Monkeytron Collective and Foam Dart Thunder are proud to present the UK’s first Nerf convention: “FOAM FEST”

This will take place on Saturday 9th March at the DW Stadium in Wigan. That day also marks the first FDT Stadium at the same venue – our first English stadium event.

FOAM FEST will showcase the best of UK Nerf with modders, game organisers and tactical gear all represented from our BritNerf family and beyond, and will run from 10am till 2pm.

FDT STADIUM will be running 3 sessions that day, with the first beginning at 1pm, allowing those attending FOAM FEST to take part at either 1pm, 4pm or 7.30pm. Early Bird discount tickets for the stadium event will be available from 21:00 on Wednesday 19th September here.

We’ll have lots more to share with you over the coming months, but for now put Saturday 9th March in your calendar. We look forward to seeing lots of you there, on a momentous day in the history of UK Nerf.

If you’d like to be involved in FOAM FEST please get in touch with us directly via our Facebook page!

Here’s a preview of what to expect at the FDT Stadium event:

I wanted to put together a collection of my favourite FDT Nerf War footage over the last year since Foam Dart Bunker last August right up to Foam Dart Stadium this June.

Since it’s been a year since Foam Dart Bunker I’ve been reviewing how much we’ve achieved in the last year – we’ve completed 4 Terminal Infection events in that time which is more than I thought we would achieve. To have a successful Stadium event in that time as well is fantastic – as you know we already have our second FDT Stadium event planned in for October, and I’m already speaking to several venues in England about taking the Stadium events down there!

With our first events at both Override skate park in Jarrow, and iCombat in Glasgow, the end of 2018 is going to be amazing.

This Saturday I will be along to Easter Road stadium to hand out promotional flyers before the Hibernian match against Aberdeen. If you see me feel free to stop me for a chat and ask for some FDT stadium stickers 😉

Have a watch of our Ultimate Nerf Battle video below and if you haven’t been along to one of our events before see what you’re missing and get involved!

FDT Stadium was a huge success and we’re expecting even more players this time around. We spotted some things we want to tweak and we can’t wait to see the players reactions on Saturday 20th October at the second event.

The videos from the first event are being produced right now so we’ll have some to show you soon.

Check out the Ticket Page on Wednesday at 21:00 – members have already been sent their private link via email.

We look forward to seeing you at FDT Stadium 2 – You Are The Thunder!

If you’ve ever attended an FDT event, head over to the Competition page and follow the 3 steps to enter.

Winner will be drawn next Thursday and you have until 18:00 on Wednesday 9th May to enter! Check out the pic above from our first ever event in February 2013!

Good luck!

The event takes place on Saturday 16th June at the home of Hibernian FC, Easter Road Stadium in Edinburgh.

All event details can be found here.

Tickets are only available via this website on the ticket page – we’ve sold over 20% of the tickets already via our member sale so don’t delay!

There will be 4 sessions throughout the day, utilising both ground floor and upper concourse of the Famous Five stand at Hibernian FC!

This event will not contain zombies as we’ll be going for a different feel to our successful Terminal Infection events.

I have lot’s to work on to make this event happen and that planning has already started. I’m very excited about running our FDT event at this venue, we’re already working on games that we’ve never run before so anyone attending this event will be running through some first time ever scenarios!

We’ll be working with Hibernian FC on promotion of this event, but it’s important to state this event is not a football/soccer based event – anyone is welcome to come along and take part in FDT Stadium. To this end I’ve had logos designed which will appeal to both sides of Edinburgh 🙂

More details to come as we have them – onwards and upwards!

Using a sports stadium is something I’ve wanted to do as long as I’ve wanted to run the shopping mall event. I approached both Edinburgh football teams and as most local football fans will know Heart of Midlothian FC are undergoing some building works at their stadium with no set completion date, so can’t accommodate us at this point.

However, Hibernian FC have the perfect multi level stand for us to use for FDT Stadium, the “Famous Five” stand. We’ll be using both lower and upper concourse levels connected by stairwells at either end. This will not be a zombie themed event, but we’ll run 4 two hour sessions on a non match Saturday which will take place in either May or June. The first session should be 10:00 – 12:00, with the last session being 19:00-21:00. This should allow most players the chance to come along to a session.

We are right at the start of the planning stage, but given the experience we have from the Secret Bunker and Terminal Infection shopping mall events, and what we have learned from those, I expect the FDT Stadium events to be just as enjoyable for our players. I’ll be deploying our FDT cubes for some cover, as well as “event lighting” on the upper level.

Huge thanks to Laura Montgomery who is Head of Sales and Sponsorship at Hibernian FC for working with me on this exciting new project:

“We have excellent facilities here at Easter Road and bringing Foam Dart Thunder to our concourses represent another exciting innovative use of our space. We look forward to hosting what we are sure will be a very successful and fun packed event”.

I’m looking forward to working with Laura and her team on what I hope will be the first of many FDT Stadium events. Obviously I’ll be looking to expand this if it goes well to other stadia across the UK. More updates to follow!