I gotta say, in some of these YouTube videos, with the way some of these cars were presented onstage at NAIAS, you’d expect these cars to commence with a pole dance while car aficionados approach the stage and stuff $2 bills into the car’s hubcaps. No wonder everybody gets excited about this stuff. Anyways, check out some previews of the 2012 NAIAS gathering below.

Of course, if you camping out to see sparkly dudes that call themselves vampires, then coverage is inevitable. Digressions aside, over at SlashFilm, there’s an awesome collection of these exhibitions, and while it’s not comprehensive — that would be a lot of pictures — there are some awesome displays going on, particularly from Lego:

Make sure you check out SlashFilm’s post for more images, including shots of the Spider-Man display and nifty bigger-than-life-sized He-Man. While Lego did indeed pull out the big guns for their various displays, from the looks of things — at least, at this early point in the 2011 Comic-Con — the display for the AMC television hit, The Walking Dead looks absolutely incredible:

A hat-tip to Sandra Hughes for the find

Hat-tip to Coyotegrey

Four weeks after that I’ll be headed to Ohio for the much smaller, but far more intimate Small Business Marketing Unleashed. Here I will be speaking in two sessions, the first on website architecture and the second will be an SEO workshop.

With that in mind, I wanted to pose a few questions: What value do you get out of going to these big conferences? Are they any better or worse than smaller, more intimate conferences? Which do you prefer, and what do you come home with of value (other than quality schwag)?

Please opine.

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