An open proposal · Working document · v0.3
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A proposal for Ludo Studio, BBC Studios & Disney · Dated April 2026

There is a quiet, enormous audience for a certain animated family — and nowhere for them to gather.

This site proposes a modest, deferential, community-first gathering for the adult audience of a much-loved preschool series. It is written in public, addressed to the rights-holders, and built to wait on their answer. Nothing is being sold. No brand is being appropriated. No event is being staged without permission.

It is a letter with an audience meter attached. The meter is the point.

Working title
“The Long Weekend” (placeholder; name is theirs to grant)
Proposed scale
Two days, one venue, 300–500 adult attendees
Proposed window
After the 2027 theatrical release, pending approval
Status
Proposal posted April 2026. Awaiting response from the rights-holders.
§ 01  —  Evidence

The audience is verified, not estimated.

Every figure below is sourced. Footnotes appear at the bottom of the page. Nothing is extrapolated from a vibe.

55.6B
Minutes streamed in the United States, 2024

Most-streamed show in America across all genres, all ages. Repeated the feat in 2025.

Nielsen ARTEY Awards1
57%
Share of viewing not done by kids 2–11

On paper a preschool show. In practice, watched overwhelmingly by older teens and adults.

Nielsen, 2024 data1
600K+
Adult fan group members on Facebook

One aggregated audience. r/Bluey adds another 246K. #blueytok adds more. The community already exists.

Public membership counts2
0
Adult-oriented fan gatherings — anywhere in the world

Bluey’s Big Play is 50 minutes of family puppet theatre. Bluey’s World is an immersive kids’ experience in Brisbane. Bluey’s Best Day Ever is a Disneyland show. None of them is a convention. None of them is for the adult audience specifically. That is the gap this proposal addresses.

Independent research, current as of this writing3
48.7%
Episodes that feature resilience as a primary or secondary theme

Peer-reviewed, in Early Child Development and Care. The show has real academic literature behind it — a rare credential for fan programming.

Taylor & Francis, CQUniversity, July 20254
£2.2B
BBC Studios record revenue, FY 2024/25

With the programme’s consumer-products division specifically named as a standout contributor.

BBC Commercial Annual Report5
Aug
2027
Theatrical feature arrives in cinemas

A 2027 community gathering rides that cultural window. It does not create hype — it meets demand that will already be peaking.

Disney / BBC Studios joint announcement6
1
Peabody Award

Plus two International Emmys, BAFTA, Rose d’Or, three Logies, three AACTAs. This is a prestige property — its adult audience is not a novelty, it is the reception it earned.

Peabody citation, 84th Annual Awards, 20247
Many adults have told me that watching the show has made them better parents by providing positive parenting models.
— Dr Tamara Soles, psychologist, quoted in HuffPost (2024)8
§ 02  —  The case

What the community actually wants, and why no one has built it.

Condensed from a 55-source research brief. The full document is linked below.

The adult audience for this show is not a fringe of the primary one; it is the majority of the viewing, by time. Yet the only in-person experiences offered to that audience have been designed for five-year-olds with adults tolerated as chaperones. When a live show landed at a Disney park, the adults showed up anyway — and the backlash was not that they existed, but that nothing had been built for them.

The research on why is unusually concrete. Peer-reviewed studies document the show’s resilience framework.4 Therapists speak on the record about patients using episodes in session.8 Academic journals and national broadsheets have written about the fandom. Five active podcasts record weekly. The community has self-organised on Reddit, Discord, TikTok, and a lattice of Facebook groups that are, by many accounts, beginning to fray — with members openly asking for a better-moderated space.

What is conspicuously absent is a physical anchor. A weekend, a room, a panel, a live recording. A moment where adults who have cried at Baby Race meet other adults who have cried at Baby Race, and it is not weird, because it is the whole reason everyone is in the room.

This proposal is not that event. This proposal is a request for permission to build that event — and a public demonstration, via the counter above, that the demand for it is real and measurable.

§ 03  —  The ask

An invitation to a conversation — on the rights-holders’ terms.

A plain-language account of what is being proposed, to whom, and why this site exists in the first place.

Status · Awaiting response Posted publicly · April 2026

This site is the public-facing half of a quiet request to the studio that makes the show, the company that distributes it, and the company that stewards it commercially. It exists so that if, and only if, a conversation opens, there is already a documented body of evidence and a countable expression of audience demand sitting on the table — rather than a pitch arriving cold.

The request itself is modest. It is a gut-check: would a multi-day, adult-first fan convention — tracked programming for parents and kids simultaneously, a home for the cross-generational audience — fit how the rights-holders think about the brand, and is it something they would want to see explored at all? Not a licence application. Not an announcement. A question.

The organiser is an adult fan, a parent, and a veteran of real-world convention planning. A lifelong colleague who runs national professional conferences in the medical field is lined up to come in formally if this develops. Nothing is being attempted alone, and nothing is being attempted without precedent in the organisers’ working history.

The proposed timing is after the 2027 theatrical release, so the film has its own moment first and a gathering meets demand rather than competing for attention. The event is conceived as complementary, not competitive, to the existing kid-first activations (the live play, the Disney-cruise experience, the CAMP installation) — those are wonderful for young families, and none of them serves the adult audience at a convention format.

Three responses are welcomed. In order of preference: a conversation; a “not now, but keep us informed”; or a clear no. The last of those will be honored immediately and this site will come down the same day it arrives.

A reply to reachout@theblueycon.com — in any direction — reaches the organiser directly.

Tom Reynolds
Independent organiser · United States · April 2026
§ 04  —  Research & working documents

Everything in the open.

All working documents are public. Read them before forming an opinion on any claim above.

01

Fandom research brief

Findings on viewership, community size, academic literature, commercial footprint, and the cultural significance of the adult audience — with cited sources.

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02

Planning document

IP strategy, audience profile, programming architecture, venue requirements, cost model, risks, and repeatability. Every assumption flagged.

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03

Interactive model

Live revenue calculator, break-even analysis, and comparative IP-path scenarios. Change the inputs; the model updates. Break-even is approximately 240 attendees.

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§ 05  —  Questions worth anticipating

Asked, and answered plainly.

Is anything being organised right now? +

No. No venue is booked. No tickets are on sale. No date is set. This site is a letter and an interest counter. Everything else waits on a response from the rights-holders.

Why not just do it unofficially? +

Unofficial fan conventions for major IPs have operated for decades, and our planning document outlines how that path (“Path A”) would work. But the gathering this proposal has in mind is one the rights-holders would be proud of, not merely tolerant of. That requires their seat at the table before the table is set. We can do the other thing, later, if we have to. We would rather not.

What are you actually asking for? +

One of three responses, in preference order:

1. A conversation with Ludo Studio, BBC Studios Consumer Products, or Disney — about what shape a licensed event could take, on their terms.
2. A formal “not now, but keep us informed” — which we would treat as a green light to keep the research going, publicly, without taking any public action.
3. A clear no. In which case this site comes down the same day.

Is this affiliated with Ludo Studio, BBC Studios, ABC, or Disney? +

No. It is an independent, unaffiliated proposal, written by an adult viewer — you might know me as @tiktokarchitect on TikTok, or you might not know me at all. Either way, the show’s trademarks belong to their owners. The working title on this page is a placeholder; no mark belonging to any of the named rights-holders is used on this site.

Is this the same person who runs the BlueyCon site? +

Yes. This is a deliberate rewrite of an earlier draft that leaned too hard into the show’s visual identity. The earlier draft has been retired. This version is built to be readable by a licensing desk without making anyone uncomfortable.

What happens if I leave my email? +

Your address is added to a count of adults who would attend if this went forward. You will receive, at most, one update: the response (or lack of one) from the rights-holders. If the proposal is accepted, we’ll ask whether you want to be on the list moving forward — opt-in, not opt-out. No marketing. No newsletter. No ticket pre-sale. If the proposal is declined, the list is deleted.

Add your name

If this happened, and it was done right, would you come?

That is the only question this site is asking. One field. One answer. One count, updated in the corner of the page.

No newsletter. No ticket pre-sale. One update, at most. Delete any time.

Notes & sources

  1. Nielsen ARTEY Awards, 2024 and 2025 Streaming Unwrapped reports. The 57% figure is the complement of Nielsen’s published 43% kids-2–11 viewing share for 2024.
  2. Public membership counts on the primary Adult Bluey Fans Facebook groups (aggregated, April 2026) and r/Bluey subscriber count via GummySearch. Official TikTok @bluey follower count: 5.4M.
  3. Surveyed against the live play 2024–2026 tour, the Brisbane location-based experience, the Disneyland California activation, and Ticketmaster listings at the time of writing. No adult-oriented fan convention is listed in any official channel.
  4. Bohl, K. & Bolling, M. (2025). “Oh, Biscuits! Exploring resilience in the children’s television programme Bluey.” Early Child Development and Care, Taylor & Francis, published online 21 July 2025.
  5. BBC Commercial Annual Report 2024/25, cited in Variety, 15 July 2025, and The Hollywood Reporter, same date.
  6. Disney / BBC Studios joint announcement, 8 December 2025. Release date confirmed 4 September 2025 via Deadline, Variety, Animation Magazine, and bluey.tv.
  7. Peabody Awards 2024 citation, 84th Annual Peabody Awards, Beverly Wilshire, June 2024.
  8. Soles, T., quoted in HuffPost, “I Healed My Childhood Trauma In The Most Unexpected Way,” 13 March 2024. Also referenced in Inside the Magic, 13 March 2024.