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Our London deviantMEET Was Brilliant!On Saturday, June 14, 2009, deviantART held a deviantMEET at the Albert Memorial in Hyde Park. Over 350 deviants showed up to celebrate all things deviantART, setting a record for the highest attended deviantMEET in history in the process... until now.
Almost exactly three years later -- on Saturday, June 30, 2012 -- at the same location in Hyde Park, London deviants once again turned up in droves. Smashing the previous record, our London deviantMEET 2012 saw over 550 deviants throughout the day.
Most deviantMEETs include a group photo, usually taken towards the end of the event's festivities. However, we wasted no time taking our group shot in front of the Albert Memorial, as we wanted to ensure we were complying with Hyde Park's rules and regulations for large gatherings. With a group this massive -- and awesome -- it's hard not to draw attention!

London HQ Devmeet: The taleWhat do you get when you have 500 stress balls, the unpredictability of the Great British weather and a large park in the middle of London? A HQ devmeet of course!

In brief

500 emoticon stress balls, 10 plushies and 500 sharpie pens is a lot of stuff to carry to London from Derby, but is worth it!

Being late for breakfast means you can politely steal $Heidi’s toast to have with your cup of tea.

If you arrive 10 mins late to a very large devmeet, expect a huge crowd of people already there.

Some people do dress up in full cosplay. It is fascinating. I counted 3 Dinosuar type things, a fox person, lots of hats and “ears”, at leat 2 pikachus, a Mexican wrestler, and some very short skirts!

Giving out free balls/stickers/lanyards/pens etc to lots of people makes you feel a little like a seller at a sports event! Or a primary school teacher!
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London Picnic Meet 2012by `Narfmaster

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Posted live from Hyde Park!
See if you can count us all...

_{Uploading over 3G dropped the quality a bit...will update when I'm home!
All done! You can also view the corners in high res by following these links:
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Bottom Left
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(Let me know if I cut anyone in half!)

Also, I know, first submission in a long time...}

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=TheUnknownAssassin Aug 1, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

_{The Pokemon trainer in the second row and the creeper in between everyone! Bahaha! XDD}

~Juanfire123 Jul 31, 2012

Lol I see BlackBirdRose! The hint about the the santa really broke the game. Hahaahha!

!Myst-kore Jul 30, 2012 Student General Artist

Whoa

~lemonlican Jul 28, 2012

POWERFULL!!!!!

~ditya Jul 22, 2012 Professional Photographer

woowww.. Awesomee. Best Regards From Indonesia !

Check out our deviantIndonesia Regional Group if you want to know the beauty and culture from our country :

~gantibaju Jul 18, 2012 Professional Interface Designer

wow! owesome!

~Mariochaz Jul 12, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

too bad i was late 1hour and missed the group shot

~Mello-Chaan Jul 7, 2012

See meeee :'D

God this day was amazing MFSHFJHF <3333

`WDWParksGal Jul 6, 2012

all those deviants in ONE spot!

=Shadowsprint Jul 6, 2012 Student General Artist

I love the little creeper hidden in the middle XD
Looks like it was loads of fun, could of gone but I was at Canada Day the next day then Thorpe Park on Monday so wouldn't of had the energy for those events D:

Next year though I will try and not have so much on around it x)

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