son2012

Terry Farrell, please!!

Just a few thoughts as I still have to majorly catch up on sleep after this weekend! (I have been to several cons before but it was the first SM event, so was really looking forward to the event and to see how its run. In general I`d say it was well organised, had great guests and most things went really smoothly.) Some things I liked: - Great line-up - The guests were all fantastic, even the big ones I saw (especially Gillian and Jeri) were always friendly, smiling and such great troopers despite the masses of fans turning up to see them; everyone I had bought an autograph from was personalising, even Gillian and Jeri, which I didn`t expect at all - most photos turned out well and were available for collection really fast - most things started on time, which is something I haven`t experienced often at other cons in the past - most of the photo ops were very well organised, even with the busier guests where there wasn`t lots of time and heaps of people to go through (the gold pass made things a lot easier in that regard!) - the Hunted talk with the bonus autograph session by Melissa and Frank, yay! - watching Gillian, Holly & Brian and Jeri in the talks (and listening to *some* of what was said, but I get to that in a minute...) - the size of the venue Some things I disliked: - The sound quality at the talks on Saturday was mostly awful; didn`t hear much at the Charmed talk and only a bit more at the Jeri and Gillian talk and that was despite sitting in row 1!!! (it seemed to work a lot better on Sunday though!) - Jeri`s talk being cut really short, approximately to 20 mins which would have sucked even more had I paid the talk instead of getting a gold pass - The chaos regarding the gold pass pick-up on Saturday; took way too long to get them, probably because people suddenly were asked to tell crew at the Organisation Booth which talk they wanted to attend after all (the forum info I read before the event had suggested differently), which caused a huge hold-up, even though they made us form two gold lines and one was supposed to be for "quick pick up, no bag yet"... - as we wanted to pick up or gold bag later on, we found out that the info regarding our auto pack had not been received (???) or noted, so we had to settle for the not-so-great general auto pack to avoid further delay or more lining up the next day - too many VTs being called up at Gillian`s talk at once, so having gold passes didn`t make much of a difference; a batch of more than 100 people doesn`t really make sense if you have fans lining up who are definitely buying at least 2 autos each... - also posting the pictures available for autos for the big guests outside the signing area so people can choose before entering the area itself is a great idea to avoid delay caused by people inside the area taking their time to do so; I saw this was done on Sunday with some guests, shame it wasn`t with Gillian on Saturday already - our photos from the first Holly photo shoot on Saturday (morning) where over exposed (and it looked as if we were not the only ones affected); same goes for the Brian photo op from Sunday - no signs to point out that the "room" next to stage A actually *was* the gold pass room; yes, it said so on the map, but looking inside and seeing just tables and no chairs made us doubtful if we were in the right location (or backstage) and not go in at all and just sit in the floor in front of it - no chairs... really??? - the chaos surrounding the Gillian Anderson limited edition prints; we went to the photo pick up as said on the forum but due to uninformed crew members we asked there we were sent around quite a bit in the process - from photo pick up to Organisers Booth to photo sales back to Organisers Booth and finally - thank God for the woman in the read shirt with the walkie talkie in the Organisers Booth - to the knowledgable guy at photo pick who eventually handed us the prints - phew!!! (note to self: if in doubt ask a crew member in red!!) I`m sure I forgot some stuff, but all in all, a great event with fantastic guests, but still some room for improvement; looking forward to the next one, cause we *will* definitely be back!!! ETA: And thanks of course to all the wonderful people working as crew who made this event possible, you rock!!!

Bring the e-mail, you'll be fine. I'm not sure if the letter is sent anymore either. But right now the office is very busy, so you'll likely not get a reply before the event. I've made a note of the problem and will check after the event so the wording can be fixed if the procedure has changed. Thanks a lot!

Just a quick question regarding the gold pass: I bought mine months ago, got the confirmation email, sent pic in etc., but I read on the forum that you supposedly also receive a letter of sorts (as in snail mail) to bring along. I did not receive such a letter however. Obviously I can bring along the email with some ID, but I did wonder if I should mail the office to request that letter or if the "letter" bit mentioned isn`t the current procedure anymore and simply has been replaced by bringing an email along?

I second that!

- More x-files guests, i.e. David Duchovny (yeah, I know, getting greedy here ), - more Charmed guests, preferably another sister, - Brent Spiner - Michelle Forbes - Marina Sirtis - Will Wheton - Lena Headey (sadly, I can`t make it to Collectormania) - Amber Benson - Elisabeth Mitchell - Evangeline Lilly - James Masters - Jorja Fox or someone else from CSI-LV - Keeley Hawes - Anna Silk And that`s it for now.

Yayyy, fantastic guest. Bring on the x-files reunion.