Thank you NYC!
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted Dec 20th 2008 12:27PM
posted Dec 20th 2008 12:27PM
And to all the vendors / sponsors / friends that were showing off their stuff, and all the companies who offered giveaways: thank you from the bottom of our mechanical hearts. We couldn't have done it without you!
You can see some Ovi-streamed pics of the event right here and read the lineblog here. If you have pictures you took and want to share, add them to our Flickr pool here, and if you've got video, post a link in the comments below!
It was a blast, but... there were TWO people missing... Two very unimportant people.
Josh even asked for them, but they didn't come forward...
Tom and Jerry ............? perhaps Luis n Clark
@ Jimmy Jones
No, no! Even more unimportant than them...
Stewie and Brian?
Steve and Jobs? Oh wait thats one person..
I'm guessing Ryan Block and the other guy he is making his blog with?
NO...He is reffering to CLAK and iEye
I was there last night. I went up to Ryan Block, took a picture with him and even told him who I was.
Of course, I had to ask "how much did you lose with Wii Fit?"
He confirmed my predisposition that Wii Fitt is GARBAGE.
I had a good time last night. Unfortunately, the place wasn't big enough for everyone to move around, there was no wifi, I waited in line till 7:30 before getting in and some people complained there weren't enough venders. The food was finished by the time I got in - not even sure what it was.
I saw Nokia, PEEK, DIY and that was it.
There was a huge Blackberry mockup, but Verizon was absent.
The funniest thing was, a raffle ticket holder won the Blackberry Storm mockup and had to carry that huge shit home ! Everyone was laughing. Engadget gave out a lot of Peeks, and a G1 and a couple Nokia's and some Kodak Cameras.
I had alot of fun and I will make ALL of engadget's NYC's rain sleet snow or hail.
I'm in one of the pictures they took standing on the line !
As many people as there were in line with iPhones - there was no rep from Apple.
^ Give this man a prize.
When is Engadget gonna have a Miami meetup!
Miami??? Pffft!
Get in line behind Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston.
Yeah, Philly's been getting stiffed on everything lately. We need some cool like this.
+1 for Miami
How bout Alaska? Sounds like an awesome place for something like this..
yes, miami! we need an engadget meetup here
Philly!!!! All Day!!!!!!
Philly is NOT that far from NYC, you should have gone, I mean I made it and I live in Chicago... come on now!
how about a houston or austin meetup....
austin is a huge technology epicenter......
it would be perfect..
How about Seattle? Oh wait its too close to Redmond and we dont want apple to think engadget is cheating.
I would finally be able to get to one of these!
Is there ever going to be a meetup in Atlanta?
+1 for Atlanta
+1 frickin one for ATL!
If I knew about it with more time in advance, I mighta gone too. NYC is like $100 round trip train ticket from Schenectady.
I wouldn't say it is worth the trouble of traveling like that
it was really cold waiting outside and it got packed very quickly, 1000 people may have been too many
not to mention there wasn't enough food for the first 500 as was told
and worst of all the Palm guy didn't want to tell us about Nova
frozen solid standing on line but thawing out inside was nice as were the prizes.....SO damn close to the Treo Pro!!!
hey engadget how about a meetup in the City when it isn't WINTER
all in all great time though!
...You're welcome.
@NYC
lol...good 1...
they should just rename it "The Big engadget reader raffle where we flame and boo everyone that wins a prize"
and yeah and don
don't forget all the that's what she said jokes by miss belmont that make no sense.
It was fun. sorta I just with there WAS MORE, and that everyone would open up to each other a little more.
It's funnier when it doesn't make sense! (...that's what she said)
maybe we should come with labels for our username
Clak would be protected by a thick layer of labels for all this usernames
HAHAH @ Veronica. Exactly. It was a crazy good night and i hope everyone notices the sarcasm in my previous post!
How about the 1gig pen...
but what if we use more than one username GASP
Yeah, great night. I got to meet Veronica, Ryan, and Peter, which totally made by fanboi head explode. They were all really nice though, glad I could be there :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33528908@N02/sets/72157611462651742/
You have no idea how many of your not-above-18 readers in New York wanted to come...
From some of the comments threads, it seems like that's a huge Engadget majority :)
I keed, I keed. Good job NYCers for the turnout, hopefully it improves the odds of parties elsewhere. Sign me up for San Jose/Peninsula. SF is probably out, dealing with cities is too much of a hassle.
i know at least one person who fits that description that wanted to come...:-(
I wish I could have made it!!! Instead I was stuck at LaGuardia for nine hours! Sounds like everyone had an awesome time.
Perhaps its only me but I did not expect the readers to look like the ones in the picture above, they seem almost gangster looking, and whats with the finger symbol there showing.
For some reason I expected a more refine reader or nerder looking reader.
I guest I should expect to be flamed for this comment.
Sausage-Fest
Um, would you referring to the PEACE 'symbol'? I had no idea that was gangster.
I REALLY tried to go, but with gridlock on the local roads due to the snow, i was forced to abandon my efforts. DRATS! i was SO disappointed!
Ahh...wish I could fly. :(
Yeah, I was there at the NYC meetup too. One of the first 25 in line standing in the snow, sleet, hail and rain. You can see me in one the line pics huddled for warmth. It was damn well worth it though, tons of fun.
Just a few things that need to change though.
+ Bigger venue
+ More give aways
+ More tech booths
+ MORE FOOD!
Also, that Engadget shirt is freaking awesome.
My Flickr set from last night is now up:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kadath/sets/72157611455696434/
Thanks for the fun engadget! I had a blast but there is definitely room for improvement. Next time:
PLEASE don't make people stand out in the ice cold for hours
Have enough food for everyone
Give the vendors room to breathe
Don't stretch the giveaways out so badly. Consider doing giveaways out throughout the night with the big ones at the end in under 15 minutes
Sounds dorky but consider (optional) nametags.
Take questions on 3x5s written beforehand and the cherry pick ones you want.
Sam
www.navesink.net
www.flickr.com/photos/kadath
I'd love to have a meet-up in Chicago!
is ieye in critical condition.,.,?
A buddy and I drove from Chicago to go to this meetup, it was fun! Great job guys, can't wait to see you all in Chicago!
Thanks for the party Engadget, had a great time. You have to keep doing these, it was great meeting everyone.
I just want to say thanks to the person who graciously gave me their raffle ticket as they were leaving, it ended up being a winner! It made waiting out in the cold almost 2 hours semi worth it. And it was nice to win a prize. Again, thanks!
too cool people!
please bring a meetup to dc