Persephone1 Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 I thought gold pass holders needed VQ tickets to visit a diamond guest? That's not happening at all with Mads Mikkeksen's autographs with golds being allowed to join before numbered tickets. Not an issue for me but it is for my friend. It also tbh rather devalues the diamond pass which I have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundercrackler Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 To my knowledge, Gold Pass holders do need a VQ ticket for Diamond guests. Most likely an error (relaxed approach as it's Friday?) that will be corrected for the busy weekend to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Persephone1 Posted July 29, 2016 Author Share Posted July 29, 2016 To my knowledge, Gold Pass holders do need a VQ ticket for Diamond guests. Most likely an error (relaxed approach as it's Friday?) that will be corrected for the busy weekend to come. let's hope so. I'm sorted but it will be sad for people with low VQs if they don't go through Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelbacchae Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 I have Gold, but staff would have let me join Dolph queue even without a vq ticket. I corrected them myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littlemisstrouble6179 Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 Yeah it was the same at Mads the guy thought gold had priority. Seem to recall the same thing happened last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Persephone1 Posted July 29, 2016 Author Share Posted July 29, 2016 It does need to be sorted otherwise gold is a v cheap way of seeing all diamond guests & what would ever be the point of buying diamond? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundercrackler Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 I have Gold, but staff would have let me join Dolph queue even without a vq ticket. I corrected them myself. Yeah it was the same at Mads the guy thought gold had priority. Seem to recall the same thing happened last year. Maybe they were new crew members slow on the details? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Persephone1 Posted July 29, 2016 Author Share Posted July 29, 2016 If there are going to be diamond guests there needs to be stringent policing of the priority levels on all days. I understand the economic necessity for them but my take away from today was if there are several diamond guests you want to meet in attendance on the Friday don't bother with their passes. Buy a gold & you will get the exact same level of priority access (as gold get priority access over batch numbers at diamond guest photo shoots for some reason). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littlemisstrouble6179 Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 Yeah the guy at Mads was new to it but surely that shouldn't make a difference as they still should have been briefed but didn't sound like they had or if they did they hadn't understood properly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrong Name Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 If there are going to be diamond guests there needs to be stringent policing of the priority levels on all days. I understand the economic necessity for them but my take away from today was if there are several diamond guests you want to meet in attendance on the Friday don't bother with their passes. Buy a gold & you will get the exact same level of priority access (as gold get priority access over batch numbers at diamond guest photo shoots for some reason).Gold's do get priority over batches for diamond guests at photos but shouldn't have it for autos and should need a vq ticket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diabolik Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 If there are going to be diamond guests there needs to be stringent policing of the priority levels on all days. I understand the economic necessity for them but my take away from today was if there are several diamond guests you want to meet in attendance on the Friday don't bother with their passes. Buy a gold & you will get the exact same level of priority access (as gold get priority access over batch numbers at diamond guest photo shoots for some reason). Not boding well for tomorrow...Stan Lee disappointment day here we go again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raylenth Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 (edited) If there are going to be diamond guests there needs to be stringent policing of the priority levels on all days. I understand the economic necessity for them but my take away from today was if there are several diamond guests you want to meet in attendance on the Friday don't bother with their passes. Buy a gold & you will get the exact same level of priority access (as gold get priority access over batch numbers at diamond guest photo shoots for some reason). Not boding well for tomorrow...Stan Lee disappointment day here we go again... Well at least this way it should hopefully improve tomorrow. I'm sure Stuart said he's passed it on (in another thread) so it will hopefully be ironed out for the rest of the weekend. Edited July 29, 2016 by Raylenth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators StuartG2198 Posted July 29, 2016 Moderators Share Posted July 29, 2016 If there are going to be diamond guests there needs to be stringent policing of the priority levels on all days. I understand the economic necessity for them but my take away from today was if there are several diamond guests you want to meet in attendance on the Friday don't bother with their passes. Buy a gold & you will get the exact same level of priority access (as gold get priority access over batch numbers at diamond guest photo shoots for some reason). Not boding well for tomorrow...Stan Lee disappointment day here we go again... Well at least this way it should hopefully improve tomorrow. I'm sure Stuart aid he's passed it on (in another thread) so it will hopefully be ironed out for the rest of the weekend. We feedback any issues raised on here as best we can, QS is in contact with the folks at the venue so if we can feed in issues from here we do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators StuartG2198 Posted July 29, 2016 Moderators Share Posted July 29, 2016 (edited) If there are going to be diamond guests there needs to be stringent policing of the priority levels on all days. I understand the economic necessity for them but my take away from today was if there are several diamond guests you want to meet in attendance on the Friday don't bother with their passes. Buy a gold & you will get the exact same level of priority access (as gold get priority access over batch numbers at diamond guest photo shoots for some reason). Not boding well for tomorrow...Stan Lee disappointment day here we go again... Well at least this way it should hopefully improve tomorrow. I'm sure Stuart aid he's passed it on (in another thread) so it will hopefully be ironed out for the rest of the weekend. We feedback any issues raised on here as best we can, QS is in contact with the folks at the venue so if we can feed in issues from here we do. What I would advise is that whilst we can raise issues with the folks at the venue if you see something like this going on please make a pit boss (red shirt) aware so they can deal with it there and then. Edited July 29, 2016 by StuartG2198 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zahariel Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 I got both Dolph's and Mad's autographs without a diamond pass today - The queues were not that hectic and with my gold pass I was able to get sub 20s in VQ, which were checked by the staff when I went there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colwot Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 There was an issue letting gold passes in this morning. Last year gold passes were given out whilst we were still in the queue before the doors opened. Today those of us, who had not picked up our passes yesterday, had to queue up for passes after the doors were opened. Consequently I got much higher VQ numbers for Dolph and Mads than I had hoped for. I wish I had realised that Gold passes were being allowed to join the Diamond queues without VQ tickets! Lets hope its sorted out tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators StuartG2198 Posted July 29, 2016 Moderators Share Posted July 29, 2016 There was an issue letting gold passes in this morning. Last year gold passes were given out whilst we were still in the queue before the doors opened. Today those of us, who had not picked up our passes yesterday, had to queue up for passes after the doors were opened. Consequently I got much higher VQ numbers for Dolph and Mads than I had hoped for. I wish I had realised that Gold passes were being allowed to join the Diamond queues without VQ tickets! Lets hope its sorted out tomorrow. Golds shouldn't have been allowed to join any diamond guest queue as they still require a VQ, the gold pass does not extend to diamond guests. It has been fed back in that this was going on and it shouldn't be happening again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not_Pennys_Ship Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 I thought gold pass holders needed VQ tickets to visit a diamond guest? That's not happening at all with Mads Mikkeksen's autographs with golds being allowed to join before numbered tickets. Not an issue for me but it is for my friend. It also tbh rather devalues the diamond pass which I have. Sssshhhh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 Another issue, some crew weren't taking VQ tickets from me. I had VQT No 2 for Carl and Michael and No 3 for Dolph. I could have easily used these again or passed them onto someone else. They're now souvenirs :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now