Adventure Con

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Adventure Con
Status	Active
Genre	Media/Comics
Location	Knoxville, Tennessee
Country	United States
First held	2002
Organizer	Las Vegas Autographs, LLC
Filing status	For Profit
Attendance	10,000+
Official Website	http://www.adventurecon.com/

Adventure Con is a for-profit media expo with a science fiction and comic theme held annually in Knoxville, Tennessee. Founded by Marcus Wollack, the convention was sold to Las Vegas Autographs, LLC, in 2007.

Contents 1 Past conventions 2 Events with similar names 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Past conventions

• The first Adventure Con was held June 1-2, 2002, at the Knoxville Expo Center (5441 Clinton Highway, Knoxville, Tennessee 37912). Guests included Yvonne Craig, Richard Kiel, Peter Mayhew, Dick Durock, Julie Newmar, and Dick Warlock.^[1]

• Adventure Con 2 was held May 31-June 1, 2003 at the Knoxville Expo Center. Guests included actor Warwick Davis, artist Steve Stanley, actor James MacArthur, actress Linda Harrison, actor Gunnar Hansen, actor Dirk Benedict, plus Buck Rogers in the 25th Century actors Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, and Felix Silla.

• Adventure Con 2.5 was held October 3-5, 2003 at the Gatlinburg Convention Center in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Guests included actors Jeremy Bulloch, Dawn Wells, Yvonne Craig, Danielle Harris , and one-time James Bond actor George Lazenby.^[2][3]

• Adventure Con 3 was held June 5-6, 2004, at the Knoxville Expo Center. Media guests included David Prowse, Anthony Daniels, Tanya Roberts, Felix Silla, Brad Dourif, Catherine Bach, Richard Hatch, Kathy Garver, Dick Durock, Jackson Bostwick, and Alex Vincent. Other guests included actors from horror films, models, and professional wrestlers.^[4][5] Reported attendance for this event was 3000+ persons.^[6]

• Adventure Con 4 was held June 18-19, 2005, at the Knoxville Convention Center {701 Henley Street, Knoxville, Tennessee}. Guests included actors John Rhys-Davies, Robert Englund, Kenny Baker, Lou Ferrigno, and Adam West. Activities included two full days of gaming events and tournaments.^[6]

• Adventure Con 5 was held June 24-25, 2006, at the Knoxville Convention Center. Guest artists included Steve Stanley, Lin Workman, and Martheus Wade. Celebrity guests included Verne Troyer, Erica Durance, Corey Feldman, Adam Baldwin, Lana Wood, Burt Ward, Hayley Mills, Clare Kramer, and Ray Park. A replica of the Back to the Future Delorean was a featured display. Reported attendance for this event was 5000+ persons.^[7][8]

• Adventure Con 2007 was held June 1-3, 2007, at the Knoxville Convention Center. This was the first event held under the new ownership by Las Vegas Autographs, LLC. Guest of Honor was artist Ethan Van Sciver. Other guests included artist John Romita Jr., director Nina Kaczorowski, Star Trek actors Walter Koenig and Denise Crosby, Star Wars actors Peter Mayhew, Anthony Daniels, Jeremy Bulloch, and Matthew Wood, plus Brian Harnois of Sci-Fi Channel's "Ghosthunters," professional wrestlers Jimmy Hart, Brutus Beefcake, Buff Bagwell, and Raven, plus former University of Tennessee wide receiver Anthony Miller and many more.^[9] This was when AdventureCon made the national news for the Star Wars themed wedding that occurred there. The wedding was featured on nearly every local news broadcast in the nation that evening.^[10]

• Adventure Con 2008 was held June 13-15 2008, at the Knoxville Convention Center. Guest Of Honor was writer and creator of X-Men character Rouge, Michael Golden. John Romita, Jr. was scheduled to appear but had to cancel at the last minute. There was a last-minute surprise guest in Arthur Suydam of Marvel Zombies fame. Other guests included Tony Moran (Halloween), Michael Biehn (Terminator, Aliens & Tombstone), Doug Jones (Silver Surfer & Abe Sapien from Hellboy), Kevin Sorbo (Hercules), Shawnee Smith (Saw), Missi Pyle (Dodgball), Roddy Piper (Wrestling Superstar), Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th), Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters), Danielle Harris (Halloween), Andrew Divoff (LOST & Indiana Jone and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), Mitchel Musso (Hannah Montana), and many more. Events included a special concert with Smith & Pyle, and a birthday party for Jason Voorhees.

The convention is usually attended by Sci-Fi groups and clubs who set up booths annually including the 501st, the Knoxville Sci-Fi Club, The Tennessee Star Wars Collectors Group, and various costuming and collecting groups.

[edit] Events with similar names

• There is an unrelated gaming convention called "AdventureCon" tentatively planned for 2008 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.^[11] This event, originally scheduled for August 2007 in Las Vegas, is to celebrate the work of game designer Scott Adams and his most famous creation, Adventureland.
• There is an unrelated event called "Adventure Convention" held each February in Hamburg, Germany. The next of these events is scheduled for February 15-17, 2008.^[12]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Adventure Con official site