Summer of Sonic 2009 gets Dated!

23 February, 2009 16 January, 2025

Last year The Sonic Stadium and SEGA Europe hosted (with help from Sonic Wrecks) the largest Sonic convention that the world had ever seen! The event saw people come from all of the world to a hall in Covent Garden, London to celebrate their love for SEGA’s mascot. The event had a playable demo of Sonic Chronicles, the Guinness Book of Records taking an official speed run down, a special song from Dreams of an Absolution singer Lee Brotherton, signings from Sonic the Comic’s Nigel Kitching and a performance from TJ Davis and Richard Jacques. What started out as a fleeting idea from the Stadiums head man Dreadknux, turned into sensational event that had the whole internet talking!

If you missed it last year, then they are giving you another chance with a bigger and better event! The date is Saturday, 29th of August. The place once again is London. However, the venue is yet to be confirmed.

The reason the date has been announced is because Dreadknux and co. are trying to hazard a guess at what size the venue needs to be for this year. Last year the chosen venue was packed to the rafters, literally:

So what we’re doing here is getting a sample of interested people so we (that’s the Summer of Sonic organisation staff – consisting of myself and AAUK of SEGA Europe for now) can get an idea of how big a hall we can squeeze out of our budget. All you need to do is post a comment stating how many in your household are able to come to this event on the 29th August.

Dreadknux couldn’t give out any details about what will be involved with this years event but he has given a lot to get us guessing:

…here’s some information that will whet your appetite – Jun Senoue knows of Summer of Sonic. Richard Jacques said he would happily attend another SoS. You couldn’t stop Lee Brotherton from getting involved again. Sonic Team’s reaction to SoS 2008 was also reported to be very positive, and SEGA Europe as a whole are both very keen to be more involved yet very respectful as to this being about a fan gathering rather than a buck generator.

This post has already got excitement from within the community racing with an abundance of comments being left on the article already.

Remember, if you plan on attending then please leave a comment yourself to help aid the organisation of this great event! GET OVER THERE NOW AND MAKE YOURSELF KNOWN!

Source: TSS

18 Comments

ASEOME!!! cant wait

I wish that an American counterpart would be held. Preferably on the east coast. xD

Ok… I don’t care…

I REALLY wish I was able to come to these events. Why can’t one be held in the US as well?
Seriously.

I WANT TO GO!!!!!!!!!!!!! Y DOES IT HAVE TO BE IN LONDON?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Who’s going? Who’s going? Dare ga ikimasu ka? Eeee. Me and Mike T are going!

I wish I can go…but I don’t have enough money to go to London (in the USA XD LOL ). Besides, I’m a bit afraid of flying on an airplane ^^;

Aw man! I have a 90% chance that my parents will say no! Besides…I’m in the US! The US never has exicting events like this!

I am definatly coming to this, assuming I can get the day off work again ^^ If not, I’ll lock my manager in our walk-in freezer and hitchhike to get there ^^

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! London!!?
I wish I could go to London……… Why can’t they have it somewhere in the US
so I could actually go……. *pouts*

I don’t care where it is I’m gonna do whatever it takes to go!

I live in the USA, and I’m very certain I may be able to visit the Summer of Sonic in London since I have enough money to pay for Plane tickets and such, but would there be anyone over there who would be willing to help me out? Like be able to get the directions and probably help me get to the exact location of SoS once we know its located? I would be very glad if someone would be willing to do this, whatever it takes so I can go to a place where I feel I belong, with the Sonic fans ^_^

Omg I am so coming to this convention! xD
It will be nice to see other Sonic fans as well as me and a few friends c:
I’ll do everything it takes to get there, even if it gets me lost along the way on the train to London XD!

OMG AWESOME!!! 😀

I’m a BIG Sonic fan, and I wanna go badly…. *sigh* but my mom won’t let me, and I live in the USA and all….
I really wanna go… 🙁

I am definately going =D

Me and three others!!!

Bawww D: I agree with everyone else, they should really have one in America!

I live in the upper north part of the US >.O As long as it’s not somewhere like California… But GOD I would LOOOVE to go to one~! >w<

I have some REALLY good friends that I’ve known for years that live in different countries and stuff. I would just ADORE being able to see one of them!! They’re all Sonic fans. :3

I’m still waiting for more information about SoS’09, especially the venue it is taking place in. I don’t want to come all the way over to London; from the east coast of United States, just to get lost and I sure wish Summer of Sonic would get an official website so I can be absolutely sure about everything involving this incoming event.

Wow, alot of people complaining about it not being in the US. England rarely gets anything like this, in fact most major conventions are usually hosted in the US but you don’t see people complaining then…

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