Welcome to the forum, BrickingIt. Thank you for your appreciation of Knightmare.com and for the wonderful work you're doing with your Knightmare (LEGO Edition) videos.
Anybody else enjoying the Lego Knightmare episodes, by the way? I hope they make more of them soon!
The tweets you're referring to, which included a link to this thread, were:
You: 'Would the 35th anniversary [2022] be a nice number for a convention? (The world and all its perils allowing, of course)'
Us: 'It would... but we almost didn't get the crowdfunding we needed for the first convention in 2014, so can't confidently say there will be another.'
An online convention is an interesting idea. We've seen from Paul Flannery's Twitch channel that Knightmare cast members and contestants are up for online interviews. From what I saw, the audiences were appreciative but not huge. Also, I don't know what Paul's costs were and whether his attendees' voluntary donations (Ko-fi) covered those costs.
My concern is always the ratio of fans saying "This should happen" to fans saying "I'm willing to commit time and money to help this happen". To elaborate on the crowdfunding point:
'The Knightmare community' is a vague concept that could mean anything from Knightmare.com forum regulars to anybody who likes, shares or posts about Knightmare online. This vagueness means that what most people are waiting for is somebody else to take an active role.
You may not be aware of the difficulty we had funding the Knightmare convention four years ago. We only needed to raise slightly over £12,000. Despite offering a unique experience and reaching thousands of potential crowdfunding donors on social media, only 280 donated to the campaign. These included some extremely generous four-figure donations, without which the convention could not have gone ahead.
Arguably the nostalgia bubble has burst, or at least shrunk. The Crystal Maze Experience crowdfunding campaign did well but the Fun House Live campaign raised only 9% of its goal last year. Knightmare Live's 2013 crowdfunding campaign beat its goal of £6000; its 2016 campaign, despite three years of good reviews and a lower goal, raised £2807.
The 'slacktive' interest in Knightmare DVDs will continue to exist. The active interest - people willing to put their hand in their pocket rather than their thumb on a Facebook post - is not enough to raise the sum we'd need.