DragonCon Survival Guide
Gary and Taylor, lifelong friends and self-proclaimed Dragon Con/Convention experts, talk tips and hacks to get the most out of your con experience - while saving as much money as possible – and whatever nerdy stuff crosses their minds. Save more at cons to spend more at cons! New episodes drop every Saturday. Find DragonCon Survival guide on Facebook or Instagram, leave us a voicemail at (404) 721-3586, email us at DragonConSurvivalGuide@gmail.com, or shout to the DragonCon gods in Downtown Atlanta at 2 AM. Thanks for liking, sharing, subscribing and listening! DragonCon Survival Guide is a Top Wop Studios Production.
Episodes
This week, our heroes celebrate Thanksgiving by dropping an episode all about the food at Dragon Con. What's the best food to bring to Con, by plane, bus, boat, rail, or car? What're the best food choices in the area? How can you save some loot if you want food delivered? What if all you have to cook with is a coffee maker and a fighter's spirit? Can you get food delivered? Is the Papa Johns really wort...
This week, Sterling finally gets to share his take on Dragon Con '24! How was working with disability services and press/media relations teams at Con this year? Was line control any better? What was his favorite panel/event? How did Sterling manage his scooter through the rough and tumble streets of Downtown Atlanta? Are peanut butter jar tequila shots any good? All that and more on this week's episode of Dr...
This week, the guys go over Atlanta Magazine's yearly Dragon Con By the Numbers article to see what they missed this year. What was the top cosplay at Con? What are the newest big trends? Who are Donna and the Wolfman? How does Insane Clown Posse come up? All that and much, much more on this week's episode of DragonCon Survival Guide!
Gary and Taylor, lifelong friends and self-proclaimed Dragon Con/Convention...
This week, Gary and Taylor share their Dragon Con opinions from afar with their yearly Dragon Con debrief! Sterling graciously attended the Closing Ceremonies for 2024 in our stead, and we used his notes to make this podcast. We seriously did like, NO work. Well, aside from following every bit of Dragon Con news we could find. And watching DCTV. And recording the podcast, editing it, posting it, writing this blurb, sw...
On this week's episode, our heroes are joined once again by Sterling for the second half of their pre-Dragon Con 2024 extravaganza! We start off with more tips on how to get around Downtown Atlanta, this time with some anecdotal advice for the mobility challenged at Con. We then get into our nerdy topics of the week leading up to Dragon*Con, which involve Kitties with backpacks, Beyblade's newest and greates...
On this first part of DragonCon Survival Guide's Pre-Dragon Con 2024 Extravaganza, the guys are talking about how to navigate downtown Atlanta and some of their favorite tips and spots to visit when in town for Dragon Con. But before they start the fun stuff, they have to eat the proverbial vegetables and talk about the big Courtland Grand/Sheraton/Omni debacle. People are getting displaced from the hotel they bo...
This week, the guys talk about transportation to Dragon Con. Not the "Energize" type of transpo they have on the Star Trek Enterprise, but actually driving, riding or flying to con. All that and more plus Kevin Smith's forgotten Clerks cartoon, The Umbrella Academy, and much much more on this week's episode of DragonCon Survival Guide!
Gary and Taylor, lifelong friends and self-proclaimed Dragon Con...
On this week's episode, the boys are joined by their good friend (and DragonCon Survival Guide's on the scene reporter for DC '24), Sterling! They go through the big news and guest announcements since the last podcast before delving into the main topics. For one, what should you be doing to prep for this year's Dragon Con right now? And, considering you can, what should you do if you can't do ...
This week, the guys are joined by their friends Sterling and Josh for their first annual Christmas Special! There's games, there's deep sharing and caring, there's heartfelt wholesome moments, there's (not) Jonathan Frakes...so they sub in Robert Stack instead. All that and One True Three (Two truths and a lie), Tell 'em Steve Dave, Marvel and the MCU plus the new DC universe and Superhero fat...
This week, Gary shares a little about his awesome time at Rangerstop Con in Orlando before the guys use Gary and Sterling's recent post-con viewing of 'The Marvels' to take a deep dive into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Is superhero fatigue a thing? Is Disney Plus hampering Marvel's theatrical growth? Did Ant Man v Bee Man have something to do with it? All that plus the brilliance of Baby Driver, ...
This week, the guys invite Sterling on to discuss smaller cons, JDF, Polaroids, the Fire Ferrets, and NPCs. Plus 3-D printing and the latest title of Gary's tapes All that and more on this week's Dragon Con Survival Guide!
Gary and Taylor, lifelong friends and self-proclaimed Dragon Con/Convention experts, talk tips and hacks to get the most out of your con experience - while saving as much money as possibl...
This week, Taylor was off exploring the world on a business trip, so while we put together our Halloween episode for Tuesday we're presenting our next DragonCon Survival Guide Classic! The guys talk about some crazy weather Taylor was experiencing in Summer 2020, and go through some reports on what to expect from Virtual Dragon Con and cons in general in the Covid era. Plus Shiny Magikarps in Pokemon Go, the Umbr...
This week, the guys are still trying to shake off their #postcondepressionera and decide to cover Halloween to cheer themselves up! Gary and Taylor find they're both nostalgia nerds for holidays, and share some of their favorite Halloween traditions. Then they jump into a People Magazine list of the top 31 Halloween and Horror movies to stream in October, since we don't have any new TV to watch aside from Lo...
Octopi. That is all.
Gary and Taylor, lifelong friends and self-proclaimed Dragon Con/Convention experts, talk tips and hacks to get the most out of your con experience - while saving as much money as possible – and whatever nerdy stuff crosses their minds. Save more at cons to spend more at cons! New episodes drop every Saturday.
Find DragonCon Survival guide on Facebook or Instagram, leave us a voicemail at (404) 72...
This week, the guys quickly mention the recently passed conclusion of the Dragon Con Hunger Games with the Marriott rooms going up for the Con weekend before delving more into their Dragon Con 2023 Timeline. What shenanigans did they get into? Did they have Keytone Lights? Did they have Gyros? Did they see Hobbits, the Hocus Pocus cast, someone from both the Wizarding and Zombie Apocalypse Worlds and Freddie Prinze Jr...
This week, the guys are joined by friend of the show Josh to play along with "Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction"! The 90's/early Aughts anthology show has several short stories that have been re-enacted, and you have to guess whether the short was based on a factual event or fiction created by the writers of the show! Join the guys as they joke around about the segments, and you can even play along as it&a...
This week, the guys start off the show by going over the 2023 Dragon Con nightlife, to get a taste for the full experience of Dragon Con night-time performances and events! Then they head into a deep dive of the 2023 Con experience by going through a full timeline of their Labor Day weekend! They cover their epic bro-trip road trip where they survived a Hurricane, hit up a Packy, and went to the Vortex before hitting ...
On this week's Classic, the guys launch into a bit more of an in-depth discussion about a Virtual Dragon Con. Sterling had a great idea that inspires Gary to make viewing the Virtual Con as an event akin to a Super Bowl Party for Nerds! But what exactly would we be viewing with a 2020 virtual Dragon Con, and how would you best do it? All that and more, in this week's DCSG Classic!
Gary and Taylor, lifelong fr...
This week, the guys return post 2023 Con! They've talked enough about what they loved about Dragon Con in 2023...now it's time for some regrets! And since they're feeling extra salty, they decided to also share their best tips for beating the post-con blues! All that plus Blue Beetle, Harry Potter, American muscle cars, Power Rangers, Dragon Con by the numbers and much more on this week's DragonCon...
This week, the guys hop into the RoadRunner Delorean Edition to check out another COVID time capsule! They got the sad announcement they had been expecting that Dragon Con wouldn't happen in person in 2020...the 10th anniversary of their first post high-school bro trip, their first Dragon Con, and their first con ever! Check out their reaction, and of course more ideas about what a virtual/post covid con might lo...
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