Time-Warped
| Convention | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Time-Warped |
| Dates: | September and October 1986 |
| Frequency: | once in each city |
| Location: | Melbourne and Sydney, Australia |
| Type: | for-profit |
| Focus: | science fiction and media |
| Organization: | Educational Film Services |
| Founder: | Bob Johnson |
| Founding Date: | 1986 |
| URL: | none |
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Sydney, Australia, 1986: Held at the Hyde Park Plaza Hotel, in the CBD, with filmed entertainment screened next door in the ANZAC House theatrette, Time-Warped convention was a one-off weekend science fiction media event. The Saturday night banquet, featuring a live Tribble Lotto game show, was held at the nearby Koala Motor Inn, Darlinghurst. Julie Townsend, of "In Teddies We Trust", coordinated a "Stuffies" exhibition (in the style of "Crufts: The World's Greatest Dog Show") and awarded the prizes to the winning owners. The convention's Fan Guest of Honor was Rachel Shave.
A similar Time-Warped convention was held the week before (around 29 September 1986) by Bob Johnson, in Old Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne. Guests of Honour were Walter Koenig and Diane Marchant.
In 1988 [sic, actually 1986], entrepreneur Bob Johnson mounted a professional convention, Time-Warped, with Star Trek actor, Walter Koenig as Guest of Honour. It was staffed by non-paid Star Trek fans, but did not make enough money for Mr Johnson to consider financing another one. [1]
The opening ceremony of Time-Warped featured a Harpic Productions' skit with Doug (Ian McLean) and Tony (Karen Lewis), of television's The Time Tunnel. They arrive in 1986 Sydney, Australia, just in time to interrupt a science fiction convention. Meanwhile, colleague Ann (Karen Irving) twiddles some knobs on her console but is unable to assist them.
Doug and Tony emerge from the Time Tunnel into 1986.
Doug has lost his jacket. Tony has lost more than a jacket.
The Fantastic Four host "Perfect Botch" at Time-Warped.
Walter Koenig & Judy Levitt play "Tribble Lotto" at Time-Warped.
Bob Johnson also ran monthly Star Trek Marathons in Sydney and Melbourne. In 1986, as a fundraiser for "Time-Warped" Convention, a "Great Stream Train Adventure", with science fiction media fans in cosplay, travelled from Central Station, Sydney, to the Thirlmere Train Museum. [2]
References
- ^ Effect of commercialisation and direct intervention by the owners of intellectual copyright : a case study : the Australian Star Trek fan community by Susan Batho (2009) (an academic paper which studies the effect of the Viacom Crackdown and Australian fan clubs)
- ^ Have Phaser, Will Travel: The Perils of Batgirl by Ian McLean & Karen Irving, Data #73, July 1986.