It’s a nice venue, very spacious with good lighting. Don’t know why more of the industry “celebrities” don’t make more of an effort to get to this one. Met some (relatively) new dealers, and got to see some new products in person for the first time.
I really enjoyed this event and will be going back in the future.
If by "celebrities" you mean manufacturers like K & C, Figarti, Britains, Frontline, Collectors Showcase, etc, who attend OTSN and The West Coaster; the Indy show is known for the most part as a plastics show, the midwest has a very, very strong plastics following, OTSN used to be dominated by plastic dealers, more and more metal dealers have come to the show the past 12 or so years.
I sell both metal and plastic, I've got a nice core group of midwesterners who support me; that said, for me to hump all the way from MA to IN in late March, it's a crapshoot as far as the weather, specificially this winter.
I've attended three shows so far this year and two have been impacted by snow, ever since February 11th or so, seems like every week we get hammered with snow, the mid atlantic got clobbered yesterday as a matter of fact.
I don't think by industry celebrities not coming it's a knock on the show as again, the show is very strong as far as plastic sales go..................