Three years of Bronies - Thirty of Ponies!

It's kind of shocking how quickly time has gone shooting by these past few years. On October 10th 2010 the 4th generation of My Little Pony aired on American Television, little did we know that this was the start of quite the phenomenon. Now three years down the line we've grown into this amazingly huge fandom, with thousands of fans from across the globe. I think we're all really excited for what Season 4 might bring come the end of November, I certainly wish November would get here sooner.

But yes, on to the main topic of this post. Three wonderful years of MLP:FiM, Bronyism and thirty years in total of MLP as a franchise. This sort of mile stone needs a celebration to fit. I hope you guys all have something splendid planned for Thursday, not sure what I'll be doing, but chances are it'll involve watching a few episodes, haven't seen an episode in ages! Whatever you've got planned, we'd love to hear! Comment below or hit that submit button!

Summer Sun Celebration Review!

Oh woah, where do I even start. This right here, the wonderful music festival that if it had ended here i'd have still been satisfied with the entire weekend. I think everyone else would agree, this is what set BUCK apart from most other conventions out there. There's not really much words can do to express the experience, not to the full extent, really was something you had to have been there for.

Let's start from the beginning, we were all there in the Moon Under Water after filming in the Waldorf for the National Geographic Documentary. For those familiar with the Manechester Muffin meets, the Moon under water is quite a large venue. We took out the entire upstairs, it was a beautiful moment I think, so many bronies all sat down, cheering, eating and drinking in preparation for the upcoming entertainment. Shockingly enough the staff were still able to serve us within a few minutes of ordering, which I have to say, kudos to them.

Continue after the break!

Outflanks competition winners announced!

So for those of you interested in Greeting's upcoming card game, the contest that was set out to determine various aspects of the game has ended and the winners have been announced! Check the link below to see the winners!

The six virtues and twenty archetypes.

Also, a quote from the judge's favourite: "Thrust". Yeah, BUCK's very own Pant's Man won!

Gamers Night 1 - Adventure to Big City and beyond!

A few of you might remember a while back, Harby used to run Bronies UK Gamer Nights from time to time. These were quite popular at the time and it's been a shame to see Harby leave the fandom and drop these quite wondrous Gamer Nights. So, here we are, bringing them back officially with a kick! On Sunday the 29th September at half past seven we'll be heading down to Big City for some crazy antics and maybe a bit of prop hunt!

Hope to see you there, check out the event page for more info!

Sorry for the delay + Little bit of News!

Sweet Celestia! It's been almost two weeks since my last post. Honestly, i've been burnt out since BUCK, I swear, that mixed with being dead busy sorting through countless amounts of old belongings and sorting my new bedroom out, it's been extremely time consuming.

I have been working on the review for the Summer Sun Celebration, it pretty much was finished on day one but then I got side tracked with what I explained above. That'll be up before the end of the week I can assure you, though I'm not sure what i'll do about my BUCK review, I might try and sum it up quicker in a video response, we'll have to see. 

Forbidden Planet Bristol Pony Day!

You know for the longest time I thought Bristol was Kent, but that's a story for another day. Actually heard about this on EQD surprisingly enough. The awesome fellows of Forbidden Planet Bristol are hosting a My Little Pony day, for bronies. Can't complain about that now can we. Shame Forbidden Planet Manchester and Leeds aren't on the same page with us bronies. One day maybe, we can only wait and see.

For those who live in Bristol get yourself down to Forbidden Planet on Saturday 14th September between the hours of 10am and 4pm.

There's going to be a Cosplay catwalk, MLP quiz with a giant pony up for grabs and blind bag painting!

Why BUCK Why.. I don't want to wait another year!

So BUCK is over, it's been a hell of a weekend. I honestly cannot express how much I enjoyed the entire event, from the pre-meets to the Summer Sun Celebration to the actual con it's self!
Apologies for not getting much out this week, been quite busy recovering from BUCK (and getting rid of Windows 8 on my new laptop..).

Anyway, sadly I'll be without that laptop until Sunday, no I didn't break it, i'll be visiting family in London, and of course attending the Party in the Park tomorrow! So I hope to see lots of you guys there! Seriously, need more pony, post convention depression and all isn't good!

Don't threat though i'll be working on some form of review of BUCK and the Summer Sun eventually. Got my iPad so maybe i'll try and bash something out on that.. though typing on a touch screen just can't compare to a keyboard!

Muffin Meet and Pre-meet going well!

So, the Thursday Muffin meet was truly amazing, the numbers kept going up and down but we were around 45-50 at the height. Taking over the Moon Under water wetherspoons was amazing experience, all the tables at the back upstairs were just surrounded by bronies. The staff were kinda out of their depth but we all managed to get fed and merry. Many awesome bronies were there, especially awesome seeing our European friends, such as the French bronies, Norwegian and of course the Czechoslovakian bronies, including the guy dressed as Zecora who saved the Galacon closing ceremony!

Now it's the actual Pre-Meet, we descended on Star Bucks again, the Czech's brought out My Little Karaoke.. it's quite amazing!

Anyway, soon we're be heading to the Waldorf for the meet and filming with National Geographic! Or back to the Moon under water for the camera shy lot!

Oh! And the summer sun celebration at 7pm, Manchester Central! 

BUCK is this weekend!

I honestly have no idea how it came about so quickly, it just sort of happened! BUCK is taking place this weekend, starting with the Summer Sun Celebration festival on Friday at 7pm. Are you excited? Because i'm excited!

Galacon Review Part 3

Maybe I should try and wrap this review up some point before BUCK starts! Last day for Galacon, though we did have the Monday and most of Tuesday in Germany, which was quite the adventure. Now I wasn't expecting this, but we ended up waking up earlier on the Sunday then we did the Saturday. Seemed weird to me, but we had important business to take care of! The first event of the second day was the signing session for the American voice actors. Andrea and Peter readied their pens for the hoards of people lining up outside to get their signatures. A friend of mine is a massive fan of Big Macintosh and since Peter New was really talkative they ended up chatting for ages.

As per usual! Rest of the review is after the break!

I feel like i've gotten behind on articles this week! And it's almost BUCK! What am I to do! Been very busy with things non-pony related things! I have been working on Part 3 of my Galacon review, which i'll be looking at wrapping up with that part, I could easily go onto Part 4, but I think you might all be sick of my walls of text. Oh, and something awesome came through the post the other week! Expect my first video review soon.

Keychains and necklaces!

Now, this is knock off Chinese merchandise. I believe they are based on some of the freebies Welovefine offer when you spend like over a million pound. But I have to say, the quality is pretty awesome. Many of these sellers are popping up on eBay, I recently bought a Luna keyring, and though it doesn't feel like the best metal in all the world and has a bit of a plastic feel to it, it still looks awesome and is durable. Perfect pony addition to my keys. I'm posting this seller specifically because they have quite an awesome selection and offer both keychains and necklaces. For a really good price as well, just £3.23 without any postage and packaging, these are an unbeatable bargain!

Competition for BUCK!

We'll be hosting a contest during BUCK in a few weeks time. Keep an eye out for a note book being passed about, because that book is your chance to win! The games easy, in the book will be a word, your job is to reply to that word with another word that is associated with said word. Then you'll pass it along to a random person who'll do the same with you word, and so on and so on. Hopefully the book will make it's way back to myself or another Bronies UK admin at the After Convention Breakfast!

The winner will be who ever made the best, most amazing association. There'll be some nifty prizes up for grabs, so make sure you enter!

Check out the UKoE thread for more info!

Galacon Review Part 2

We haven't event got to the opening ceremony yet and it's already Part Two! This is insane! Without any further adieu! At 11am the doors opened to the Main Hall, where we all took our seats for the opening ceremony. Perry came on stage and welcomed us to the Galacon. They then played videos detailing the community and show guests that were going to be appearing during the convention. We got to know all about the voice actors and what other roles they have played. They all then came on stage, which was was quite a surprise. Check after the break for the video and more!

Bronies UK Roleplay Group!

So, over on Facebook we used to have a Roleplay Chat, however today i've decided to create a Roleplay Group! I know RP might have a love hate relationship for most, but I hope you'll enjoy this! RP might become an obsession for some, but I've always seen it as quite the interesting version of story telling, as long as you do it with the right people.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/330277033774882/  Here's the Group!