Minecon 2015: A First Hand Overview

We arrived in London on Friday 3rd July, ready for a Minecraft-packed weekend at the Excel Centre. We received our wristbands and goodie-bags on Friday. To get an exclusive chance to own one of these 10,000 goodie bags (along with an official Minecon 2015 cape(also one of 10,000)) purchase them here!

 

Saturday morning. The centre opened at 8am, for the opening ceremony to begin at 10:30. Here, Lydia Winters and fellow staff, including Jeb, opened the ceremony and talked about everything that was to be going on over the course of the weekend.

The Expo Hall

 When there were no shows going on that you wanted to see, The Expo Hall really was the central hub of Minecon 2015. Cleverly, everything was arranged around an Ender Dragon wrapped around Big Ben. Here there were tournaments, stages, life size Minecraft trees, animals, figures and fences, mini-games, art exhibitions, an indie zone and shops.

 

 Mine Chest was one of the exhibitors at Minecon. You went inside a giant chest to be told about the company, who will soon be selling an official bundle of Minecraft goodies delivered to your door in a monthly package.

The life size animals and fences!

Part of the amazing art exhibition.

 Mini-games, such as Creeper Catch, where you could win exclusive Minecon Floppets.

Card games could be played in order to win Minecraft figures!

 

The landscape and park. The Expo Hall was very cleverly designed to be related to Minecraft and London. The park included traditional English post and phone boxes, including a real fountain, signs and benches. There were even two bridges and a fake river!

 Now, let's talk about Small World. I think the best word to describe it has to be over-hyped. I don't think I was the only one who was slightly disappointed when it opened. Basically, Small World wasn't opened until later in the day on Saturday. Then, you had to queue around these amazing sculptures of different biomes in Minecraft, including the nether and end. Then, you got to go on a golf buggy (actually pretty cool) around some tunnels. I don't actually know if they were meant to be caves or what, but there was cardboard and wooden cutouts of Minecraft figures, such as Steve, monsters and animals. I'm not saying they did a bad job at Small World, but considering the landscaping in the Expo Hall, it could have been better.

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So, that marks the end to gaming week (or two) on the blog. I hope everyone enjoyed it!

-Beth

Happy Reading!♥