The_Wookie69

Congratulations to the young couple who got engaged in Stan's photoshoot on Friday. That seemed to bring a smile to all the faces in the room.

She is more attractive... but wait until you next need a favour in one of my queues :-D

Most likely, I was all over the shop! Stan's photos on Friday evening, Super stage on Saturday and Stan's autograph queue on Sunday. I'd be surprised if you only saw me once!

Thank you. My colleagues are wonderfully friendly people too, just maybe not as much as me :-P

Ha! You remembered that. I find it easier to get through a day if you keep your spirits up . Hope the rest of the show went well! Naww...thanks! Hope you enjoyed the rest of the show and got everything you wanted.

I don't like naming whilst shaming the guests in open forum. A particular guest on a signing for my wife put "I will protected you and..." instead of "I will protect you and.." in the personalisation. She's thrilled by it still, so its not a problem.

Sorry SilvaNemesis. I remember having to turn you away and felt bad. I'm glad you got the shoot done eventually.

Jason has posted an official response to the Stan Lee events of the weekend. Please do read the full post here.

I had the chance after getting my Just Imagine #Catwoman and Amazing Spiderman 700 signed by Mr. Lee to get a hologram sticker on both but was told it was £5 each. And £10 may not seem a lot to most people but it wasn't in my budget and I didn't have it to spend. Was that his people, someone independant or Showmasters? I suggested that form of optional authentication would be a good way to offer it to those who wanted, but the general opinion on here was that would slow things down too much and be unworkable. This was Stan's people.

Thanks Murph!

Will I regret saying "me"? Haha not at all! I wanted to say thank you for being so direct and clear whilst organising that line, it made everything so much easier x Thank you. Some people see it as quite authoritarian but in the end I'm glad we got as many people through in that time as we did. Hope you enjoyed the rest of the show.

Will I regret saying "me"?

Stan's auto queue on the Sunday was one of the hardest queues I've had to work on. Not because of volume and demand, but because all of us in the area knew how much you wanted to meet him. Up in the area, we had not been told what time he was due to arrive, but he may have started signing from 9, so we had to give out vq's. Additionally, we didn't know he was not feeling 100%. We knew he had signed up to 400 the previous day, and so, from 350 I tried as best as I could in a raised voice to tell the queue approaching that we could not guarantee an autograph and that the chances were uunlikely. I apologies if I was not heard, but I'm sure many can testify to my claim. When we found out that Stan was not due to start signing until 11, we had to reevaluate as we had lost roughly 2 hours of signing time. I am not blaming Stan or anyone for this. We were told as soon as we knew. Given Stan had the photo shoot at 12, we knew he wouldn't get through as many as we had hoped before this time. Queue priority was given to those with priority passes (comic gold, silver etc) and they could all join the queue including those with a number up to 25. I was enforcing the number up to 25 vehemently, requesting to see every persons number. I did kick some people out of the queue. We needed to close the queue not long after he started signing as he needed to make his scheduled photo shoot. I stood at the end of the queue and made sure no one else joined. At this point we were expecting Stan to return between 2 and 4 at some point, but we didn't know when or for how long. Based on this, we started telling people that we hope to get signings for up to an hour and didn't expect him to get past the 100 mark. We tried to be open and honest based on our understanding. We tried very hard to leep people informed and also to keep the area safe. Large crowds blocking the concourse are a safety risk and your safety is important to us. We started loading up priorities again... but we stopped as soon as we had confirmation that Stan wasn't coming back. I'm not going to lie, we had to pause and think, because we knew what this would mean to all of you. Jason delivered the news (as many of you know) and as far as we were concerned, there would be no more autographs. This was confirmed later for all those who had already paid. We discovered that Stan was coming back to do the signing for golds not too long before you did. I hope you can see we tried to manage expectations as best we could. We understood the severity of the situation and can only apologies for the situation, I am sorry, and thank all those who see that this was a situation outside of our control. I don't know what happens behind the scenes, but wanted as many of you as possible to have the chance. The pit boss in the area had a lot of tough messages to deliver and calls to make over the day to keep you informed and he did the best job. Safety and information management was our priority. I hope you come to future shows, the organisers see all this and i am sure they are taking it on board. Thanks for reading Luke, blue shirted tall ginger guy with beard loosing his voice

Thanks Diabolik. My voice had taken bigger beatings than that! It's a tricky situation we were all in and tried to give everyone all the information we could.

He truly was a perfect guest. He had so much to say to everyone he met and I was very grateful for the opportunity to sit with him all day on Saturday and share in your experiences with him. No one is not important to him, which really showed in how he interacted with everyone he met. Definitely bring him back SM

I had the pleasure of assisting her all day on Sunday and I know she would be so grateful for all your comments.

Entrance fees are always a point of contention at events as some people appreciate what is included more than others. It can be likened to paying to go to the cinema for a film that turns out to be not a film you want to see (i had this with the remake of "The Hills Have Eyes", but thats not relevant ) However, what the ticket did do is give you access to the a range of possibilites. As advertised, this was a very unique opportunity to meet the 5 captains. There were some freebies (although not as many as some would have hoped), which the ticket would also have given access to. I'm sorry you didn't have the greatest of experience, and you feel the £29 wasn't justified. The organisers, I'm sure, will take this feedback into consideration for future events. I only hope you will not use this event as a reason to not attend future SM events.

I appreciate your view point, and over all the forum topics there has been a complaint in some way or another. However, It would be nice to have one environment where members of the forum are able to express their appreciation to the show organisers and the volunteer crew without worrying about the backlash. This isn't a "don't say anything negative", but a "if you don't have anything nice to say, please don't say it here. Use another forum post". Many thanks.

I'm sorry to hear you had a bad experience. Your feedback will be noted. I hope you will attend another of SMs shows in future which generally don't receive this level of negative feedback. We do work hard, as volunteer crew to make the experience for you guys as good as we can, and unfortunatly, their were some issues with this one that SM & M10 hadn't ironed out.

and a thank you from me, whilst I was ticketing for Christopher Lambert. The guys even got my order right... Tea... Earl Grey... Hot

No problem! Always happy to help the fans :)

Most awesome guest ever!

Hello! Thought I'd be the first to ask on the forum, how will crew for the Collectormania Copenhagan work? Are you going to use the crew pool from th UK, or use Copenhagans own workforce? Have fund at Glasgow everyone! Wookie

Sod it, just bought tickets for the train. Cheapest I could find the plane was £57 at stupid times of the day. £64.50 for the train, which isn't too bad!

Hello! Here's the beef! I need to get up and back down again, but the trains are extortionate and so is flying from any local airport. Is anyone driving up and down who wouldn't mind going via Nuneaton? I can provide excellent in car entertainment such as rigerous discussions over which is better Star Wars or Star Trek (I can also take either side), games such as "what's that smell?" And "I spy", and custom made music CD"s If you think this is you, can you e-mail or facebook me! Cheers Luke aka Wookie