MouseStation 34 – NFFC Disney fan club convention
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This week’s feature has Steven Ng bringing you loads of cool interviews from
the annual convention of the NFFC,
the international Disney fan club, in Anaheim. It’s a longer show than we
had hoped, but we wanted to bring you the full flavor of convention room-hopping
and so we let it go.
Anita Schaengold, incoming Vice President of Public Relations for the NFFC,
describes what the NFFC is all about. She also talked about the NFFC Disney
Legends program, the conventions, and where the NFFC is headed.
Paul Schnebelen, Past President, NFFC Studio Chapter and soon-to-be Editor
of the FantasyLine Express described the Chapter structure of the NFFC, the
content of the FantasyLine Express, and some of the activities of the Studio
Chapter.
Next, Steven went room-hopping, visiting hospitality suites and other rooms
with Gary Schaengold, Vice President of Finance for the NFFC. Their first
stop was Morehouse Collectibles to chat with Robby Beamon and Erin Morehouse.
They described some of their wares, then talked about winning a night in the
Mickey Mouse Penthouse and all of the perks that they received along with
their stay.
Steven and Gary continued looking through many rooms with various types of
merchandise. They ran into Carrie Mitchell, who talked about the benefits
of room-hopping. They later ran into Disney Archivist Dave Smith, who chatted
about trying to find materials for the Archives.
After finishing their room-hopping and discussions of the various types of
Disney collectibles, Steven headed to the Chapter at the Park’s hospitality
suite to chat with Doug Marsh, President of the Chapter at the Park. Doug
talked about the activities of the chapter, the location of their meetings,
and other fun stuff.
Steve Wesson, creator of the Adventures thru Inner Space Virtual Ride Through,
talked about his project and the attraction that it was based on. Steve discussed
how he decided to create the ride-through and how it took him two years to
create the DVD. If you go to his
site, you can see tributes to the attraction and buy the DVD of the ride-through.
Finally, Jack Janzen, editor and publisher of The
E-Ticket Magazine, talked about the content of the publication, what’s
in the current issue (#44), and other information about what makes the E-Ticket
such a great magazine.
Don’t forget that the East
Coast NFFC convention will be held from September 27-30 at Walt Disney
World. You can find the registration
form at the NFFC web site.
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Thanks to our audio engineer and sound editor Steven Ng.
Special thanks to Kim Petersen, NFFC Vice President, Public Relations.
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