Well, that sux... · 5:49am Oct 1st, 2017
Just read in Equestria Daily that this year's Equestria L.A. is going to be the last one.
Great.
One that Tale Weaver and I can rather easily get to and it's shutting down. But at least we'll get to go this year. *sigh*
Next year we'll work on attending BabsCon in Northern California (anything in the same state as us is still good), with hopes for Everfree Northwest and eventually BronyCon.
It is amusing to read all the comments where fans think with this and 2 other conventions calling it quits this year it means the fandom is collapsing as a whole. And there are some clowns that think this also reflects the end of the MLP series.
What the what?!? Uh, they were renewed for this current season AND the next one (which they are working on right now). They have the movie coming out in like six days and the merchandise machine is churning out plastic tat faster than ever, so HOW does this mean it's ending??? Geeze, some people are doomsayers.
Fortunately there were also a lot of voices in there that said exactly the same thing I said here, along with the fact that fewer conventions means some will consolidate, gain more fans and grow bigger, stronger, better and perhaps breed other conventions that will rise up replace them. I have been in one genre's fandom or another for 40 years and believe me, this one ain't dying soon.
Nyx
this fandum has to much life left for it to die!
Yeah some people forget that cons are expensive to run and these cons are run by fans not by Hasbro or DHX. If they think they can't afford to run a con the next year or something has come up that makes them too busy to run one, they are going to be forced to announce that they aren't going to hold one.
And who knows, maybe later, few years probably, they will start again. I think that's what happened to one of those cons, don't remember which one.
And fandoms don't die really. Granted it might shrink when there is nothing on, but the diehards will still keep things going.
Star Trek fans have had to suffer two times now with no show being on TV at all, in fact the first time they didn't even know if a movie would be made, we got an animated series in the 70's but that was about it. Then Star Wars came along, Paramount realized, "oh hey we have a sci fi series too" and made the first movie, and serious consideration were made to start a new series. During this whole uncertain times, the early trek fans were still holding conventions.
MLP is by now an old franchise too, it didn't start or end with FIM, sure it got bigger with FIM, but it's just generation 4 of the franchise. Even when (yes when, not if) Generation 4 ends, it will be only a question of time before generation 5 comes along.