Dates: September 5th - 7th 2025
Venue: Rosen Center, Orlando
https://marefair.org/https://marefair.org/https://marefair.org/New website pages:
https://marefair.org/credits/https://marefair.org/mascots/Still accepting panel, staff, vendor, and musician applications
https://marefair.org/apply/Event tracker not directly related to Mare Fair
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/17CUfrC9hP_MndY1H3-cAR9gQ6VjW9lY0ksFIytSNkTk/htmlview?pli=1note:
First year there was one moon man cosplay, second year there were two moon man cosplays
Three moon man cosplays needed this year.
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>>5580Not the guy you were talking to. But as a guy coming from outside the country alone, I do hope I make some new friends! Hopefully
>>5604nta but I'll be making the pilgrimage from england, this better be the best goddam nazi horsefucker convention I've ever been to. it would suck ass so bad if I didn't make any frens there, (you) will be my fren anon, this is not negotiable.
This 'image' of MF needs to be preserved
I LOVE MARE FAIR MARES WITH FLARES
>>4810>I’m not sure how you top a complete friendship windmill.12 anons doing the star of david. Post on Xitter. Call anyone who complains an antisemite.
>>5441No, that landwhale is actually an "influencer" with a YT channel.
maime newt is the wife of Big Mac's VA.
>>5690ya, some soyboi wrote it during the harmonycon, I wish we had a proper fight club panel, to knock some sense into their goonrotten heads.
>>5743lel, that would be some funny shit.
>>5748kek, they didn't even deface the signage only a single flyer
>corp in the background with his waifubless that man
Threadly reminder for vendors to bring Cheerilee merch so I can buy it.
>>5748I wasent planning on going to mareflare in florida, but because its naz*s, I just might go this year
Is anyone gonna bitch if I'm in an Aryanne fursuit? It won't be until next year, but I'm starting now.
>>5748Is there footage of the specimen who did that, like, from the security cameras?
>>5779Likely, but good luck getting it from the Hotel, the likelihood that the culprit is also a hotel guest (or could be assumed to be) is basically a given, and the hotel isn't gonna intervene except if there's criminal liability, which there wouldn't be in this case
>>5779I'm pretty sure that's taken from his twitter, if you're autistic as to go after him searching is profile might be a good start.
>>5777>bitchNo one's going to bitch, ponysuits are cool, we just hate furshit.
>>5777blessed numbers confirm we will see some Aryanne ponysuit in the next couple years. Based.
>>5748Would be funny if we all came with fragrant scented perfumes so people would go to Marefair and be taken aback by the smell
>>5683can't even spell nazis right
>>5940Do you know about the snowpity spray?
>>5988just like how jews draw spastica when ever they try to draw swastika
>>5991As Europoor the boarder control will try to diddle me if I attempt to get any mysterious liquids on the plane. And while Im pretty sure I could just buy one and use the whole bottle by spraying anybody within the arm-reach for the whole three days, it just doesn't sound like a great fun to me to work "on the clock".
To Mare Fair gamer room panelist, if you lurk in this thread, could you set up few laptops with Xonotic (QUake clone) with pony mod?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8JD2g4N9JA [Embed]https://archive.org/details/xmdl-pony_v4.1>>6008Preach the snowpity spray to them, maybe you'll convince them to buy one
>>6008We'll figure something out for you
>>6019Oh wow, did you type that all by yourself?
last year at mare fair soapone rubbed wolvan down with a bottle of snowpity. Wolvan smelled like fruit cake for a week (or more) even after showering multiple times to try to get the smell out. Wish somebody would post that video, at least 2-3 different anons captured the moment.
>>6065I recorded the entire thing. I can see if I can upload it.
>>5748>oh no, someone defaced my tiny flyer, someone call the cops!why are you chuds such fragile snowflakes?
should i register to the events asap or do i have time still?
>>6068autists love to overreact over trivial shit
>>6086not sure if any of the mare fair staff visit this site
>>6086The event tracker is ran by anons doing anon things most of them are not done by marefair.
Id prefer you register for mine now, that way we have plenty of time to organize transportation.
>>6333What's yours? Do we have a google docs or similar in which to organize or do we just have to get lucky and hope the organizer sees this thread?
>>6334Yeah, its in the OP
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/17CUfrC9hP_MndY1H3-cAR9gQ6VjW9lY0ksFIytSNkTk/htmlview?pli=1These events (Aside from the cinemare and nasa meetup, corpo has cannonized those) are just anons doing anon things. Links to the signups are there.
>>6068Lol, no one cared. It was amusing more than anything. Why do you conflate snowflake behavior to observing snowflake behavior?
>>6086The only events needing registration are things like the cruise and the visit to the horse shelter.
In perpective
>anon notices a defaced Marefair flyer
Kek
"OMFG ASSBLASTED! FUCKING SNOWFLAKES LOL! CAN NAZIS EVEN?"
>>5743count me in for Celestia's star of Palestinian tolerance
>>6406Can't wait to watch Springtime for Aryanne panel for MF4
ive been abusing stickermule deals for freebee stickers for the con, mostly chan-related stuff. heres my most recent design
>>7055Based, cute, and check them dubs
Reminder to the newfags that if there are journalists there, don't talk to them.
>>7179Have there been journalists in the last two marefairs? I haven't seen any articles written about us
>>7252the only thing I saw personally was some normie yt bronies making comments at "huh /mlp/ 4chan made their own convention?" and some twitter fags screeching about the pool swastika. Maybe by MF5 with 2000+ attendants some local Orlando news station will notice us.
>>7252There are few YouTubers and lots and lots of Twitter drama surrounding it. Is that publicity?
>>7316If the (wrong) reputation it has keeps up, someone might show up. This has happened before.
>>7252cause they have nothing. you know, they expect to write an article about actual nazis pretending it's a pony convention while selling weapons and mein kampf or shit like that.
instead anything they found could make good publicity so it's a nope.
EQD is pretty much like this. good news doesn't sell.
I'll be applying to do a panel this year about lolcows
>>6337the one extra event that i feel interested into would be the gun range but well i still got to practice it more here. otherwise I'm thinking of visitng Orlando in full tourist mode, perhaps I'll make an effort for the restau.
still, tha'ts my first con, gotta think of items to bring for sale.
original drawings, like on paper, in addition of drawing RL sketches
prints? ( i can do A4, laser quality but someone recommended a printer in Orlando that might be useful to grab them there for larger formats)
decals?
Enamel pin's. yeah gotta look for that, the problem being >come from france >got to deal with the customs.
mf3 is my first ever con. very excited
Noticed they have a survey for what kind of spaghetti and tendie dinner is desired
https://marefair.org/news/charity-dinner-survey/>>8197>those pricesEven though it's for charity, one is better off getting something tasty from a local provider (golly, does florida have food places I wonder?) and give direct to Snowpity than pay that shit.
>t. ex buffet line-cook >>8199agreed, my father, brother, and sister are chefs. Personally enjoy cooking food too.
Lets just rent out a local church and use their commercial kitchen and make proper food for cheap.
I think the first two options are custom catered and delivered to one of the rooms used by the convention (if I had to guess). The last option is just to use one of the restaurants in the hotel that has seating for ~400ppl
>>8200>rent out a churchI'm listening, it might draw out chef anon from Marecon
>buffetRight, and of the options that's the least egregious, but let's not kid ourselves; if one wants to eat well, they can do so for much cheaper. If one wants to support horses, their money will go further if they donate direct.
>>8200Sorry, I'm a little offended at this. $90 for spaghetti and shit? $75 for pizza? Who the fuck is catering??
>>8202listening to what?
if it was an option then it would be listed in the vote. it is not, so I can't really offer to help for something that won't happen. I still think "by anons for anons" would result in the most fantastic food.
The problem with catering for 500 people (or more) is the insane amount of prepwork. Some of that can be minimized with a good food source, but breading 150lbs of chicken and deepfrying all of it, and the rest of the process will take about 2 days with a team of people.
>>8208I think you underestimate what is and isn't an option. If you haven't voted yet, consider voicing discontent in the comments. Let me just suggest that there will be receptivity to objections to the price point
>>8236Clearly they'll be wearing their yarmulkes. Thats the funny jewish hat if you're unfamiliar with seeing it spelled out. No, $90 for spaghetti is fucking absurd. $75 for pizza is fucking absurd, I don't care how many sides you give. For fucks sake, $75 for pizza. Someone is asking to get shot
>>8238I know the score! The price of food per person is like $10-15! The cost is the CATERING and LABORIf there's to be a charity banquet, let's not piss money away needlessly. That's my point, and I'm the asshole planning to feed the late night drunks regardless
>he's still going
Nononono, let's break this down shall we?
>caprese salad
Lettuce, sliced tomato, mozarella, salt, pepper, and olive oil.
>grilled vegetable antipasti
Grilled/roasted (and seasoned, one would hope) vegetables
>Chicken tenders
Chicken, flour/egg/breading/seasoning
>Linguini with herbs, mushrooms, and tomato
There's probably butter and seasoning, but otherwise pretty self-explanatory.
>dinner rolls and butter
Oh wow! Flour? Salt? Eggs? Milk? Oh, and who can forget the butter! And the time and heat of course.
>deserts and starbucks
Getthefuckouttahere
>but anon, you're neglecting the labor
Not at all. This hotel is designed to service 1000s at a time, they're operating at scale, and either making ingredients in-house or buying them at cost. Probable cost of ingredients - all considered - is probably ~ $15 per head.
$75 in labor and shit? I'm not begrudging paying the people who make it happen, but thats a GLARING surplus that's NOT going to the horses. I get it, normalfags will be into it and not bat an eye at shit like that, but I'm calling shenanigens.
>He's STILL on about it
YES! You could get an equal meal at a restaurant for like $40-50! And that's a GENEROUS estimate.
Who on EARTH; okay again, I appreciate that normalfaggots who have too much money and don't want to be bothered will fall pay for that shit just for the convenience, but bruh.
$90? Y'all better be bringing me a fucking tomahawk and shit!
that's why I think we should get a commercial kitchen somewhere close by and do it all ourselves.
>>8300And in a few years there will be a mobile one with hookers and blackjack.
Not a joke.
But for now, I've got a bunch of propane/electric stoves, hot plates, and convection ovens
>>8283>>8240>>8238Anon, it's explicitly a charity event dinner.
The first year they did a spaghetti and chicken tender dinner because their contract with the Hotel required them to spend something like $5000 or so dollars on food and catering, because that was by far the cheapest way to book the venue. So they had a night where they served food, charged like $109 for the tickets, completely sold out the dinner, and then gave the money raised to the charity.
They charge $90 because it's to raise money for charity, and because the event will sell out regardless of how much they charge. The difference in price, I assume, is to reflect differences in overhead prices. I have no idea if this new contract requires them to buy catering, but I know that by this point it's a tradition.
>>8382>Anon, it's explicitly a charity event dinner.Huh, that must be why I made that a foremost concession here
>>8199It's still a silly and inefficient price to pay given what's offered.
>>8386Not only is $90 less than what was charged the first year, they sold out the room in the first year, and a few attendees were desperate to pay even more to get in when some people cancelled their tickets
>>8390>b, but it's cheaper than the previous yearWell congratulations for being slightly less retarded. I get it, the hotel is being a douchebag about it, which is why the correct answer is to not comply. I'm all for supporting the horses, and the hotel is getting their due by way of the rooms, attendees, and all associable fees.
>anons are okay with it thoYes, there are plenty of anons with more money than sense. Did you hear how fast the Mare Schizo tier sold out this year? Regardless, $90 for fucking tendies and spaghetti is fucking ABSURD on all levels. What, are they flying the spaghetti in from italy?
>>8678>Did you hear how fast the Mare Schizo tier sold out this year?It took nearly a week for it to sell this year, previous years it sold almost instantly, it was also cheaper this year iirc.
>$90 for fucking tendies and spaghetti is fucking ABSURDagreed but if it's such a big deal to you just don't go
>>8679>it took almost a week this yearAre you mental? I registered in under 2 hours, and all that was available was "Mare Enjoyer".
And more to that point, Mare Schizo sold last year in 3 seconds.
And just to further validate that point, 1 month before registration even BEGAN, approximately 250 con attendees already booked their room (am one of them).
>>8390Does anyone know what approx. percentage of the charity dinner actually goes to the charity?
>>8683If an answer is forthcoming, it will be immediately shared, because I also want to know
>>8680As someone who had to fight with the F5 key to get a Mare Enthusiast badge, I distinctly remember the Mare Schizo taking a few days to sell (not surprising considering the 15.5K price tag)
>>8694I don't know what to tell you then. I would have registered a higher tier if I could have, and when I went to register "Enjoyer" was the only one NOT sold out.
>he's STILL on about the fucking dinner
That's $75-80 for spaghetti. Are you kidding me?
>>5202Once you're approved, you'll be invited to a dicksword with the other vendors, could be a good opportunity to ask for participants
Then just fill out a panel app
>>5683Heard a rumor it might be donated into the auction at MF
>>8300That'd be cool if it can be pulled off, would love to see it happen
>>8723what are we supposed to do without dicksword? email marefair?
>>8713so 10-20% or so for each dinner sold goes to charity?
>>8724Nah, you'll have to figure out and reach out to each vendor individually, perhaps stalk their social media or look in store sites for emails
Or ask the vendor lead if he'd be willing to write a one time email to all vendors
But that shit could be annoying to some vendors, so not sure what they'd say
>>5202I didn't know Gary will be there, but yes, now that you mention it. Batfang and Vultrex were on my spaghetti-list
>>8725>$9-14 goes to horsesOstensibly, yes. I can get MUCH better margins with ease.
Lets put it differently.
If you were offered a plate of spaghetti for $75, would you?
>>8731>$75 spaghettiNo, of course you wouldn't. With a little planning, you can have all-you-can-eat CRAB for $30, also for charity. No, the spaghetti is NOT justified, die in a fire you jewish-ass hotel caterers.
>>8713>F&B minimumThan sell more tendies dinner tickets, this will lead to more faces needing to be fed and in turn more money spent for food by Snowpity and in turn meeting the minimum requirements.
Unless the hotel is expecting a 2000+ attendees, if this is the case, than they can eat a bag of dicks.
>>8824Pardon me for engaging a bit of schizo, but you can easily reach through the ether to grasp the motivation; the hotel is adjacent to a convention center, their MO is to fleece the customer for all they can, banking (literally) on deep pockets and not alot of questions asked. I'm sure it works, but not this time.
>>8382>>8390They charge $35 the first year. Where on earth did you get $109 from?
>>8824>F&B minimum>Than sell more tendies dinner tickets, this will lead to more faces needing to be fed and in turn more money spent for food by Snowpity and in turn meeting the minimum requirements.Nono, re-read it. IT says previous years there HAS been an F&B minimum, but this year there ISN'T, it's a flat rate per head.
Which is where I draw umbrage from. It doesn't matter how many tickets are sold, Fallen Oak only gets $10-15 per head. Just because it's a "charity" dinner and "special occasion" is how the hotel can get away with that kind of shit.
Oh, I'm gonna be on about this for a while. I've been crunching the numbers. Here's the facts.
At scale, a real cost breakdown looks like:
Pasta: $0.40–$0.70 per person
Sauce (canned passata + aromatics): $1–2 per person tops
Breaded chicken: $2–3 per person, if you're being generous
Bread: Pennies, unless they’re gilding it with saffron (they’re not)
Staff time: already budgeted into hotel banquet overhead
Overhead: already built into the contract (electricity, room, gear, etc.)
They’re charging charity donors $75 for something that costs them less than $10–12 per head, even with markup, waste, spoilage, and labor accounted for.
>>8976>previous years there HAS been an F&B minimum, but this year there ISN'TOh, I see, in that case fuck the fancy dinner style set up, Mare Fair should just rent out a day at some mom-n-pop burger joint restaurant that's within 15m driving distance and let people enjoy meal together without wasting it on the "presentation".
Fuck hotel and fuck "we did it last year so it's tradition now", I would be equally happy with some basic open air grill and hotdogs if it meant it kept the charity or convention afload, but seeing them wanting to piss away the money just for the sake of it is just annoying.
>>9035I'm with you there except for
>driveMost people are flying in, transportation is tough even if there's shuttles and shit. The biggest benefit of the hotel dinner is that it's right there and there's always an open bar. Also to be clear the hotel charity dinners, as with most catered events like this, are all-you-can-eat (plus the open bar), not just one plate of spaghetti and tendies; I'm afraid your number autism is probably rather off the mark, though it's safe to assume it's a rip-off either way.
>>9040>number autismHis might be, but mine isn't.
>transportationThere's a lake-side RIGHT THERE, it doesn't have to be complicated. Just a bunch of horsefuckers deciding to occupy this area of the beach.
And this is just brainstorming, this is without planning.
>>9035Let's go this route. $20 at a mom-and-pops is gonna get you well fed, and $30 is gonna get you stuffed. That leaves $60-70 to the charity.
I can break down what the hotel is trying to do, beyond what I have so far, but the end result is the same: a curious fixation with small hats.
>>9047>let's go this routeHypothetically speaking, I'm just a loud-mouthed asshole with zero sayon anything.
Technically, this is all in support of the buffet, which was $40/head. Literally, that's the most obvious cost-effective option
marefair will be lit this year