What’s happened with YourMiniCon in 2016 is, if anything at least, a cautionary tale of hubris. After running a successful Connecticut event, they decided to go on a massive expansion plan — announcing eleven more more conventions across the country.

But running twelve cons is a lot harder than running just one, and things soon fell apart. While the Connecticut event went off without a hitch again, before any of the new cons could take place, half of them were abruptly cancelled within weeks of their intended dates this January. This was followed by the cancellation of another four conventions in February. Finally, the last of the new eleven conventions was dropped off the calendar in March.

And they were exactly back where they started — only now they owed a lot of people money. Continue reading YourMiniCon Still Owes Money To Artists and Guests For Cancelled Events [Updated] →

After running a successful convention in Connecticut, YourMiniCon went on an aggressive expansion plan to run an additional eleven conventions across the nation. But after running their second Connecticut convention, they began cancelling events left and right.

First they cancelled six conventions back in January — just weeks before one of the events. This was followed in February with the cancellation of another four conventions.

Out of the twelve events planned for 2016, only two remained (including the Connecticut event which has already taken place).

Well, now that Connecticut convention is all that’s left. On Friday, YourMiniCon announced on Facebook that their Maine Convention (scheduled for May 21st) has now been cancelled as well. Continue reading And Now YourMiniCon Has Cancelled Their Maine Convention →

Last month we reported that convention startup YourMiniCon had cancelled six of their twelve planned conventions. Well, things aren’t looking that great for YourMiniCon’s future, as they’ve now quietly cancelled four more events (without so much as an announcement this time), leaving them now with just two.

The cancelled cons include their Las Vegas, NV show (which was scheduled for March 5-6), along with their Colorado, Ohio and Louisiana cons. The only shows remaining are YourMiniCon Maine (currently scheduled for May 21-22) and YourMiniCon Connecticut (which already took place this year).

We spoke with YourMiniCon’s William Case earlier today over Skype, and according to him the decision was made because they are attempting to refocus on the East Coast. After practically nonexistent sales for the Nevada show, they recognized that they had tried to expand too quickly. He also stated that any ticket or booth sales from the cancelled conventions will be refunded.

Honestly, I think this is the right move for the company. Every region is different, and it’s difficult to integrate with so many con scenes at once. Hopefully they’ll be able to strike the correct balance going forward.

h/t to Patrick

Yesterday we, probably for the first time ever, mentioned “YourminiCon Wisconsin” in a post. Well, anyone who saw that and suddenly decided “Hey, I’d like to go to that convention!” should sit back down — because as of an announcement last night, it’s not happening anymore.

Yourminicon, which operates a number of events, announced on their Facebook page that they were cancelling six of their upcoming events in Wisconsin, Georgia, California, Kentucky, Idaho, and Texas:

The Madison, WI event was scheduled for February 6-7, which means this cancellation is less than three weeks out from the event.

Dropping this many events at once can’t be seen as anything other than a bad sign for the company. Yourminicon is a fairly new operation, having run their first con in 2015, and their attempts to initially run 12 events was exceptionally ambitious. The fact that they’re now scaling back to only six means one of two things: either they bit off more than they can chew, or money’s tighter than they’d like to admit.

We can’t really be sure right now.

Yourminicon has stated they will be refunding or transferring memberships and booth sales to other events. We’ll see how that turns out though.