Faerie Tanith

Think you've been hacked, mate.

The mods aren't around to tell you off, you can say For The Love Of Fantasy.

This is what they've posted to Facebook: Sadly, we have had to take the difficult decision to postpone London Film and Comic Con 2026 to August 2027. After lengthy discussions with the team and exploring other possibilities, we have come to the unfortunate conclusion that it simply isn’t feasible in this climate to bring you the quality of event that you expect from us for over 30 years. Many of our headline guests travel from the US. With airline costs rising sharply and ongoing uncertainty around flight availability, it is not currently possible to secure the range and calibre of guests you expect from us. Unfolding global issues, increasing energy shortages and rising cost of living are going to impact all our lives this year. The massive rising costs on putting on a big comic con this year is just too much to be passed on to the fans when everyone is feeling the pinch and that’s just unfair and we pride ourselves on fair pricing for autographs and photo ops. Unfortunately, the level of uncertainty and scale of additional costs mean this year’s large-scale event is no longer viable. However, this is just a short-term blip. We are skipping LFCC this year, but we already have our 2027 date booked, which is 14th and 15th August 2027. By this time things will have evolved and adjusted. So, we can once again bring you the massive A-list Guests you expect from us over the years like Mel Gibson, Carrie Fisher, Michael J Fox et cetera, and all the new international guests you want to meet. This decision only effects our big London Film and Comic Con, as our regional events have UK based Guests, it will not affect the running of all our shows up and down the country. Glasgow, Cardiff and YALC will all not be affected as the guests all come from the UK. The same goes for our other events at Creed Conventions and Brick Festival Events. None of these will be affected. We will miss you all this year. However tough it may get over the coming months we will be back in August 2027 and can’t wait to see you again at our London Film and Comic Con 2027.

Came here to say this, can't say I'm surprised at all. People have been speculating that it was going to be cancelled or postponed for a while now. Yep. I think my last "can't cram everything into one weekend" event was 2018 or 2019.

We've all noticed it. LFCC is two months away and has 11 guests announced. Shows over the last few years have been wildly disappointing and lackluster compared to the fanfare of years past. People have been talking about the decline for a while now- so let's address the elephant in the room, what the hell is going on with Showmasters?

Very much a thing of the past! I'd have such fun with those guessing games.

I was going to say- I feel like I may as well namedrop some of the better conventions here because there sure are no mods to stop me from doing so. My point exactly- the way SO MANY people are sharing this sentiment doesn't bode well in my book. With two months to go in previous years, this board would have been 10+ pages deep with guest announcements and other such attractions, not to mention all the user engagement. This is just a shell now.

I last went in 2024, and even then my dad and I had been saying that we might not come back again. This used to be something we enjoyed doing annually, and once upon a time we'd be there from first thing in the morning until the doors closed, with barely a break all day. The last few years we've attended, the only reason we stayed late would have been because I had 1 or 2 photoshoots (at most!) that happened to be scheduled for later in the day, which meant we didn't bother to show up until about midday anyway. I used to get anywhere between 5-15 autographs and/or photoshoots in a day, last few events I've barely scraped 5 autos and maybe one photo. I know it's all subjective, just because it's not to my taste these days doesn't mean it's not to other peoples, except I KNOW I'm not the only person who feels the quality of this event has gone downhill significantly. It's all well and good having the same Doctor Who and Star Wars extras every year, but I miss the days when there were so many huge names across multiple different franchises and genres you couldn't fit them all into your weekend.

Kinda sad to see that with only three months left to go, there's such a small amount of guests so far. To think this used to be the biggest busiest con of summers past. Looks like two years in a row that I won't be attending at this rate.

Crazy long shot and it'll never happen but Til Schweiger would be awesome.

Let's kick this off then. Get Tom Glynn Carney, Phia Saban and Ewan Mitchell for this one.

Get Ewan Mitchell, Phia Saban, and Tom Glynn Carney and I'm sold.

Usually takes a couple of weeks.

Feels like every new topic here is a RIP post... Heartbroken that Julian is gone. Young me loved him as Cole Turner in Charmed, and I adore him in Nip/Tuck. Just last night I watched Fantastic Four and it feels so weird knowing he was already gone while I was watching it. Rest easy Julian.

Sad news today