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natedammit

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  1. The issue is not with Stan Lee being in a separate hall that part is for the best, 100% agree on this, the issue is why cant all VQT be handed out in the one hall and then you go over to Stans hall if and when you want, i'm pretty sure over 90% of people attending will want more than Stan so therefore will need both halls anyway.

     

    1 hall collect all VQT as normal, rather than having two queues for two halls, and those queuing for Stan potentially have to get higher VQT for the others ( i am aware TooTall should be finding the answer to this) but for me i think it would fairer for everyone to turn up, queue in their relevant queue, get all your VQT from one hall and then if you need Stan go get him once done. rather than queue for stan, go to other hall possibly queue agin, then go over to stan again and then back over to the other hall once done sounds very long winded and could get possibly confusing with people going back and forth from each building first thing.

     

    just my thoughts. but ill wait for confirmation from TooTall on hows its going to work.

     

    Say (for ease of maths sake) there's exactly 1000 people who want both Stan Lee and Carrie Fisher VQ tickets, but only the first 500 end up getting fulfilled. If all VQ tickets are handed out together, you'll get 500 people getting both autographs, and 500 people getting neither. This way, all 1000 get one or the other.

     

    That's the theory anyway, and I'd say this is the fairer way.

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    Well, we who live not even remotely close to London (because, let's face it, only those who live there - or very close to it -will be able to go) or are not even from England, hope everyone will enjoy this so called "preview".

    I live 200 miles north of London and im going so this is not specifically true it just requires planning and saving to be able to do it!!!

     

     

    I think the point was specifically about the Sherlocked preview not the whole con itself. Any massive Sherlock fans who are desperately waiting for that event, but not already coming to this one, aren't going to be able to suddenly create plans to attend the preview.

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    There is plenty of time for both LFCC and the world cup. I don't see what the fuss is about!

     

    I have to disagree. there might be trouble with drunk football hooligans especially with us cosplaying.

     

    Well, you can always choose to cosplay as a character with a baseballbat

     

    or a gun!

     

     

    Or just Cosplay as a drunk football hooligan.

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  4. Up here in Glasgow we are known for being very helpful but we get mocked for our accent so I always feel that sometimes when I go to another place and lets be honest England is another country, there is no UK, come September that will be a fact but I always watch what I say so that they understand me but you can't make people talk to you. I think with the English people and the same with the Welsh and Irish, they talk in their native tongue all the time but of course we get a lot of stick for it. If you come from Edinburgh or Fife it's fine. It's just Glasgow that gets all the fuss but then again we have personality, something that severely is lacking elsewhere in Scotland. I'd like to think for anyone travelling up here that if they asked for help that people in our city would be glad to help them.

     

    I asked for help in Glasgow once. I was headbutted, injected with Heroin then deep fried.

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  5. Nate, did you see The Wind Rises during its UK release recently?

    I agree Hayao Miyazaki would be a really good guest to meet at any UK show.

     

    I have tickets for next Wednesday at my local independent cinema, or 'filmhouse' as it calls itself. It'll be the first Ghibli film I've seen on the big screen.

     

    I'd be surprised if he ever comes over for a show - he's very old and surprisingly few people know who he is, considering he's the greatest animator of all time.

  6. Might be an idea to stick him in EC1 then everyone who wants to meet him can queue out there in the morning and everyone else who isn't coming for Stan can queue outside EC2 as normal.

     

    I like this idea. A separate queue for those whose first thought upon entering is to get a Stan Lee VQ ticket. To stop people running and scrambling to find the right place, the queue is given the vq ticket as soon as they are allowed in the door.

     

    Also, as I'm not after Stan's auto, it would make my early bird queue a lot shorter!

     

    It would have to be very well signposted though. A use of barriers to funnel people into the right direction would be useful.

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  7. Not a fan of creating inequality in photo pricing. There is always the choice not to offer them. Whilst a few hundred will be happy, another few hundred who may have got his auto now won't be able to get it...

     

    Photoshoots are quicker so more people will now get photos than won't get autographs. Also, it will give his signing hand a rest - he would have had to take breaks every so often anyway.

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    You would think so wouldn't you ?

     

    I emailed Showmasters about 2 months ago regarding Exhibiting Props and Costumes as I have a rather modest collection of Ashes to Ashes costumes from the BBC 1 program but I never got a reply :( Not even a thanks but no thanks.

     

    I've now found out that if I want to do this I have to pay for a pitch which I wont do ! This info didn't come from Showmasters but from someone who has Exhibited before.

     

    Shame really as I'm sure theres a fair few people who would like to see these and I'm the only one who can.

     

    Oh well they've missed out there :(

     

     

    Well that's the show ruined.

  9. Showmasters shouldn't really taunt their customers for 3 months without a word.

     

    In future, just keep it to yourselves, then when it's ready announce it as a complete surprise.

     

    A complete surprise is better than taunting your customer base for 1/4 of the year!!!!

     

    If they hadn't said anything, then announced it this close to the event, you'd have a bunch of people complaining that they had already booked tickets to the Saturday and finalised travel plans and asking why couldn't there have been some kind of warning.

     

    The problems have just been caused by the delays in getting the whatever it is confirmed - which is for reasons none of us have a clue about (not even the mods). Whether they gave the warning or not, the organisers were in a bit of a no win position.

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