The very first BronyCon attracted a hundred persons, but the 3rd, held in January 2012, was attended by 800, and the fourth expanded to a two-working day occasion in June 2012 at the Meadowlands Exposition Center in New Jersey, with far more than 4,000 attending with developer Lauren Faust and voice actors John de Lancie, Tara Strong, Andrea Libman, Peter New, Lee Tockar, Amy Keating Rogers, Cathy Weseluck and Meghan McCarthy as distinctive.