10th Anniversary of Knight Con Germany
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 12:29 am
This week marks the 10th anniversary of Knight Con in Germany. This was a BIG event, and to this day it remains one of my all-time favorite Knight Rider gatherings.
Knight Con took place in the Warner Bros. Movie World theme park in Bottrop, Germany, which made for some bizarre sights as you watched a guy in a Bugs Bunny suit looking over KITT. They declared a “Knight Rider Day” and so there were exhibits and events throughout the park. There was a big exhibit hall which contained the largest collection of Knight Rider memorabilia I have ever seen: toys, clothing, models, posters, photos… everything. The was a screening area running Knight Rider episodes all day long. A German author who published some Knight Rider novels did a reading from one of his books (in German). Don Peake and Stu Phillips were there talking about the music. Because it was inside a theme park, there was a lot of foot traffic.
Of course, the biggest attraction of all was seeing other fans. I met AJ Palmgren for the very first time in a seedy internet cafe in town (smart phones? what were those?) I met Javi from Spain (http://elcochefantastico.net" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) along with his girlfriend and we hit it off immediately and spent a lot of time together.
Most of my photos are trapped inside an obsolete computer but I’ll try to gather as many as I can which were posted online.
Did anyone else make it to Germany in 2004?
Knight Con took place in the Warner Bros. Movie World theme park in Bottrop, Germany, which made for some bizarre sights as you watched a guy in a Bugs Bunny suit looking over KITT. They declared a “Knight Rider Day” and so there were exhibits and events throughout the park. There was a big exhibit hall which contained the largest collection of Knight Rider memorabilia I have ever seen: toys, clothing, models, posters, photos… everything. The was a screening area running Knight Rider episodes all day long. A German author who published some Knight Rider novels did a reading from one of his books (in German). Don Peake and Stu Phillips were there talking about the music. Because it was inside a theme park, there was a lot of foot traffic.
Of course, the biggest attraction of all was seeing other fans. I met AJ Palmgren for the very first time in a seedy internet cafe in town (smart phones? what were those?) I met Javi from Spain (http://elcochefantastico.net" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) along with his girlfriend and we hit it off immediately and spent a lot of time together.
Most of my photos are trapped inside an obsolete computer but I’ll try to gather as many as I can which were posted online.
Did anyone else make it to Germany in 2004?
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