One of the biggest things inflating the registration prices of Get Out The Float year after year is the cost of bouncy castle rentals for our convention. This year we had several serious near-misses with rented equipment that removed three castles from service. In addition, getting the castles that were usable clean enough for fursuiters resulted in two minor injuries to our dedicated staff and two sore Achilles tendons for our convention chair. We overworked ourselves getting the castles into a usable state, which had other consequences down the line that made the convention more difficult to run.

(2025 GOTF Highlight Reel, the 2026 video is a work in progress)

It is no longer worth it to us rely on bouncy castle rental companies to have their castles be ready to use. We are still a small enough convention that spending tens of thousands of dollars on our own castles & related equipment is completely outside our normal budget. We are planning to buy new equipment, similar to "measure twice, cut once" or "buy properly and cry once, buy cheap and cry twice." In the long run, this will also reduce costs for the convention; the costs of storing and transporting castles is less than the cost of renting castles in a given year.

During this GoFundMe, the GOTF 2026 (Bioluminessence) website may be getting updated to GOTF 2027 (Spirit of Aloha).