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Renée Zellweger Colin Firth Hugh Grant

David has spoken... The Timelord has the final word

I was waiting for that one

I really enjoyed reading everyone’s pros and cons from LFCC so I thought I’d start a thread to find out how everyone’s weekend went at DST 2018. Here are mine: PROS The hall layout was superb, much better than last time. Using hall 5 to organise the queues is a great idea. Registration was really fast. The queues for autographs were not allowed to get out of hand and in my experience seemed to be very well crewed indeed. Plenty of space around the 3 photoshoot areas meant there were never any real bottleneck areas. The guests were all lovely. I had no negative experiences with any of the ones I met. The panels were also great all weekend. The red carpet premiere of the DS9 documentary had some cons (see below) but the event itself (and the movie) was brilliant. We were sat in the premium seats right beside Michael Dorn, Chase Masterson, Andrew Robinson, Jeffrey Combs, Casey Biggs and the man himself Ira Stephen Behr, and within the same area as the other VIP’s many of whom had not seen it yet. This meant that it was not only a joy to watch the film, but to see these artists reactions and interactions with one another as they were watching it too was priceless. A totally unique experience. Absolutely amazing. Meeting @robmoriarty at a couple of photo shoots and the DS9 movie. Great to say hi at last Rob! CONS My Partner bought a Captain package. This did not turn out to be quite the package we thought it would be for her. The included autographs, talks and photo shoots were great but we found very little to justify a £500 increase from the Commander package. Ok there are extra talks, photos and autographs and they can be worked out to an exact monetary amount but the biggest disappointment was the “meet and greet”. I feel this is a little misleading in its title. It should be referred to as what it is, an exclusive talk with 3 actors on each day. There is no meeting or greeting occurring and the Saturday one started nearly 30 minutes late which was poor too. She didn’t even want to attend the Sunday one after this experience. Also there is no difference in priority queueing between Commander and Captain. Both merely allow you to join the back of what is usually an already full queue which will be full of VQ people who have not paid extra for any package. Difficult to do I know, but perhaps allowing Commanders to just join the queue and have Captains join the queue at the very least at the sales desk, or right to the front for shorter queues would meet the value of this package IMO. I think next time she will just go with the Commander package and save £500 for other event activities. Poorly organised queue at the DS9 premiere. As this wasn’t strictly a convention event it’s not the blame of the organisers at all. It was “organised” by NEC staff who had no clue what was going on. Firstly they made everyone queue outside, fair enough, but they had no special assistance entrance or queue which meant people were rushing past my partner in her wheelchair. Then an NEC guy said Premium (£40 more expensive) tickets on the right but once you got in the door they told you that premiums were getting scanned on the left. This took longer for people with premium tickets as they needed to get a wristband to prove premium status and then collect a “goodie” bag. Because the Enterprise stage was the ENTIRE length of the hall away from the door they used to let everyone in, my partner and another girl in a wheelchair ended up sat so much further back as everyone rushed past us in the long, long trek to the stage. Very disappointing but once we were in a red shirt moved us up into the proper premium area and it meant we did end up with the great seats that gave us the great experience above. In conclusion the pros FAR outweighed the cons. Apart from losing my bag on the Saturday (see my idiot doofus thread) I think this is possibly the best event I have attended. Thank you so much to the great crew and Showmasters and Massive Events for a brilliant weekend.

COSTAS!

Anyone from Doctor Who

Pretty hard with no clues My guess is someone from here https://www.imdb.com/

I'm trying to get one of my best mates to come up to Birmingham for this, so I'd like to take this opportunity to remind SM that I've been a loyal attendee for many years and I am an absolute delight to have at your events, and my friend would absolutely love to see Charlie Day, Burn Gorman, anybody from American Horror Story/It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia/Orange Is The New Black, and some bloke called Costas Mandylor, whoever that is.

Kim Myers Mark Patton Marshall Bell Michael Ironside heather langenkamp Amanda Wyss John Saxon Ronee Blakley Lisa Wilcox Tuesday Knight Jennifer Rubin Patricia Arquette Ken Sagoes Penelope Sudrow doug bradley lance henriksen tom atkins Robert Davi

Mara Wilson Embeth Davidtz Radha Mitchell Cole Hauser Rhiana Griffith Claudia Black Vin Diesel Karen Gillan

Very reliable and dependable input there Nate

I am so easy amused to day. Dunno know why. But this video...

I prefer reliable and dependable

Just a little

Yes?

Strange...

I trust she's well and truly grounded now?

I had a nightmare about spiders last night...hmmm...I wonder why?

Anytime dear neighbour!

Justin Theroux

@VikingGrrrl Don’t worry we will do it for you

Something cute for everyone to enjoy (better than a spider - looking at you Chris 1970).

Dean Cain Teri Hatcher