User blog comment:LordTBT/News:Iowa represents for Redwall/@comment-1209332-20100119005402

The big problem with this is that I'd say (this is purely estimation) that 80% or more Redwall fans are under eighteen. Now, about 6% (of the 80) may live in Iowa, 2.5% near/in Muscatine, and less than 1% would have the funds and permission to attend. (Again, purely estimation). That's (of all Redwall fans) less than 1 percent of Redwall fans able to attend the conference. And many of the adult Redwall fans live in England, and out of that less than 1 percent how many will bother to go? So we're talking about .03 percent of Redwall fans attending the conference. I think that guesswork similar to what I just said was why the conference was not likely to be made in the first place. Call me a kill-joy, but I expect the turnout will be less tan spectacular.