Arkansas Meetup

Discussion in 'Transformers Conventions and Get Togethers' started by LEADERS_MATRIX, Oct 23, 2008.

  1. LEADERS_MATRIX

    LEADERS_MATRIX Wisdom of the ages...

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    If possible I would like to do this if we could get it together, oklahoma fan are welcome too.
    give me some thoughts and ideas please.
     
  2. zgraham

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    I am from the NW part of the state. I would love to meet up with other collectors and discuss all things Transformer.
     
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    I would not mind meeting in Russellville one little bit since I'm in the same county. :p 
     
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    LEADERS_MATRIX Wisdom of the ages...

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    Lets see if we can rally some people from the other boards and put something together, sooner the better for me, I have been thinking this for some time, I think it would be sweet.
     
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    I'd plan to make it.
     
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    I would go to it. im In benton outside of little rock.
     
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    LEADERS_MATRIX Wisdom of the ages...

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    Ok I have a few peps on the other boards, now what do we do at something like this?
     
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    strippers yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh:drool: :rock 
     
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    When I lived in Minnesota we had a several meetups and used a yahoo group for the online organization(and they still do).

    So I set this up: arkansastfs : Arkansas Transformer Fans

    You can view/post messages there or sign up to receive messages posted there in your email and post messages by emailing to: [email protected]

    What the MN group did for meetups was meetup either at someone's place or a restaurant(or some coffee-shop-type places that had separate meeting rooms), and we'd eat/hang out and talk/show/trade/watch TFs, see someone's collection if we met at their place, and then go on toy hunts to nearby stores.

    If we met in Russellville, anyone know a place we could meet?

    If people wanted to come to Little Rock I could host a meeting at my place(unless the group suddenly gets huge).

    But nobody is allowed to strip at my place! Oh... wait, you mean go see strippers. :wink: 
     
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    That would be cool. I live in benton i dont know how far that is for everyone else but i could host a get together. Just give me the time and date and ill be there. And yes go see strippers weeeeeee.
     
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    LEADERS_MATRIX Wisdom of the ages...

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    thats cool I already have a yahoo account.
     
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    Here's a list of the potential Arkansas Transfans:

    The people(board names and assumed general location) so far who have expressed some interest in an Arkansas meetup:
    Leaders Matrix: NW Arkansas
    zgraham: NW Arkansas
    iacon45: near Russellville
    Edgewise: Central Arkansas
    transformers32: Central Arkansas
    Wingus: NE Arkansas

    Other people(board names and assumed general location) in Arkansas that posted in the Tfans or TFW toy sightings threads in the past year:
    Elvio: NW Arkansas
    godbomber: NW Arkansas
    countj: North Central Arkansas
    Rook Jones: Central Arkansas
    fabulous4klub: Central Arkansas
    Blaster Master: Central Arkansas
    Boost: Central Arkansas
    soybean: Central Arkansas??
    payton34: Central Akansas??
    Kilger: NE Arkansas
     
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    LEADERS_MATRIX Wisdom of the ages...

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    I IM'd Godbomber, he said he would be interested, and I have meet fabulous (good guy) haven't seen him on the boards in a while though, and soybean I haven't seen in a bit ether. I'll send GB a pm and invite him in.
     
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    Well, seeing as how I live there, I have a few suggestions, we might be big, we are no where near as big as Conway, Little Rock, Fort Smith or Fayetteville. There are meeting rooms at places like Western Sizzlin...that's about the only place I can think of like that at the moment. (I'm running on fumes :p )

    ...and we only have 1 Wal-Mart and 1 K-Mart. No Target (yet anyway) or TRUs.
     
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    I live in Joplin, MO but I'm more than willing to travel to like say Fayetteville, AR or Springdale or Rogers or somewhere in that area.
     
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    I live in the Benton/Little Rock area as well and even though i'm not collecting anymore I would be like to meet up with some fellow fans and if you were interested in anythign i had and i could help out i'm all for it. And yes Strippers are always a good thing :) 
     
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    Why you sellin all your bots?
     
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    Well to be honest once money starting getting tight and I had to sell the biggest and baddest piece in my collection (100% complete Fort. Max) I kind of lost the want to keep collecting TF. I'm still very intersted in them and keep up with everything but when I sold that it was like selling one of my kids as it was not only the gem of my collection but it was a gift from a family member. I've since started collecting the new GI JOE stuff though as I find it a nice replacement.
     
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    thats cool, If I were to go with collecting something other than TF it would be Joe's.
     
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    Little Rock is a 3 hour 1 way trip for me. I understand that their are a lot of people all over the state interested in TFs. What if we had regional groups that met once or twice a month, then a big meet for all the groups once a year? If there was a group in NW AR, I would join in a second. I don't have anyone to discuss TFs with at the moment. It would be fun to show off my collection and see what others have.