shawlax

Great guest announcement, was devastated when she cancelled the day before last time, so looking foward to meeting her this time - price is higher then last time, but it could have been alot worse, didnt really have to think much before seeing the announcement and buying a ticket.

When are the photos going on the shop? cant seem to see any yet?

Id love it if my guess was right, but also hate it as he will be 30+ and or a diamond guest, and i really dont want to be spending this sort of money this year....but the burning devil face.... Stephen dillane!

so, i got everything i could afford done, had to be smart / early with alot of things but managed it, but my thoughts on things that should be reviewed - Comic zone - after speaking to some of the artists on sunday about what they thought of the weekend, alot said friday / saturday were quiet as people either couldnt get up to them, or didnt know they were there. Queueing to get in - So a couple of things with this, - Sunday, ok so you moved into the hall but there was no organsiation in the hall, just hundreds of people in a very wide area pushing to get down the line rather then single/double lines, and then get bottle necked into the small door way. - next year perhaps have barriers / check points set up half way down the queue so wrist bands / checking off can be done before the doors open to make entry faster. Photoshoot areas - The crew on the photoshoot areas did do a great job from what i saw, and helped me out alot, so well done too them. With that being said, the location of E next to the stair well was poorly chosen as it didnt help with the blocking of the stair case, and the other shoot areas near dealer tables caused blockages down the walk way (not due to crowds waiting , but that was a small factor) but from people who stood to look at stalls. Silent Auction - So i bidded on a couple of items towards the end of saturday and was told by a blue shirt that it was about to end, so i waited to collect and pay for my items, then to find some guy starting a live auction - doesnt this go against the whole point of a silent auction? Program - I bought it last year for 5 pound, for the raffle, which didnt run smooth in its exactuion, so i skipped this year, but i think considering the ticket price it should be included rather then the extra 5 pound charge. Lack of updates / Slow info - So i had a photoshoot for Kelly Hu on sunday, and when i arrived for her shoot at around 12 i got told by the blue shirt that she had to cancel sunday, and this was the first mention of it - nothing on twitter / fb / forum (forum post going up around 1.20 i think). After the event i saw people online say on saturday she knew this would be the case and htey managed to get stuff done then, so surely if it was known it was going to happen a forum post could have been done saturday so people wouldnt miss her Jonathan Pryce - I bought a photoshoot with him, which i had to skip his auto due to budget limitation. I did pass the Game of thrones guests several times on the day, and i felt bad for him as (he was a friendly guy, as i did say hello to him) as he seemed super quiet all sunday, never saw more then a queue of 3/4 with him, less after 2pm, comapared to Rose and Gemma, who have both been before so arent exactly a rare signer like him. I feel this is due to his cost being 45 - 10 pound more then Peter Dinklage. I appricate that prices are baised on what it takes to get them to the show, but he did look bored so i hope him being quiet and next to a person with a line of 25+ doesnt put him off in the future. The Sci-fi 360 camera area thing (forgots name) Bad postion, needed to be else where maybe 2nd floor near gaming, but it didnt help with blocking the hall being the cafe - then that Some of Positives that i want to have a special mention - David Bedwell - got some good pictures on twitter and his coverage of the event was good Crew lady "Sara" next to Carrie Henn - very helpful and friendly The gaming zone - was amazing and the guys on it very professional All the guests, everyone i met were a delight and gave me a good talk and fan experience.

My game of thrones poster

The silent auction - it ended, then became a non-silent auction - I made bids on the paper throughtout the day, went to collect if i had won any and when i arrived they were auctioning out items to people around the table - What the point of calling it a silent auction / having the day to right down bids if this happens

hopefully the refunds will be swift...consdering we couldnt exchange them on the day

a little gutted as was meeting her for episode in the flash, but at least thats 25 towards someone else i was planning on skipping due to budget

Oh ok thanks for explaining, I'll just look out for the email then!

Sorry I'm confused ....So if I ordered 10 photoshoots I'd pay 10 pound instead of 2.50 - how does that work ? What's increased? Is it email and post now?

its fox

my offical guess.....jason isaacs

Great guest but should have been posted when it was ready to sell online - week before just seems odd Will have to get him due to him being the last orginal sg1 member I need

What's with the delay on the photoshoots

My Old friend

Great guest, very friendly

Only issue I see is that one queue means if I have a photoshoot at 9.30, I now have to join a longer queue and be there super early to get in on time like 5am?

Clearly she loved it lfcc given how many she is doing now

Also another confusing thing - i have to buy a 3 day early entry sept 1st because they are limited on a first come and first serve policy - then a diamond guest is announced? what then? i have to repay the diamond price which is 15/20 pound more expensive because it includes "entry price" even though ive had to buy it before hand?

basically if you want to meet this big guest and get a auto and photo, you now need to pay for a talk and meet and greet or whatever that usually only some buy inforcing you to pay for stuff you wouldnt normally want

JASON - Diamond passes = 1 photoshoot 1 auto done = dont waste peoples time and money with meet and greets and talks that most dont want *points to half empty talk rooms that you charged for at lfcc this year also if you have to include talks and meet and greets, restricts time and clashes so dont include

People who don't buy diamond passes can still meet these big guests but I think by buying one you will for certain meet this guest. I think it's more for people who go to meet one (Or a couple) specific big guests. Loads of people wanted to meet Stan Lee (For example) but because it was busy and all sorts of things happened a a lot of people did not meet him and where disappointed. Buying the diamond pass makes sure that you will meet this one big guest. so say they did a diamond pass for stan lee - based on what they said - meet and great, photoshoot and auto - and i only wanted a photoshoot - chances are they will cost a fortune, and true they did say limited - so expensive and have to by instant like everyone else? to me they are just trying to ramp prices up

diamond pass = get queues down for busy guests by charging more and phasing out more people so the few that can afford it get it?

So confused - if say a big guest is going and I don't want to do talks basically I'll be paying for something I don't want ? Also the limited time for normals, this pre but on the shop before?

im missing my Rupert Vansittart photoshoot still...