BALLROOM V: BALLROOM IV and III: BALLROOM II: BALLROOM I: TOKUSATSU ROOM DEALERS ROOM LECTURE HALL II LECTURE HALL I CONCOURSE B: CONCOURSE A: AUTOGRAPHS AND G-FANS ESCAL- REGISTRATION HELPING G-FANS ATOR CHICAGO FIRE OVEN FRONT RESTAURANT DESK LOBBY ON THE STAIRS FLY FOOD CADDYSHACK SERVICE RESTAURANT IDEATION TO VISIBILITY BAR BALMORAL LOUNGE: HOTEL BALLROOM: GAMING ROOMS ARCADE & POOL EXIT TO PARKING LOT VIDEOGAMING G-FEST SITE MAP: UPPER LEVEL LOWER LEVEL KENNEDY: HEATHROW GATWICK HANEDA: SYDNEY DA VINCI: LECTURE HALL III DESTROY ALL JOHN G-FEST MINYA’S PLACE MONSTERS 50TH BELLOTTI 25TH KIDS ACTIVITIES ANNIVERSARY ART ANNIV. DISPLAY DISPLAY DISPLAY LOVE A & B: ORLY: DULLES: LA GUARDIA: LOGAN: ARTIST ALLEY MONSTER KEIZO MURASE ART DISPLAY STOR- MASSAGE DISPLAY AGE M O R E ESCAL- A ATOR MIDWAY: R G-FEST FILM FESTIVAL T ROOM KITTY HAWK: I MODEL INSTRUCTION OFFICES S AND DISPLAY T A L L STAIRS E Y G-FEST XXV PROGRAM, JULY 13 - 15, 2018 7 FRIDAY, JULY 13, 2018 SESSIONS SESSIONS SESSIONS GAMING FILM MODEL ARTISTS MECHA-G TOKUSATSU DEALERS OTHER FESTIVAL THREAD ALLEY ARCADE SESSIONS ROOM BALLROOM 1 BALLROOM 2 KENNEDY IDEATION MIDWAY KITTY HAWK LOVE A&B BALMORAL BALLROOM 5 BLRM 3 & 4 9:00 AFTER THE BOOM 50th REGISTRA- Anniversary TION (all day) OPENS 10:00 GENERAL MINYA’S Display KAIJU FILMS, GAMING PLACE Room open DOJO STYLE OPENS AT for drop-off, Alaena Gavins then viewing 10:00 AM in 11:00 HEATHROW & G-FEST KAIJU DESTROY COSTUMING GATWICK. ORIENTATION ASSAULT ALL PANEL Coloring and SESSION: TOURNEY DRAGONS Sean crafts for young J.D. Lees BEGINS Larry Tribula Sumagaysay fans. 12:00 GAMING ZILLA’S 20TH KAIJU KING- KAIJU MEET KEIZO Art and other OPEN! display rooms BIRTHDAY DOM PODCAST SAMURAI MURASE Jeff Horne et Jessica Tseang, Kevin VIDEO open at Kyle Yount NOON. al. Chris Eaton Derendorf GAME TOURNEY 1:00 G-PARDY G: A PALEON- 25 YEARS SIGN-UP AND OGON BAT ADULT GAME TOLOGIST’’S of G-FEST WARM-UP. Andrew Battaglia 1 TAKE MODELS Classic OPEN TO STAFF Skip Peel Denny Roth Stan Hyde Godzilla video games ONLY 2:00 GODZILLA AT G-PARDY H-MAN: 60 BUILDING available for OPEN TO THE MARVEL ADULT GAME YEARS KAIJU free=-play. PUBLIC COMICS 2 Kyle Byrd, MODEL Pinball too! FOR Martin Arlt Skip Peel Matt Parmley KITS SHOPPING 3:00 Panel TOP 10 SCI-FI HORROR IN KAIJUVISION COSTUME PREHISTORIC KAIJU FILMS RADIO PARADE Tristan Domay Brian ORIENTATION: MONSTERS Game play et al. Scherschel et al. ALL LEVELS Allen Debus et al. resumes 4:00 DESTROY ALL TTACK OF G-PARDY A MONSTERS 50TH KIDS’ EDITION KAIJU Ed Godziszewski, A Skip Peel NTHOLOGY Steve Ryfle Neil Riebe et al. 5:00 5:00 PM: REGISTRATION CLOSES FOR THE DAY 6:00 GREEN ROOM PREP FOR 7:00 COSTUME OPENING CEREMONIES PARADE DOJO STUDIOS PREMIERE: BREAKING NEWS 8:00 YOUNG FAN COSTUME PARADE 9:00 SPECIAL EVENTS TODAY RADIOACTIVE KARAOKE Kaiju Assault in Ideation Lounge Opening Ceremonies in Ballroom 1&2 Radioactive Karaoke in Ballroom 2 10:00 10:30 PM 11:00 AT THE PICKWICK: RAMPAGE 8 G-FEST XXV PROGRAM, JULY 13 - 15, 2018 SATURDAY, JULY 14, 2018 SESSIONS SESSIONS SESSIONS GAMING FILM MODEL ARTISTS MECHA-G TOKUSATSU DEALERS OTHER FESTIVAL THREAD ALLEY ARCADE SESSIONS ROOM BALLROOM 1 BALLROOM 2 KENNEDY IDEATION MIDWAY KITTY HAWK LOVE A&B BALMORAL BALLROOM 5 BLRM 3 & 4 9:00 OPEN FOR JAPAN UPDATE KAIJU TRIASSIC MAKE & TAKE KAIJU SHIGERU VIDEO REGISTRA- WITH M-11 FILMMAKING WORLD PART 1 (2 hrs) FILMMAKING MIZUKI TOURNEY TION Robert Scott SKILLS (Sales here Jake Joyce Boss SIGN-UP ONLY RESUMES Field Jake DeNunzio at 8:00 AM) DeNunzio 10:00 OTHER SIDE CELEBRATING GODZILLA GENERAL Display GO-GO RISER OPEN TO MINYA’S FREE PLAY OF HONDA DESTROY ALL STORIES GAMING Room open SHOGUN! THE PLACE TIME. Ed Godziszewski, MONSTERS Stephen AND KAIJU GODZILLA VS for drop-off and Live stage PUBLIC OPENS AT Steve Ryfle Martin Arlt et al. Schilling ASSAULT GIANT CLAW viewing. show FOR 9:00 AM in TOURNAMENT SHOPPING HEATHROW & 11:00 KING SUMMIT KAIJU 11:00 AM to MAKE & VIDEO GATWICK. INTERVIEW: DRAWING KONG CREATIVE 3:00 PM TAKE GAME Coloring and KEN SATSUMA WITH MATT (2016): A CONTEST SESSION 2 TOURNEY crafts for young Kyle Yount Matt Frank FAN FILM Jeremy Soles et al. BEGINS. fans. 12:00 FRESH VINYL GAMERA INTERVIEW: LIVE VS VIRAS MEGUMI Richard Eso et AT 50 ODAKA al. T. Domay et al. 1:00 TOKYO S.O.S.: INTERVIEW: THE ART OF Model room BEING 15 YEARS GENE KAIJU WRITING resetting. GFANTIS Archie Waugh, RIZZARDI Skip Peel, Neil Display room Rich St. Ira Taborn et al. Stan Hyde Riebe et al. continues. Andrews et al. 2:00 ZONE WONDERFEST PACIFIC RIM 2 WOMEN OF KAIJU- PHOTO FIGHTER: JAPAN Jeff Horne, Ira KAIJU FANDOM NOMICS SCAVENGER FALLEN RETROSPECTIVE Taborn, Miguel Jessica Keith Foster TOKUSATSU HUNT: METEOR Barroso, et al. Tseang Stan Hyde PANEL BALMORAL 3:00 Keizo Murase, REMEMBERING VARAN: 60 HOW TO GODZILLA: BUILDING Daisuke Sato HARUO NAKAJIMA YEARS! KILL A WRATH OF MODELS FOR Rich Eso, Ed Godzis- Kevin Horn KAIJU THE THE MOVIES zewski, et al. Ira Taborn HYBRID Gene Rizzardi 4:00 G-FEST GO-GO RISER KAIJU MUSIC GIANT ROBOT CHAMPION- JURASSIC MEMORIES SHOGUN! VIDEOS MOVIES SHIP GAME GAMES J.D. Lees, Stan Live stage Andy Steele Kevin Hyde, et al. Derendorf show 5:00 6:00 MEGASHARK VS GIANT GREEN ROOM OCTOPUS FEELING A LITTLE PREP FOR TENSE? GO FOR A COSTUME 7:00 MONSTER MASSAGE IN PARADE FINAL G-PARDY THE ORLY ROOM. AWARDS: EXPERT ATTENTION AT G-FAN HALL OF FAME ATLANTIC REASONABLE RATES. LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT RIM 8:00 MANGLED SKYSCRAPER RAFFLE DRAWS ADULT FAN COSTUME PARADE MAKING G-FEST HAPPEN: 9:00 AMATEUR KAIJU VIDEOS ATLANTIC ANDY STEELE RIM: RESUR- Andy brings the presentations RECTION and sessions of G-FEST to an even higher 10:00 level by setting up and manning the AV system in the Main Hall. He essentially produces the entire weekend program “on AGE OF the fly,” an amazing feat. He also DINOSAURS 10:30 PM 11:00 followed by organizes and MCs the entries in the Kaiju AT THE INSECTULA Music Video Contest. PICKWICK: at midnight! GODZILLA vs MOTHRA. G-FEST XXV PROGRAM, JULY 13 - 15, 2018 9 SUNDAY, JULY 15, 2018 SESSIONS SESSIONS SESSIONS GAMING FILM MODEL ARTISTS MECHA-G TOKUSATSU DEALERS OTHER FESTIVAL THREAD ALLEY ARCADE SESSIONS ROOM BALLROOM 1 BALLROOM 2 KENNEDY IDEATION MIDWAY KITTY HAWK LOVE A&B BALMORAL BALLROOM 5 BLRM 3 & 4 9:00 LOVE AND OPEN TO PEACE THE 9:30 AM PUBLIC REGISTRATION RESUMES 10:00 ALL-NEW Display OPEN ALTERNATE OPEN SONORAMA WITH KRAZY KAIJU GENERAL open. Costume CUT FOR KAMASHIBAI MOMENTS GAMING PAINTING prizes Scrooge Jones PRESERVATION GAMING awarded Stan Hyde et al. Will Offutt et al. MODELS Panel 11:00 LOST FILMS, (2 hrs.) INTERVIEW: PLANET OF KING KONG GO-GO RISER NEW DON FRYE MONSTERS (2016): A SHOGUN! DISCOVERIES Chris Little FAN FILM Live stage John LeMay et al. show 12:00 JAPAN’S KAIJU IN Display CONTEST GREEN SPECULATIVE open. Pick WINNERS MONSTERS POETRY: Bryan up models AWARDS Sean Rhoads Thao Worra by 2:00 PM. 1:00 GODZILLA & GIANT AMERICAN SCULPTING MONSTERS GIGAN JAPANESE CHARACTERS 1:30 PM ATTACK NYC Bill NATIONALISM IN G-FILMS GODZILLA VS REGISTRATION Mark Bailey Gudmundson Steve Ryfle et al. Ira Taborn GIANT CLAW CLOSES 2:00 BEST G VS MG2: 25 CREATING ZONE FIGHTER: PHOTOGRAPH- GODZILLA YEARS ORIGINAL FALLEN ING MODELS & MOVIE EVER! Jeff Horne, KAIJU METEOR TOYS Colin McMahon et al. Danny Tokarz et al. Dane Kroll Stan Hyde GODZILLA: 3:00 WRATH OF THE BUILDING G-FAN, GODZILLA NON-G HYBRID G-FEST, YOUTUBERS G-GAMES AMAZING G-TOUR Miguel Barroso, Matt DIORAMAS JURASSIC J.D. Lees Raphael Cosme et al. Kowalewski Bill Gudmundson 4:00 GAMES KAIJU KONFESSIONS Stan Hyde 5:00 6:00 GODZILLA PINBALL Check out the beautiful, authentic, old fashioned Godzilla-themed pinball machine in the video gaming room. Built from scratch by Charlie Emery. Plus, a vintage GINO pinball game, and a Godzilla arcade game. Big thanks to 7:00 www.spookypinball.com. 8:00 NO NEED TO VACATE THE PREMISES. THERE’S GREAT EATING RIGHT INSIDE THE HOTEL! 9:00 TITANO- SAURUS Chicago Fire Oven is a full service restaurant featuring pizza, SOCIETY salads, sandwiches, hearty and delicious meals, and more. OF NORTH 10:00 AMERICA On the Fly for quick meals and lighter fare. (A.K.A. DEAD DOG- Visibility Bar for beverages, plus the Fire Oven’s menu. ZILLA 11:00 PARTY) in the lobby, Caddyshack (NEW!!): Eat, drink, and be Murray! bar area, patio... 10 G-FEST XXV PROGRAM, JULY 13 - 15, 2018 GENERAL SESSIONS FRIDAY, JULY 13 Kaijuvision Radio : Godzilla and the Japanese National Spirit (3:00 PM, Kennedy) - Join Brian Scherschel and Nathan Marchand, who’ve G-FEST Orientation (11:00 AM, Ballroom 1) - As an aid to maximizing analyzed the Godzilla franchise in 37 episodes of their podcast, their G-FEST experience, fans can drop by this session and get answers Kaijuvision Radio, as they illustrate how G-films have expressed to any questions from the convention organizers. Japanese thoughts and feelings on various contemporary issues over the decades. It may surprise you how even the “silly” films are full of Zilla’s 20th Birthday (NOON, Ballroom 1) - Twenty years ago, Godzilla profound hidden meaning. headlined an American-made film for the first time, and fans were mostly left wanting. Does time heal all wounds? Come hear a panel discussion 50th Anniversary of Destroy All Monsters (4:00 PM, Ballroom 1) - looking back at the film, its reception, and its legacy.