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MFF 2026 Update
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MFF 2026 Hotel List
MFF Survivor Guide
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
MFF Room Lottery Opens Tomorrow
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
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
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
MFF is curious how you feel about the 2025 event
MFF 2025 Registration True Story
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
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”.
