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[Wrong Name]

I apologise for making yet another long thread with someone telling everyone about how their weekend went. To be honest I've never done it before as I didn't think many people would be interested to read about my experiences but I've decided to do it this year more for myself than for anyone that chooses to read it, just to allow myself to write it all down and in some way, take it all in. The forum just seems like as good a place as any to do that.

Thursday

For me LFCC started on the Thursday. Due to a busy week of being ill and going to a gig I had most of my packing done long before which saved me some time. I packed up the remaining items needed, had some lunch and headed out my door. Living in Kent and working in London means my journey to my hotel was not as magical for me as it can be for others. Sights like the Shard and Tower Bridge are a daily occurrence for me. In fact I can see the Shard out my office window as I'm writing this. So my journey to West Kensington passed without incident. Arriving at the tube station I was stopped by another forum user however, @only_jay who I have become friends with over the past couple of years through meeting up at several cons. I was pleased to find that he and his wife were staying in the same hotel as me, so we caught up a bit as we got lost trying to find the place! My room was small but had everything I needed but I more or less just dropped off my bags before heading out for my important mission for the day.

After a 20 minute walk I finally found the party shop that I needed to purchase much needed items for the weekend ahead, and on the way back to the hotel I bought a tonne of water to have at the hotel and carry round the con along with some sugary snacks to keep me going across the weekend. Next job was to go and collect my gold and diamond passes from the Thursday early collection. There were a load more staff on from last year and things went a lot quicker. It took about 45mins to collect all passes, and most of my diamonds were low numbers with Natalie Dormer number 2 being the lowest, but no number 1's for me this year (I had Jeremy Renner diamond number 1 last year). My only issue was getting absolutely drenched by the rain as we queued outside, and I somehow forgot to collect my gold goodie bag!

Then it was time for the first meet up for LFCC 2017. Organised on here and Facebook by both @Zonky and @PenThePirate, Thursday's meet up was going to be a small affair with around 25ish people meeting in the basement room of the Crown and Sceptre pub round the corner from Olympia. But that doesn't mean it would be quiet! I arrived as one of the first people and instantly began chatting to the other guys, most of whom I hadn't seen or spoken to since last LFCC, as if we'd seen each other the day before! The evening was filled with much drinking and laughter as well as catching up with most people and meeting some new ones. This was also the night where my earlier mission took shape. I had earlier purchased a few red balloons and white sticks to hold them. The balloon was inflated and attached to the stick, then I very badly cello-taped on the face of our friend @timlux on to the balloon who was unable to make it to the con. I also added his name on the back of the balloon in sharpie. Tim Balloon was an instant hit with the group, and after creating him I set him free with other members to enjoy the con. Have a look for Tim Balloon's own thread to find out what he got up to over the weekend! More drinking then followed as well as a very revealing game of Cards Against Humanity which I can't go into on here in fear of being banned by the mods!

Friday

Surprised at how little of a hangover I had on Friday morning, I was up at 6:45, had breakfast at 7:30 and was in the gold pass queue by around 8:15. There were a fair few people ahead of us at that point but we were expecting that and it was by no means the length of the GA queue. Excitement and nerves were high in the queue, especially after previous years where there have been some issues with gold pass entry. There was no need to worry on Friday though as all the golds were let in on time with no issues I am aware of. Getting VQ tickets went well, but the gold queue does still suffer with being over the other side of the venue from the guests. With the early entry now cut to only 5 mins, it didn't take long before all the GA attendees were swarming in as well. Overall though, entry went well. I met up with a load of people, some, of whom weren't at the pub the night before so had a quick catch up with them before going off to my first shoot, the 4 Boba Fett. I wore my Boba Fett T shirt especially for this and was surprised to see a Han Solo in carbonite prop ready for the photo which I had somehow completely missed in the photos description. Apart from me having to crouch a bit so Han could be seen in the pic, this shoot can out well and all 4 Fetts were lovely.

After the shoot I moved to start getting autos as I knew I had many to get over the weekend and wanted to get as many on Friday as possible with it being a quieter day. First up was Emily Kinney, she was polite but seemed quiet, which I was expecting but i wanted to catch her in case she cancelled again! (3rd time lucky!). Next up John Carroll Lynch. This man has a huge body of work so I got a Zodiac pic signed but had a chat with him about The Founder which I had seen recently where he plays one of the McDonalds brothers (of the fast food name) who basically lost their business as it became what it is today. After John I went straight to Benedict Wong who was absolutely lovely. Into another shoot after that which was with Tom Wilson. I was very surprised by the setup for the tombstone this year, in a good way! Having seen last year that it was just the tombstone and a black background I was very much expecting the same setup this year, but no. They had a whole western casino front setup which looked awesome!. Tom arrived for the shoot in great spirits and those of us chatting in the queue got very excited! I asked Tom for a certain pose in the shoot and he was very polite in refusing, which was fine and I'm very happy with how the pic came out. 

After Tom I managed another couple of autos with Alan Harris who was so sweet and told me stories of not being able to move when in full Bossk costume for Empire Strikes Back, and David Morrissey who asked me about me previous con experiences. Alan Tudyk shoot up next and I asked for a pose that didn't go so well (my fault) so ended up buying another shoot for the next day. Great guy though, he was one of my highlights!. After Alan I was straight into the Pamela Anderson photo. I'm not going to go off on one about how this pic turned out, plenty of others have. It's bright, but it's still a pic of me and Pammy. I was seeing circles from the flash afterwards though, and I only had the one pic. I bet she was almost blind afterwards! Manage to get in a few more autos from Veronica Cartwright who was a sweetie and amazed that people wanted to meet her still, also Steven Yeun who I had a quick chat about his make up from "that" scene! Tom Skerritt was not the most responsive guest I've ever met, but I was just happy to get a chance to meet him, but moving straight on to get Pamela Anderson's auto she was really sweet and lovely to everyone (which I was surprised by as I'd half expected her to be a bit of a diva!). More autos followed from Phill LaMarr, Tom Morga (He did stunts in Ghostbusters, so he was a MUST meet for me!) before going in for pics with Tom Skerritt (again, a bit unresponsive), Veronica Cartwright (again, very sweet), and Tommy Flanagan who took off his sunglasses at the request of one attendee before shouting at the rest of the queue that she was the only one as he was nursing a hangover (it was funny, he wasn't being mean!).

Back to the autos and I had a great little chat with Alan Tudyk about Firefly and Con Man with him making me laugh about how Firefly "still hurts" (pointing to his chest) and me making him laugh when I told him I'd said to Lou Ferrigno earlier in the year that they need to take the "Of Mice and Men" musical out on the road! Grabbed an auto from Tom Wilson next on my BTTF poster I had signed by everyone at LFCC 2015, which now looks great, and headed over to John Rhys-Davies who gave me some job advise about working over in New Zealand (which is something I would love to do). Got an auto from Mark Boone Jr who was being shouted at by the other members of SOA, before my shoot with Emily Kinney. My next auto was with Dean Cain, and what a great guy he is! I asked if we'll ever see him in the cape again and he told me him and Terri Hatcher had been taking about it the other week as you never see a '20 years later' with superhero shows! I doubt it'll happen though. My final shoot of the day was Missi Pyle who I managed to grab an auto from straight after the shoot. She was lovely and very funny. After hearing from others that the SOA boys were back at their signing tables I managed to run over and grab one of Tommy's last autos of the day. Not sure what they'd been up to but those boys were starting to look a bit worse for wear!

A few of us went out for BBQ that night but were really struggling with walking after our day, so had an early night.

9 photos and 19 autos for Friday.

Saturday

Saturday was known to be the busiest day so we were prepared and in line before 8 and not surprised at the longer queue than the Friday. Entry was not as smooth as Friday though. Security decided to let golds in 10 at a time which really slowed up the queue. I was still inside and up in the guest signing area before 9 though, only to be surprised by a load of GA people already in! Friends in the GA queue said that the doors opened for them at 8:54, meaning they were in before golds. Not cool. This led to my VQs for the day being higher than I had planned. I headed straight over to meet people in the queue for Bindybappy Flobberwhop's photoshoot which all went well and headed straight into to second attempt at an Alan Tudyk shoot which I was much happier with. I decided to skip out on the Alien talk just to start to collect some of my autos for the day as I knew it was going to be hard with so many more people around. I didn't mention before, but the lay out this year was great as there was so much more space in the guest signing area, and it was very much needed on Saturday! First up was Carol Cleveland as I knew she was Saturday only. Lovely lady, who started shouting "A spanking, a spanking" whilst she signed my pic from Holy Grail! Next was Natalie Dormer, who was so awesome. I wasn't expecting her to be as chatty as she was and we had a similar conversation as the one I had with David Morrissey the day before about previous cons.

Next I jumped into John Cleese's shoot before going to watch Alan Tudyk's talk. This was great. His answers were as funny as you'd expect but he would give every person who asked a question an item from his 'bag of crap' and sign it which included 5 day old news papers, make up applicators from the hotel, and stickers, as well as a few dvds of shows he wasn't in! Out of the talk and straight in to Natalie Dormer's shoot and again she was truly lovely. Back to the main stage and into the only clash I had all weekend. It was Bampibadger Grumblewraps talk which I caught the first 5 mins of before having to run out for a shoot with Carol Cleveland. I had hoped to get it done quick to get back to the talk, but when I arrived I was told they were running 5-10mins late. Ok, I thought, the stage was over the other side of the venue so I would wait hoping they may catch up on some time. 30 mins later I finally got my shoot and got back to the talk for the last question  . With more fast foot work (not running!) I made it straight into David Morrissey's shoot  before he disappeared. Once again I decided to miss the BTTF talk in favour of some much needed autos where I managed to get Kevin Smith, who was exactly as I thought he would be (awesome), and signed my pic of him with Jason Mewes, that Mewes had signed in 2014. I also managed to fit in Bendlewap Garageband's auto (who was very impressed with my "idiot's guides" of where to sign, as he put it) and was VERY lucky to go straight in and get John Cleese's auto too.

A quick photo with Mark Boone Jr was followed by meeting Alyson Hannigan for an auto after a bit of a long wait due to her photoshoot over running, where I witnessed QS's auto being signed! Alyson looked a little overwhelmed with it all but was still very smiley and cheery as I hoped she would be. My last 2 shoots for the day were with Tom Morga followed by the Iron Fist group shot that was my favourite shoot of the weekend just down to how much fun they were having. Ok, I nearly destroyed the backdrop by doing a stupid pose, but still, it was fun!

9 photos and 9 autos for Saturday.

That evening was the Great Geek-off Quiz organised by @PenThePirate. Yet again the man did an incredible job of running the evening, the whole pub was involved, even those who didn't come for the quiz ended up joining in! My team did absolutely amazing in getting second place (well done guys!) and only lost by 1 point (still sure the winners cheated!). The quiz is a firm highlight of my LFCC weekend every year.

Sunday

Sunday, Oh Sunday.

After getting a massive 2 and a half hours sleep, having drunk much but eaten very little the night before, let's say I was not in a very good way.  My thanks goes out to Aunty @Zonky for feeding me cereal bars, Haribo, and caffeine tablets to keep me going throughout the day. Due to this, I can't promise I will remember 100% of the day! 

Not surprisingly we were a bit late to get to entry, but as the trains hadn't started running yet, we were still close to the front. Entry worked a lot better than Saturday, with security still doing their 10 at a time system, but starting it earlier so we were in when we were meant to be. The problem today was when we went to get our VQ tickets, we were told that we weren't allowed to have any until GA entered at 9 o'clock! This was fine for those who only wanted 1 VQ as they could queue but those who wanted more were in trouble. After VQs were collected I had some time to kill, which I think I mainly did by standing in one place feeling terrible and staring at the floor whilst pretending to be part of a conversation.

Time passed. First item for the day was a photo with Alyson Hannigan and I'm actually surprised that it turned out ok! I was then straight into one with Mark Williams where I just about remembered to get out my tape measure for a 'suits you sir' shot which also didn't come out too badly. The shots even have some kind of energy to them so I'm thinking the caffeine tablets must have kicked in at those points because everyone kept telling me I looked like death in-between them! More time passed and I had shoots with Kevin Smith who came out to greet the queue before we started which was funny as hell, Benedict Wong who was dancing his way through the shoot looking like he was having the best time!, and Dean Cain, who was still as smiley and happy as he was on Friday.

The Fatman on Batman talk was awesome. Just so so so funny and another highlight. Straight after I just made my Steven Yeun shoot before heading back to the main stage and Natalie Dormer's talk which I was really pleased had little to do with Game of Thrones as I don't watch it! I managed to get my last autos for the weekend in next with Mark Williams and Marc Bernardin. Yet more time passed. My final shoots for the weekend came in the form of John Rhys-Davies (who was tickling nearly everyone, except @Faerie Tanith who got a massive smootch on the cheek!) and John Carroll Lynch who was just as much a gentleman as he had been earlier.

As upsetting as it is for a con to end, due to my Saturday night, I was ready for Sunday to finish! A load of us headed out for one final meal but that put the final nail in for me and I was back at my hotel as soon as I could where I packed and, couldn't get to sleep, of course!

8 photos and 2 autos for Sunday.

Monday was a mixture of the usual leaving hotel, feeling terrible after lack of sleep for 2 nights and the start of the con blues which have set in even more today which is why I ended up writing this. Thank you for reading it if you have and I'm sorry if it's not the most interesting read in the world but as I said, this was something I wanted to do for me. 

Big thanks to Showmasters and all crew across the week, you guys were awesome as always.

If I'm going to complain about one thing this year it will be the gold passes. These really need to be re-thought out. The introduction of the diamond passes have damaged them a lot (especially with so many diamonds this year) and the current entry system and loss of some features have started to make them feel less and less special like they did when I first started buying them a few years ago. 

Thank you to all who I was with/met/interacted with in any way across the weekend. It really was one of the best of my life and it was you guys who did that! There are parts I may have missed out or forgotten (especially Sunday!) but be assured they still mean a lot to me.

Edited August 1, 2017 by Wrong Name

[natedammit]

I am totally going to read that.

[Wrong Name]

2 minutes ago, natedammit said:

I am totally going to read that.

Just read the first paragraph and you'll see how I feel about that.

[DavidB]

Great write up :) glad you had a good time.

[natedammit]

Yup, yup, just gonna read that first paragraph right now.

[HeartDT]

28 minutes ago, Wrong Name said:

I apologise for making yet another long thread with someone telling everyone about how their weekend went. To be honest I've never done it before as I didn't think many people would be interested to read about my experiences but I've decided to do it this year more for myself than for anyone that chooses to read it, just to allow myself to write it all down and in some way, take it all in. The forum just seems like as good a place as any to do that.

Thursday

For me LFCC started on the Thursday. Due to a busy week of being ill and going to a gig I had most of my packing done long before which saved me some time. I packed up the remaining items needed, had some lunch and headed out my door. Living in Kent and working in London means my journey to my hotel was not as magical for me as it can be for others. Sights like the Shard and Tower Bridge are a daily occurrence for me. In fact I can see the Shard out my office window as I'm writing this. So my journey to West Kensington passed without incident. Arriving at the tube station I was stopped by another forum user however, @only_jay who I have become friends with over the past couple of years through meeting up at several cons. I was pleased to find that he and his wife were staying in the same hotel as me, so we caught up a bit as we got lost trying to find the place! My room was small but had everything I needed but I more or less just dropped off my bags before heading out for my important mission for the day.

After a 20 minute walk I finally found the party shop that I needed to purchase much needed items for the weekend ahead, and on the way back to the hotel I bought a tonne of water to have at the hotel and carry round the con along with some sugary snacks to keep me going across the weekend. Next job was to go and collect my gold and diamond passes from the Thursday early collection. There were a load more staff on from last year and things went a lot quicker. It took about 45mins to collect all passes, and most of my diamonds were low numbers with Natalie Dormer number 2 being the lowest, but no number 1's for me this year (I had Jeremy Renner diamond number 1 last year). My only issue was getting absolutely drenched by the rain as we queued outside, and I somehow forgot to collect my gold goodie bag!

Then it was time for the first meet up for LFCC 2017. Organised on here and Facebook by both @Zonky and @PenThePirate, Thursday's meet up was going to be a small affair with around 25ish people meeting in the basement room of the Crown and Sceptre pub round the corner from Olympia. But that doesn't mean it would be quiet! I arrived as one of the first people and instantly began chatting to the other guys, most of whom I hadn't seen or spoken to since last LFCC, as if we'd seen each other the day before! The evening was filled with much drinking and laughter as well as catching up with most people and meeting some new ones. This was also the night where my earlier mission took shape. I had earlier purchased a few red balloons and white sticks to hold them. The balloon was inflated and attached to the stick, then I very badly cello-taped on the face of our friend @timlux on to the balloon who was unable to make it to the con. I also added his name on the back of the balloon in sharpie. Tim Balloon was an instant hit with the group, and after creating him I set him free with other members to enjoy the con. Have a look for Tim Balloon's own thread to find out what he got up to over the weekend! More drinking then followed as well as a very revealing game of Cards Against Humanity which I can't go into on here in fear of being banned by the mods!

Friday

Surprised at how little of a hangover I had on Friday morning, I was up at 6:45, had breakfast at 7:30 and was in the gold pass queue by around 8:15. There were a fair few people ahead of us at that point but we were expecting that and it was by no means the length of the GA queue. Excitement and nerves were high in the queue, especially after previous years where there have been some issues with gold pass entry. There was no need to worry on Friday though as all the golds were let in on time with no issues I am aware of. Getting VQ tickets went well, but the gold queue does still suffer with being over the other side of the venue from the guests. With the early entry now cut to only 5 mins, it didn't take long before all the GA attendees were swarming in as well. Overall though, entry went well. I met up with a load of people, some, of whom weren't at the pub the night before so had a quick catch up with them before going off to my first shoot, the 4 Boba Fett. I wore my Boba Fett T shirt especially for this and was surprised to see a Han Solo in carbonite prop ready for the photo which I had somehow completely missed in the photos description. Apart from me having to crouch a bit so Han could be seen in the pic, this shoot can out well and all 4 Fetts were lovely.

After the shoot I moved to start getting autos as I knew I had many to get over the weekend and wanted to get as many on Friday as possible with it being a quieter day. First up was Emily Kinney, she was polite but seemed quiet, which I was expecting but i wanted to catch her in case she cancelled again! (3rd time lucky!). Next up John Carroll Lynch. This man has a huge body of work so I got a Zodiac pic signed but had a chat with him about The Founder which I had seen recently where he plays one of the McDonalds brothers (of the fast food name) who basically lost their business as it became what it is today. After John I went straight to Benedict Wong who was absolutely lovely. Into another shoot after that which was with Tom Wilson. I was very surprised by the setup for the tombstone this year, in a good way! Having seen last year that it was just the tombstone and a black background I was very much expecting the same setup this year, but no. They had a whole western casino front setup which looked awesome!. Tom arrived for the shoot in great spirits and those of us chatting in the queue got very excited! I asked Tom for a certain pose in the shoot and he was very polite in refusing, which was fine and I'm very happy with how the pic came out. 

After Tom I managed another couple of autos with Alan Harris who was so sweet and told me stories of not being able to move when in full Bossk costume for Empire Strikes Back, and David Morrissey who asked me about me previous con experiences. Alan Tudyk shoot up next and I asked for a pose that didn't go so well (my fault) so ended up buying another shoot for the next day. Great guy though, he was one of my highlights!. After Alan I was straight into the Pamela Anderson photo. I'm not going to go off on one about how this pic turned out, plenty of others have. It's bright, but it's still a pic of me and Pammy. I was seeing circles from the flash afterwards though, and I only had the one pic. I bet she was almost blind afterwards! Manage to get in a few more autos from Veronica Cartwright who was a sweetie and amazed that people wanted to meet her still, also Steven Yeun who I had a quick chat about his make up from "that" scene! Tom Skerritt was not the most responsive guest I've ever met, but I was just happy to get a chance to meet him, but moving straight on to get Pamela Anderson's auto she was really sweet and lovely to everyone (which I was surprised by as I'd half expected her to be a bit of a diva!). More autos followed from Phill LaMarr, Tom Morga (He did stunts in Ghostbusters, so he was a MUST meet for me!) before going in for pics with Tom Skerritt (again, a bit unresponsive), Veronica Cartwright (again, very sweet), and Tommy Flanagan who took off his sunglasses at the request of one attendee before shouting at the rest of the queue that she was the only one as he was nursing a hangover (it was funny, he wasn't being mean!).

Back to the autos and I had a great little chat with Alan Tudyk about Firefly and Con Man with him making me laugh about how Firefly "still hurts" (pointing to his chest) and me making him laugh when I told him I'd said to Lou Ferrigno earlier in the year that they need to take the "Of Mice and Men" musical out on the road! Grabbed an auto from Tom Wilson next on my BTTF poster I had signed by everyone at LFCC 2015, which now looks great, and headed over to John Rhys-Davies who gave me some job advise about working over in New Zealand (which is something I would love to do). Got an auto from Mark Boone Jr who was being shouted at by the other members of SOA, before my shoot with Emily Kinney. My next auto was with Dean Cain, and what a great guy he is! I asked if we'll ever see him in the cape again and he told me him and Terri Hatcher had been taking about it the other week as you never see a '20 years later' with superhero shows! I doubt it'll happen though. My final shoot of the day was Missi Pyle who I managed to grab an auto from straight after the shoot. She was lovely and very funny. After hearing from others that the SOA boys were back at their signing tables I managed to run over and grab one of Tommy's last autos of the day. Not sure what they'd been up to but those boys were starting to look a bit worse for wear!

A few of us went out for BBQ that night but were really struggling with walking after our day, so had an early night.

9 photos and 19 autos for Friday.

Saturday

Saturday was known to be the busiest day so we were prepared and in line before 8 and not surprised at the longer queue than the Friday. Entry was not as smooth as Friday though. Security decided to let golds in 10 at a time which really slowed up the queue. I was still inside and up in the guest signing area before 9 though, only to be surprised by a load of GA people already in! Friends in the GA queue said that the doors opened for them at 8:54, meaning they were in before golds. Not cool. This led to my VQs for the day being higher than I had planned. I headed straight over to meet people in the queue for Bindybappy Flobberwhop's photoshoot which all went well and headed straight into to second attempt at an Alan Tudyk shoot which I was much happier with. I decided to skip out on the Alien talk just to start to collect some of my autos for the day as I knew it was going to be hard with so many more people around. I didn't mention before, but the lay out this year was great as there was so much more space in the guest signing area, and it was very much needed on Saturday! First up was Carol Cleveland as I knew she was Saturday only. Lovely lady, who started shouting "A spanking, a spanking" whilst she signed my pic from Holy Grail! Next was Natalie Dormer, who was so awesome. I wasn't expecting her to be as chatty as she was and we had a similar conversation as the one I had with David Morrissey the day before about previous cons.

Next I jumped into John Cleese's shoot before going to watch Alan Tudyk's talk. This was great. His answers were as funny as you'd expect but he would give every person who asked a question an item from his 'bag of crap' and sign it which included 5 day old news papers, make up applicators from the hotel, and stickers, as well as a few dvds of shows he wasn't in! Out of the talk and straight in to Natalie Dormer's shoot and again she was truly lovely. Back to the main stage and into the only clash I had all weekend. It was Bampibadger Grumblewraps talk which I caught the first 5 mins of before having to run out for a shoot with Carol Cleveland. I had hoped to get it done quick to get back to the talk, but when I arrived I was told they were running 5-10mins late. Ok, I thought, the stage was over the other side of the venue so I would wait hoping they may catch up on some time. 30 mins later I finally got my shoot and got back to the talk for the last question  . With more fast foot work (not running!) I made it straight into David Morrissey's shoot  before he disappeared. Once again I decided to miss the BTTF talk in favour of some much needed autos where I managed to get Kevin Smith, who was exactly as I thought he would be (awesome), and signed my pic of him with Jason Mewes, that Mewes had signed in 2014. I also managed to fit in Bendlewap Garageband's auto (who was very impressed with my "idiot's guides" of where to sign, as he put it) and was VERY lucky to go straight in and get John Cleese's auto too.

A quick photo with Mark Boone Jr was followed by meeting Alyson Hannigan for an auto after a bit of a long wait due to her photoshoot over running, where I witnessed QS's auto being signed! Alyson looked a little overwhelmed with it all but was still very smiley and cheery as I hoped she would be. My last 2 shoots for the day were with Tom Morga followed by the Iron Fist group shot that was my favourite shoot of the weekend just down to how much fun they were having. Ok, I nearly destroyed the backdrop by doing a stupid pose, but still, it was fun!

9 photos and 9 autos for Saturday.

That evening was the Great Geek-off Quiz organised by @PenThePirate. Yet again the man did an incredible job of running the evening, the whole pub was involved, even those who didn't come for the quiz ended up joining in! My team did absolutely amazing in getting second place (well done guys!) and only lost by 1 point (still sure the winners cheated!). The quiz is a firm highlight of my LFCC weekend every year.

Sunday

Sunday, Oh Sunday.

After getting a massive 2 and a half hours sleep, having drunk much but eaten very little the night before, let's say I was not in a very good way.  My thanks goes out to Aunty @Zonky for feeding me cereal bars, Haribo, and caffeine tablets to keep me going throughout the day. Due to this, I can't promise I will remember 100% of the day! 

Not surprisingly we were a bit late to get to entry, but as the trains hadn't started running yet, we were still close to the front. Entry worked a lot better than Saturday, with security still doing their 10 at a time system, but starting it earlier so we were in when we were meant to be. The problem today was when we went to get our VQ tickets, we were told that we weren't allowed to have any until GA entered at 9 o'clock! This was fine for those who only wanted 1 VQ as they could queue but those who wanted more were in trouble. After VQs were collected I had some time to kill, which I think I mainly did by standing in one place feeling terrible and staring at the floor whilst pretending to be part of a conversation.

Time passed. First item for the day was a photo with Alyson Hannigan and I'm actually surprised that it turned out ok! I was then straight into one with Mark Williams where I just about remembered to get out my tape measure for a 'suits you sir' shot which also didn't come out too badly. The shots even have some kind of energy to them so I'm thinking the caffeine tablets must have kicked in at those points because everyone kept telling me I looked like death in-between them! More time passed and I had shoots with Kevin Smith who came out to greet the queue before we started which was funny as hell, Benedict Wong who was dancing his way through the shoot looking like he was having the best time!, and Dean Cain, who was still as smiley and happy as he was on Friday.

The Fatman on Batman talk was awesome. Just so so so funny and another highlight. Straight after I just made my Steven Yeun shoot before heading back to the main stage and Natalie Dormer's talk which I was really pleased had little to do with Game of Thrones as I don't watch it! I managed to get my last autos for the weekend in next with Mark Williams and Marc Bernardin. Yet more time passed. My final shoots for the weekend came in the form of John Rhys-Davies (who was tickling nearly everyone, except @Faerie Tanith who got a massive smootch on the cheek!) and John Carroll Lynch who was just as much a gentleman as he had been earlier.

As upsetting as it is for a con to end, due to my Saturday night, I was ready for Sunday to finish! A load of us headed out for one final meal but that put the final nail in for me and I was back at my hotel as soon as I could where I packed and, couldn't get to sleep, of course!

8 photos and 2 autos for Sunday.

Monday was a mixture of the usual leaving hotel, feeling terrible after lack of sleep for 2 nights and the start of the con blues which have set in even more today which is why I ended up writing this. Thank you for reading it if you have and I'm sorry if it's not the most interesting read in the world but as I said, this was something I wanted to do for me. 

Big thanks to Showmasters and all crew across the week, you guys were awesome as always.

If I'm going to complain about one thing this year it will be the gold passes. These really need to be re-thought out. The introduction of the diamond passes have damaged them a lot (especially with so many diamonds this year) and the current entry system and loss of some features have started to make them feel less and less special like they did when I first started buying them a few years ago. 

Thank you to all who I was with/met/interacted with in any way across the weekend. It really was one of the best of my life and it was you guys who did that! There are parts I may have missed out or forgotten (especially Sunday!) but be assured they still mean a lot to me.

fantastic write up.. and one of the few I have actually read lol.      I saw you in the queue on thirsday for pass collection and yeah the rain did certainly fall!!!   but worth it and was good having everything for the Friday :)

[wjbleming]

24 minutes ago, Wrong Name said:

After getting a massive 2 and a half hours sleep, having drunk much but eaten very little the night before, let's say I was not in a very good way.

May that be a lesson for next year. In saying that, got about 4/5 hours sleep per night without drinking, it's a moot point. lol (Wasn't suffering as much as you were, though)

Was good having a quick chat on Sunday afternoon, even if it was short, inadvertly not realising Tanith was with you and cut a bit short by Pen and Zonky showing off her choices of autograph tattoos.  Never did get David Bradley or CL by the end of it. Gave up shortly after 5, doubted they'd get much past 120 for DB or off Diamonds for CL.

[Lenasbitch92]

Well I red the whole thing :) I saw you a few times over the weekend :) 

Edited August 1, 2017 by Lenasbitch92

[Wrong Name]

38 minutes ago, HeartDT said:

fantastic write up.. and one of the few I have actually read lol.      I saw you in the queue on thirsday for pass collection and yeah the rain did certainly fall!!!   but worth it and was good having everything for the Friday :)

Thanks. You should have come and said hi! I always like meeting people off the forum! 

[Wrong Name]

33 minutes ago, Lenasbitch92 said:

Well I red the whole thing :) I saw you a few times over the weekend :) 

You also should have come and said hi!

[Wrong Name]

42 minutes ago, wjbleming said:

May that be a lesson for next year. In saying that, got about 4/5 hours sleep per night without drinking, it's a moot point. lol (Wasn't suffering as much as you were, though)

Was good having a quick chat on Sunday afternoon, even if it was short, inadvertly not realising Tanith was with you and cut a bit short by Pen and Zonky showing off her choices of autograph tattoos.  Never did get David Bradley or CL by the end of it. Gave up shortly after 5, doubted they'd get much past 120 for DB or off Diamonds for CL.

I have no regrets 

Pleasure to meet you too. Yes, that was Tanith and I do apologise for Zonky and Pen, but Zonky had just had her tattoo signed by Michael Madsen (to say she is a fan is an understatement!) and she was a little bit overwhelmed! Hope to speak to you for a bit longer next year.

[andyfilm_1]

Great report of your weekend! Glad you got too see everyone! :)

[natedammit]

7 minutes ago, Wrong Name said:

You also should have come and said hi!

I saw you several times too.

[Wrong Name]

Just now, natedammit said:

I saw you several times too.

I'm happy you stayed away.

 

 

 

 

 

ok, you really should have come said hi as I'd really liked to have met you!

[Lenasbitch92]

8 minutes ago, Wrong Name said:

You also should have come and said hi!

Was going to but I'm shy when it comes to going up to people lol next time for sure :) 

[Wrong Name]

Just now, Lenasbitch92 said:

Was going to but I'm shy when it comes to going up to people lol next time for sure :) 

Definitely! I know what shyness is like as I used to have it really badly when I was younger, but please do if you see me as I love making my LFCC family grow!

[wjbleming]

7 minutes ago, Wrong Name said:

Pleasure to meet you too. Yes, that was Tanith and I do apologise for Zonky and Pen, but Zonky had just had her tattoo signed by Michael Madsen (to say she is a fan is an understatement!) and she was a little bit overwhelmed! Hope to speak to you for a bit longer next year.

Yeah, she posted photos in that thread, then I realised it was her (her red hair made me twig on. lol), I just didn't realise it was her at the time (she's dyed her hair from the last photo I've seen of her, in my defence! ), and don't worry about Zonky and Pen, they had better news than me saying hi to forum folk.

[Lenasbitch92]

5 minutes ago, Wrong Name said:

Definitely! I know what shyness is like as I used to have it really badly when I was younger, but please do if you see me as I love making my LFCC family grow!

Definitely will :) 

[spengler]

25 minutes ago, Wrong Name said:

Thanks. You should have come and said hi! I always like meeting people off the forum! 

I think i passed you saturday about 9.10 on the first floor mezzanie. You were heading into the auto hall.

Edited August 1, 2017 by spengler

[Wrong Name]

1 minute ago, spengler said:

I think i passed you saturday about 9.10 on the first floor mezzanie. You were heading into the auto hall.

Sounds likely! That's where I spent most my weekend. I think I only went down to the merchant tables only two or three times across the entire weekend!

[tompain100]

tl;dr

But glad you had a good time 

[spengler]

4 minutes ago, Wrong Name said:

Sounds likely! That's where I spent most my weekend. I think I only went down to the merchant tables only two or three times across the entire weekend!

Yeah shouldve said hello. Am pretty sure it was you. Great write up by the way.

[Wrong Name]

9 minutes ago, tompain100 said:

tl;dr

But glad you had a good time 

Kept my eye out for you all Saturday. You will get a hug!!

Edited August 1, 2017 by Wrong Name

[PenThePirate]

1 hour ago, wjbleming said:

May that be a lesson for next year. In saying that, got about 4/5 hours sleep per night without drinking, it's a moot point. lol (Wasn't suffering as much as you were, though)

Was good having a quick chat on Sunday afternoon, even if it was short, inadvertly not realising Tanith was with you and cut a bit short by Pen and Zonky showing off her choices of autograph tattoos.  Never did get David Bradley or CL by the end of it. Gave up shortly after 5, doubted they'd get much past 120 for DB or off Diamonds for CL.

Ooops! Sorry Mr Leming!

[Wrong Name]

Just now, spengler said:

Yeah shouldve said hello. Am pretty sure it was you. Great write up by the way.

Thanks :)