Well, first off, sorry I´ve been so inactive, but there´s been a lot going on lately. My very last year of school started (Well hopefully my last ) and I went to Summer of Sonic 2009 last month! I´ve also been working on a few projects, that´s why I haven´t submitted anything for a while. For those who like my comic "Mighty", I´m still working on that one, though I propably won´t submit any more pages untill the project I´m working on is finished. I´ll hurry!

Anyway, for those of you who are interested, I´m posting the pictures I took at Summer of Sonic here, as well as a summary of my time in London.



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I arrived on Friday at London Stansted airport, and went to London Victoria station by coach. Everything went pretty smooth, except for the major change in temperature between Germany and England maybe (wasn´t expecting it to be so chilly). At London Victoria, I met up with my friend FastFeet of FastFeet Media [link] at about 9PM, who led me to our place to stay, an Uni campus not too far away from the event. Luckily, it was a bank holiday that weekend, so the underground station, usually totally crowded, was fairly empty.

The next morning, we went to the Boiler House in London where SoS took place, after I had dressed up as shadowy as possible (hedgie ears included) and when FastFeet´s hair was sprayed nice and blue. Luckily he had brought a map so we eventually found it.

When we arrived at the Boiler House, we met the other staff (you could tell they were Sonic fans immediately, lots of blue XD). FastFeet, being one of the DJs of both this year and last year, seemed to be quite well-known, while I was, well... not so well-known. The others were very nice though, and I wished I could´ve talked to them more often, but the fact I´m not used to talking in English much made it quite hard for me having conversations. I need more practise...
Anyway, we then started putting up the tables and getting everything ready for the guests. I even got to meet some people I knew from the Internet, like and ! Greetings you two! There were a lot more but I dunno if they´re on here.

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(just some random pics I took when the hall was still empty )

The guests were allowed in at 11AM. There were about 500 people at the event (and about 4000 watching via webcam, which is plain awesome!), you got to play new and old Sonic games on those screen-thingies on the second photo, like Sonic Unleashed, Sonic and the Black Knight and Sonic the Hedgehog for the MegaDrive.
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You couldn´t buy any merchandise at SoS for copyright reasons unfortunately, but there was a vitrine with extremely rare and valuable Sonic merchandise.
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There was a wide range of events, and when there wasn´t anything going on on stage, they played Sonic music in the background. (FastFeet had burnt every single Sonic song ever on CD! He´s got them all for download on his site too: [link]) You could text him too, requesting a sonic song to play, and if you were lucky (and the 23th or 38th to text), you could win Sonic merchandise (he ended up receiving about 200 texts)!
But, that wasn´t the only music at SoS: Bentley Jones performed live on stage! And he was amazing! He sung Dreams of an Absolution, Seven Rings in Hand, They call me Sonic, and some songs from his new album TRANS//LATION!
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^ on this photo, he´s singing some songs from his new album. The guitarist next to him is called Mike and came over to play along with Bentley specially.

There were also two Sonic the Comic writers/artists who were interwieved on stage, as well as a Sumo Digital Q&A.
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There was a cosplay competition as well. The costumes were awesome - there was a Sonic, a Silver, a Shahra, two Dr. Eggmans, a Rouge and a character from another franchise whose name I don´t remember. Rouge won, and she sure deserved it! She got some Sonic merchandise and a Xbox 360(!!)
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Of course, there was an art competition too. I think I missed a bit of events on stage while I was drawing... like the Never Mind the Buzzbombers quiz they had on stage, where to teams competed against each other. It´s a shame, it sounded really funny! However, I´ll submit my SoS-entry here a bit later.
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^ this is the wall where the artwork was displayed, of course there was a lot more towards the end, but the second photo I took turned out to be crappy.... ._. There was another wall with featured artists from DA too.
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In the end, there was one last quiz where most of the staff went on stage and were asked a question, the one closest to the right answer won. The questions were quite tricky, I think some of them were "What´s Eggman´s weight in kilograms" and "How many games did Amy Rose make an appearance in", something among these lines.

Anyway, after giving out the prizes and such, the convention ended at around 8PM. After about 2 hours of cleaning up the hall, the staff went to a nearby bar and had a drink. It was quite a comfortable place and the atmosphere was quite relaxed.

After that, FastFeet and I went back to the accomodation, to leave at around 10AM the next day, eat something, and go to Victoria Station to say goodbye. I had a great time, and I can´t wait for Summer of Sonic 2010 and see them all again.... I know I´ll be there.

Here´s some random photos I took on my way back to Stansted.

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I also got to take some photos on the plane. Here are some photos that show England from above. I just love that place so much... ^-^

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Well then, that´s pretty much it. If you wanna see more SoS photos, you can go here: [link]
Also, here´s SoS from FastFeet´s point of view: [link]

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