With less than two weeks to go before Flanvention II, its organizers have suddenly posted the following message to their website.
Boosters is experiencing financial difficulties. We are doing everything in our power to facilitate Flan 2, but at this point, it is uncertain that we will be able to obtain financing in time for the event. We will update you daily in the Flan 2 forum. Anyone with airline tickets who might want to cancel, will need to do so immediately. If we are unable to obtain the needed financing by Friday, Dec. 1st, the event will be cancelled.
This, of course, is a sold-out event, and many of the tickets (for attendance and extras) were purchased ahead of time, beginning as early at this past January.
It was just the other week, in the wake of Nathan Fillion taking the unusual step of going public on his blog with problems his people were having regarding communication with BE, that all the little BE minions came out of the woodwork to talk about how BE were miracle workers and everything was just fine.
Want to watch a fanbase have a collective meltdown and prepare to the possibility of going to rhetorical war against event organizers? Watch the WHEDONesque thread. And don’t forget to watch the Booster thread itself.
Addendum: I am officially nominating BE Screwed as the unofficial, if not the official, name for any replacement, last-minute, fan-organized event. For what it’s worth, unless it’s just poor writing, the BE notice does read as a pre-cancellation notice of cancellation, rather than a warning of potential cancellation. Just with what little is known now, I expect a rash of agents calling to cancel their respective actors tomorrow, if the calls haven’t started already.
For what it’s worth, Booster Entertainment is an Oregon company, which (as it turns out) failed to renew with the Secretary of State’s Corporation Division by October 7 of this year, ven after receiving notice of the due renewal on October 20.
Addendum: There’s a fan-run hotline blog and forum on all of this now.