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[Meggiemaccat]

*sighs* As lovely an idea as that is and I hate to say this (especially for the gigantic pun), I must say it; dream on. We'll never raise enough to provide everybody transport to a single location. True, it's possible, but it's so unlikely it's not gonna happen.

[andersam]

*sigh* my Parents are super UBER finicky about the meeting people online thing.
But...... If anyone wants to suggest meeting at Mall of America, I can do that! *shuts up before reavealing anymore personal info*

[animejosse]

I agree with Meggiemaccat. Unless one of us suddenly gains a super-rich relative there's no way we can provide 910+ people with money for transportation, hotels, food, somewhere to hang out etc etc... Not to mention that not everyone will be able to come - be it for not getting a day off their job/school, not having parents' premission, being too young, not having time...

Basically, it's best to keep things realistic.

[Icachan]

Basically, it's best to keep things realistic.

Just to prove how unrealistic that is... let's see how much it would cost for one (1) person from Sweden to travel to London and stay for two days. I am basing this on the cheapest flights and accomodation I can find, assuming you actually have to fly and can't live with a friend.

Please keep this in mind! This is the cheapest I could find. It's not nearly as expensive to travel from Stockholm to London as it would be from the States. Also, this is only based on travel, one nights stay and food during that stay. Any other activities has not been added to the final cost.

General information

Distance Stockholm-London: About 1,893 km or 1176 miles. (info from GoogleMaps)
Time spent: 2 days, 1 night.
Time of travel: May. Not the busiest season, but still during early summer like TRiPPY stated.

Flight information

Departure: May 1st, 6 PM from Arlanda, Sweden.
Airline: Sterling.
Flight number: 737
Class: Economy.
Arrival: May 1st, 7:45 PM at Gatwick Airport London.

Departure: May 2nd, 9.20 AM from Gatwick Airport London.
Airline: Sterling.
Flight number: 736
Class: Economy.
Arrival: May 2nd, 12.50 PM at Arlanda Sweden.

Cost: 1212 SEK or 196,05 USD or 96,45 GBP (information Forex)

(Information from Mr Jet. )


Hotel information

Hotel: Piccadilly Backpackers, 12 Sherwood Street, Piccadilly Circus.
Rating: One star, economy class.
Additional information: "The rooms are very basic and made of up of 'bunk' style bedding. Clients will be allocated a "bed" in shared dormitories with up to 8 people so they will have to share their rooms with other travellers. Rooms do not have private facilities but there are plenty of toilets and hot showers located on each floor. All bedrooms are non-smoking. There is no restaurant but there are public 'self-catering' facilities available including microwaves, toasters and kettles."

(Information from Mr Jet.)

Price: 228 SEK or 36,88 USD or 18,14 GBP


Additional Costs

Travel to and from the airport in London: Appr. 200 SEK or 32 USD or 16 GBP in total.
Food for one day: 100 SEK or 16.18 USD or 8 GBP

I decided not to add costs like travelling in London (you can always walk) souvernirs etc. since they are not necessary expenses.

Final cost: 1740 SEK or 282 USD or 138 GBP.

Cost for the entire forum: Single price x 900 = 1 566 000 SEK or 253 800 USD or 124 200 GBP.

That would require a fundraiser on the same scale as the ones they televise Nation wide over here, and those are for breastcancer or starving children.

Can we please leave the entire idea about everyone meeting up in the same place now?

[Nyclone]

FINE!!! DROP IT!!! Just trying to help come up with freaking anything!

[andersam]

*giggles* party in Soft museum, anyone?

[Huruyami]

I wish I could, but I've got nagging parents so I couldn't do something like this til college, which is 3 long hard years away. Although I did have a dream about this last year. We had a convention. Trippy was hanging with me, and she had a pointy nose. XD And it was a very odd dream.

[Musashi_HUmar]

Doing something in summer of 09 would be fine by me. I'll have graduated high school by then. I plan to be on the move a lot that summer anyway, so why not go to Scotland? What we could do actually is have regional get togethers, then raise up some money to go to a national one, then finally, each country finds ways to get money to get themselves over to Scotland. I've worked with these kinds of situations before. These are just ideas I had off the top of my head.

Oh, you know what else we can do at the international one? We could have some of the musicians on NiD.com group up and perform different songs from NiGHTS! At the end of the show, we'll close with Dreams Dreams. Of course, we can probably have everyone sing along. I'm betting no one on this site can honestly say they have never sang along to Dreams Dreams.

[Meggiemaccat]

As has been stated before, the volume of money that would require would be ludicrous, and the cause does not justify the amount needed, even if this was done individually. If you can save up the money yourself and want to spend it on a trip to Scotland, feel free to if you really want to provided it doesn't put you financially in the red. Otherwise, we're all stuck going somewhere more local.

[Nyclone]

*giggles* party in Soft museum, anyone?

What IS this Soft Museum, anyway?

As has been stated before, the volume of money that would require would be ludicrous, and the cause does not justify the amount needed, even if this was done individually. If you can save up the money yourself and want to spend it on a trip to Scotland, feel free to if you really want to provided it doesn't put you financially in the red. Otherwise, we're all stuck going somewhere more local.

"Local" could be anything.

[Meggiemaccat]

I know, that's why I used it; to encompass the area an individual would be willing to go. For example, 'local' for me means within my town or in the next city over. 'Local' for someone else may encompass a much larger area, maybe the entire state they live in and some of the areas near the border in other states. In other words, whatever is feasible for them individually.

[Nyclone]

Ah...

[Coolmatt49]

It's going to be hard to have everyone meet in one location (both physically and financially).

Very possible we could do an online "get-together" through some means (i.e. Skype, etc.).

[Icachan]

I'm going to be the partykiller again and point out another problem with an international meet-up, even if it's just via Skype or similar:

Timezones.

I'm not saying it's impossible, it'd just be very very difficult to get everyone online at the same time. School, work, sleep, no available internet... it'd take some serious planning to get those obstacles out of the way. : /

[Purgatory]

The idea is more unrealistic than it is likely. Its more likely for individual people or very small groups to meet up with each other than it is for everyone to go flailing out at one place. I have to agree with Ica and Josse.

no need to lose our tempers, Nyclone.. Its just the truth. I know it sometimes isn't pleasant to think of the actual details, but its better than mucking up an entire topic- which could very well be made plausible with separate groups in different places and countries- with daydreaming of the big mansion on the top of this really cool mountain we're all gonna meet up and party with muses.

Often when meets are organized, they have different ones in different places on different dates. Doesn't necessarily mean everyone needs to get to each one, its just more convenient for people in certain areas to get to. It sucks that not everyone would be able to get together, but its certainly better than nothing.

However I still don't think anyone should get overly excited, everyone keep the facts in mind.

[animejosse]

What IS this Soft Museum, anyway?

One of Claris' levels in NiGHTS into Dreams.

I'm going to be the partykiller again and point out another problem with an international meet-up, even if it's just via Skype or similar:

Timezones.

I totally forgot about that. It'd be one thing if the time zones had been pretty close... but we have members in three or four different continents. No matter what time you choose it'll either be the middle of the night or during work/school for at least one person The Skype idea wasn't too bad though - maybe an alternative for those in the same time zone who can't got to a meeting?

[viperxmns]

*giggles* party in Soft museum, anyone?

You just made me think of a moonbounce resembling the Soft Museum, which would be not out of place in a SEGA Theme Park, or Gameworld..

And to anyone here who has not yet had the opportunity to actually play through the Soft Museum.. you have my sympathies.

[^_^ Go Dreamer]

How about we have small groups gather (public places) in each state or the state to where you live closest (the same idea for the UK people and others around the world) and then each small group make a video together and put it here so it would be like we're all meeting each other! ^_^ *cringes at the horror of her dumb ideya*

[Icachan]

Go Dreamer)-->

How about we have small groups gather (public places) in each state or the state to where you live closest (the same idea for the UK people and others around the world) and then each small group make a video together and put it here so it would be like we're all meeting each other! *cringes at the horror of her dumb ideya*[/quote]


I agree with this so much. THIS is really doable~

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[Purgatory]

Go Dreamer)-->

How about we have small groups gather (public places) in each state or the state to where you live closest (the same idea for the UK people and others around the world) and then each small group make a video together and put it here so it would be like we're all meeting each other! *cringes at the horror of her dumb ideya*[/quote]
Yeah, thats what I meant, I agree also. XD *Is dumb*

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[DAiLiGHT]

I hope I'm not the only one who seriously thinks this is a bad idea. Not only are there 900+ members on these forums, but we're scattered throughout the world and throughout time zones and age ranges. It would be nearly impossible to gather everybody together in one place. Imagine if we were all wearing cosplay costumes. We'd knock our recently-gained world record right out of the water. Fish in a barrel baby, fish. In. A. Barrel.

But seriously, you have to think about some things here. Some of us still live at home. Still in school. We don't have the money for any plane tickets, and half of us probably can't even drive. I know damn well MY father isn't driving me anywhere. Not if he doesn't know why. And I can't miss another day of school, I'll automatically fail for the year.

Not only that, but we wouldn't recognize each other. We've only ever met over a computer screen. Who knows what can happen between the lines that we don't know about? Oh, yes, I'm sure that some people have met, and know each other, but for the most part, we have no idea who we're talking to. Would we have nametags on? Who would be willing to go out and buy 900+ nametags?

All in all, a meeting of the minds isn't a very good idea, really. We're scattered throughout the world. I myself live in the northeastern US, but I've seen Scotland, Ireland, Japan, Australia, the Netherlands, all around the US, Canada, and even France, Germany, and other places on this site and others that would make it impossible to gather in one place. I can imagine that some of us can't even speak English well (no offense to anyone, I swear, I'm only stating a fact) and therefore communicating would be difficult.

It's a nice dream, but it would almost impossible to achieve.

Even if we got together in little groups for travel purposes, the time zone differences would make communicating with the other groups difficult. I can barely chat with Unlimited NiGHTS properly because he lives an hour behind me.

[Purgatory]

-ALL THAT STUFF-

Hence Go Dreamer's idea. While I agree this would be difficult to arrange, there are some plausible ideas. Time zone issues would have to be taken into account also, for Go Dreamers idea of small group gatherings: Not everybody has to go fantard nuts and run themselves into another state or timezone or even country when they're still living with their parents and/or going to school. They can gather in their own state IF it is possible for them.

[Musashi_HUmar]

Very true. But I on the other hand will be 18 later this year and will be graduating June of next year. So really, I wouldn't mind leaving the country. I can just tell my parents I'm visiting Scotland in general.

[Nemoide]

Well I would be up for a North-East US meetup and think it could be feasible. Maybe only five people would end up meeting each other but isn't that still fun and worth it maybe? Small-scale gathering in a park or something? All that really needs to happen is for someone to say "MEET HERE AT THIS TIME" firmly and I am sure a couple people would? If not, there is not so much to lose?

[Purgatory]

It would be nice. I know of a couple people here in Florida that I've not met before, Maresuke's here, and there's some nice places that you don't have to spend a lot of money on here as well. And it doesn't have to be a big group of people to be fun. I'd be happy meeting three. XD

[Meggiemaccat]

Go Dreamer's a lucky ducky, living in Florida. XDDD

[Purgatory]

Go Dreamer's a lucky ducky, living in Florida. XDDD

She does?? I didn't even notice! lol!


*Shoves topic back on track*

[^_^ Go Dreamer]

Go Dreamer's a lucky ducky, living in Florida. XDDD

<.<;... >.>;....Oh no I've been discovered!!! *hides*

^^; Smaller groups would be great cause for those of us who are shy, it won't be too scary being around a smaller number of people! ^.^ And like TRiPPY said, it can be in the summer so school wouldn't be an issue! And if it's South Florida then I can take a bus or train! ^_^

[Musashi_HUmar]

If anyone near Chicago wants to meet up somewhere like in a park or something, that would be cool.

[DAiLiGHT]

I live in a remote area of DEATH. There is literally NO ONE around me. Oh, yes there are houses and people and places to go, but NO ONE within a fifty-mile radius of me knows about this site. I could probably link my friend Eddie, but he's got sickly family. Couldn't come anyway.

His mother is actually allergic to herself, from what I've been told....

Anyway! </rant>

*pessimism comes through* I just don't think it's a good idea.

Here's an idea, though! If we all got webcams, and there was a big convention hall somewhere filled with video screens, little ones though so a lot will fit, arrainged in sort of a funky oval-shape, all the video screens would activate and it would be like we were all in there! Except we'd be floating heads! *Ta-Da pose* *fanfare plays*

[Musashi_HUmar]

Sounds like a lot more work than it's worth. Still, we should come up with something... IDK what though...

[Purgatory]

As sad as it would be that one person is in restricting conditions and cannot show up, I wouldn't think that would make every idea a bad idea. small groups in different places is plausible.

But like I keep saying, don't lose sight of the fact that is more likely not to happen than to happen.

[Meggiemaccat]

Yeah; I don't live anywhere near these (or near enough for me to get to), but I want to see the small gatherings happen.

[Lunia]

I like the idea! I dont think it's entirely impossible either, just has to be modified slightly so it can be realistic haha
Small area groups should be arranged so that travel isnt a huge issue.. also I think it should be an event where you pay for your own expenses like food and accomodation (if needed). It doesnt have to be really elaborate or anything just a meeting of minds, I'm sure we could make some fun! Also cosplay could be optional or you could show off your NiGHTS creations or even sell.. and cupcakes ok I've got a bit too enthusiastic! But it is possible!

[DiENE]

Hey, If anyone is near the Boston area I would LOVE to chill with some of you, specially cause I missed some of you at Anime Boston


We could make plans at some point and like, have a Picnic in the Commons, or go on a Duck Tour or something like that XD

But like Serisouly Pm me if you want to organize something.

[DAiLiGHT]

I want to find my way to a cosplay convention so much. My paper-mache, felt, and styrofoam Yu-Gi-Oh outfit would make me the biggest geek there and for some reason, I enjoy that thought. I'm a bit off aren't I?

Anyway! I've got some semblance of an idea. We'll post flyers in all places. Anyone who sees the flyer will be amazed at the wonders it holds. Hopefully, someone very rich will see the flyer and offer to transport us all.

I know, that idea sucked, but I'm down with the flu, man. My last brain cell finally died this morning.

[tinfoil]

I would love to meet other NiGHTS fans! Alas, I'm too young to go to any of these large gatherings. Well, a meeting in San Diego might be possible for me. My brother lives there and it's only a 2 hour drive.

[Rhapsody]

How does Panama City, Florida sound? Ever since the city tore down the Miracle Strip (a line of amusement parks that paralleled the beach) it hasn't been as good, but there's still the beach. Or maybe Miami would sound nice, just don't plan the trip during the summer or you'll burn to a crisp.

Where ever it may be, I hope it's close. My parents said they would come with me if the event's close, so that they could meet these "invisible" people I talk to. They don't think anyone in this community exists.

[Matthew29w12]

You should all come to my house, and bring pie.

Lots of pie.

Om nom.

[Cruithne]

You should all come to my house, and bring pie.

Lots of pie.

Om nom.

Apple pie sound good? xD