[ARCHIVED THREAD] - RenFest (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 2/26/2008 6:21:23 PM EDT
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Anyone get into them? Probably will go in period costume this year. Seems everyone else is. Actually I want to be able to walk around and drink beer in the open and carry a sword at the same time. (well the tie your sword down) But its still cool to me. I love doing the archery, knife throw and axe toss with my sons. So who does them? Whats your gear? I just bought a Rapier. |
+1 I'll add that I saw one guy who was CLEARLY inappropriately dressed. They should have told the guy to take off as it was not kid friendly. I'm talking about 2pm, not after dark. I know it gets freaky at night there. |
For a while the one here had different weeks as it goes for 5 or 6 weeks. Most of the time its pretty correct but they did end up having a weekend for the guys who think its all medieval and a pirate weekend. They even had a fantasy weekend for all the WOW fans. Some of the women were quite pleasing to the eye. Usually every weekend flooded with fat bearded guys in kilts though and there is always some guy in a cowboy get up. 
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BASTIDGE! I wuz gonna post dat, you vast, bloated EEEE-DEEEYOT!!! 
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My wife and I actually met at one. I was working one of the vending booths as a hobby, she was in costume. Two years later, married. We go a couple times a year but that's about it. There are actually about half a dozen through the course of the year out here. I can tell you, if you can get an "in" with someone who works there it's an orgy after hours. |
I went to the Texas RenFest this most recent season.  Took some more pics |
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I go to get good leather work, good beer drinking apparati, and to fondle swords I have no need for. Though every year I get closer to buying one. Dated a renfest/art major/theater girl way back in the day. Rennys are a lot like hippies with swords. Lotsa drugs (real drugs, not just pot), lotsa casual sex in that crowd. On the upside, she made me a chain mail vest. |
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I go to the one in Plantersville, TX. Great fun! The food at several of the places there is simply mouthwatering, the alcohol at several more is unbelievable, and the multitudes of interestingly dressed females and manly edged weapons bring a smile to my face. Been to the one near Kansas City a couple times too. |
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I worked at the MD Ren Fest for a number of years in my teens. Festers in general are utter freaks. What goes on there after hours spun my 13 year old head around plenty. Debauchery that you can't imagine. I did get to party with Penn & Teller though. (before they were famous) |
+1 RenFests are great, but when closing time comes, it's time to get out of Dodge. |
I may or may not be at the one in the Ft. Lauderdale area next weekend. Going out to see a girl I met at a wedding in Chicago, things are iffy now because an ex-boyfriend proposed when he heard I was coming (  ), so I"m going to give her a day or two to get her shit straight. Either way, I'm coming to Florida.
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I was a cast member of the Florida Ren Faire for eight years. That one cowboy dude is known as 'The Marlboro Mullett'. He walks around, rain or shine, with an ankle-length Aussie Oilskin duster, a huge black cowboy hat, dark sunglasses, and a freakin' throat mike and earpiece--not a bluetooth, a freaking throat mike. One of my buddies saw him walking around Young Circle in Hollywood in the same getup. Apparently he dresses like that year-round. I have no problem with the people who want to go in 'pseudo-costume' but ya gotta wonder about the guys who go in Nikes, blue jeans and def-leppard T-shirt with a sword strapped to their hip. A peace-bonded sword at that. Someone's seen Highlander too many times.I met my wife at the Fl. Renaissance Fair, so I guess I can't complain--or maybe I oughta. 
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buy ya a beer if you go. |
LOL thats him. EXACTLY as you described. LMAO the 'The Marlboro Mullett'.  I cant wait to tell my GF thats his nickname and that I didn't make it up. I will show her this thread for proof because she will think I made it up. Every year I see him and I tell her I am going to go up to him and yell "yeeeehawwww".ETA the pic of the legend  Oh yeah. Whats a peace bonded sword? Is that where they tie them off at the entrance? I guess they will tie mine off but its part of my costume. I think a rapier is a proper piece of 15/16/17th century attire. |
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Damn, you beat me to the punch, WildBoar...I was gonna post the same picture ! My ex-roommate is one of the Ren-Faeries. One year she and two or three of the other faerie-snax decided to award ribbons for the most outrageous mullets. The faeries would run up to someone with a mullet, chirp "Tammo!" (Faerie speak for 'mullet') and pin a green ribbon to his/her shirt. (Sadly, the mullet is not confined to the male species at the renfaire.). At the end of the day, a bunch of us cast members gathered at the front gate as the visiting hoards of people were leaving. We were kinda drunk by then. As soon as we spotted someone with a green ribbon, we'd all yell, "Tammo!" and cheer in a drunken roar.n The oblivious ribbon-wearer would grin and wave, unaware that they were basically being held in contempt by a bunch of geeks in Sir Lancelot Underoos.   Here's my old roommate holding my daughter, Ryann. (she was three at the time.) |
@ your ex roomate. Does she still do the renfest?
28 pages of pictures and not a single one from the Sea Devil Tavern? I've worked the TRF for 10 years now. My best friend owns The Kings Feast, The Prince Of Wales Pub, The Sea Devil Tavern (I've managed it for the last 3 years) as well as some other stuff. |
Yup. She has a group called the 'Renfaeries' and they perform there every year. When she, my girlfriend (now my wife) and I lived together, we all did the fair. The two months leading up to the fair were the best, a half-dozen half-nekkid faeriesnax in my living room sewing teeny-tiny costumes. and trying them on !If ya see her at the fair, tell her Eric said hi. |
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We have gone to the MD Ren-Fest in Crownsville, MD as a group of about 6-8 for the past 9-10 years. It's a blast, even though we don't go in costume. Granted some of the folks are dressed up very well, but others are just pathetic. Everyone in my group is reserved one (and only one) point and laugh moment while at the Fest. You will invariably find someone who is in the wrong costume for their physique or just looks so out of place that you can't help but point and laugh. Since you only have one, you have to make it worth while. For the first few years that we went, Sam Adams had a beer tasting event from 2-4 on Sunday afternoons. We would go and sample, and sample, and sample...and so on, for two hours. A couple of years ago, Fordham took over the booth and now you get two little tiny samples and they shoo you away!!! We used to get so drunk for free, it was great. The turkey legs and the bowls of soup are my favorite, though cheesecake on a stick is not half bad!!! I think you can get every food on a stick there!!! Now that we have kids, my 5 year old loves it (free pony rides) and the 2 year old is just getting into all the fun! mikey |
| I went to one when I was 12 or 13, bought a sword (blunt, but proper carbon steel, not a stainless wall-hanger). Tried to throw axes but I lacked the muscle mass to do it properly back then. Haven't gone to one since then, maybe at some point I will. I won't dress up in medieval gear, though, or carry any "period" weapons. |
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Ours are usually pretty historical. I've dressed up twice in simple garb and shoot a longbow for fun. People are nice, the chicks have fun dressing up like princesses, kids love it of course. I always forget how much of a hangover mead gives me so mornings have never been fun. |
+1 hot chicks in chain mail bikinis FTW!!! 
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When 'Xena: Warrior Princess' was on the local WB station, the RenFest used to have an annual 'Xena and Hercules' lookalike contest. Jesus freakin' Christ, you should have seen the freaky fat chicks in Xena minis running around going, "Yi-Yi-Yi-Yi!!!!" And a few guys, too. All the Wilton Manors limpwristers came out in droves. (And I don't mean their Glocks were stovepiping! )The wife and I met at the Florida Renfest, and we were in cast for about seven years. It just got to be too much work. The last year we did it (2005) we had two kids and one on the way, and our encampment, --with handmade fences, tents, piggy cookin' on a spit, etc--just became too much work. When it stopped beng fun we decided to hang up the chainmail. Some of our core group still does it and they have a smaller camp, but it ain't what it used to be. Plus my buddy who used to bring gallons of homemade mead and kegs of beer isn't there anymore. It would be too expensive for me to drink--I mean hang out-there.
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Sorry, I'll be sure to check it out next time 
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 is that kid staring that that guys tits? |
| The wife & I went to the one outside Atlanta about 4-5 years ago. It was a good time, especially a couple of the shows we caught were a lot of fun. I remember a group called the Tortuga Twins (there were 3 of them) and a duo of jugglers called the Zuchinni Brothers, lots of entertainment in those two groups. |