Astro_Nut
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10 minutes ago, Spacecadet is here said:
Anyone know whats the Shuttle Shoot on Friday? Theres nothing on any other day? Theres also a Discovery photo shoot but no tickets in the shop?
On the Facebook page it has a thing about them building a shuttle for DST, I presume it's that and the Friday thing is the unveiling. Other then that, I would expect it to be available for photos the rest of the time.
Not sure if its big enough to fit a camel in, though.
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Saw the camel walking around
Realised I’d forgotten to bring wine gums again
bad Astro Nut.
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2 minutes ago, Ravogd said:
The weirdest one was Jenna Coleman. We had two, bought as one for Saturday and one for Sunday (the second one bought by mistake) but they were both the same. There was no day mentioned on either of them so anybody could have used their Jenna DP on any day or autograph one day photo another. Quite a mistake for SM to make (if it was indeed the same for every pass).
Probably due to Jenna changing from Saturday Only (No Diamond Pass) to Saturday Only (with Diamond pass) to Sunday being added as an extra day.
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2 minutes ago, Dr.1963 said:
I had both Jenna Coleman and Bernard Cribbins DP and the gift was the same for each: a TARDIS power bank, was not happy with that, Sjowmasters definitely need to put more effort into this, espically since they're both in Doctor Who and a LOT I know who went to the convention had BOTH of these DPs, come on Showmasters...
Worth remembering that Jenna wasn’t originally on a diamond pass so there may not have been time to get an additional specific gift made
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4 hours ago, Chris1970 said:
Oh, please one of these as well.
Have you got ANY IDEA how much heat one of those generates. Those things are like blast furnaces
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3 hours ago, Owls said:
ok then cookies for everyone!
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Just now, Wrong Name said:
Buy them. I happened to be in the cinema when it went on sale, and thanks to some clues I had worked out who it was so I was mega fast in buying so I could go watch my film!
The diamonds are in batches now and not numbers anymore so we no longer get to claim these victories.
Maybe in the future they could have a ceremonial single Batch 0 pass for the first to buy
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5 minutes ago, Longleat68 said:
I have photos with John Barrowman and Christopher Eccleston on Saturday which clash both morning and afternoon. I'm block 7 for John Barrowman and block 4 for Christopher Eccleston. Would I be able to do Christopher Eccleston on the morning shoot with a block 4 ticket which would solve the problem.
You won’t have a problem in the afternoon shoots, just go to johns at the appropriate time and make sure they know you have the Chris eccleston shoot and they’ll get you through in time. It will be worth checking towards the end of Chris morning shoot where they are up to as they could have called batch 4 at that point.
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Sorry, read wrong list
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25 minutes ago, extremeladders said:
I’m considering using the preorder service but I wanted one item signed by two different guests, does anyone know if that’s possible? Thanks :)
Select the first one as normal then select “Send in your own item” and choose “Item already with Showmasters” for the second.
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31 minutes ago, Raylenth said:
I can see a camel
But did you remember to bring wine gums?
Every time I see the camel I realise I forgot them
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2 minutes ago, Phoenix Tail said:
Howdy all! My first time going to a London con but after reading a few posts in here I'm now a bit terrified I might miss out on getting my photo with the Mr Baker as I didn't realise I had to get a diamond pass. I've just got a normal photo op pass. Here's hoping the Time Lords smile upon me!
As long as you are in the photo queue while the shoot is on you will get your photo.
The issues being discussed above are about getting an autograph.
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Let me just say this......
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40 minutes ago, CrazyHorses said:
I had a sit down photoshoot with Hayden Panetierre, never did receive photo, even though I gave good description and paid my money to have it sent
Have you checked in the photo library to see if it's available there? https://showmasters.photoshelter.com/
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On 12/30/2018 at 9:57 PM, tradfan said:
I'm new to comic con.... what happens if you want to see Jenna Coleman and Ian? I will be with a 17 year old who wants to see Jenna, and my 2 kids aged 6 and 12, and I want to see Ian.
I'm thinking that with paying the £180ish for the Diamond Pass I won't be subjected to long queues with the kids.... am I right? (They all have autism :/)
It's my birthday on the Sunday so I would prefer to see him then but Jenna is on the Sunday.. Is two days in Comic con too much?
What happens if we go on the Saturday and visits with both stars is at the same time in different areas? The 17 year old would be okish if he doesn't get too star struck, but I was relying on him to keep my 2 kids while I go see Ian.... they won't let them beside me will they?
Hi Tradfan
If your children are autistic you might also want to take a look at the extra help page on the showmasters main website
https://showmastersevents.com/index.php/extra-help-form
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Fred Haise, just need someone from Apollo 8 for a full set.
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Guys, you're getting confused between the settings on the image and what happens when you print them out, the jpegs on the website are fine for A4 sized prints if you want the whole image.
For the example above of a 5760 x 3840 image, an A4 print (~12 x 9 inches) would print out at over 450 dpi. at 72 dpi the image would be over 5 feet across.
Even the lowest resolution images available on the website (2400 x 1600) would be ~200 dpi at A4 size.
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Just a thought but...
FCC Belfast 2018 (which has been put up) had 141 photos from 4 photoshoots (112 from the cosplay photos)
Collectormania 24 (2017) had 9337 photos from 111 photoshoots (yes, I counted)
Given that all the photos from a show would need to be checked, sorted, filed and presumably made available together rather than piecemeal, this might suggest why the Collectormania 25 (2018) photos haven't been put up yet but the Belfast ones have.
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3 hours ago, RoryMcGarrett said:
No photos - I mean come on! I totally don't understand the No photos policy. I get that the posed pics are stopping the queues and they can be banned, but the guests are celebrities, having security chasing you down just because you dared to take a pic was a low blow. I mean it's just a pic and this year the security was very rude about it. Sometimes people can't do photoshoots and just having a quick snap at the table is amazing. I personally don't take pics of celebrities signing stuff, I prefer to be in the pic with them, but still don't get it and it was just strange.
There are many potential reasons why the 'No Photos' requirements are there:
One is that there can be a number of people hanging about the auto queues just taking photographs
Another is that a lot of people forget that the flash is on and it can get very irritating and distracting to constantly have flashes going off all the time
Another possibility is that some celebrities need to keep control of their image and like to have the opportunity to look their best for photos and don't like candid shots taken from a distance
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2 hours ago, Naboo79 said:
What extra staff? There’s already a crew member at each guest table updating the VQ sign. Whether that person types on a physical board or on a digital device (say a phone or tablet) makes no difference. If anything a digital update would be faster to make.
If they don’t want to make the investment, updating a Twitter account as someone suggest, or even this very forum with the latest guest info (VQ number, “on break”, “at shoot”) would require minimal effort.
Indeed, if one person had to update this info on all guests it would be impossible. But as I said, there is already crew at each guest table and each photo session doing this exact job, just in a very old fashioned and somewhat ineffecient way.
The potential for a mistake is the exact same regardless of transmission medium and can be quickly rectified.
How exactly would it be faster to do a digital update than to update a board?
An update to a physical board takes ~ 5 seconds and a mistake can be corrected very quickly and before it has any impact, I doubt anyone would be able to update a Twitter account or the forum anywhere near that fast. In addition, for a show like LFCC you would have 30 to 40 queues minimum being updated constantly which would swamp any specific information and make most of it useless. You also need to address the issue (specifically for Twitter) of needing to give anyone updating information authorisation to edit and submit posts.
Also, and this usually comes as a surprise to people, not everyone is actually signed up for Twitter, Facebook and / or the forum or knows how to use all the features and interactions like flagging for specific information, or have fancy phones with lots of data and access to apps. This applies to both the crew doing the updates and the attendees at the con, so the manual method would need to be retained as well.
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38 minutes ago, natedammit said:
I work for a signage company, I can get some pretty big stickers.
32 minutes ago, VikingGrrrl said:If the sticker covers the entire floor plan, what's the point?
New plan
Viking puts small stickers on the floor plan
Nate puts big stickers on the floor under the floor plan
That way, people will be literally standing on the star which says - You Are Here
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The real challenge with digital signage and displays for this type of show is to make the system simple enough that anyone can be shown how to use it in 5 minutes, but also be flexible enough to cope with changes to plans, schedules etc. For the VQ idea, there then is the issue of having something that anyone can update, which would be a nightmare to control, or having dedicated people updating it which would require extra staff. I also don't want to be around when a mistake gets made and 200 people turn up expecting to get in the autograph queue.
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34 minutes ago, Marcowinch said:
I have one easy solution : instead of having everyone (disabled or not) have to run everywhere (because the location of the guests are not indicated before the show) to get a VT, why not try to distribute the VT's during the queues before the gates open ? That would be much easier for everyone (even for SM's staff) ...
It’s an interesting idea initially, but what it means is that the first person in the queue gets VQ ticket number 1 for everyone and so on. It would also require a lot more crew.
Under the existing system, people have a choice who they want to prioritise to get low VQs for and later people have a better chance. Also, for diamond pass guests, you would have to sort out how to split the numbers between the gold and standard queues.
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3 hours ago, Nerd Who said:
The only thing I’d like to point out for the future - and this might not be the best place, but it did mainly apply to David’s photos - photo tickets sold at the sales desk do need a batch number written down.
This would have been a special case as David was only announced during the show. Normally, sales at the show would automatically end up being later batches so would be scheduled for the end of the shoot.
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