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MFF Survivor Guide

Ahmar Wolf

With MFF Opening it’s Room Lottery I felt it was time to give my readers who plan on going to MFF a few tips to actually save money.

The biggest expense is the ROOM although I won’t tell you were to stay, as a lot depends on them. BUT there are cheaper rooms with FREE parking. If all you need is a place to sleep and store your stuff why pay extra. I know these places aren’t exactly walking distance. But the savings will make your wallet happy. Even with Uber and Lyft.

The only problem you have to figured out where you will be staying has to be done early. I made my reservation in March.

Breakfast

To me there is one 1 real choice Denny’s why? Food is good, and considering the prices for the area. Cheap. Besides they love us furries, even fursuiting is allowed. Just not when the food is served. Other than that they are cool.

Snacks and drinks

Buy yours at the nearest grocery store, and store them in your room. The number of coolers I see every year gets larger. $6 for a 20 oz bottle of soda is crazy

Here is something I bet a lot of you don’t know. MFF has a Staff Lounge, where Staff and Volunteers can snatch up a cold drink or a snack for FREE. I am not going to tell you, how to sneak in. Even though I know where it is. But instead you might consider Volunteering. This could literally save you money you will spend elsewhere.

Dealer’s Den and artist alley. I know it’s hard set a budget. I know it’s hard, but if you want to have some money left.

MFF Room Lottery Opens Tomorrow

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Fur con FOMO? Feeling the PCD on your way home from the weekend??
The Midwest FurFest 2026 Room Lottery will open at 7 PM CDT on Wednesday, August 26!

The lottery will remain open until Thursday, September 3.
Register to enter the lottery: https://ow.ly/mOnv50ZESKY

Editor’s Note

If your looking for another alternative there are cheaper and smaller hotels in the general area

MFF 2026 Reg Opens Today

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It opens at 7PM Central Time on Aug 20, 2026 https://www.furfest.org/attend/register

Standard Membership
$100 Pre-Reg / $110 At Con

Purchasing a Standard Membership includes:

A themed badge printed with your name

Lanyard

Access to our Dealer’s Den, Artist Alley, Art Show, game room, and more!

Admittance to our extensive programming, including the Main Stage events, a wide variety of panels, and dances

Access to our digital program guide

Sponsor
$225

A Sponsorship shows that you think the con is kind of awesome and you’d like to help us make it happen. As a Sponsor, you will receive all of the benefits of a Standard Membership, as well as the following gifts:

Priority seating for some of our most popular events

Early badge pickup Thursday afternoon for pre-registered sponsors

Sponsor Brunch on Saturday morning

Sponsor Badge Ribbon

Sponsor T-shirt

Sponsor Pin

And MORE!

Shiny Sponsorship
$450

A Shiny Sponsorship is for those who not only really, really like the convention, but wish to provide that something extra to help us continue to bring you the best convention that we possibly can! As a Shiny Sponsor, you will receive all of the benefits of a Sponsor membership, as well as the following gifts:

Highest priority seating for some of our most popular events

Shiny Sponsor Reception on Friday evening

Shiny Sponsor Badge Ribbon

Shiny Sponsor Shirt

And MORE!

MFF 2026 GoH

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MFF has already announced who will be this years Guests of Honor

You can find the links here https://www.furfest.org/events/guests

MFF Wants Feedback

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MFF is curious how you feel about the 2025 event

http://ow.ly/xKep50XFplK

MFF 2025 Registration True Story

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It’s safe to say I was there, look at the above photo it was taken at 4pm Dec 4. What don’t you see?

What I saw on average it was taking 5 minutes to get a badge

I want to let you know when this photo was taken 4:37pm on Dec 4th

Is it no wonder MFF and most of the public aren’t even talking about about this. Imagine going through Reg even as a Sponsor and getting done in a little over 30 minutes. But Meta data doesn’t lie

With that said, my friend and I hoped to get to the 3pm Reg opening. I was their but they were running late. In fact they did not get to the hotel until 3:15pm. Then after our stuff was dumped in the room, and Uber was called.

Even I am amazed.

You see in 2024 it took an hour to get the badge and just over another to get the swag. But not this year.

MFF 2025 The Year of Major Changes

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I will say MFF 2025 was The Year of Major Changes. Like the Dealers Den, taking advantage of the full space available in Artist Marketplace. Even allowing artists to set up space in the Dealers area. Frankly something I have been personally pushing for since the end of the pandemic. Why? We already saw the results, everyone did massive business. I even heard Mary Mouse and her “Certified” badges were almost sold out.

Speaking of which on Sunday as a friend was looking for this one dealer. I ran into Artimus Wishfoot, no photo as I didn’t want to be pushy. But they are so nice, did find out that one of the reasons they decided to do IFC was because of the new hotel.

My friend didn’t find that dealer, it seems they sold out. So was quite a few others.

I think one of the biggest changes was to the opening and closing. Frankly most of what I seen are in fact boring. Not this year!!! dumping the table, bringing on musical acts was FANTASTIC.

The Art Show which normally we don’t hear much about did $90,000+ in sales

Planning was nothing short of amazing, bigger panels saw the Convention Center, smaller ones the hotel. The Biggest result less traffic in the Skybridge. Heard it was only shutdown a few times, and despite the snow many did take the outside route.

We did have escalator shutdowns, a few times. Overworked motor from what I heard.

Ran in to some paramedics who were on standby. There is something to be said when they say it’s been quiet. I only heard of 1 ambulance run, and that was due to drinking too mush.

I call it the elephant in the room and no not the one from Zootopia 2. Which was playing at the nearby theater.

No we only had a 125 bump in attendance, why same thing hit Anthrocon a few years back, who btw also made major changes…. will this effect numbers. Like we say in Chicago “Wait to next year”.

Protogen Feeding Frenzy @MFF 2025

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A good friend “Blue Screen” had this wild idea. While they were at MFF this year, they track down protogen and give away old computer parts, very similar to a meme they saw. My friend made it very clear that they were junk parts.

He took an entire box of junk parts.

Now for the amazing thing, he managed to give them all away, everyone took for what it was something silly.

You might be wondering why, many already had plans.

According to “Blue Screen”, they will be doing this again next year. Keep an eye out for us at MFF 2026

MFF 2025 WOW!!!

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I can’t believe I am saying this but MFF 2025 was WILD. From the Opening to Closing it was one of the best conventions I ever been.

From something simple as the artwork to the new Dealers area. Which strangely enough had a common story. They walk in and immediately their jaw hits the concrete floor. It was BIG

Over 400 Dealers and 5 restaurants. If you could not find something, you simply weren’t looking

At Closing they mentioned the Art Show had over $90000 + in sales. One dealer mentioned that over all the Dealers sold more than $200,000 in sales. Mind you all of this is going directly to furry businesses. We support one another.

Those who decided not to come for whatever the reason. Just plain messed out. The panels were simply great, many were outstanding.

One great one that a lot misses was FurFest District Court Hosted by Bandit was simply wild. Think of a fake court show done for laughs, with fake crimes and even meaningless decision. It was great.

Say what you will about con themes, but the one for 2026

They even had a Marty McFly fursuiter during closing