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    Latest Guest Announcement - MATTHEW LILLARD

    in London Film & Comic Con 2016

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    I have no issue at all with the guest. It would be crazy for anyone to expect every announcement to appeal to them. My only gripe was SM making a pre-annoucement a whole week in advance. It led me, and I'm sure many others, to believe we'd be seeing a much bigger name.

     

    And that's why your post is still there. It would be crazy to expect every announcement to appeal to everyone. Unfortunately your post triggered a whole slew of comments which have in turn been hidden.

     

    Those pre-announcement posts are always very subjective, and so are the "bigger names." There's several fandoms who get really excited about a guest who's barely known if you are not a fan of the genre, or even the specific TV show. But any pre-announcement guest will be a big thing for some on here.

     

     

    I'm going to attempt to respond to this in a constructive and polite manner to avoid getting hidden whilst, making what I consider to be valid points.

     

    The response, and subsequent course of action, is exactly why I questioned the point of the 'Exciting Guest announcement on XXX' thread when it was posted the week before this announcement.

     

    I think unless you are about to announce a game-changing guest (I'm talking the likes of Stan Lee, MJF etc), then there is genuinely no point in doing a thread a week before about announcing them - and to be honest, even then I think it would be a a bit unnecessary. When you build up people's expectations for a full week before then announce someone not of that calibur, then you have to expect disappointed remarks. With this example, Matthew is clearly a popular guest with a decent resume, but giving a full 7 days before announcing him ultimately resulted in a bit of an anti-climax.

     

    To offer forward some valid evidence, look at the Judge Reinhold topic. That announcement came absolutely out of the blue, and everyone who is interested in meeting him will give go in there and post positive comments, and those not so interested will just pass over the topic.

     

    I hate to hijack this thread, but this is in direct response to the quoted post (as someone who had a post hidden myself). Please SM, don't bother with anymore unncessary build-up, just post when you can announce a guest and avoid the let-downs for those of us less interested in guests.

     

    We accept this as constructive criticism, but this is how our company directors and marketing department have chosen to make some announcements. It's your opinion that this is wrong, but that doesn't make it wrong for our company.

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    Autograph process

    in London Film & Comic Con Spring 2016

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    I realise this might be a bit of an impossible question to answer, but any rough idea on what to expect for queing time on the less popular guests that don't have VQ tickets?

    If there's no one else there, straight away.

     

    If there's 15 people that want to talk about the meaning of life, forever.

     

    It's usually about 2 to 10 minutes.

    Autograph process

    in London Film & Comic Con Spring 2016

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    Just to clarify the batches are 1-50, then 1-100 and so on. They alway start at 1 so you can never miss your turn. Even if we are calling 1 to 400 and you're ticket 23, you haven't missed your turn.

     

    Most guests will personalise if asked. The best idea is to have a post-it note with your name on it.

    Forum Outage - Tuesday 23rd Feb

    in General chat

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    Some of you will have noticed that there was a connection error from around 10am yesterday until about 7pm.

     

    The short version is the server hosting company we use for the forum had an outage. Our tech guys worked with them to move our forum to a non-affected part of the system :thumbup:

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