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[lee_c00per]

I know the original thread got deleted so i thought i may repost it.

Are we going to have a meet up on the Thursday Night?

I'm arriving in London early morning. Dropping my gear off at the Hotel and then going to Wesminster for the Star Wars Exibtion next to the London Eye. After that i planned to pop along to Forbidden Planet as they apparently are having an eclsuive star wars bust for sale that day, so i need to go there.

After that i am free in the evening. If we are going to meet up then i guess we need to see how many people want to meet up and where the best place to do so will be.

If we get enough people i guess we can take the idea further

[dazzlerjames]

I'm up for it - getting into London about 4pm ish depending on train reliability! and then checking into Hotel near by.  Not bothered where we go TBH but as I presume that most of you will be staying near to the excel then I'll have to have a look at travel times etc.  Although the way it's going I can see there being plenty of spare time over the weekend seeing as there seems to be nothing happening with the event itself!!

[mightymax]

I will be getting into London about 12ish. I want to goto the Exhibition in the afternoon as well, as like Lee (if I remember right) we are both staying very near to Excel. Haven't thought of anything to do in the evening apart from have a walk around Excel and work out the entrances etc... because I have never been there before so just a bit of pre-planning.

I don't suppose you have any idea of costs, what the bust will look like (insert your own joke there) or perhaps a link to it Lee.

It is a shame they deleted our old stuff not sure if it was a case of breaking rules or it just got lost with the problems they previously had. I read an interesting comment on Rebel Scum which I will leave at that.

[lee_c00per]

I think the Forbidden Planet Clone Trooper bust will be around the £30-£35 mark but i'll find that out for you mate

I got my train tickets today but becuase of traveling at Peak times i can't get my train from Ashford (70 minutes from London ) until 9.30 so i may not get there around 11 or so. I may go to Forbidden Plannet first then the Exibition as that is open later than FP.

I too was thinking of looking around the Excel arena in the evening to get an idea on what to expect.

I guess if we're all around the arena area then we may aswell meet up around there somewhere. It's seems a case of where to eat or something

[gobo1979uk]

Loads of hotels round excel so maybe pic the one with the biggest bar and meet up there?

[lee_c00per]

Sounds good to me.

My hotel (Premier Inn ) has a bar and restauarant but isn't exactly giving away food and drink , although that may be the case everywhere in london

[mightymax]

lee_c00per, on Jun 4 2007, 05:37 PM, said:

I think the Forbidden Planet Clone Trooper bust will be around the £30-£35 mark but i'll find that out for you mate

I got my train tickets today but becuase of traveling at Peak times i can't get my train from Ashford (70 minutes from London ) until 9.30 so i may not get there around 11 or so. I may go to Forbidden Plannet first then the Exibition as that is open later than FP.

I too was thinking of looking around the Excel arena in the evening to get an idea on what to expect.

I guess if we're all around the arena area then we may aswell meet up around there somewhere. It's seems a case of where to eat or something

Cool, pity we can't pre-order them because I would be interested. The ticket prices for my train is so random unless I book an actual time they are expensive. I pre-booked them a few weeks ago to book first class tickets for an actual time was cheaper than normal train tickets (guess it was some promotion) so I have ended up booking those. Will also save having kids jumping all over me stuff

[lee_c00per]

Not sure if i want to go to this major event now after just putting the autograph prices up on the official site.

I'm disgusted

[DavidB]

just had a look myself, some are ridiculous  

[lee_c00per]

Tell me about it

[mightymax]

Blinkin 'ell

Edited by mightymax, 04 June 2007 - 09:51 PM.

[lee_c00per]

This is what i mean. We are getting so badly ripped off here. I don't know whether i want to go if this is a sign of things to come

Billy Dee i can be pushed to pay £25 (he was £20 at C6)

Matt Sloan at £15 is OK as he is a very rare signer

The £10 guests i am happy with but it's the rest of them.

Remember that if you want your auto on a photo you have to pay for that on top and we don't even know if they are official ones

[DavidB]

OK sorry to come in here, but would you mind editing all specific stuff relating to that event please?

I'm still not sure why stuff was removed before, but it seems to be too much to have just 'disappeared' so can we just be safe by not discussing it here?

Thanks guys

[mightymax]

On another note just looked at those busts on Forbidden Planet, I have seen the Luke and Solo one on Ebay which was about the same asking price. The Yodo and Trooper ones are cool!!

Edited by mightymax, 04 June 2007 - 09:55 PM.

[lee_c00per]

oops, we've been told.

[DavidB]

Not told - asked nicely  

I've still not found out what happened to the other stuff, but like I said it's too much to have just disappeared by accident.

I don't want the topic to be deleted as meetups are fine to discuss, so just try and keep it vague and not go into specifics about the other event like prices, venues, guests etc. I know there are other boards u can do that on anyway.

Edited by DavidB, 04 June 2007 - 09:09 PM.

[lee_c00per]

I'm joking fair do's. The posts were 'deleted' but that's a different discussion altogether.

I need someone to go halfs on my hotel room badly now to ease my costs after todays 'pricing' news

[mightymax]

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[dazzlerjames]

Where are people getting their info about guests and prices from??  I've seen some guests listed on starwars.com but none are really shouting at me to go get em - maybe Shannon McRandle as I don't think she's done UK before?

I can't find prices though.

cheers, Darren

ps - I'm happy to come over to excel area on the Thursday night - maybe we could do some sort of group reccy on the venue itself.

[lee_c00per]

their not on starwars.com their on the other official site for the event, under guests

I think i may scrap CE and just to go C12 and LFCC instead, and get people to sign my Heroes poster.

I love star wars don't get me wrong but recently they seem to think people will pay whatever they want for an autograph. It's unfair and for someone like me at 19 on not a HUGE income it will turn into a hobbie that will spiral out of control.

Edited by lee_c00per, 05 June 2007 - 09:23 AM.