Cole ''JediCole'' Houston
Half-Ass Productions
Well... ALL-CON is 21 years old and Cole is 21 years OLDER! Fandom's Biggest Fan (that is the biggest fan of Fandom) returns to his favorite con and annual home away from home. Involved in nearly every capacity since the earliest days of ALL-CON at the Sterling Hotel back in 2005, this former vendor turned content provider turned department head is pushing 60 and pushing forward with a great lineup of fun for your convention weekend!
With the most welcome help of co-producer Cat Houston and the whole Games and Theory (ALL-CON's Game Shows Track) team you will find him running himself ragged between producing and hosting game shows and producing and hosting his own unique panels and annual talk shows. If you are at the convention over the course of the weekend you are bound to see JediCole!
Producer: Half-Ass Productions
THU 11:00 AM: ALL-CON Opening Ceremony (45 mins.)
Room: AMETHYST (Lobby) Rated: Everyone
Produced By: ALL-CON Games and Theory
An ALL-CON tradition!
Every journey has a beginning. Let your convention weekend journey begin in the best possible way with a lively overview of an experience 22 years in the making!
Join Cole ''JediCole'' Houston, veteran of all prior 21 years of ALL-CON Dallas, as he acts as your guide to the entire four-day event ahead. There is a lot ground to cover (with over 300 events in this year's lineup) and precious little time to inform and entertain the show's early arrivals. For over a decade now JediCole has been introducing attendees, new and seasoned, to an overview of what is in store for them in a rapid-fire orientation on ''Your Favorite Con'' and he is more that up for the challenge yet again!
Speaking: Cole ''JediCole'' Houston
Category: Presentation
FRI 4:00 PM: Aisle of Toys Live II (45 mins.)
Room: ONYX (Lincoln, Upper) Rated: Everyone
Produced By: Half-Ass Productions
Spinning off from JediCole's five year long live-streaming show, this panel brings back some of the flavor of the podcast with a focus on toy collecting and tidbits of toy history. Jason the X from SCNS Live will be joining the fun, again, in this retooling of The Collector's Piece.
Join two avid toy collectors who are in their (redacted)s yet never lost their love for toys and collecting. For 2026, as nostalgia continues to drive nearly every facet of pop culture and collecting, toy nostalgia will be the order of the day. This is the best place to be if you, like them, love you some toys!
Speaking: Cole ''JediCole'' Houston; Jason the X
Category: Presentation; Fandom
SAT 2:00 PM: The Grundy/Bizarro Letters: A Live Reading of ''The Apocrypha'' #6 (2 hrs.)
Room: QUARTZ (Lincoln, Upper) Rated: Everyone
Produced By: Half-Ass Productions
Harken back to June 2014 and the sixth edition of ''The Acpocrypha'', the official vehicle for unique and humorous writings on The JediCole Universe website.
This is a live reading of ''The Grundy/Bizarro Letters'' from that issue by Cole and Catherine Houston and Dean Phillips. Enjoy a fully dramatized presentation of the correspondence between Superman's backward doppelganger and the ever-returning swamp dweller who was NOT Swamp Thing!
This will be a lot of fun for fans of Challenge of the Super-Friends with a unique take on this pair of powerhouses from the Legion of Doom as they attempt to forge a friendship through good old fashioned snail mail.
Speaking: Cole ''JediCole'' Houston; Catherine Houston; Dean Phillips
Category: Presentation; Fandom
SAT 6:00 PM: The JediCole Universe Live (45 mins.)
Room: ONYX (Lincoln, Upper) Rated: Teen
Produced By: Half-Ass Productions
JediCole returns to The JediCole Universe for yet another year and you are invited to join him! Be a part of ALL-CON's second-longest-running talk show (of four in 22 years*) with all of the timeless antics you have come to expect. This, because you have come to expect that JediCole won't have time to come up with any genuinely new material in time for 2026!
Audience participation is the order of the day as your host and Games and Theory's own K-Zach invite you to play along with such features as ''It Came From the Dollar (and a Quarter) Store!,'' and a live reading of a classice ''What Would Comic Book Villains Do?''. All that and more surprises that make this a must attend feature.
*Fandom at Random DFW, JediCole's Morning After, The JediCole Universe Live, JediCole's Insomnia (in order of first and/or last ALL-CON appearance).
Speaking: Cole ''JediCole'' Houston; Zach Schrotter
Category: Presentation; Fandom
SUN Noon: The State of Toy Collecting (45 mins.)
Room: ONYX (Lincoln, Upper) Rated: Everyone
Produced By: Super Cool Nerd Show; Half-Ass Productions
Join Jason The X of the Super Cool Nerd Show and Alternate Heads as we talk about the state of toy collecting. We’ll be going over how the industry is changing and how the year for collectors was and what we’re anticipating for the future. Come join the chat and bring some coffee.
Speaking: Jason the X; Cole ''JediCole'' Houston
Category: Discussion; Fandom
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