Tom Beaker
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1 hour ago, Raylenth said:
The Old Vic are doing live readings (read for details, paid event) but it's got Matt Smith/Claire Foy in Lungs so might be worth a watch, prices start at £10 https://www.oldvictheatre.com/whats-on/2020/lungs-in-camera?
If they could get Sir Patrick Stewart doing his one man performance of Dickens 'A Christmas Carol' I'd be all over it. I saw him perform it at the Old Vic in the 90's. It was utterly spellbinding.
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Hi there
Can someone post a link to the send in service for the April guests please?
Link on the LFF web page only directs to the February guests.
Cheers.
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Ive been trying to find the link to the autograph pre orders, but I really am looking but not seeing! Can someone direct me to the link?
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Have the send-in / pre-orders now stopped?
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So, another week has gone by and still nothing further from the pre-orders team about the Michael Shanks issue.
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54 minutes ago, Queen_Sindel said:
Did you order from the address you registered with here? We had problems with gmail addresses not getting through last year. If you are okay with confirming your e-mail and ideally giving your order number here I will follow up with Jason on Monday.
Neka, I am planning to do the same for you.
I used the same email address as here. Regarding Gmail, Ive had no issue getting the automated emails from the Pre-Orders team, and indeed an initial email from Jason G asking for photographic evidence that Michael Shanks's autograph was missing (sent over on the 5th August).
Order number was 6147749.
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Sadly, I have still had no resolution to my Pre-Orders issue. I appreciate that the team are busy with events etc, but it has been a fortnight!
Its disappointing its taking this long to explain why my mail-in item was returned unsigned and bearing the holographic sticker authenticating the signature - and indeed what can be done to rectify the problem.
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13 hours ago, Dr.1963 said:
So...I loved the silent auction from LFCC Spring, an ingenius idea and better than a normal auction but there are some flaws:
- One woman on Sat was holding the only pen closest to me until it was 3pm (over.)
- There needs to be more crowd control or a longer table to give everyone a fair chance.
- One of the women on the table was incredibly rude to me and my carer with a very rude attitude.
- You need to space out the pages so that at 14:59, you're not flicking through pages with ten seconds left.
- You need more staff there ro check that nobody's cheating, which most were....
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PENS!!!!!!!
Having seen dysfunctional behaviour such as tthe above in previous years, my vote would be to move to a sealed bid type of auction.
Post your bid on a folded piece of paper into a sealed box. Bids are opened at close of auction, highest bid wins.
No pen stealing, no sheet hogging, no opportunity for people to start hitting each other over the head with clipboards like a fish-slapping dance.
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I wont be there this year, so everything's being done via post.
Christina Ricci and Ian McDiarmid on the Sleepy Hollow poster
Michael Shanks to finish off the Stargate pilot promotional photo
Walter Koenig on the ST:Generations poster.
Gina Torres and Adam Baldwin on the Serenity poster.Ill post pics on here one day - I need to get a photo posting account thingy. That's the problem with having no social media presence!!
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Is it possible to have two 'send your own item' pre-orders, each for a different guest, but to have them both sign the same item?
For example, Gina Torres and Adam Baldwin to both sign the same Firefly poster.
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2 hours ago, CelticRob said:
You pay a lot of money for photos, so having as much of you and the actor in the photo as possible is surely a good thing, right?
Personally if I was photographing them I'd be giving attendees 3/4 length portrait by default!
I was wearing shorts. No one needs my legs immortalising in print for posterity.
Or my posterior for those sideways shots!
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See my suggestion of using Whatsapp broadcast groups in the 'Highs & Lows' thread....
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I am going to try to keep this concise!
The Great :)
- GP entry times – So much better than last year – and whomever let us into the GP atrium area on Sunday to get us out of the rain needs a pay rise.
- So many of the pit bosses were fantastic. Mary, in particular, needs a pay rise! So many of them were all great at resolving individual issues.
- Kelly. She rocks in so many ways and was utterly, utterly brilliant. Also a shout out to the woman staffing the Extra help desk in the mornings who was doing sterling work. In fact, so many of the red and blue shirt crew were superb.
- Pretty much all of the guests we met were excellent, chatty, informative and enjoyed meeting fans (and in some instance other guests! )
- David Tennant. What a last minute surprise that was. Nicely done on that one.
- The Olympia security staff and crowd control (Yellowjackets as I called them). They really helped with the organisation and smooth running of the event this year.
The Not So Great
- Confusion abounded on all three days with handing out VQ tickets to GP people. GP holders with the early entry should not have to stand arguing to get VQ tickets. This happened with Momoa on Friday, Momoa on Saturday and Ecclestone on Sunday.
- Some of photo shoot queues were very badly organised and presented a real issue to many getting to lifts in the first floor in the atrium and around the first floor of venue in general. Sunday was extremely bad for this around booths F and G.
- The lack of seating and places to relax meant many were using the first floor as a place to sit around the atrium balcony. This contributed to the pinch points for foot traffic around booths F &G considerably. It would be so helpful to have an Extra Help room (say one of the smaller rooms such as Pillar) which there were seats and a quiet space to decompress.
- The Goody Bag voucher snafu. Given the cost of the GP, a goody bag could have been included – a good lanyard, copy of the convention brochure, bottle of water etc., an LFCC pen.
- Some poor signage – particularly where to get the items included with the DPs had no signs at all!
- Confusion and mixed messages about the extra help queuing, entry times etc.
- Not selling Diamond Passes on the Sales Desk – or having clear signage that DPs were not available through the sales desk. This caused a lot of distress after announcing David Tennant, both for people queuing and for the brave staff on the Sales Desk.
- Isolated / confused communications between the crew resulted in mixed / contradictory messages being given to attendees. This was most evident in some of the VQ/DP auto lines.
- Peter Weller charging for quotes. I have discussed this elsewhere. It is not acceptable springing with additional costs at the signing table in front of the guest. I would welcome a statement from Showmasters on this practice going forward for future events.
- The Lanyards provided this year were, to be blunt, very poor. They were also quite dangerous, as they had no stress-break buckle on them, which would release if the Lanyard caught on something.
Suggestions
- Is there no way Extra Help could be nearer the lifts for those needing them to access the first floor? I appreciate this is a logistic and practical venue problem and that SM do their level best with the layout given the constraints of the venue layout, entrances and crowd management.
- Getting the word out the floor crew especially the blue shirts operating the front lines – could you use a private Kik or Whatsapp group. Almost all the crew had mobile phones. In addition, if a crewmember asks a question, the response form the management / office is seen by all, probably saving time on being asked the same thing 20 times over!
- Likewise, a Whatsapp broadcast group for all attendees to sign up to. Allows the admin to broadcast messages, such as calling VQ ticket numbers for major guests, guest updates and important messages. It is one way, so you are not hammered with a thousand messages back after every message!
- At a cost of around 40p for a fully printed lanyard (with a decent stress-break clip), it does not add much to the overhead on a Diamond Pass.
- At each of the busy photo booths, consider a designated Queue Manager who co-ordinates the other crew on that booth – and is equipped with a voice amplifier (or in some cases a bullhorn what goes up to 11!). In addition, the Whatsapp broadcast group would be excellent for calling photo shoots in batch groups to stop everyone milling in the photo area awaiting their batch to be called.
- The convention brochure being free to GP holders would be a nice touch.
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Next year, have a few convention sponsors – I’m thinking Evian, Lynx, Kleenex and ‘Scholl Gel Inserts’ could be great contenders!
Again, cannot stress enough the fantastic work of the Extra Help Team, the blue and Red shirts crews over the weekend.
Plus, also, the acts of kindness and consideration that the attendees were showing each other. I saw some truly gracious and selfless acts between us conventioneers this year. Helping each other is a great way for everyone to achieve the best experience they can.
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48 minutes ago, Raylenth said:
was it on one of the show provided 8x10's or something you had printed?
I was going to ask the same thing. There are known issues with some types of printer paper and sharpies, to do with ink interactions between the printer ink and the carrier for the sharpie ink.
I havens found a specific list of paper brands / types, just mention of 'cheaper brands' and inkjet specific paper.
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Were thy done in Sharpie or paint marker?
I noticed quite a few paint markers on guest tables this year.
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Just got home. No post con blues, just a yearning for bed!
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My Tardis poster, which is now pretty much complete. All the doctors, four through twelve and as many companions as will fit (leaving space for Karen Gillan and Catherine Tate).
Sleepy Hollow (Miranda and Ray)
Original Superman II poster
Aliens press book.
Serenity flyer
Other stuff my brain can't remember!I 'll try and post a photo or two when I finally make it home!
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1 minute ago, natedammit said:
I've heard guests say that when they see me. It's so demeaning.
Me, I got fed up with the photographer rubbing Vaseline on the lens at every one if my shoots...
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I don't think it's acceptable and very bad form if this is sanctioned practice. Charge 45 for the auto. Don't charge me 40 at the desk and write out the dedication on the auto ticket, then try to charge me a crisp fiver for extra words! It's profiteering at best. Others may have a different view but it's a slippery slope from this to charging by the word.
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37 minutes ago, charlesberg said:
only negative was the lack of air con in the signing area. The heat really brings out the aroma of body odour. Thank goodness it cooled down this weekend
The air con broke on Thursday in the Auto pit. Apparently has a bad water leak and had to be switched off.
Not a Showmasters issue, an Olympia one.
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David Tennant, laughing hard when my partner said 'Youre my favourite Hamlet, much better than Bumblesnatch guy'. He was a lovely lovely guy.
Peter Capaldi taking the time to talk through my Tardis poster signatures.
Jason Momoa's photo with my OH. Made her weekend and she loved his Phi Zappa Krappa shirt, for which she got a wink and a smile.
Ray Park, who chatted about Sleepy Hollow as I was the first person to give him something to sign from the film. He wrote a mini essay on my poster. Special mention to him as well for the time he took with the young fans.
Jewel Staite, having a great laugh with us about Firefly Flux.
Photobombing my own Tom Baker photo up, which made Tom laugh.
James Callis, wonderfully chatty and had a discussion about why Eureka was renamed here in the UK, and Archimedes.
Helen Atkinson Wood, we had a great laugh about my dedication which involved some parts of a horses anatomy and a bread roll.
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Yeah, we are done
Heading back to the hotel to collapse!
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Is he on VQ yet?
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2 hours ago, GreenArrow2046 said:
for anyone that has met Christopher, just wondering what he is like?
Gracious, talkative. Top chap.
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He did. There was a dance routine and audience participation. At one point we all threw bobbins of cotton onto the stage and shouted 'make it sew'.....
Good times!