We will have a prize drawing game each day of the convention, with three prize packs being awarded each day. Some of the shiny stuff you could win by entering our prize drawing include:

The Malcolm Reynolds Metal-Plated Pistol Replica. Produced by QMx, this replica was created using a mold of the original stunt pistol carried by Nathan Fillion. And because we love our fellow Browncoats so much, we’re giving away two of these bad boys!

An awesome Serenity ornament. These things are pretty cool in their own right, but we got a few people to autograph the box for you. Signatures on this include Jane Espenson, Ron Glass, Sean Maher, Yan & Rafael Feldman (Fanty/Mingo),  Morena Baccarin,  Jewel Staite,  Adam Baldwin,  Will Conrad,  Shawna Trpcic, Alan Tudyk, Brett Matthews, Nathan Fillion, Mark Sheppard, Jose Molina, and Ben Edlund.

Plus some other stuff to round out the prize packages.

We will also be hosting a trivia game. Test your knowledge of Firefly and Serenity. The rules are simple: We’ll ask you a trivia question, if you get it right, you get to pick something from our bucket of prizes. Get it wrong, and you get the good feeling of donating to Equality Now. Some of the prizes for the trivia contest include:

Autographed headshots from Firefly/Serenity and other cool SciFi shows
St Jude collectible mugs
Limited edition 57th Overlanders Dog Tags
T-Shirts
Amazon gift cards
Comics and books
And other shiny goodness

So, if you’re attending WonderCon please stop by Booth 1286 in Hall B. All proceeds will go to Equality Now.
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Come join the California Browncoats as we welcome the holidays with a great little shindig in Santa Monica, CA. We’ll have live music, auctions of shiny things, including one of a kind autographed stuff, and there will be merchandise available for purchase from the world famous CA Browncoat table.

General Admission only $15.00. Special early admission upgrade tickets (only 20 will be sold) for $25.00. The upgrade ticket gets you early admission to the venue (at 5:30), a chance to listen to sound checks and chat with the performers, and a chance to grab the seat of your choice before the place fills up.

All proceeds raised will be donated to Kids Need to Read

And we’ll have a book drive. If you want to help out KNTR by donating books, we can help. Review the information at http://www.kidsneedtoread.org/book_list.html. Buy titles from this list and bring them to the show. We’ll take them off your hands, package them all for mailing to KNTR, and we’ll have a card you can sign. Easy as lying.

Santa Monica High School Humanities Center
601 Pico Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405

December 8th, 2012
Doors: 6:30 PM
Show: 7:00 PM

Live music from:

Vixy & Tony

Hello, The Future!

Eben Brooks

Logan Heftel

Come on out and join the fun. And if you can’t make it, please help us boost the signal.

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Check it out for details on our latest con appearances and upcoming events.

Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 7:00 pm

Starplex Woodbridge Movies 5
4626 Barranca Pkwy
Irvine, CA 92604

Our event tables will be inside the theater in the lobby, so please don’t stand in line outside.  Come on in to pick up your tickets, buy tickets, peruse the merchandise, drool over auction items and prizes, etc.  The tables will be open by 6:15 pm.

We are excited to present our fifth year of Can’t Stop the Serenity–Orange County!

The evening will feature screenings of:
SERENITY (the Big Damn Movie, of course) and “Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog”.

Plus live music from Hello, The Future, featuring “all manner of geekery”, including songs about our beloved “Firefly”. Check out “Big Damn Heroes”, a new Firefly song written for CSTS 2012, at http://youtu.be/-Fgq2QQaU3g.

The evening will also include an auction of collectibles, a fun prize drawing, and cool merchandise for sale.

All this fun feels even better because we are raising money for Equality Now, the organization fighting to promote and protect the human rights of women and girls around the world.

CSTS-OC will once again be at the Starplex Woodbridge Movies 5 where they always treat us right!  Parking is FREE and plentiful.  They have a fully stocked concession stand including popcorn, candy, drinks, $1 hot dogs, and more.   The theater is in the Woodbridge Village Center on Barranca Parkway between Lake and Creek streets.  Woodbridge Movies 5 is on the Lake street side of the shopping center and faces the parking lot.

Tickets are $15 each. Online ticket sales are now closed, but you can still purchase tickets at the door for the same price.

Updates will be posted here and you can follow @CABrowncoats for twitter updates. You can also join the SoCal Browncoats Yahoo group to join the conversation, arrange pre-CSTS meetups, coordinate carpools, etc. You can e-mail questions to events@californiabrowncoats.org.

Carbine Studios, creators of Wildstar, an exciting new MMORPG game likely to appeal to Browncoats, has donated some seriously shiny items for auction to support Can’t Stop the Serenity-Orange County as we raise money for Equality Now! Thank you Carbine Studios!

In addition to two bags of cool Wildstar swag, Carbine Studios is offering one lucky winner a full day behind the scenes visit to Carbine Studios!The winning bidder (or the person they designate) will tour Carbine Studios, choose Wildstar teams to shadow as they create the game, and get to ask lots of questions about the making of Wildstar. Plus the winner will go out to lunch with a bunch of the Wildstar folks. What a great opportunity to see an MMO game as it’s made and meet with the creative minds behind it! Carbine Studios is located in Orange County.

If you cannot attend but want to donate to a great cause, use the button below.

Please spread the word about this fun evening for a worthy cause – see you there!

After spending a few months preparing (including a pretty solid weekend right before the con), the Browncoats hit the convention floor in force bright and early on Wednesday morning to build our outpost. It takes a lot of time and effort to build our booth, and it’s always amazing to watch the progress from two tables and an empty backdrop into the finished product. Thanks to all the volunteers who came and helped out, we couldn’t get it done without you.

Preview night was a resounding success and set the tone for the remainder of the con. Based on the traffic during preview night, we figured we were going to have a busy convention and the attendees did not disappoint.

On Thursday, we hosted signings by Adam Levermore, Jamie Chambers, and Team Unicorn reported for our first signings of the convention. Lots of folks stopped by to visit and everyone had a lot of fun chatting with them.

We hosted some after hours fun on Thursday with our screening of Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog. Before the screening, we held a costume contest judged by Shawna Trpcic, the costume designer from the show. You can see some video of the event at http://youtu.be/4tnyxz8HEys

Although not an official signer this year, Mark Sheppard stopped by the booth for a few minutes and then sent people to the booth to make donations throughout the rest of the convention. Thanks Mark!

On Saturday, Tim Minear, Shawna Trpcic, and Jane Espenson all stopped by the booth to meet fans and sign stuff. We had a lot of fun listening to stories about Firefly and projects that they are all working on now.

Later on Saturday, our good friend Marian Call stopped by the booth to meet fans, sell CDs, and sign stuff. She then turned around and donated 100% of her CD sales at the booth to charity! How cool is that?

On Sunday, NY Times best selling writer Mira Grant (AKA Seanan McGuire) signed and gave away tons of books. If you haven’t checked out San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats, you really should.

In all, CABC raised and donated the following amounts to these super charities:

The Trevor Project - $8,000.00
Equality Now – $2,500
St. Jude’s – $500.00
Kids Need to Read – $500.00

Next up: Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo, September 15th-16th, Los Angeles Convention Center. If you’re planning on attending and are interested in helping us out, drop a line to volunteer@californiabrowncoats.org and let us know. We can use help setting up, tearing down, and running the booth for both days of the convention.

Hope to see many of you again at SDCC 2013!

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Do you have a device that can take a picture? Do you like to win prizes? Well step on up and enter to win a shiny prize in our SDCC ’12 CABC Photo Contest! There are THREE(!) ways to enter. You simply need to take a picture with you or a friend and one the following objects:

1) The limited edition Firefly 10^th Anniversary Pint glass available on display and for sale.
2) The CABC Browncoat challenge coin available on display and for sale.
3) The CABC Browncoat challenge coin tattoo. These tattoos will be freebies during the Con.

The more interesting the picture, the better! What kind of picture you say? Think fun, wacky, and creative! Once you have the picture, email it to Contest@CaliforniaBrowncoats.org or tweet it at @cabrowncoats with the hashtag #CABCContest12. There will be two winners. One winner will be randomly chosen out of the picture submissions. The other winner will be picked based on how interesting the picture is. The CABC board will be the judges to determine the second winner. Contest ends July 20th 2012 11:59 PST.

Limit 2 entries per person, each entry must be a different object. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. The 10^th anniversary pint glass and challenge coins are for sale, and display models will be available until the product is sold out. The tattoos are available as freebies at the booth. If you don’t see the tattoo freebie, please ask one of the staff members.

Winner will each receive: WB Dark Horse Buffy Bag, signed The Guild XBox poster, Mal action figure, and an Alex Tully (Nathan Fillion, Drive) license

Legal mumbo jumbo:

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER THIS CONTEST.
Making a purchase does not increase your chances of winning this contest. All prizes will be mailed to U.S. participants free of charge. Winners will be notified by using the method of the contest entry. In event of multiple entries, the winner will be notified by the method of the winning entry.

Odds of winning depend on how many entries received.

Two (2) winners will be awarded WB Dark Horse Buffy Bag, signed The Guild XBox poster, Mal action figure, and an Alex Tully (Nathan Fillion, Drive) license for participating in this contest. One (1) winner will be randomly picked from all contest entries. One (1) winner will be picked by the California Browncoats (CABC) Board for the most interesting picture. The CABC reserves the right to pick the second winner by an internal vote, or by asking the public using a poll.

The contest ends July 20^th 2012,11:59pm PST. Submissions received after the deadline is considered void. CABC members, the CABC San Diego Comic-Con committee members, and family members of CABC and San Diego Comic-Con committee are not eligible for this contest.

Prizes are offered “as is” with no written, express, or implied warranty. Prizes may not be substituted or transferred by the contest winner and the winner may not receive cash redemption equal to the value in lieu of the prize.

The California Browncoats reserve the right to change the rules of this contest to prevent cheating or correct errors.

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Check it out for details on CA Browncoat activities at San Diego Comic-Con

We know that some folks want to volunteer but do not know their con schedules yet. Don’t worry, the form will stay up until after Comic Con has posted the con schedule.

CA Browncoats relies on volunteers to work the booth. You’ll have fun, and you never know who will end up stopping by.

If you’re interested in volunteering, please fill out the form at the above link. We try to get the schedule out about a week before the con, depending on when Comic Con posts their schedule.

Don’t worry if you’ve never worked at something like this in the past, we’ll show you the ropes and we always try to pair new folks up with people that have worked the booth a few times.

Please note: This is NOT a form to volunteer to work for Comic Con International. That is a completely separate process, and the registration to volunteer to work for Comic Con International is closed (http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_vol.php). This is for folks who have a ticket to Comic Con and are interested in helping us raise money for charity.

Sign up or review messages at http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/CABCVolunteers/ for more information.

We’ve decided to put a limited number of the flash drive bracelets up on our eBay Page. Sales from this item will benifit Equality Now.

These are 8GB USB flash drives in the form of a wearable bracelet. In addition to being cool storage devices, the drives also come preloaded with some cool music from Marian Call, Seanan McGuire, Vixy & Tony, Patrick Donahue, and Shawn Tutt.

These debuted at WonderCon 2012 in March and will be sold again at Comic Con (provided we still have them) in July of this year.

CABC is auctioning off a framed, autographed (by Sean Maher) movie poster from his 2005 film “Live Til The End”. Proceeds from this auction will benefit The Trevor Project, the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth.

Head over to our auction page at http://www.ebay.com/sch/californiabrowncoats/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686 to bid and help raise money for a great cause!

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We’ve got a great selection of prizes for our chopstick pull game this year at WonderCon. For those who don’t know how this works, we put 50 pairs of chopsticks in a box. For a suggested donation of $5.00, pull a set out and if the tip is marked with tape, you win a prize. Even if you don’t win, you get to keep the chopsticks. 10 out of every 50 chopsticks will be marked, and there are three different “tiers” of prizes. One lucky winner of each round will win a top tier prize, 3 will win a medium prize, and 6 will win a basic prize.

All proceeds from the chopstick pull game go to The Trevor Project, this year’s charity selected by Sean Maher

So what have we got for prizes? Well, you could win: