London Locale Can Hold 500 Fans
There have been intermittent hints, but it now appears set in stone: The 2009 Summer of Sonic convention will be held at The Boiler House in the Old Truman Brewery complex in London.
Don’t get things mixed up–you’re not going to a place filled with booze. Rather, the Brewery, at 91 Brick Lane in London, has been converted into a creative hub for the city’s East End, where fashion, design, and other creative collaborations all meet The Boiler House can hold about 500 people.
The site is a short distance away from the London Underground’s Liverpool Street station.
Organizer and Sonic Stadium head Svend Joscelyne posted some other details regarding the upcoming gathering on the official SoS website, which notes there will be some procedural changes and–hopefully–some surprises:
One of the biggest things we were asked was the facility of ‘merchandise shops’ for attendees to spend, spend spend. In fact, it’s one of the things I’d really like to happen too, but unfortunately I can’t comment on whether we can do this yet in SOS 09 or not. The problem being that there are all sorts of legal and property rights issues surrounding the selling of Sonic the Hedgehog licensed products (I’m not joking – SEGA are somehow in a legal tussle to sell stuff from their own brand) so it could put a damper on things. Having said that, there’s nothing stopping license holders from attending the event, but I can’t say whether that will happen or not yet, so fingers crossed!
We’re still fumbling through our list of Special Guests, so aren’t ready to comment on anything just yet… however, I can tease that legendary game composer Richard Jacques and the lovely singer TJ Davis were said to enjoy attending Summer of Sonic 2008. If you missed out on Richard and TJ’s magnificent performance last year, there’s a chance you’ll still be able to meet them this year…
There will be a legal requirement for us to have names of those attending the Summer of Sonic in case of a fire or other emergency – a page will be created soon where you can sign your name (much like last year’s registration page, minus the threat of not getting in), so if you want to get in smoothly and quickly on the day you should let us know your name/s on the upcoming page. If you turn up on the day, all carefree like a bird, we’ll have to take your names down on the door so it might slow things down for you. Just giving you a heads up.
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Sonic Unleashed foi o 3º jogo mais vendido da SEGA, somando cerca de 2.45 milhões de cópias vendidas pelo mundo em apenas 5 meses (de Novembro de 2008 a Março de 2009, fim do ano fiscal da SEGA), somando todas as versões para os quatro consoles.
Sonic Unleashed, ficou apenas atrás de Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (com mais de 4 milhões de cópias) e Iron Man (com cerca de 2.5 milhões de cópias vendidas pelo mundo, pouco mais que Sonic Unleashed
-Isso é pra quem dizia que Sonic Unleashed estava vendendo mal… como os dados de certas empresas de estatísticas de jogos… -”this is for those who said that Sonic Unlheased was elling bad, people like IGN between other fools were saying”
sorry for bringing this again
but I couldn’t resist 
…anyway, back on topic,
I can’t wait. I’m heading there and I’m fairly sure other UK based TSSZ writers will make it too. It’ll be like a mini TSSZ meet-up. Possibly.
It would be awesome to perhaps meet up with people I’ve met over the net and who are interested in Sonic, and even catch a glimpse the big names in the community. Too bad there’s no way I can make it -_-’
Two more years and I’ll be out of school….two more years….
@Paul: I’m there baybee! A TSSZ Staff hangout with moderate drinking. Paul, have you been down London way before? Me and Mike might know a few decent places (food wise – especially Japanese). Oh and, of course, I think we’ll be reporting on this whole thing! XD
@TailsTheHedgehog: You make school sound like a prison sentence!!