Knightmare Discussion Forum Convention
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Vicky, let me just say this to you...
"That's the most brilliant idea anyone has ever come up with!"
I would like to be the first to take your offer on taking part in this, hopefully I would like to get my sister on this as well (considering she was a fan ever since I showed her the episodes in 1998.)
As for how far I would be able to travel, I can only say either Leyton, Leytonstone, Stratford or Walthamstow in London.
That's all I can do I'm afraid, I grew up travelling around these areas and know them well.
Hope I can be in.
(I'm begging! Please?)
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This has been mentioned before, even going so far as to find out where we could possibly hold one.
I think many members would like something like this, personally distance is not a problem with me (I travel around a lot visiting KM and KMRPG persons anyway.)
It's a nice thought, I only hope one day it can actually happen.
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Hi, Vicky. The subject of a Knightmare convention comes up periodically on the forum, and always generates some enthusiasm. It hasn't happened yet (in a sense, this forum is the best place for an ongoing, all-inclusive 'Knightmare Day'), but we do have the Knightmare RPG - an annual event where members of the fan community get together to film a version of Knightmare, the aim being that once the footage has been edited etc., quests can be run interactively via the Knightmare Chatroom. There's more background to be found on the Interactive Knightmare website (http://ikm.ezri.mine.nu).
Time and money permitting, Knightmare fans do have a tendency to travel considerable distances to visit one another... because we live considerable distances apart! A lot of my 'Knightmare meet-ups' have been over 100 miles from home, and I think that many people would be prepared to travel that far for a Knightmare convention.
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The Tigger is in agreement with the above!
In all honesty, I doubt that a stand-alone 'KM Day' would do particularly well because, although many people remember the show if given a small prompt, the majority have lost Knightmare to obscurity......
However, If such an event was added to an existing Sci-Fi/Cult event, the sky could quite easily be the limit!
Few people other than the die-hards in here would travel a long distance to a Knightmare event (KM simply doesn't have the clout of 'Star Trek/Wars/Gate' and programs like 'The Avengers' because it was a Gameshow rather than a 'Drama Series') but having a section of an exisisting get-together would generate a lot of "OOOOh! it's the beardy bloke from whatchamacallit!". It would create interest/ nostalgia and rekindle at lot of fond memories in people who haven't found KM.com yet...
Include the possibilities of running 'Live' quests at the show and possibly runs of things like 'TimeGate', 'KMVR' or any of a hundred different projects that are in the offing my fans and Makers alike. It makes more and more chance of 'Proper' TV and entertainment being commisioned rather than all the money-grabbing BS that we've had over the last few years by showing what TV with a BRAIN and a little BRAVERY can look like...
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Yes, It should be done
Yes, I wouold travel as far as possible within the UK
Yes, We should have it in Milton Keynes
Yes, I am just advertising so i dont have to travel so far
Yes, I like saying yes
Yes, I cant stop now
Yes, We ought to have all the old cast, some of the items Helmet, Shiled etc
Yes, I can stop now
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September 2007 will mark twenty years since Knightmare began on TV. To celebrate this, how about...
...a Knightmare Convention!
The idea's been brought up again and again and again, way back since the early 90s (Tommy Boyd said in his 1992 'The Quest' interview that there might be ones in 'ten years time'), but nothing's ever come to fruititon. Sure, you have teh RPG, the socials, and even Knightmare Chat, but how about we do something big? Especially as nothing was done for the 10th anniversary in 1997, though admittedly the online fanbase back then amounted to about 4 people.
We could have all the cast, crew, everything...line them up for a huge Q&A session or something. Surely Hugo, David, Jackie, Tim, etc, would all love to do it. As mentioned in an earlier thread, the proceeds could go to a children's charity.
If we start now, we'll have over a year and a half to organise it. It'd be fantastic to celebrate 20 years of Knightmare in style! How about it?
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I think we'd better start planning now, things like where it'll be and such, that's where plans seem to slip.
Great idea, I'd love to see this actually happening and not being discussed. Especially if KM celebs were there!
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It all depends where the Fan-Base is.
We need to look at Geographical conveniance.
I for example am in Milton Keynes.
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It all depends where the Fan-Base is.
We need to look at Geographical conveniance.
I for example am in Milton Keynes.
Perfect excuse for me to plug the Knightmarer's map...
http://www.frappr.com/knightmare
...seriously though the more people who pin-point themselves on the map the easier it is to work out where the fan base is.
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Just a small point-I don't know who else this applies to but in September 2007 I will be in college/university. That's not important, what is is I don't know where I'll be for the convention.
OK, that's not important either but it's something to take into consideration that some of us may not be where we are now...
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I added myself - nice to see a KM fan from Kilmarnock there too (Harvey Towers)
Hey, nice to see a Knightmare fan from along the road!
I didn't see you there behind me... (and I remember you who you are now too!)
So it's decided: we hold the convention at 10th Doctor Fan's house...
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