my bloody room is $250 a night.

worth it though - my son and wife can go off for a swim when they're bored...and it's conveniently attached to the convention.

i'll try to remember to book earlier for next year.

ours is 300 a night, but split between 4 of us and has ample room for hanging out.

thats not bad at all ...


hopefully despare will make it up to this thing and at least 3 or 4 of us can meet up and say hi ..maybe grab a lunch or something

yeah, should be a good time. I'm pretty excited :)
i need to get ID for sure though so I can go to the rue morgue party and see the creepshow. I dont even wanna drink, I just want to make sure I can be there.

I'm not booking until after tickets go on sale, so I can make SURE the people who say they're going are really going. I don't care if mine's a little ways from the convention as I want to check out Toronto anyway. I haven't been there in a while, only places I go are Ann Arbor and Detroit. Quick question, somebody told me you need two picture IDs to drink in Canada, true? (I'm sure I could google it but I figure you canucks would know. :) )

i have no idea,

the only time i was ever asked for id in my life was 20 years ago when i was going out with a girl at Western.

They asked everyone at a school pub - i looked at the guy and said "you have to be kidding me"

he just shrugged and let me in.

i've never had an Age of Majority card - or whatever they called those things

you need one valid picture ID with birthdate and signature. Like one of the new healthcards or your drivers lisence.

I'm afraid it doesn't look like money will work out for me to go :(

Shame...oh well, I'll be there next year for sure.

Cool, even if my US license wasn't enough I wouldn't bother getting another ID... I DO however need to find out when they're going to make us get a passport to visit you canucks.


And found.

"US citizens arriving in Canada by land or water do not need a passport until at least summer 2009. "

we should do an HDC reunion at this - i might go since its only about 6 hours away

If you do, you'd better make it an annual thing - I'll be there next year for sure, no questions asked.

Sounds good to me... my hotel room is already paid for & I have a rental car reserved so I'll be there for sure.

my rooms paid too, just need my ticket but im waiting until my tuition is paid

My room is reserved (in the hotel attached to the convention)

cant buy tickets until July 1

- i'll be getting the special Wes Craven ticket ... might as well ...

i wanna go:(


is there beer

there is always beer ..


why dont you come up - bring your wife and make a weekend out of it.

(my wife will be there - she and my kid usually bugger off downtown or to the hotel pool when they've had enough of the con..

hmmmm....I can picture that conversation

newb: Hey Mrs. newb......lets take a ride up to Canada and go to the Rue Morgue Festival of Fear.

Mrs. newb: Are you drunk....again


The wife ain't into horror...now if it was a "Festival of Overpriced Pocketbooks"...she'd be all over that shit.

I'm going with a few friends, the wife REALLY didn't want to go. Just go with somebody else. :)

yeah - just sit her on the couch with a big bag of chips and the american idol box set, and sneak up here and hang with your boys ...

not in the cards for this year....perhaps next.

Just make sure to get some pictures as usual and post them here.

you betcha

We're just getting the delux ($70) ticket. $40 for an autograph of Wes? Wow... I guess I'll skip bringing NoES, nobodies signature alone is worth $40 to me. (I say that now, watch me pay the man...)

My hotel is ".78 miles" from the convention center. I'm almost as excited about seeing the lantern festival in chinatown, hope that's not a letdown.

which hotel is it ??? (address ?)

never seen the chinese lantern festival - but chinatown is interesting..

Some cheap hotel, the people I'm with decided cheap was better because we won't be spending a lot of time there. Travelodge Downtown Toronto West I think...

i'll look it up to see if i can figure out the best ways for you to find everything.

we'll definately have to make plans for the Friday night. the con will end at 9 so we can your around after that - get you oriented with the city ..

Sounds fun, I've had a lot of people tell me how nice Toronto is so I'm pretty excited. We used to go to Windsor a lot and when we weren't going there we were doing sub-zero camping in mid to Northern Canada in fairly unpopulated areas. I can't wait to get a taste of what one person told me is "the apple of Canada's eye".



Hotel is: 621 King St. West

I was gonna suggest that if you're in Toronto, to check out the AGO. Unfortunately it's closed until November. How stupid is that? Closing an art gallery during peak tourist season?

That's kind of sad really, it must be because of renovations or something eh?

ya. they're rennovating and putting in a bunch of new installments. I had my art in the AGO as part of the in your face gallery. World record for the most portraits or self portraits in an installment. I have pics somewhere. I'll scan and put up sometime.

Wow, I had no idea you were so... accomplished. Congrats! Wish I could see them though. :(

accomplished my ass. any 3 year old kid could sewnd in a stick figure and call it a portrait. it would still be included. I got to see it though, when my art class went to see a Warhol exhibit.

Since the AGO is closed, your next best bet for fun in TO is..... Evil Dead the Musical at the Deisel Playhouse but their run ends in the beginning of August. Toronto basically sucks this summer.

You SOOOO got my hopes up as I've been wanting to see that forever... dammit.

Lanterns it is I suppose. I heard there's also a summer music festival around there...

Looks like Tobe Hooper was added!

where did you see that ?


i saw that linnea quigley was added (awsome) but nothing about hooper

shame i didnt see that - we go to the ago from time to time

http://www.rue-morgue.com/interface/rmp_fof.php



"*new* TOBE HOOPER *new*
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Poltergeist
Salem's Lot

A giant of the horror genre, Tobe Hooper has helmed some of the most time-honoured films in a career spanning three and a half decades, beginning with the breakout success of his 1974 sophomore effort THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, which today is recognized worldwide as the Holy Grail of savage cinema. Hooper followed his timeless classic with offerings such as EATEN ALIVE, SALEM'S LOT and THE FUNHOUSE before mastering the big budget horror blockbuster with POLTERGEIST in 1982. His other contributions to the genre include the films LIFEFORCE, INVADERS FROM MARS, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2, NIGHT TERRORS, THE MANGLER, CROCODILE and TOOLBOX MURDERS, among many others. Tobe's work has also been seen in two seasons of Showtime's hugely popular MASTERS OF HORROR series. Recently, he announced a big screen adaptation of Stephen King's FROM A BUICK 8. "

they havent updated it on the hobbystar page yet.


this is AWSOME news.

Yep, and as of right now I have 4 Premium Passes. I can't wait!

Hey, just out of curiosity Urge (since you've been there and I've decided to make sure you're inundated with questions), can you just go freely from the gaming thing to the horror thing to the sci-fi thing?

yep - it's all in the same huge building - each one in a different 'corner'

I'd love to go and get my TCM Part 2 tape signed!