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It'll be easier for the organisers to take your feedback on board if it's organised in this topic. I know there'll be plenty of individual topics about the con, but if we could keep this topic just for your feedback then that'll be very helpful.

 

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What worked well?

What could have been improved?

What you would like to see added to the next con?

 

Try and keep all comments constructive. Massive Events are always looking to improve on their conventions, and while Eternal Twilight was obviously a huge success with loads of people enjoying their weekend, there's always room to make things better! :D

 

And before anyone starts, please don't turn this into a "well it'd be better if Robert was there .." topic :o

 

Thanks :P

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i did just mention this my only problem was with the general courtesy of the fans and obviously that is not ME's fault and it is something that people learn with time, i thought as always the show was worked wonderfully,

 

only event fault for me is that the guest encounters bidding sheets were on the wall where people were queuing sometimes it was almost impossible to get to the sheet to big, thats my only observation that i thought was easily fixed next time

 

The only other thing that bugged me was the delaers room, the photo stall had 8 rows of robert pictures and only 2 rows of pictures of for the guests and groups and of them there was not one of ashley in character on her own the only ones of her were modelling shots an di found that very disappointing, but again i know ME don't choose the merchandise, so it's more of a personal thing, as i would have loved a different picture signed

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I thought everything was great :D

 

The only two things I was a little dissapointed in was

1. The dealers room, except i just read you guys dont choose the mercandise? I would have thought there would be more twilight stuff like cullencrest jewellery or twilight t shirts

2. The music at the parties was really bad!! you should have more dance music!!

 

The rest of the parties wer great!! Loved the decorations and casino and the signing went really well too!!

 

 

Oh and people should have crowded the guests less and the screaming!!!

 

Had a great time !!!

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I thought the whole event worked really well!! I thought ME did an amazin job organising everything so well, especially the photo shoots and signings! The only tiny thing i really didn't like was the massive hoards of people waiting to get into the talks. I was like the 4th gold group, and i cudn't get through all of the people with standard tickets coz there were so many of them, so by the time i cud get through i was sat slightlt further back. I know ME worked super hard to sort that out and that people just weren't moving out of the way for them, so i didn't really have any problems with ME, more so the fans in general! I mean i love the stars as much as the next person, but i'm not going COMPLETELY mental because of it! lol. Other than that it was an AMAZINGLY enjoyable event and i can't wait for ET2!!!!!!!!! :D

 

OOOOO and i'd totally love more music and Jackson Rathbone for ET2 Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease! :o

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Absolutely fantastic weekend, considering the number of people there I thought the way the queues had been handled was very efficient and made everyone very happy at the end of the day.

 

The only improvement, or suggestion I'd make and a few others were saying it too was the gold pass drinks reception, a lot of people didn't actually get to speak to anyone (perhaps their fault in some sense) but it might be an idea to split the gold groups into two groups so there are less people per reception :)

 

What you would like to see added to the next con?

Kellan :D

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What worked well?

The Signings, I thought they went really smoothly and all the ME volunteers were really helpful and friendly in that section

 

What could have been improved?

The re-enforcing of the No Screaming rule. It was only said once, and during the last talk I was sat infront of a load of girls who wouldn't Stop, I came out with incredible soar ears. Also there should've been a limit on how much can be bid for the Guest Encounters, not everyone can afford to risk spending £200.

 

What you would like to see added to the next con?

TAYLOR!

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This was my first weekend con and I think most of it went okay. The gold party was absolute madness though, we only got to speak to Peter and thats only because a crew member or someone asked us who we'd spoken to and we said nobody so they got him to come over. It was a shame we didn't speak to the others but they were surrounded and I hate barging through people! But that was the only bad thing. Oh, and the screaming in the first talk. I already had a headache from travelling up but it was ridiculous! But that's obviously nothing to do with the organisation of the convention so that was just an annoyance! Oh and I agree about the general courtesy too... a lot of people were fine but there were also a few who just barged about wherever they wanted and I was getting seriously fed up with it! But again... nothing to do with ME so I'll shut up.

 

But for my first weekend convention it was great! The photos and signings seemed to go really smoothly I thought, and I was pleased with all but one of my photos! (Well, two but my sister says I'm just being fussy).

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It was mostly the general fans, rather than ME, like the crowding of the guests which made them leave, then having to listen to them moaning about them leaving, and thinking 'IT'S YOUR FAULT!'

 

But my friend did have a gold ticket, and when she went to the drinks reception she only got to meet two guests, and the rest got hoarded by fans. When she told a member of staff that she wasn't getting to meet anyone she was told she had to 'get in there!'. We were told that they were supposed to get in friend groups and hang out and the staff would make sure the guests would mingle around. I'm just speaking on what I was told, and I know she has her own voice and will say something. This just annoyed me a bit because I read the forum and I guess it happened to others as well, and the gold ticket holders pay A LOT.

 

For ET2 it would be cool to have something exclusively for people that have been to both, sort of a 'welcome back' thing, but that's probably not possible.

 

Also we were talking at lunchtime today and we thought a lot more people would bid on the guest encounters if a percentage went to charity, which would be nice.

 

Also for ET2.... Kellen again please! He was AMAZING!

 

It was the best weekend everrrr though, I had such an incredible time, meeting everyone from the forum was the best, and just hanging out in general.

 

But, let's just all pray theres less annoying people this time! Less crowding! Less crude shouting!

 

 

 

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i really loved the weekend ! it was fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

 

i thought that the whole weekend went amazing over all especially with the guests. the day time activities the signings, photo's and talk were the highlight for me.

 

the only thing i didn't think was greate was the paries partly because the music wasn't good. although i'm not a party person so my view about the parties is a bit biased!

 

 

over all the weekend was FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!! especially meeting the guests!!!

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I had a great weekend and it was fantastic to see it from "the other side".

 

My comments are pretty much the same as everyone else:

 

The screaming was annoying - unnderstandable in the opening ceremony when you get that first glimpse of a guest but was it really necessary after each question in the talk? I reckon if we didn't have to stop for screaming and random shout outs from the crowd we could have gotten through more questions.

 

Getting to the guests in the gold cocktail was really hard and on 2 occasions when we actually got close enough to talk we just about managed "hello nice to...." before we got barged aside (both times by the same group interestingly enough). As everyone has said this isn't anything to do with ME but just a lack of thoughtfulness from attendees which was seen quite a lot all weekend.

 

As someone also mentioned the mob waiting for talks was actually scary and we eventually left because it was claustrophobic and airless. Jason and TT did try but people just weren't listening or as we saw with people around us, just ignoring. We wondered though that since we were called in by numbers maybe it could be done by group number and each group could have a different queueing area (a bit like the photo shoots) or even more general and have an area by gold, silver, standard.

 

The last thing that I can think of is for the photoshoot it was sometimes confusing as to which queue was which group and for which photoshoot but that was minor and quickly sorted out.

 

All in all awesome weekend! :(

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I had a great weekend and the autography and photo shoots went really well.

The guests we're great and it was a really fun time.

 

A lot of rules we're not enfored like the no having pictures and auto's from guests in the party.

 

My only problem was the main hall it was undercrewed or not crewed at all. In fact the only time I saw crew was when it was first loaded up.

That meant that none of the rules we're inforced.

 

Before anyone says anything I did say something more than once about various things going on in the main hall and nothing was done. I know others said things as well.

 

I had a silver ticket and got to the talks early so I could sit in the best place for my ticket.

At the end of talks more than once I saw standard ticket holders waiting till gold ticket holders had moved and then jumping into they seats.

The flash photography was just beyond a joke. I had friends that felt so sick with it they left talks. I know nothing could be done in the Peter talk on the saturday.

The videoing as well Paul in fact said no videoing and the girl behind him videoed the whole talk.

I only ever saw one person told off by a crew member and that was in the one of the last talks on the sunday.

Why was nothing being done? Why did I not see any crew members and as for the the people who keep trying to get in the gold seats why we're they in the end not thrown out of the talk.

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What worked well?

Most things went really smoothly and i was super impressed :) i thought the photos and the autographs were done efficiently, and we only had to wait once which i really thought was good.

 

What could have been improved?

I wish there could have been more people allowed into the guest encounters, i realise that it is supposed to be an intimate event (which is why some people payed over £100!) but i was under the impression that it was twenty attendees. I think it would also be good if there were a few more ways to win a guest encounter. Bigger sheets would also be ace! :)

 

What you would like to see added to the next con?

The lighted hut thingy we had on the saturday night! it was fab! and kellan lutz/jackson rathbone :(

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hi i would like to express a huge thanks to the guests they were amazing and social and made the whole experience wonderful! thanku to the registration, organisation of the signings and photo shoots, they worked really well for me and i was impressed. Well done to photographers, i didn't envy them one bit, a gr8 gr8 job! well done!

I was a silver ticket holder and this was my first con!

I was totally intimidated by the crowding (before talks and around guests) and at the prom party whilst waiting for a drink was nearly mowed down by a group of girls, i turned to find myself squished up against kellan lutz, a pleasant suprise but still, it was silly that happened! Maybe for next time a little more staff observing this would be nice for the safety of everyone!

I don't no if anyone also noticed and sorry to be a bore, but there was alot of underage drinking, i was approached a few times by under 18's girls about getting them drink from the bar, i would decline and then see them later with drinks, i'm just thinking of the legality of it all, they could be drinking in their rooms, but thats not the venues/ME's responsibility, i was just thinking about the actual parties, the music was really bad, sorry it was, i think i heard muse 4 times within a 30/40 min period, and it didn't stop there!

Supervision of the quest encounters, there was a few pple that were crossed out by other disrespectful pple, mayb having it away from the talk entrance, i think it caused alot of flow-through probs in and out of the main hall?

I agree with shootingstar a welcome back pack would be gr8, but prob impossible! Maybe the packs could be a little different for the gold and silver pass holders, i was silver and was a little disapointed, sorry!

So to finish on a happy note a huge huge thanku to two staff members and i'm sorry i didn't get her name, but u know who u are, she's a fellow wicked fan (has a tattoo) she was wonderful, friendly and made my fist con great by answering lots of general questions about the whole world of conventions and to davie (i think) he was gr8 too!

But honestly it was great and the best thing of all was the great pple (kegan5, bloodjunkie, starbuck) and i met and will meet up with nxt time! I've gone from silver to gold for nxt time!

 

Party ideas for ET 2 Biker/ hells angels, bonfire nite and volturi nite/ St Marcus' Day!

Thanks ME for this experience and well done!

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But my friend did have a gold ticket, and when she went to the drinks reception she only got to meet two guests, and the rest got hoarded by fans. When she told a member of staff that she wasn't getting to meet anyone she was told she had to 'get in there!'. We were told that they were supposed to get in friend groups and hang out and the staff would make sure the guests would mingle around. I'm just speaking on what I was told, and I know she has her own voice and will say something. This just annoyed me a bit because I read the forum and I guess it happened to others as well, and the gold ticket holders pay A LOT

 

I can absolutely confirm this. Myself and a group of friends did as we were told and stayed in a space thinking that the guests would be ushered to wards us, but we actually only eneded up meeting Peter and for about 30 seconds only, and that was after someone told us, as you have just said, to 'get in there'.

 

Since we were put into groups for everything else, I would personally have thought it would work better if the guests were introuduced to us one group at a time.

 

The queue for yesterdays talks was representative of a mob. Unfortunately this was bound to happen as people milling around eventually became part a queue. Maybe barriers to queue behind would work? One for Gold/Silver/standard.

 

Unfortunately when you have 800 over exhuberant fans and 5 very lovely guests, not all the rules are going to be adhered to although I think most of us tried to be on our best behaviour. The screaming seems to be something that bothered a lot of people and I thought it was pretty much under control by Saturdays talk. The photos/crowding at the Prom party was a shame, but I think a lot of people were actually taking pics of their friends and you cannot enforce a rule saying you can't take photos of your friends at parties in a hope that is stops others using the this as an excuse to point the camera towards the guests.

 

Sorry this is an observation more than a helpful suggestion.

 

The gazebo although very pretty was in a bad place. Right in front of the doors into the main hall caused a grid lock and I couldn't get in.

 

On the whole though, I thought the event was handled fabulously, so well done to everyone for that.

 

I actually down graded from gold to standard for the next con because I didn't think I saw the benefits of gold other than once getting a front seat and apart from that I am talking 2 daughters with me! Also, I spoke to many regular con goers and most said they buy standard tickets and they always have a great time without breaking the bank.

 

What would I like to see next time?

 

Better music! Sorry it was a bit repetitive.

 

Oh and Peter Facinelli again...what a fantastic person he is! :(

 

Suggestions for the parties....Volturi ball.....Policemans ball......

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overall i thought it was a fantastic weekend, but the music for me was a little poor and just generally the manners of some of the people annoyed me a little bit, it doesnt take much to say "excuse me". I was also very disapointed that unlike the rest of the guests i want able to get a personalised autograph from Justin, as i had heard he left some rather funny messages on people autographs.

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I was also very disapointed that unlike the rest of the guests i want able to get a personalised autograph from Justin, as i had heard he left some rather funny messages on people autographs.

 

Funny you should say that! I was with my daughter who asked him to write something about worms which he did but he claimed he didn't want to spoil my picture (which if I must say so myself, was amazing lol) so he didn't personalise mine either.

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there was not always enough things to do during the day.

i know it was a pretty small venue but once you got autographs and were waiting for a talk or whatever it could be quite boring.

theres always the option of going in to town but for the money of a standard ticket there should be things going on.

im not too sure what but maybe like,a dvd showing in a room or some games?

 

also,the dealers room needed more official merch.

the prints were great but some of it was just irrelevant.

 

 

 

you done a really great job for the first time running this con though.

thanks alot i had an amazing time.

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Justin personalised everyones that asked as far as I was aware, he wrote LA PUSH BABY all over my book.

 

Peter said he liked me rofl and then carried on drawing in my book, was drawing a little vampire and the woman said he had to stop so he just has a weird smiley face instead.

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oh.

andi loved the guest encounters, my best moments of the weekend was the guest encounters i won with christian, although to be fair in total i only paid £45, whilst i heard some had spent up to 140 for one encounter. you didnt have to fight for time to talk with the guests, and generally it was a nicer carmer atmosphere, anyone than than 12 would have been drowned out into the background, making people say things like "oh i didnt get to talk to so and so, what a waste of money" but 12 was just enough that each person could ask a question and get a full nice answer without some kind of "marrrrryyy meeee".

 

oh and 1 more thing (sorry) during the chats i found it really hard to hear christian and i was in the middle! , did my ears deseieve me or wasnt i the only one?

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oh.

andi loved the guest encounters, my best moments of the weekend was the guest encounters i won with christian, although to be fair in total i only paid £45, whilst i heard some had spent up to 140 for one encounter. you didnt have to fight for time to talk with the guests, and generally it was a nicer carmer atmosphere, anyone than than 12 would have been drowned out into the background, making people say things like "oh i didnt get to talk to so and so, what a waste of money" but 12 was just enough that each person could ask a question and get a full nice answer without some kind of "marrrrryyy meeee".

 

oh and 1 more thing (sorry) during the chats i found it really hard to hear christian and i was in the middle! , did my ears deseieve me or wasnt i the only one?

My friend said she struggled at the front, I was at the very back! i couldn't hear anything ;)

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First, I would like to say a huge thanks to the guests and the organisers/staff, this was my first con and I had a fantastic time.

 

What worked well?

The autograph and photo session signings were well organised, the staff/crew were very helpful.

There was one lady in particular at the registration desk (I didn't catch her name) who was a big help to my mum and myself.

 

What could have been improved?

The guest encounter sign off sheet was positioned in a bad place, I couldn't get near it a lot of the time to up my bid due to the 'mob' of people queuing for the talks - I know the staff tried to control this and I appreciate that. :)

 

What you would like to see added to the next con?

I'd love to meet Peter again, he was very funny. As well as Ashley she was lovely in my guest encounter that I was lucky enough to win.

I completely agree with a Volturi party!

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I was also very disapointed that unlike the rest of the guests i want able to get a personalised autograph from Justin, as i had heard he left some rather funny messages on people autographs.

 

Funny you should say that! I was with my daughter who asked him to write something about worms which he did but he claimed he didn't want to spoil my picture (which if I must say so myself, was amazing lol) so he didn't personalise mine either.

 

Justin personalised mine, but Christian didn't they said her queue was too long... I was the only one in it lol so think maybe because it would have been unfair to personalise a few and then none... I'm not sure.

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It's been an AMAZING and inspirational weekend

thanks to you guys for organising such an amazing event

it was extremely well organised

tbh i dont actually think i have any critisism

the only thing is that we were in the holiday inn and we couldnt afford to keep getting the bus there and back to keep getting changed so we had to take all our stuff with us. But the hotel didnt have anywhere we could really leave it so we had to carry it about all day that got a bit annoyingg, so maybe like a cloakroom kindof thing?

but im not sure if you guys would be able to do anything about it

:wub:

just booked the tix fer ET2

and the ibis across the roaddd

so we wont have that problem again

but yerrr

thanks again

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What worked well?

The guest talks were very efficient and the ME staff was very helpful, because even if they didn't know, they'd point you in the direction of someone who did.

 

What could have been improved?

Like many other people have said, at times it was hard to see the photo shoot sheet and it got annoying when people whose group number hadnt been called would line up anyone and hold up the queue. I know the staff tried very hard but they didn't seem to listen!

 

What you would like to see added to the next con?

Erm, maybe some more activities as there was a lot of waiting around. The guests don't necessarily have to be involved, like the video they played for us, it killed some time and was funny. :)

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Yes THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH ME!!!!! you did an amazing job bringing the stars to England and i'm ever sooooo greatful!!! the only other problem i saw were again like people said some standard people were in the gold rows, i was gold and saw some people with standard infront of me which i thought was rather unfair, unfortunately i couldn't get hold of anyone during the talks as they were all busy, but just a slightly harsher enforcement would be nicer! :blush:

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