Bayoucon This Weekend!

Sulphur, LA

This weekend I will be pulling double duty as a Den Leader for local Cub Scouts on Saturday and as an attendee at Bayoucon in Sulphur, LA.  I plan on attending Bayoucon on Friday evening, possibly Saturday evening, and most of the day on Sunday. The bulk of my Saturday will involve wrangling Cub Scouts, so depending on how much fun I have with the Pack, I might not be able to make it to the convention on Saturday.

This year the convention boasts an impressive voice-over media guest in the form of Taylor Gray, the voice of Ezra Bridger on Star Wars Rebels.  This is quite possibly the biggest celebrity guest that this convention has ever pulled in for their event.  While many of the convention’s previous guests have been part of some major franchises including Star Trek, The Walking Dead, and Sabrina The Teenage Witch, few have been a part of a franchise that was currently on fire like Star Wars Rebels is at the moment.  I plan on visiting with Gray and hopefully sitting in on one of his panels.

Another guest that I am interested in meeting is actor and stuntman, Bobby Clark.  While Clark has portrayed numerous characters over the years, I’m most interested in the fact that he portrayed the Gorn Captain on the TOS Star Trek episode, “Arena.”  He also played characters in the episodes “The Return of the Archons” and “Mirror, Mirror.”  The Gorn Captain has always been one of my favorite Trek aliens, and it will be cool to meet one of the men that portrayed him.  Clark was also featured in Star Trek Continues, another series that I dearly love.

Returning this year will be Scott L. Schwartz and Robert Axelrod.  Both of these gentlemen attended Bayoucon in the past, and apparently they enjoyed themselves because they are coming back!

Aaron Roberts, a popular anime voice artist, was recently added to the lineup when it was announced that Ann Mahoney of The Walking Dead would be unable to attend this year.

Cute Classy Chaos will be returning as cosplay guests and will once again handle the cosplay contest.  While I didn’t get to meet either of these young ladies last year, I did sit in on the cosplay contest and they seemed to be having a blast on stage with the competitors.

Many other guests will be in attendance.  Comic artists, authors, and fan groups will be on hand as well as vendors selling their wares.

The convention will take place June 24-26 at the West Cal Events Center located just off of I-10 in Sulphur, LA.  If you’ll be in attendance, let me know and maybe we can hang out for a bit!  Also, I’ll be bringing a few Ten Burning Questions questionnaires with me and will hopefully get some juicy answers from some of the folks at the convention!

As always, thanks for reading.  Click on the highlighted links in the post to check out Bayoucon’s website, Taylor Gray’s Facebook page, and Cute Classy Chaos’ page as well!