Category: CONsole Room News

Lights, Camera, Action

Doctor Who has been filling our lives with galactic time travel for over fifty years. Sure, the stories are engaging, the Doctors are quirky, and the time travel is intoxicating, but there’s one thing above all that’s kept the show ticking through thick and thin: the fans. Our #WhoItYourself campaign is all about celebrating you, the Whovians, and what better way to honor our favorite film success than with a little film of your own?

Introducing CONsole Room’s first ever Film Contest! We’re asking creators of all ages to put together their best Doctor Who-inspired film for the chance to compete in our contest. Top entries will be shown at CONsole Room’s Film Festival during the 2017 CONsole Room event and will have the chance to win an additional prize. Create a fresh new minisode, Doctor tribute, original alien invasion, or beyond – the possibilities are as limitless as time itself!

Think you have what it takes? Read the details at our Film Festival page. Happy filming!

Our Hotel Room Block is OPEN

We are returning for the fourth year in a row to the Hilton MSP Airport/Mall of America for our convention, and the best way to make sure you won’t miss one bit of fun is by staying at the hotel.

Rooms at the Hilton are now available to book at our discounted event price, with prices starting at just $107/night. More information can be found at our Hotel page above, or you can follow this link to go directly to the reservation page. Make sure that “CONSOLE ROOM 2017” is selected under the Special Accounts and Rates section, or add Group Code “DRWHO”.

We hope to see you there!

#WhoItYourself – Inspired by Doctor Who

During the years that Doctor Who was off our television screens, the fans turned toward their own creativity. That creativity has only grown since our show came back on. You’ve written stories, made videos, drawn comics, sewn costumes, built props, recorded podcasts, and so much more.

Starting with CONsole Room 2017, we wanted to celebrate that creativity with the campaign that called #WhoItYourself! During the months between conventions, we’ll be spotlighting the creative works of Doctor Who fans on our website and via social media, and combining forces with the Geek Partnership Society to host some masquerade workshops and other hands-on creative events. And we want you to bring all of your creations to the next CONsole Room to share your hard work with fellow fans!

So watch our Facebook page, and follow us on Twitter and Pinterest, where we’ll be posting a new prompt occasionally to help inspire you in your #WhoItYourself creativity. Whether your muse is Vincent Van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Dickens, or Shakespeare, we want to you share your comics, costume, fan fiction, or anything else you’ve created. Tag CONsole Room on social media, along with #WhoItYourself, or email us directly with your creative work based on our weekly prompt. We’ll be spotlighting a creator each week that embodies our theme, so watch for us to announce our first theme next week!