The 1st BronyCon attracted a hundred folks, but the 3rd, held in January 2012, was attended by 800, and the fourth expanded to a two-day occasion in June 2012 at the Meadowlands Exposition Center in New Jersey, with much 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 exclusive friends.