Knightmare Convention 2016/17?
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If there is a second one and you can make it financially and without sacrificing a family wedding, christening or trip to the park with your pet goldfish then I say make the effort and simply go. Getting the train to Norwich from Liverpool was far from ideal but once I finally got there it was more than worth the effort. If there are not enough attendees it won't happen and just hoping that they'll be another isn't going to help you at all. If Knightmare does mean a lot to you and you are confortable being around similarily inclined people then do give it your upmost - after all if 4 primary/lower secondary school kids can make a trip why can't you?
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I really want to go to a Knightmare convention. I only just seen the show by chance in dec 2014 because it snowed that day. Sometimes I go to a place called hansel which is where I see Knightmare on challenge once in a blue moon. That's where I was that day It snowed. That day I got to see the show for the first time.
The last time [and first time] I walked into a Knightmare convention [by total accident] there were things on a list and you had to tick one of them off to get in. number 1 you had to have seen the show. number 2 you had to be one of the crew or staff from the show. number 3 you had to have been born on the date that the show first aired. I felt really welcome there. At one point I helped save the life of this man with a heart condition by looking after him and getting Pickle number 1 to hit Treguard number 2 with the knapsack to help me get some help for Pickle number 2. I remember shouting for help for ages. [about half an hour I was later told but it felt like two hours at one stage]
i'm sorry I didn't get to go to the 2014 one but I hadn't seen the show and been reminded of what happened all those years ago yet. sometimes things feel like a dream and you need a key to open the lock. i'm sorry I didn't try to sneak into another one that was local. well I did once but was chased out by Treguard number 2 with the words.
but I saved pickle number 2.
listen I don't care if you saved the whole [worddeleted] dungeon. you're still not getting in.
i'm sorry that I went to college and helped come up with challenges for raven and helped people with other problems during my college years. i'm so so sorry that a lot of family matters came up and made sure that this amazing day was locked up well and truly in the first place. i'm so so so sorry that I didn't get to join the first forum because it was meant to be for the fans.
and i'm so so grateful that you are now allowing new blood and fresh blood into the dungeon forums in the first place. so thank you. thank you for letting the new blood in.
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I found a loophole just in case you are wondering how I was allowed to stay at the Knightmare convention. I told them that I was born with no eyelashes no eyebrows and no fingernails and I was breathing ok after five minutes. I was born three weeks before the show aired and was shocked to find out that the doctors made me be born three weeks early. and yes that loophole had been closed as I learned when I was chased out by Treguard number two.
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We've started talking about a next convention and have a good idea for what we'd like to do. It would be a different format to 2014. There would be a DVD but it would have less material than the 2014 one. There would also be no rooms for the general public to play. BUT we think it'll be better than last year's.
However, we're not yet sure if it's practical, or if we can get the necessary permissions.
Additionally, we have some other projects on the go that need to take priority.
There are also other projects going on that are out of our hands, which would want to dovetail with or at least not interfere with any convention.
Our final concern as always is activity within the knightmare community. But maybe this will pick up.
It would be nice to do this in 2017. We'll have yo wait and see as to how other thibgs progress.
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The last time [and first time] I walked into a Knightmare convention [by total accident] there were things on a list and you had to tick one of them off to get in.
Are you sure this happened?
It was also the same convention that I saved the life of a man with a heart condition. the receptionist didn't believe that it happened either and that's how you start thinking its a dream and shutting up about it for twelve years.
ask tim if he remembers a red haired kid with eyes wide with amazement. also the guy playing Treguard [the one I called Treguard number 2] had long blond hair and a loud voice.
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We've started talking about a next convention and have a good idea for what we'd like to do. It would be a different format to 2014. There would be a DVD but it would have less material than the 2014 one. There would also be no rooms for the general public to play. BUT we think it'll be better than last year's.
However, we're not yet sure if it's practical, or if we can get the necessary permissions.
Additionally, we have some other projects on the go that need to take priority.
There are also other projects going on that are out of our hands, which would want to dovetail with or at least not interfere with any convention.
Our final concern as always is activity within the knightmare community. But maybe this will pick up.
It would be nice to do this in 2017. We'll have yo wait and see as to how other thibgs progress.
this sounds exciting.... hope it happens...... hope it happens soon.
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The last time [and first time] I walked into a Knightmare convention [by total accident] there were things on a list and you had to tick one of them off to get in.
Are you sure this happened?
I remember it was happening at the same time as something else that my dad was helping with. I wanted a look around and the guy at the door thought I was a fan of the show cause I asked him where am I? I am still trying to remember the hazy bits. I do remember a list and I only ticked the born on the same day one due to an loophole. they had visitor passes with 7/9/1987 on them. didn't know what that meant then.
talk to pickle from the tv show and mark knight as well. I met them that day and didn't know who mark knight was! only just realised while watching Knightmare last night that I walked right up to the villain of the show that day and started chatting to him like a old mate chatting to a long lost pal. I thought then what I still think about lord fear. he does look like a triceratops.
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Sorry, I think you're confusing Knightmare with something else.
There has only been one Knightmare convention in 2014. I am also unsure why such an event would be restricted in the way you mention.
I'm not aware of any fans-only forum ever existing. Certainly not a big or official one.
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I remember it went by a different name but I can't remember all the details of what it was called. I remember seeing Pickle from the tv show very strongly and I remember saving somebody's life that day. Also I remember seeing a few folk which I have now worked out who they are. It was local in my local Ayrshire area and it was about twelve years ago and i'm still not sure what it was that I found. I do remember a dragon and getting to ride it and touching it. He let me pet him as I was gentle in touching him. He sounded like the dragon on the tv show. That's something I only just realised. There's a few things that don't make sense still and i'm not joking but I found something and it might have been set up as a unofficial thing by a fan. It is something that I found and it was amazing getting to pet that dragon. When I go to the official Knightmare convention if I see that dragon and I mean a big if I will point him out for you.
There was a stage show happening during it if that helps you work out what it is. There were two Treguards, two Pickles, two Lord Fears and the whole show had the dungeon turned upside down until I saved the day by flipping a photo album. It was very strange. I also remember petting a goblin. There were two blokes dressed as goblins. Does any of this make sense to you?
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To be honest I thought it was an official one because tim was there. I remember meeting tim [or timmy as I called him once by accident and he told me not to call him timmy unless it was life or death and he looked a bit cross as he told me not to call him timmy] and talking to him. He was laughing while I was talking to him. he said "I've backed the wrong horse" and he called himself a donkey. I didn't hear all of his mumble the first time and told him. "Knightmare's not a donkey". Then he told me that he was the donkey.
I hugged him at one point.
At one point I told him. "Ah well everyone/everybody makes mistakes." He laughed in a friendly manner and said. "You're right everyone/everybody does make mistakes".
He looked at the time like a darts player and also like a comedian called ricky gervais and had a voice like scar from the lion king but he was so friendly to the people there.
[And he told me his full first name at the time. He didn't tell folk it then. Does he now? I will only tell you if he is ok with people knowing it now. I don't want told off again!]
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Wellllll....
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To my understanding around the year(s) in question, Mark Knight had permanently moved to the USA
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Knightmare was never converted to a stage show prior to Knightmare Live, which started in 2013.
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For various reasons, I know that David Learner has never taken part in any Knightmare gathering since he left the show
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I believe the official dragon puppets would have long since decomposed. Even before 2000. Knightmare Live's much larger dragon was custom made in 2014.
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Clifford Norgate voiced Smirkenorff but does not (ever) participate in conventions or fan-related events.
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We were the first Knightmare convention to have run when we did it in 2014. Tim mentioned this more than once.
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Although not necessarily linked, the goblins in Knightmare were played by women.
Additionally our archive of news stretches back this far and I cannot find anything that comes even close. Quite how it could have passed us all by (especially if Tim and Hugo were involved, with whom we do have contact) is beyond me.
If it didn't have the cast and crew in it, I would suspect it was a fan-created event. As it is, I am at a loss to explain what it was. The only thing I can possibly think of is that you somehow walked in on Knightmare RPG filming. But I don't think it ever took place in Ayrshire.
Maybe someone else can suggest what it might be. I am curious.
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I wonder if these accounts are a mixture of vivid dreams and false memories (which are more common than people think). Still, it is intriguing to hear about Knightmare events that might have been. If we did not have lively imaginations, we would probably not have been Knightmare fans in the first place.
Knightmare is now in its thirtieth year and plenty of us still want to celebrate it. At Knightmare.com, we certainly have no intention of surrendering. To echo what Alan said, more news will become available as things progress.
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I will tell you this. I'm still trying to make sense of what happened that day.
I will tell you something else that I remember. Let's see if this makes sense to you?
I remember being on the stage and fighting off a frightknight with a sword. I remember being part of that stage show that was happening at that thing I walked into.
I remember Tim asking me how did you know that Tim was short for Timmy. I remember telling him that I didn't know. That I had guessed it.
He asked if I knew what Timmy was short for and I guessed Timothy. He cracked up at that point. People gasped in shock. I heard them gasp.
So I explained that the only Timothy I had heard of until that point was Timothy the mouse in the Disney movie Dumbo. I asked him if he was named after the mouse [because I had been called names as a kid and understood that not everyone likes their full name being shortened and wanted to reassure him that I thought Timothy is a nice name] and he told me that the mouse was named after him..... that he came before the mouse. I told him that the mouse should be honoured..... doubly honoured.
Does that make sense to you lot?
Well let's hope that Timothy is in a good mood...........I don't want to be yelled at........... It makes me jump out of my skin.
I am a young lady who's brain works differently to most people. I can spot things without trying. If I walk past a clothes rail and one hanger is out of place or wrong way round I will spot it. Others don't. Unless I point it out to them.
I was born with no eyebrows, no eyelashes and no fingernails. I didn't need any oxygen or help to breathe as a baby.
I saved Pickle number two's life that day with Pickle number one's help. The main reason that Pickle reminded me of Ervan was because the clothes and colour of the clothes were similar. Even then I could tell Pickle was friendlier.
I met people that day and done things that day which I am only just starting to recognize on the show. I remember the dragon and I touched him and petted him. I rode him. I was gentle to him. He liked it when I petted him. Rhark the goblin liked it too when I petted him. I only just remembered that the goblin told me his name was Rhark.
I might be good at fan fiction. I'm normally quite good at working out what is a dream and what is real.
What do you guys think of my strange but its what I remember tale about guessing Tim's full first name?
Did people get blindfolded before having the helmet put on them while playing the game? Just that I remember being blindfolded before the helmet was put on when I played the game. I remember tripping on something then finding out that I had fallen off the challenge. It was a spinning wheel like thing spinning very fast and it was very hard to walk on. I tripped when I tried to step onto the platform off of the spinning thing.
On my second chance I answered a question correctly that I wasn't supposed to know the answer to. That's what the people there told me at the time. I mean you can't help it if you get asked a question that you happen to know the answer to........ Can you? Really!
You can call me Pickles. I don't mind.
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Sorry Tim for telling them your full first name and the story of how I found it out.
They are the first people I have told that story to. You see I have kept that true and strange story quiet for years.
I am not quite sure when we met. I know it was before 2010 so have worked out a possible year based on family stuff happening around then but I could be out by two years or more years either side.
Hope you're not too hopping mad at me telling them your full first name.
Named a wee toy dragon creature after you that I got after being at the funfair a few weeks ago.
Still don't know what I walked into that day. Will we ever find out what happened and where I was?
Whatever it was..... It was awesome.... That whole day.... Even the scary bit of the man becoming ill and having to save his life by remembering what I had been told to do. The getting help bit was a bit scary. Bit embarrassing crying like a new born baby afterwards but that was just a bit of shock. Just adrenaline leaving the system. I was alright when I found out that he was ok now.
Thank you for letting me have that whole experience that day. That was one of the best experiences I have had so far. And I have had quite a few of them so far.
I told them at college about saving the guy's life and they couldn't believe it either. I didn't tell them everything. Just the bits they needed to know. I left out a few things. They wouldn't have understood about the dragon.
Hope you are ok with people knowing your full name now.
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Did people get blindfolded before having the helmet put on them while playing the game?
Nope; remember, the dungeoneers were still able to see objects directly beneath them!
Yup, as Pooka said, thats the standard gameplay. It's how dungeoneers were able to see food/objects that were slightly further away from their feet than usual. I used the helmets myself, and believe me, there is a fair amount of vision. Although the visor helmet was a bit more restricted, there was surprisingly a good deal of floor vision too.
Though I could have sworn Tim say that he did blindfold the dungeoneers. But only when they were trying to tilt their heads back too far to gain an advantage...
And thanks Pickles it's short and sweet. Picklemyfav is alright but a bit of a long winded process so I thought I'd come up with a fun and short alternative should anyone want to use it.
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Did people get blindfolded before having the helmet put on them while playing the game?
Nope; remember, the dungeoneers were still able to see objects directly beneath them!
Yup, as Pooka said, thats the standard gameplay. It's how dungeoneers were able to see food/objects that were slightly further away from their feet than usual. I used the helmets myself, and believe me, there is a fair amount of vision. Although the visor helmet was a bit more restricted, there was surprisingly a good deal of floor vision too.
Though I could have sworn Tim say that he did blindfold the dungeoneers. But only when they were trying to tilt their heads back too far to gain an advantage...
And thanks Pickles it's short and sweet. Picklemyfav is alright but a bit of a long winded process so I thought I'd come up with a fun and short alternative should anyone want to use it.
The reason I was asking is that I remember something strange happening at the convention thing that I walked into. I remember being able to see in front of me when they first put the helmet on. I could also see the floor beneath me. I told them that it fitted like a glove and was a perfect fit. As I could see very well through the two pin holes in the helmet. One of the workers there told me to stick my hands in front of me and asked if I could see my hands in front of my face. I told them that I could see my hands in front of me and one of the workers pulled the helmet off and told me you can see too much and we need to blindfold you or words to that extent. Next thing a see through black cloth scarf is tied around my eyes and I find that I was only able to see underneath my nose. Sadly at one point the scarf falls down stopping me from seeing anything. They had to change the helmet to one that was slightly larger as it got harder to quest with no eyesight at all. I can remember at the end of one of my games getting my picture taken and I held a trophy as my picture was taken as my team won. I think they thought the helmet was too wee for me at the time.
I remember that Tim wasn't in charge that day. That Treguard number 2 was. I'm not sure what it was that I walked into. I'm using the word convention in an attempt to explain what it was like in set up and layout. I can't think of a better word to describe it. I really did walk into something that day and had an amazing day.
The first forum I was talking about was the one that I seen by chance while in college and tried to get into it. I had to answer two questions right as part of the getting in part. I guessed one of the answers right but couldn't get the other one right. I couldn't get in because I couldn't get one of the answers. The college teacher thought that the forum I'd found was just for the fans. I don't remember if I found it again. It didn't look that big but then I couldn't get in so I don't know for sure.
Is Tim ok with people knowing his full first name now because he wasn't at the time that I guessed it. I told him my middle name and asked him if he had one. I think he said to me that he didn't but you could check that for me as i might have misheard him.
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It seems to me this was an unofficial fan based idea that happened Pickles.
I'm not an expert when it comes to conventions but I remember when the idea behind a Knightmare Convention was first spoken of on here.
What you said about the helmet you "donned" sounds a bit farfetched too. Pinholes in the helmet?? What in the visor?? That completely defeats the point behind the helmets purpose. And strapping a blindfold on you because you can see through the holes?? That doesn't quite make sense to me either
Punishing you for using an aid that was given to you
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