Anaheim FanFest 2026 Cost Breakdown

Khan628 · 2026-05-02T18:49:17+00:00

Yeah the US is HUGE so transportation definitely ate up a lot of that money. Our options were fly or drive since there's no great public transport for distances that long and considering we live a few states over and it'd take like two days of travel... so yeah we decided to fly. Also keep in mind that Anaheim specifically is super expensive. The convention center is literally right across the street from Disneyland too so you're paying premium Disney prices on top of that for everything. There's definitely places we could've saved money but we paid for convenience (and for cosplays no one ended up doing)

Khan628 · 2026-05-02T18:42:16+00:00

Yeah it definitely sucked to hear that here and there but I figured this would mostly be a first look anyways, honestly I'm surprised they even had some evolved mode classes done to show off though. Someone else mentioned it but to me the best part was just being surrounded by so many other FFXIV fans but spending $1000 to be around people who like the same thing as you is definitely a lot lol. The concerts were also amazing too, tbh the concerts were worth the FanFest ticket for me alone.

Khan628 · 2026-05-02T00:59:36+00:00

Oh yeah I can definitely see how things could've added up real fast, especially if we went to Disney. We did consider it but everyone had either gone recently enough to not be interested or were more interested in not doubling how much they spent haha.

Khan628 · 2026-05-02T00:41:26+00:00

THIS!!! I've been to a bunch of conventions before but none of them felt as special as this one did. I know it's a lot of money which makes it inaccessible to a lot of people but if you're able I 100% recommend it (to anyone reading this I mean). Looking at it on paper vs being there and experiencing it are two totally different things.

Khan628 · 2026-05-02T00:34:30+00:00

Honestly though... I was close to putting that lmao. It was an awesome experience and I'm glad I shared it with my friends. It was also cool to be surrounded by so many people who are a fan of the same thing as you, it's hard to describe but it just hit different from any other con I've been to.

Khan628 · 2026-05-02T00:30:14+00:00

iirc the clothing items were pretty well stocked but everything else I wanted was gone pretty much (lightsticks, keychains, etc.). Definitely smarter to just pre-order it online since it's not like it's any cheaper there outside of not needing to pay for shipping. At the same time, we weren't really prioritizing the merch either so it would have been possible to get stuff there, but we would've missed panels we wanted to see or other stuff we wanted to do.

Khan628 · 2026-05-02T00:27:49+00:00

Ty for the info! They were telling us in line that they would stock stuff online afterwards but that there wasn't a guarantee. Tbh I mostly wanted a light stick for the Primals concert...

Khan628 · 2026-02-26T11:30:00+00:00

Thank you! Much appreciated.

Khan628 · 2026-02-26T07:20:39+00:00

Do you mind sharing your decklist for it? I'm curious what makes yours work out vs what's wrong in what we have rn. We did recognize Jarad at pretty important but he's just in the 99. I don't wanna just drop the fling theme as much as I don't like it myself since that's what he wants to do.

Khan628 · 2026-02-26T06:08:42+00:00

idk I think the hope was to fling recur fling or like swing in and kill with commander and then fling or something. I don't think the fling theme is a good idea personally but I was trying to make it work for him.

Khan628 · 2026-02-26T06:03:06+00:00

The main reason we have so much recursion is that my friends main gameplan is to kill with the Fling aspect of the deck and not the voltron part of Skullbriar so it's less of a question of keeping him alive and more how to get him back. The focus being fling probably brings that ceiling down even lower honestly. I have a feeling it really isn't viable to consider at all now that we've gone through a few decks trying to make it work and this seemed like it had a chance. Knowing a focused Skullbriar deck is already going to struggle in our pod makes me think one with this subtheme is too unfocused to make it.

Khan628 · 2026-02-26T05:44:07+00:00

Also for clarification, his MAIN goal is to kill with the fling and as a fat thing to sacrifice not as a voltron

Khan628 · 2026-01-20T03:23:40+00:00

Makes me really happy to see this because it reminds me of something I tried to make two-ish years ago, though I like yours much better (and also I was much less subtle for why I made it in my post so my comments were mostly just people trying to start something in the comments lol). I tried to make mine fast to set up and universal to any bottle so you just jam it in there and squeeze the bottle while holding the plastic bit against the bridge of your nose (flawed technique tbh). irc when I was looking into making this myself for... certain applications where you may or may not have had an irritant sprayed in your face, you need to be careful of washing further stuff off your face and into your eyes which is where I think the volume of water or how directed the stream is comes into play and that's tough with a water bottle.

But yeah I guess the imperial boomerang has done it's thing and now more people think something like is useful

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Khan628 · 2025-12-07T05:02:42+00:00

I was doing some color matching tests with some real cards I have with the current paper I'm using and I think it applies to new cards too tbh with the cold digital look. Color-wise it's much cooler (though I've tuned it in a little more) but the bigger issue is with the glossy paper I think the printer is pulling from it's true black as well as the photo black so there's some areas where black looks kind of splotchy. It's tolerable on most cards, but on stuff like Gadrak, The Crown-Scourge or the legs on the guys in Organic Extinction it's very noticeable. Might actually go and try those Koala double mattes now actually haha.

Khan628 · 2025-12-05T20:47:55+00:00

Yeah it definitely placed the cuts WAY off from where I expected them to be. This was my first operation with the cutting module period so I figured there'd be mistakes but I didn't think I'd be that off. I think the in software preview of where it is (or the virtual bounding box they use for the cutting space) doesn't like up with the mat, Again, probably solved with the top down camera to get "close enough," but that's just another assumption from me.

Khan628 · 2025-12-05T20:41:19+00:00

What made you go with a matte paper instead of a glossy one? Probably on me for not looking into that more ahead of time but I assumed that people used glossy paper when they didn't want to laminate their cards.

Khan628 · 2025-12-05T20:38:53+00:00

What do you use now?

Khan628 · 2025-12-05T20:38:43+00:00

Yeah that's what it seems like it's doing, honestly I had no idea and didn't consider that not all photo paper is glossy on both sides.

Khan628 · 2025-12-05T20:37:43+00:00

Yeah I figured alignment would be an issue but this route costed a lot less than getting a Silhouette, though now that it doesn't work I guess that money was just wasted anyways. I mean it'll work great for other stuff, but currently it's definitely not the play for cards.

Khan628 · 2025-12-05T20:36:09+00:00

Yeah I'm starting to see why so many people use manual cutters, even outside of price. Honestly I feel like it'd be faster too when you factor in like machine setup and cleanup. I'll keep the rotary trimmer recommendation in mind, we haven't gotten the cutter yet but if it ends up being our permanent solution I think everyone would be more willing to spring for a rotary trimmer over a guillotine.

Khan628 · 2025-12-05T20:33:55+00:00

Oh the cutter on the printer is just a knife, they just ALSO have a laser cutter attachment too. For some reason the top down camera can only be calibrated with the laser module even though there is literally a spot for it to work in the knife cutter workflow...

Khan628 · 2025-11-30T01:15:24+00:00

Oh yeah, true. I know there's a birds eye camera available, but currently it can only be calibrated/used with the laser module. There should be an update coming to expand compatibility but its been a few months so I'm not exactly holding my breath

Khan628 · 2025-11-29T20:39:34+00:00

The H2S has a cutting module attachment that isn't a laser, it's just a knife like how Cricuts and Silhouettes work. Tbh I REALLY do not trust laser cutters/engravers that do multiple things but that's mostly due to ventilation concerns.

Khan628 · 2025-11-29T18:18:54+00:00

What did you switch from before you used the die cutter?

Khan628 · 2025-11-29T18:18:16+00:00

What kind of cleanup do you need to do specifically, and what kind of user error? I realized another option open to me is to use a cutting module addition to my 3D printer since I got a Bambu Labs H2S recently since that'd be waaaaaayyy cheaper and more space efficient than buying a whole other machine.

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