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The Musketeers Tom Burke, Howard Charles, Ryan Gage, Tamla Kari, Maimie McCoy, Hugo Speer, Matthew McNulty, Rupert Everett Penny Dreadful Reeve Carney, Rory Kinnear, Danny Sapani, Harry Treadaway, Simon Russell Beale, Wes Studi, Patti LuPone, Brian Cox House of the Dragon / Game of Thrones Eve Best, Sonoya Mizuno, Fabien Frankel, Harry Collett, Tom Glynn-Carney, Ewan Mitchell, Phia Saban, Bethany Antonia, Phoebe Campbell, Gayle Rankin Harry Lloyd, Nikolaj Coster Waldau, Michelle Fairley, Michael McElhatton, Indira Varma, Roxanne McKee, Kate Dickie, Rosabell Laurentii Sellers Robin Hood Jonas Armstrong, Joe Armstrong, Gordon Kennedy, Sam Troughton, Anjali Jay, Joanne Froggatt, Lara Pulver, Lucy Griffiths, Richard Armitage Various Jason Flemyng, Lee Boardman, Duncan Lacroix, Freema Agyeman, Naveen Andrews, Steve Speirs, John Hannah, Lysette Anthony,

Heather Langenkamp (to join Ronee Blakley) Daryl Hannah (to join Sean Young, we can dream, right?) Teri McMinn and Ed Neal (to join William Vail) Alison Pill, Isa Briones, Harry Treadaway, Even Evagora, Orla Brady or Ed Speleers for a Picard reunion more cast from Skeleton Crew The Spring event desperately needs more guests tbh

So who went? How were your experiences? Bus ran late, so I didn't get to the venue until 10:00-ish and was able to walk straight in. I was rather worried about getting low VQ tickets for Michael Sheen, Natalie Dormer and Holly Jackson (author). For Sheen and Dormer I got numbers in the 100s, but it turned out that was low enough. Rest of the day went splendid! I met: Michael Sheen, Natalie Dormer, Frank Ashmore, May Calamawy, Lisa Wilcox, De'voreaux White, Tom Bennett, Dean Charles Chapman, Sam Hazeldine, Kieran Bew, Clinton Liberty, Theo Nate, Allen Danziger and Jennifer Banko. All the guests I met were really friendly, even Dormer and Sheen who did most with the very short time they had. Special shout out to the 3 dragon riders (Liberty, Bew and Bennett) who were incredibly nice and chatty, but definitely Jennifer Banko as well. She was the only one I had to queue a long time for as she did talk with each guest for ages, but it was well worth it. Wait for more than an hour for Holly Jackson, but by VQ ticket proved to be to high to get a chance at the book signing. Only disappointing part of my day. I know a lot of people who probably did have a bad experience because of the Ncuti Gatwa situation Hopefully they did enjoy at least other parts of the con.

Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje! He's UK based and sadly missed out on him at a different con. With his body of work, I'm sure he could be popular at LFCC

There's usually only one slot a day, except for the really popular guests. I think you can choose which you'll get in line for if there are multiple, but I could be wrong. All the diamond passes are numbered and those numbers are called before everyone else (the regular folk and the gold passes). You can start queueing up when your diamond pass number is called or later. If you come after your diamond pass is called, I'm quite sure they'll give you priority in the queue (or at least over regular/gold).

I'll have to adjust according to budget (and cancellations/announcements), but so far I'm interested in: Richard Dreyfuss, Dean-Charles Chapman, Clinton Liberty, Ronee Blakley, Katie Dickie, Jennifer Banko (if she shows up this time) Maybes: Frank Ashmore, Allen Danziger, William Vail, Larry Zerner I'd like to meet Ncuti Gatwa for Sex Education, but 125£ is really too high a price for me (more than I paid for Smith, Tennant and Eccleston who had far bigger careers at that point).

Ronee Blakley is listed as 25£ on the website

Ngl, I had hoped for a bigger Nightmare on Elm Street reunion at LFCC, considering it was the 40th year anniversary. Not even Robert Englund this time. With Ronee Blakley being rescheduled, I hope they can announce some of the following: Heather Langenkamp Robert Rusler Marshall Bell Penelope Sudrow Craig Wasson (Patricia Arquette? I hear she's really expensive though) Joe Seely Michael Bailey Smith Lisa Zane Lezlie Deane Shon Greenblatt Breckin Meyer Alice Cooper (he still owes us a visit) Miko Hughes Tracy Middendorf Monica Keena Zack Ward

Apparently, she's already out of 'convention retirement' and has done events in the States. But I agree that I'd love to see a Sex Education reunion (even if the last season kinda sucked).

I thought I made a post about Saturday on my way home, but I must've forgotten to actually post it. I agree that all guests were lovely. Ray Winstone was a gent and I finally got Rupert Grint's autograph (skipped him 2 times before because he was never personalising). All in all, the day went quite smoothly for me, no problems. My main gripe is that this amount of money would've probably gotten me twice as many guests 5 years ago (and it's not that the names are bigger). The stalls were a bit of a letdown and there weren't too many. It was also rather quiet on Saturday, which makes me worry for the future. That, and I realised that I've actually never met anyone from the forum in all my years of Showmasters (save TooTall)

That's incredibly strange, they don't really sell autograph tickets but only the vouchers. Though I did buy some vouchers today and the lady really needed to know who I'd be using them for (instead of just selling me the 3 vouchers I asked for). Glad you got it all sorted out though

I didn't need him (got him at a German con last year), but I got the impression his queue was really okay. It will definitely be more quiet on a Sunday too. He's not much of a talker either and usually goes quite smoothly through the lines

I remember they once announced Jean-Pierre Castaldi for an Autographica or Film Fair but he cancelled. Would be great if they'd get him back(I can't really remember him from Moonraker, but he's been in other stuff).

True, though I've got the impression that it's dwindled down to a few players in the UK who just organise the majority of the cons. But I agree it's just too much and especially with a huge increase in guests' prices, I'm not sure how feasible it'll remain.

Been thinking the same about Nightmare on Elm Street too. They seem to have given up after the 5 guests they announced (4 now). I've been wondering how hard they've been hit by the pandemic (financially) or how much really is to blame on Olympia's works, but they haven't been able to draw in many big guests or the big crowds the last couple of years.