New Midwestria Awakens: Announcing the Preliminary Resurrection of Our First Pop-Up Event in Carol Stream IL
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“Hah, now look at them yo-yos, that’s the way you do it
You play the guitar on the MTV
That ain’t workin’, that’s the way you do it
Money for nothing and your chicks for free”-Money Foe Nothing , Dire Straits
New Midwestria Awakens
Announcing the Preliminary Resurrection of Our First Pop-Up Event in Carol Stream IL
The time has come to re-open the gates.
In the wake of BronyCon’s departure, a vacuum was left in the heart of a community known for creativity, friendship, and grassroots joy. New Midwestria emerged to help fill that space—not just with another event, but with a movement grounded in spiritual continuity, community revival, and multidimensional awareness.
We launched our first pop-up event in an effort to step forward into that calling. It was an ambitious spark: one meant to light a fire beneath a regional fandom scene eager to reconnect and rise. However, as many pioneers learn, intention alone is not enough to build sustainable structures. Energetically, logistically, and spiritually, we realized that the foundation required more than what had yet been assembled. The event was never canceled—but it entered a state of dormancy, a liminal cocoon awaiting the right conditions for resurrection.
Where We Stand Now:
New Midwestria is now entering a preliminary resurrection phase for that very first pop-up event. This isn’t a re-launch announcement with confirmed dates or a full-scale rollout. Instead, it’s a signal flare—a beacon to those who remember, those who believed, and those who still wish to see New Midwestria rise.
This article marks the initiation of that resurrection.
Behind the scenes, we are actively building the internal structures necessary to ensure that what happened before does not happen again. We’ve spent the time necessary to analyze the energetic feedback, understand the market dynamics, and evaluate the internal reactions that led to the original postponement. We’ve grown. And now, with new clarity and responsibility, we are taking the first public steps.
This Is a Call for Community Feedback and Voluntary Support
As we begin this stage of reawakening, we are opening several avenues for community input and support:
Crowdfunding Portal:
As we relaunch our New Midwestria Carol Stream pop-up event, we want to take a moment to speak directly to the community that inspired this vision. This project is built on love—for the fandom, for creative expression, and for the energy that once brought thousands of us together under a single banner of shared joy. Our mission isn’t just to revive that spirit, but to evolve it—to create something fresh, grounded, and sustainable that honors where we came from while moving boldly into the future.
We’re doing this from the ground up. No corporate sponsors. No outside investors. Just passion, perseverance, and a deep desire to give this community a space to gather again. That means we’re moving at our own pace, rebuilding this event with intention and care.
That said, if you love what we’re doing—if the branding, mascots, and concept speak to you—and you want to help us accelerate this journey, we welcome voluntary donations. This isn’t a campaign for money. There’s no pressure, no guilt, and no expectation. We’re not asking you to make this happen. We’re already making it happen. But if you feel inspired to contribute and help us get there a little faster, we’ll be grateful.
Most importantly, we’d love your feedback. This isn’t just our project—it’s yours too. We want to hear your ideas, your hopes, and your experiences. Tell us what you’d love to see. Help us make this space one that reflects the best of what fandom can be.
This preliminary stage is funded entirely by voluntary community contribution. No pressure, no paywall—just the option for those who feel called to donate and accelerate the timeline of New Midwestria’s rebirth.
Community Feedback on Support Rewards:
Those who choose to donate can share what they’d like to receive in return: a badge, a thank-you on the website, exclusive merch, or something else entirely. Likewise, even non-donators are invited to share what they think would feel meaningful or fair for community members who do support this phase. This dual feedback pool allows us to align energetic and practical expectations with generosity, creativity, and joy.
Preliminary Sign-Up for Artists & Vendors:
If you’re an artist, vendor, or musician interested in participating in this event—or even in future ones—fill out our interest form. There’s no commitment yet, but this gives us and you the time and space to prepare schedules, gather finances, and lay the groundwork in tandem.
Local Band and Music Project Interest Form:
Are you part of a band or musical group—Brony or otherwise—and interested in performing? This form helps us identify talent early and gives your band or music project ample time to plan logistics, develop merch, or revamp your digital presence in preparation for a future showcase.
Help Us Spread the Word:
This resurrection stage is also a soft advertising launch. Included with this article is a downloadable flyer featuring our event concept. You are invited to:
Share it across your social media platforms.
Print it locally to post in comic shops, coffee houses, bookstores, or other fandom-aligned spaces.
Or even design and distribute your own variation if you’re an artist, musician, or local creative.
New Midwestria has always been about co-creation. This is your event as much as it is ours
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A Liminal Revival — Seeding the Future
This announcement exists as a marker in time. A conscious breath. A beginning.
We don’t yet have a date. We’re not rushing the process. We are working steadily in the background to stabilize our company infrastructure, scale sustainably, and make sure that when New Midwestria does rise, it does so from a place of joy, safety, and long-term sustainability.
This stage is about gathering those who believe. Those who understand that events like this are more than venues—they are vessels for connection, restoration, and self-expression.
So if you feel called to support, co-create, or simply witness this rebirth—we invite you to follow your own resonance.
We’re moving again. And your signal—whether through donation, form submission, or a simple share—helps guide the shape of what New Midwestria will become.
Addressing Community Concerns: Trauma, Misunderstandings, and the Dimensional Gap
We understand—when a new event steps forward in the wake of past failures in the convention world, comparisons are inevitable.
Words like Fire Festival, DashCon, Las Pegasus, and TanaCon still echo through fandom spaces as cautionary tales. We’ve heard the private messages. We’ve received the concerned glances and hesitations. Some have told us, “I don’t think you should do this.” Others have said, “You don’t have enough staffing experience.” And still more have warned us, “This fandom is oversaturated. You should focus on something else.”
We hear you.
But we also want to gently offer a reframing: these concerns—valid, emotionally grounded, and protective—often arise from a dimensional mismatch in perspective between the structure of the company and the position of the community or staffer offering the concern.
Let us explain.
When you’re operating as a founder or visionary behind an event like New Midwestria, you’re not only managing logistics—you’re working with dimensional scaffolding: setting up backend financial flows, creating legal safety nets, forming partnerships, designing scalable systems, planning long-term production arcs, and building infrastructure that spans across timelines. This is high-dimensional work that often lives at a layer most community members or entry-level staffers don’t see. And that’s okay.
By contrast, if someone has experienced only the front-facing dynamics of event staffing or fandom participation, they may not have the exposure or framework to recognize those unseen structures. What they do see is what happens on the surface—marketing graphics, ambitious announcements, a flyer or a social post—and, if they’ve seen something collapse before, they may experience a trauma-triggered flash of “this feels like FyreFest.”
That feeling matters. But what’s often missing is the translation layer—the ability to bridge the emotional concern with the dimensional context of what’s actually being built.
So instead of dismissing or defending, we’re opening a channel:
Understanding Dimensional Perception: Why Fyre Festival Is the First Thought
To truly understand why some community members have compared New Midwestria’s early efforts to infamous event failures like Fyre Festival, DashCon, Las Pegasus or TanaCon, we need to explore how perception operates—not just in psychology, but in dimensional awareness.
Let’s start with a simple metaphor to accompany this section:
Imagine your perspective as a 2D being inside a square—your whole reality is flat. Now imagine something begins to enter your square from another dimension: the corner of a cube poking into your frame. You don’t see the entire cube. You don’t know it’s a cube. You don’t know what it is. All you see is the fragment that intersects your field of perception. The human mind—especially when it encounters the uncanny, the unfamiliar, or the not-yet-fully-manifest—must make sense of it. It reaches for whatever past experiences feel the most similar or familiar.
In this case, that sliver of high-dimensional structure—the corner of a complex, still-forming convention model—feels eerily similar to other ambitious projects that failed publicly. Fyre Festival had big branding, no infrastructure. DashCon had big dreams, no funding. TanaCon had influence, no grounding. Las Pegasus stole a lot of money from fandom supporters and attendees. If that’s all you’ve ever seen from the fandom’s angle when something new enters, of course that’s the conclusion your energetic system will leap to.
This isn’t a judgment—it’s a dimensional mismatch of perception.
Most fans and even many staffers have primarily experienced conventions from a horizontal familiarity zone:
- A handful of events
- Shared staffing pools
- Similar structures, rhythms, and limitations
- Energy management that remains mostly internal, even secretive
- A top-down model where “big ideas” are assumed to come only from corporate outsiders or influencers
So when something shows up that doesn’t match that familiar pattern—when a corner of something larger peeks in—it triggers the subconscious need to place it into the closest available archetype. And unfortunately, in fandom memory, the most well-known examples of high ambition without context are disasters.
But here’s the crucial distinction:
New Midwestria isn’t just another pop-up convention. It’s the early condensation of a multidimensional structure.
We’re building not only a fandom event, but a company, with internal systems designed to scale:
- Financial infrastructure
- Staff development programs
- Cross-platform media integration
- Community ownership structures
- Hybrid corporate/grassroots hybrid ethics
- Long-term vision and resilience planning
And when you’re inside a two-dimensional box—watching only what leaks through as public-facing social posts or early announcements—that level of structure hasn’t yet revealed itself in full. It can’t. It’s still forming. All you see is the shadow of the cube, and the only shadows you’ve known like it have ended in collapse.
This is why your comparison isn’t wrong—it’s incomplete.
We invite you to see this not as a reason to panic, but as an invitation to pause and reflect on the limits of what you’re perceiving. This is a pattern, not an attack. A pattern of trauma-based reaction from the community when something unfamiliar enters the field without full visible context.
By recognizing this dimensional mismatch, we open up a way for healing, trust-building, and co-creation.
That’s why we’ve built the Concern Reflection Form—so that instead of reacting in fear, you can take a breath and articulate:
- What you’re seeing
- Why it worries you
- What you believe would help build trust
This is how we integrate your 2D perspective into our multidimensional system.
It’s how we make the cube visible to the square.
Because you do deserve to feel safe in your community. And we, as multidimensional builders, deserve the opportunity to show the full shape of what we’re creating—beyond the corner that’s first come into view.
Dimensional Marketing Perception: Why We’re Not “McCorporate” Pretending to Meme
Let’s be real: most fans live and experience the world through what we’ll call the 2D or 3D mindset—not in terms of intelligence, but in terms of dimensional scope. You’re out here trying to live your life, get through work, enjoy your fandoms, maybe go to a con or two, scroll Twitter, and vibe. You’re not trying to run a company, restructure financial pipelines, or stabilize long-term business ecosystems—and you shouldn’t have to.
So when something BIG suddenly shows up in your timeline—a new event announcement from a brand-new company you’ve never heard of before—it triggers a very normal reaction:
“Is this just another Fire Festival?”
Or: “Is this some weird corporate thing trying to cash in on us?”
This happens especially because your only experience of big structures trying to relate to smaller communities probably looks like:
- McDonald’s tweeting “Can I get uhhhhhh”
- Wendy’s doing a roast thread
- Pepsi trying to meme its way into social justice
In short: Big Brand tries to be relatable, and the audience instantly sees through it.
Why? Because from the 3D point of view, you can’t see the whole structure—just the part that peeks into your space. And when the only other times you’ve seen that “corner” of something dimensional coming into your world, it’s been cringey, fake, or a disaster, of course your brain makes that connection.
You’re not seeing the full framework of what we’re building. You’re seeing an announcement.
To you, that feels like a burger company slapping your meme on a billboard and expecting your money.
But here’s the difference: we’re not a monolithic corporate brand trying to assimilate your culture. We’re members of this community, building something to hold space for the entire fandom to grow.
We’re not here to demand the fandom rise to our scale.
We’re scaling so the fandom has room to evolve at its own pace.
We’re not trying to “be relatable” through memes or shock drops.
We’re here to co-create a new energetic scaffold for everyone—from the long-time staffers of legacy cons to brand-new artists and local bands looking to find their place.
Just like you, we’ve seen what happens when high-dimensional energy tries to enter a fandom space without context.
It’s not that fans are wrong to react—it’s that no one’s ever slowed down to explain what’s actually happening when a new structure enters the space.
So no—we’re not Fyre Festival.
And we’re not some McCorporate PR campaign asking you to fund our burger dreams.
We’re New Midwestria.
A Midwest Meetup and Event Planning Company
A community-rooted company learning how to scale with you, not at you.
and most importantly…
The ones who picked up the torch that Bronycon dropped and are working to support the weight of the fandom that BC was holding so you don’t have to.
Structured Concern Reflection Form
If you’re feeling a sense of unease, concern, or fear about the resurrection of this event, we invite you to express it through the form below—not to shame, but to understand.
Example Prompts:
What is your concern?
(e.g., “This feels like Fire Festival.”)
Why do you feel this way?
(e.g., “Because the scope feels too ambitious and I worry about the community’s trust being damaged.”)
What do you believe would help address this concern?
(e.g., “More transparency on how money is being managed” or “A slower rollout that starts with local events.”)
This is your space to articulate what you feel without fear of judgment or argument. From our side, it gives us the gift of understanding how the community perceives our dimensional presence—and allows us to integrate that feedback, address it responsibly, and even alchemize it into the multidimensional structure of New Midwestria itself.
We recognize that when a community exists in a specific energetic rhythm, something higher-dimensional entering into it may look confusing—or even threatening. It’s like trying to interpret a cube while standing in a 2D plane. You might only see a corner, a shadow, or a distortion. But we promise: we are not a shadow play.
We are inviting you to help co-translate this vision.
By opening this dialogue, we move away from reactive accusations and into conscious community collaboration. This is a place where concerns can be heard with care and with structure—and where we as organizers can craft thoughtful responses, publicly or privately, with the time, dimensional clarity, and nuance they deserve.
If you care deeply about this community, and you’ve felt the sting of past events that failed—then this is your opportunity to channel that concern not into fear or private warnings, but into something constructive, healing, and potentially co-creative.
