Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-679780-20150529175649

I'm old enough to remember when SegaWorld. I was 8 when I first heard of it from Sonic the Comics and Sega magazines and I really wanted to go! It felt like it was a huge honour for Sega, especially with Sonic, to have their own theme park. And what I found even more unbelievable about it all was that it was located in London! It just felt more likely such a place would be far away in America. But the fact it was in London kinda gave me a bit of patriotic pride even though I was too young to fully udnerstand patriosm that time.

Granted I never been to London in my entire life and I asked my mother and she said we can't go, but at the time I believed it was all a matter of time before someday I will be old enough to go, it wa sall a matter of hope and patience.

Around 2000, SegaWorld closed down. I never got to go. I was very depressed by this. I felt as a Sonic fan I missed out on a brilliant oppotunity. I only seen pictures of SegaWorld and never known what it was like. ''A whole theme park indoors!? Is that even possible?'' I never got to see perhaps the most awesome tribute Sonic could ever have, his own theme park.

Six or so years later, me 18, I found out there is a convention called Summer of Sonic being hoasted by fans in London. Again I am amazed that London would be the choice place for such a convention adn that a convention dedicated to Sonic would more likely be in America. Since I still live in Wales I asked Mum if I can go, she said it's just too far away and unless I have friends who are capable of taking me there, it's a no. My older brother did say he would take me one year, but over time he got too busy with his own business he's been establishing. Again all I could do was wait and hope that perhaps someday I'll be able to go to Summer of Sonic, even if it's just the one summer, even if it's just once and I'll have a crappy time, I just wanted to go once.

Well last year it's been canceled and this year doesn't look so different, I'm afraid that once again I am missed out on a Sonic's fan oppotunity.

I feel sad about it all because I never really had much of a chance to go. I live in Mid-Wales which is pretty far from London and I can't just "go there" and "come back" at a whim. Kinda depressing. Can't SoS rent the funland in Trocadero? Seems fitting thats where it all started to me.

Anyone here also have first world problems as a Sonic fan? 