Yeah, sure thing. I think the trick will be to make it a bit like a multiple chose thing with a low number of questions so it is quick and easy to do for everyone.

Is it possible to work out how many collective members there are on all the forums? Then it might be a starting point to see how big the fan base is out their. You could then perhaps assume between 5 and 10% would be able to make it and that would give a rough order of magnitude on how many there might be. Duno just a thought.

Anyway if you want to progress this a little further to sort out some sort of questionnaire then feel free to PM or email me.

Lets see how far we can take it...:rolleyes:

I say we take it all the way

Count me in! We should get the ball rolling on this one soon so we can get everything set up.

I'm happy to do some of the planning for this :D

Wow...all the ideas you listed are great, Alan! And I do think starting with a survey/poll/questionnaire would be good, posting it on multiple Avatar sites. I'm definitely interested in all this, so count me in! :)

Well, I'll see if I can pull together a bit of a questionnaire thingy and I'll post it...or a link to it...here so people can see what they think. Once we're happy with it then perhaps we could post the link onto as many Avatar forums as possible in as many places (as some people just stay in certain threads) and wait for the responses.

I guess the only other way would be to see if the admins of all the forums could be contacted to see if there is a way of PMing everyone with it? Is this possible HNM?

Of course this is just to gauge the level of interest rather than plan anything out yet.

What do people think?

Yeah, we could contact them - whether or not we'll get an 'offical' reply, I'm not sure, but I'm, sure we can certainly at least go to each forum and post it there, most have some kind of meetups forum.

Kaltxi folks. :hi: Ok, well...I've been doing a little bit of research. Always a good start I guess.:)

I put 'Avatar Convention' into Goolge and came up with a bit of stuff. The first two links got to Naviblue and AF where Avatar conventions have been discussed before about a year ago. Here's the links:

Naviblue thread.

Avatar-Forums thread.

I don't know if anything came of these. There was talk of having a meet up at Comic-con in 2010. But again I don't recall anything or have seen anything about it happening.

So next I checked out the big boys of conventions! What I found out is they they are generally in the region of 4 days, to stretch over a weekend. There are day tickets between US$20 - US$40 and four day tickets between $110 and upto $280!

The Star Trek convention is rather large. You can check it out here> Star Trek Convention

Then there is the Star Wars thingggg> Star War Celebration V

Next up is Comi-con that I believe gets held in San Diego every year. This is where I think the 20 minute Avatar preview was shown in 2009! It is being held again this year in late July > Comi-con 2011

Ok these are established events, but they kinda give you an idea of what goes on at them.

If there was to be an Avatar one I really think it would need to be professionally organised. However, what we could do is try and find out if there is enough interest. Which brings me nicely onto our little questionnaire. I have pulled one together and it can be down loaded by clicking here> Avatar Convention/Meet-Up Questionnaire. Let me know what you think.

If a 'convention' is a bit too much to ask for then there is the 'meet-up' option, where we simple just meet up. But I think if we were to do this we would perhaps get bored and if people were travelling long distances, it would not be worth their will, unless there was something to do.

Soooo...perhaps one possibility would be to meet up at an event. Two spring to mind: Comi-con and the other is the Avatar exhibition on 4th June in Seattle.

My own thoughts? Well a convention would be great, but I don't have the skills or resources to pull that one off! I think that would need to be done professionally. However, a meet-up? Well that is more achieveable. And of course the best place to do that this year would be at the launch of the Avatar Exhibition.

I still think it would be worth trying to organise something for that if possible even if it was just somewhere for us all to meet. If we were going to do this I think we should knock on the door of the Seattle museum to see if they would be will to organise something for us. Especially if we were able to show them some evidence of interest. I mean, that's all I did at the IMAX cinema and we got our forum film shown there with Avatar SE.

Wow. Sorry I've gone on a bit. But please do ponder it and let me know your thoughts. It really would be great for everyone from all the forums to meet up at last and what better place than the opening of an Avatar exhibition!

Oel ngati kameie..I hope on 4th June in Seattle!:hi:

Alan

Interesting idea, but I think we need a meetup for UK/Europe people as well... not all of us have the time/money to make it to the Avatar exhibit :(

About the Avatar Exhibit... I love the idea, maybe get them to give us a special tour or entrance or convention going... I should be able to go on the opening weekend, but I need people to travel with. If anyone wants to travel with me (road trip) just contact me. Anywhere from Colorado to Seattle works for me!

...unless...the Avatar Exhibition comes to Europe? I don't know if anyone knows or not, but I'm sure I read somewhere that it was going on tour after Seattle...or have I just made that up?:rolleyes:

If not then I guess we need to know the level of interest for an event in Europe. Did anyone have a chance to download the questionnaire to see what they thought of it before we send it out to see what response we get? Here's the link again:

Convention/Meet Up Questionnaire

Look forward to your comments...

*goes into thinking mode about an event for somewhere in Europe...*:xD:

Am sort of arranging a mini UK meet up in Feb. Anyone interested?

The most practical venue - not the most inspiring one by a long way, but the one likely to get the most people - would be as an enclave within a World Science Fiction Convention.

The coolest one would be a private premiere of Avatar 2 in a near-jungle location such as a resort in Kauai. Likely number of attendees: somewhere under one.

I like it :) - I can post it on Learnnavi as well when we are ready to collect the data.
As for UK/Europe, I like London - I can actually get there :P , and it's arguably the easiest place to get to from most of the area.

I am! :D

Kaltxi ISV! I would be interested! What's the plan? I could bring a copy of the forum film along if you want and I'm able to get. If not I can alway post one to you.