference Center, may be booked by calling (610) 395-3731, and requesting a room in the SaikouCon Room Block; there will be no booking link on their website just for SaikouCon as in years past, Econo Lodge's website is controlled by the master franchise and they are unable to set up specials for individual locations. Booking through their website will not place you in our block of rooms and may result in higher room rates than our Block's $99 plus tax per night for two occupants. Rooms with three or more people will be an extra $10 per person over the initial two occupants (i.e. three person rooms will be $109 per night plus tax, four person rooms will be $119 plus tax per night etc.).
To get the latest up-to-the-minute news follow SaikouCon on http://www.saikoucon.com, http://Facebook.com/SaikouCon, http://twitter.com/SaikouCon, http://instagram.com/officialsaikoucon, http://saikoucon.tumblr.com, and SaikouCon's listing on animecons.com: http://animecons.com/events/info.shtml/9619/SaikouCon_2018
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