PhantomMajor
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i concur with everything you have said, you weren't in the minority as i and numerous others had similar experiences.
as you have said deleting threads will cause the comments to go underground and spread like wildfire, i saw this on saturday when my partner and i met up with fellow con goers at the hotel and they told us to check out facebook and twitter instead.... i read through 21 pages on facebook alone giving negative feedback
i think that if they had issued an open apology on here, it would have done much to smooth things over but instead they blatantly refuse, which only adds more fuel to the fire
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i dont think R2-D2 and 3-PO are the only ones to have disagreements.
i found it a bit strange that the BSG characters were seated next to each other and so were alot of the GoT actors but the Star Wars people were spread all over, i would have thought they would have put Ian and David together along with Jeremy to make an empire section and kenny, leia and lando to make a rebel section. then again there wasn't an option for a leia and lando shoot which would have been cool... so maybe there is some bad feelings between them...who knows
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yep i have to agree, its one of the few things they got right, even down to re-shoots if it was required, it was done and dusted in a few seconds
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My gold pass experience very similar and it became more of a mission to accomplish anything rather than an enjoyable weekend that we had been looking forward to.
With the amount of money being spent by my partner and I we could have had a two week holiday in Spain instead of this god awful weekend of stress and greif.
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That is not the reason Isaac's shoot was cancelled, he had never apparently agreed to do a single shoot, only the double with Kristian.
im assuming you are a member of staff or part of the showmasters crew to make that statement...because it was a red shirt woman with short blonde hair and glasses that told me that issacs photoshoot was cancelled due to anthony heads over running...then again it doesnt surprise me that the information that she gave me was wrong i had that all day from every staff member i talked too
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we seemed to have two different conversations, i was talking to him about terminator and he was replying to me with comments about aliens which was a little odd but other than that he seemed pleasant enough
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I talked with some fans that were late on Sunday and they were not impressed that she left early.
so she did leave early again on sunday as well...does anyone actually know what times she was supposed to be there... she was supposed to do a morning photoshoot on both days and failed to make those as well. michael behein was also late arriving on saturday and we were told they were stuck in traffic...i guess this was more miss-information yet again by showmasters.
as for the photoshoot on sunday afternoon it went well but i would have preferred it withouth carrie's furbaby.
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I see my original comment to this post has been removed already
the only thing showmasters were interested in was money, that's why they kept selling tickets at 3pm even thought they knew the venue had reached capacity at 12:00
customer service was non-existent and all that is happening now is that showmasters don't like seeing their mistakes and dirty laundry out in the open so they are running a damage limitations exercise. they are more interested in their image than their customers hence the draconian deleting of posts. its ironic really since most of their incompetence has been published on facebook and twitter, environments that they can not control.
i would suggest to those who wish to make statements of complaints to stop wasting your time on this forum and instead send them to the: Trading Standards Agency /www.gov.uk/find-local-trading-standards-office
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Have to say, I use and visit alot of forums and this is by far the most bizarre in terms of what you arent allowed to mention or talk about.
Me too, i've never seen anything like it. Of all the problems on saturday i can cut them alot of slack, great guests equal huge queue and i will give them the benifit of the doubt that they will fix those problems at future shows and in the end they host great shows but i will never understand or except the censorship of their customers views, its ludicrous and wrong.
after friday and saturdays fiasco of trying to gain access and gold tickets we talked to a another couple staying at the hotel we were based out of and they had warned us of all the negative comments that were on this forum and that they were being deleted as fast as they were being posted. they told us if we wanted the truth we should check out facebook and twitter as Showmasters couldn't control or censor those.
after reading through 21 pages of negative comments on facebook, i went to bed dreading sunday would be like at LFCC
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on sunday i realised that there was no way i was gonna get a Stan Lee autograph after seeing the queue for it in the underground car park so my partner and i headed up to the main doors at about 8;30. I think it was jason himself that opened the door that i and my partner went through.
anyway we jogged down to the carrier fisher bunker, or what ever you want to call those little kiosk things she was doing signings in and were about third in the queue, there was a short man infront of us call Wilf (hello if you are reading this!) who regaled us with his story of him being told by terry farrel to place his head on her chest during the photo shoot.
so there we were expecting carrie to be there for 9am; at about 9;30ish a blue shirt came out and told us that carrie wasn't going to be there until 10:30am. no problem, its only an hour i can use this time to grab some other signing whilst my partner holds our place.
we were allowed into the bunker and i purchased my picture and autograph ticket and enquired about personalisation and the lovely young girl in the blue shirt said she wasn't sure but it was most likely.
being a gold pass (dont you just hate those gold pass people) and we peaked round the corner to see Ian Mcdairmid in full swing doing the autograph thing. 10:30 came and went and still no carrie, alot of people had now slumped to the floor including myself and my partner.
at 11:00am we heard an almighty crash from Ian's signing bunker, apparently someone had dropped their darth vader statue and it had broken after he had gotten it signed...no luck mate, we were all gutted for you in carrier's bunker i can tell you.
now my partner, god bless her is a patient woman but when she referred to carrie as "Princess Later" rather than Leia i knew things weren't sitting well with her...especially after being in a queue on friday for 3 hours for our gold wristband!
at 11:21 "Princess Later" arrived!.... so only a two hour wait
now i dont know who is to blame for that, in the past if there has been time issues for guests then there has usually been some information on the main site but there was none for both days which makes me feel its more at carrie fisher's end of the deal rather than showmasters. at least this time there was some communication going even if it was still wrong or incorrect.
it was here that the signing took a small twist; i dont know who the american man was that was with her wearing the black t-shirt and glasses but carrie fisher was sitting next to him as he stood looking our choice of pictures but he simply said "she wont be doing personalisation".
she...? she...? who is she, the cat's mother? if that was her manager or assistant he certainly didnt have much respect for Ms fisher to talk about his employer in the third person in such a rude manner.
Thankfully "Princess Later" did personalise my picture and i decided rather than stay and chat with her, (i always wanted to know if she got to keep that slave girl outfit or if she had to hand it back at the end of the film) i would quickly vacate the bunker and allow other people to get in and get an autograph...that and my partner was threatening to give her a lesson in time keeping that she wasn't likely to forget.... LOL
all said and done it was nice meeting her and i was offered a free autograph from garry but i politely decline
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Femi taylors pen ran out half way through signing my name. She picked up a fresh picture and a new pen and re did it for me... I think her assistant was to pleased about that. I guess they count the pictures out
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Femi taylors pen ran out half way through signing my name. She picked up a fresh picture and a new pen and re did it for me... I think her assistant was to pleased about that. I guess they count the pictures out
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Hello to the lady who had the thirty year old son. You sat with my partner nicola whilst we helped your son through his 4pm photo shoot with carrie fisher. I hope he got his photo taken with Stan Lee on Sunday evening
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It's possible that you may have missed the point of a signing event, PhantomMajor.
or it could be more likely yellowmarlin that you missed my point that there was an option for people to not stand in line for two hours, save money and still have his autograph.
hope you had a nice time btw
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sorry mate, no disrespect to you but i pissed myself laughing at everyone who paid £70 for Ian's autograph as there was a vender selling it for £30 and it was framed to boot !
You could probably buy that on eBay without bothering to come to the event.
Part of the attraction is getting to meet the guest...however brief that meeting may be. You can't get that from an autograph; even if it's framed.
after the way this event was run, i wish i had bought it on ebay, would have saved 3 hours of my life in a queue for a gold pass on friday
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What distinguishes a "pit boss" from any other crew member?
Red shirt. Outnumbered by the blues.
i only saw 4 red shirts over the entire weekend, did the rest miss the bus to the event?
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sorry mate, no disrespect to you but i pissed myself laughing at everyone who paid £70 for Ian's autograph as there was a vender selling it for £30 and it was framed to boot !
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not sure what day you meet Billy on but when i saw him on saturday he appeared to be non responsive, almost as if he was on some kind of strong medication... he just appeared to be out of it...don't want to use the term "drugged up" but he didnt seem with it at all.
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i totally agree with the original post... totally spot on
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not all the photoshoots went well. the Anthony Head one over ran and this caused the Issac (Brandon Stark) shoot to be cancelled.
one red shout emerged from the photo section and shouted out that it had been cancelled before retreating back into the photo zone leaving no one to inform people who arrived and were still looking for a single photoshoot with Issac.
it was left with fellow convention attendee's to pass on the information, naturally you want that knowledge first hand and not from the public but there was a general shortage of staff and even fewer competent staff as my experience on sunday having a photoshoot with Billy Dee Willaims proved when i tried arguing with a blue shirted crew member that i was a gold ticket and we are supposed to have priorty.
i complained to a red shirt inside the photoshoot with Billy Dee Williams and was at least given a curt apologiy
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more than 6 people at the the gold ticket collection point, especially as only two of them were actually processing gold ticket confirmation emails...the other four were wading through photo packets and white plastic backs full of freebies.
perhaps if you mailed the gold tickets out to people in the way that other events do you wont have to the total free for all that happened on friday, 2 hours standing at the organisation fighting to get served!
gold ticket my @$$!
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when my partner went in for her photoshoot there were signs up say "no hugs", "no posing" and "simple poses only" and she was one of the first to get in...so at what point did she change her mind?
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i agree, my partner and i were shocked to see how much he had deteriorated and yet he keeps coming out for the fans, what a guy!
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in my opinion, the first thing that needs to be done is an open apology on this forum from SM to all those who missed out due to their incompetence and lack of organisation.
Remember SM is a business and has to cover costs.
in London Film and Comic Con 2014
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it could have been hillsborough if the fire alarm had gone off, especially in those little autograph bunkers that jenna coleman and john hurt were doing signings.... i would've hated to see how people would of got out of those enclosed spaces in a hurry, especially as there was no signs in there to show the evacuation route to the nearest emergency exit