WHAT A GREAT DAY - SATURDAY, Well done showmasters Options

[the dude]

Just got back from the show and i must say - WHAT A GREAT DAY

Great guests

met and got autos from:

Sendhil Ramamurthy
Jimmy Jean Louis
Keeley Hawes
Michael Ironside
Anna walton
Chris Sarandon
Scott Bakula
Edward Furlong

all the guests were friendly

the crew and other visitors were great - had great chats to many of the fellow fans - thanks

brought plenty of stuff, oriental DVDs, comics, figures etc


WELL DONE


only one downside was why there were so few VT at the start of the show, only Scott and Keeley, while Edward, Danny, Sendhil and Micheal started as open Q (danny trejo remained open q and was the only one a could not wait for)

apart from that one moan, the show was GREAT

thanks

WHAT DID EVERYBODY ELSE THINK ?

the dude

This post has been edited by the dude: Jul 18 2009, 03:53 PM

[Babbler]

What was Scotts queue like?

[Larry David]

Were posed photos with Danny, Edward and Michael permitted?

I am going tomorrow.

[the dude]

Were posed photos with Danny, Edward and Michael permitted?

I am going tomorrow.

michael and danny yes - not sure about edward

[stace]

glad you had a good time, im so excited about tomorrow

[the dude]

What was Scotts queue like?

long, but he signed at a good pace - no posed photos - Scott was great very nice guy

glad you had a good time, im so excited about tomorrow

i sure you will enjoy it

[Larry David]

Any idea how much autos for Gary Kurtz are?

[the dude]

Any idea how much autos for Gary Kurtz are?

sorry not 100% sure - i think it was £15 - did not meet him - his name is also not on the price list that was being handed out - but he was there

[Flibble]

Were posed photos with Danny, Edward and Michael permitted?

I am going tomorrow.

I saw people having posed photos with Edward today.

[gebes]

I only got Scott's autograph today, but found him to be very pleasant indeed, there were no posed photos, but I believe that there were over 800 virtual Q tickets handed out.

He had the right balance of signing and talking to each attendee, and thought this was very professional.

I also had the problem of no virtual Q for Michael Ironside and Edward Furlong , and then finding out they were on VQ .

The one thing that I wasn't too impressed with, was the DDR being next to the talk area, there was some overspill of the DDR noise almost drowning out the talks. This got to the extent of the talk crew having to go and get the DDR turned down.

Seemed a generally busy event, but not sure how much this was down to the guests, or if it was due to the introduction of the Cosplay and gaming areas.

[leejohn]

I would like to thank the Crew for helping me out, i had a great time met all the guests that i wanted to see and infact i was the very first person to meet Scott Bakula, friendly guy he wrote on my photo ," to Lee nice meeting you!" "Oh boy!!" Best Regards Scott Bakula. Danny trejo was cool he was showing his tattoos to me. Had a great day. Lee

[the dude]

I also had the problem of no virtual Q for Michael Ironside and Edward Furlong , and then finding out they were on VQ .

i was very lucky when the started to VT edward and michael as i was able to get numbers 1 for each guest

very surprised they did not VT Chris Sarandon and Danny Trejo they were always long queues for these two

Chris was a great friendy guest

the dude

[Count Fooku]

The queuing area at the start of the day was a bit chaotic it has to be said. I was really surprised when they said everyone except Scott and Keeley Hawes were open queues. Big name Heroes guests always seem to draw a crowd, Danny Trejo and Edward Norton were making their first UK appearances so I would think it was a given they would be pretty popular, at least for the first few hours.

The Scott queue for tickets and signatures was really well managed in getting people who didn't need to be in the signing area away to keep things clear but it all seemed to fall down because people were still crowding round to get into all the other open queues. As soon as the virtual tickets for the other guests were given out things seemed to settle down but I was really surprised it wasn't done from the off.

That said the rest of the show was very good, a photoshoot with a shirtless Danny Trejo wasn't quite what I was expecting but he was a very good guest all round. Posed for table pictures and did a very good Q&A.

Scott Bakula was good as well, friendly and corteous but kept things moving. I think I probably fell in love with Keeley Hawes a bit, she does that 'Princess Diana looking from under her eyelids' thing rather well! She seemed to be taking her time with people which meant her queue wasn't going really quickly but I wasn't complaining!

I found Jake Lloyd an interesting character, at first I thought he was a bit miserable but I think he might just have a deadpan sense of humour. It would be interesting to know just how doing such a key role in Star Wars at such a young age has really affected him.

As always Kenny Baker and Dave Prowse seemed to have long queues all day.

All in all a good day!

Any idea how much autos for Gary Kurtz are?

He was £15, had a reasonable selection of pictures as well.

[liremaer]

Today was fab. Loved all the guys and girls in costume. Lookin good folks. I only got two auto's today. Both from really really lovely people aka keeley hawes and michael shanks. Keeley was sympathising about the corset i had on sayin she knew how i felt. Lol, and wrote the corset of doom on my pic. Lol.

[Dinobore]

I only got Scott's autograph today, but found him to be very pleasant indeed, there were no posed photos, but I believe that there were over 800 virtual Q tickets handed out.

There was over 800, I was 803 and in the end I did not see him. (I left about 2pm when the number on the board was either 120 or 220. Either way I thought that I would not get round to meeting him so I left. I'll hope he'll come back to a future event (hint hint...)).

[Count Fooku]

I thought I heard someone being given a ticket for over 1000 but they were told there was little to no chance of seeing him.

[RacheyTink]

I had a fantastic day!
Beginning with the dissapointment of Peter Facinelli not arriving till this evening, that went away quite quickly. Photoshoot with Sendhil, auto & pic from Josh Herdman, mega fun watching DDR, cosplayers, looking at all the merch - amazing.
As a first timer I thought it was brilliant. Can't wait for tomorrow

[Charlokylie]

I had a great time and met some really nice people (guests and vistors). I spent way to much money but it was money well spend.
The stargate talk was fantastic. And even though we had to queue for quite a while for things and they messed up our tickets we had a great time.
Oh, and I apologise but I thought the whole Peter forgetting his passport thing was Hilarious.

Thank you showmasters

Charlo

This post has been edited by Charlokylie: Jul 18 2009, 05:59 PM

[darthnad]

Indeed a good day

Met Edward Furlong and got my T2 poster and a Dark Reel 10x8 signed, which he seemed very surpised that I loved that film lol. He said he has never managed to sit all the way through it yet hehe, I think it's top! Totally sound guy, and he was looking good too


Also met Gary Kurtz, total gent and a really nice guy, as was Dave Prowse.

Tomorrow I'm gonna meet Kenny Baker and Peter Mayhew to get the other sigs on my Star Wars posters and then maybe a few others.


Didn't meet many other fans, bit shy to speak to people, especially on my own, and spent a lot of time trying to work round the fact that I really didn't have enough arms to sort my posters and stuff out. If you saw a flustered blonde girl with black glasses shuffling to the photo tables with several bags, loose posters and a poster tube stuffed under every available limb then that was me lol.

Hopefulyl will speak to a few more people tomorrow


Edit: Nearly forgot - OMG that queue this morning for the early bird pre-paid?!?! I was first last year of a very small queue, this year it was like the world and his dog turned up at 8.30!

This post has been edited by darthnad: Jul 18 2009, 06:02 PM

[keithporter23]

Excellent show with fantastic friendly guests.

Scott Bakula - had time to talk to every single person as he was signing - I know this slowed things down, but made the meeting extra special.

Michael Ironside - really took time meeting everyone - so friendly, asking everyones names (even in photoshoot) and showed a real interest.

Chris Sarandon - Really friendly, good sense of humour. Looked like he was enjoying himself.

Danny Trejo - what a character - get him back to another show soon!

Keeley Hawes - her 1st convention,and she was chatting like she'd known everyone for years!! Pleasure to cuddle up to her in the photoshoot lol.

It seems like the guests genuinely had fun today, makes the day all the much better.

The dealers stalls had quite a few good bargains today too.

Attendance seemed to be up massively on last year so was quite congested, but crew kept it moving along.

I think there was an oversight regarding VQ tickets early on, and lack of anticipation of how busy it was going to get.

Once again, a massive shout out to all the organisers and crew - well done, good job, keep up the good work, 3 cheers, and anything else that means you made the day work like magic.