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They do to a degree, there's always people they can call on, but firstly, as Mfahey says you can't really ask lots of people to keep the weekend free just in case without actually booking them (and presumably therefore compensating them as well) and what if the back ups get work/sick/other? Additionally they tend to be UK people (you need to have them relatively local so they can get there quickly and last min flights don't cost a fortune) and they are either free or not. But chances are they can only get one or two people last minute and they might not be people you want.

First red swirl is DP collection, second is the standard ticket entry. Blue swirl is where I think the gift collection is. So you can either get your DP and then go and queue to get in, or go queue first and get your VQ's and then nip back and get your DP's. But if you go for the second, I think you have to go outside (make sure you get your hand stamped if you only have a day ticket so you can get back in), go to the DP collection and then you'll have to go in via the entry queue again.

I'm reading it as you get everything on one tag maybe. Like if you have 3 DP's over the weekend, they will all be printed on the one pass maybe?

They never really confirm numbers so no idea how many they sell. Gold is complicated now, because they don't effectively work with Diamond guests auto's, you still need a VQ for them if you are going through on a Gold. The advantage here though is that Gold should get in first so you can get the lowest VQ tickets. So when they call auto's for DP guests, it'll be DP's in batches, then if they open them to VQ's, it'll be VQ's called in batches. Gold don't need VQ's for non Diamond guest though, so you would just join the back of the queue. For photo's, DP's get called first, then Gold All Batches (they may break it down for big guests), then standard shoot tickets. For non DP guests, Gold are called first, then standards.

Yeah you can use them at the onsite Sales desk, so you can buy photo's with them, get auto vouchers that you can then use in place of cash at the guests tables.

On the flip side, I'm not sure they will because they would have no way of checking if the office have already issued them to the person asking, or of letting the office know that they have issued them and not being done twice then. I don't think they will have access to the shop records on the Sales desk to check what the status of someone's order is basically

You can assume any headliners won't be doing them Saturday.

I'd go with assuming he will be sat.

Possibly the second. They do issue batches even with smaller attended shoots, but occasionally there's gremlins in the shop, so this is likely the latter.

Yup always go for colours on the opposite side of the spectrum for best results, and if the item is dark, use a light colour, and if it's light use a dark one. That's why I prefer solid colour backgrounds as it makes it so much easier for signing. As much as multi colour images are pretty, it can make choosing a pen hard as nothing stands out.

Just go at the start, when there's no batch numbers they used to regard them a 0 or 1

Double entry

As already mentioned, yes, you pay for extras in the auto queue when you get to the 8x10 table. There is a limit to how many extras you can buy, it'll be mentioned on the pass details in the shop. The usual total limit for busy guests is 5, but for headliners the DPs may be limited to 3 - the one included in the pass and 2 extra's.

There aren't any SM staff here most of the time I'm afraid so we only know as much as you. It's probably best to tag them on the twitter/facebook accounts so the social media team can let the office know. And just keep checking the schedules uploaded to the website as they said they would be the most updated ones

Until they post or put up the floor plan, we don't know I'm afraid

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No one can say I'm afraid as there are no staff on here to answer. Hopefully they will, usually they do, it'd usually be around today/tomorrow that they released all the plans/schedules ect and they still have a week to do it, but ultimately we can't say if they will or won't.

the facebook post about tickets they put up yesterday said that any tickets bought in the old shop before they split the days would be resent and marked 'complimentary' so these are basically your new updated tickets. They also advised just using the ones that will come through next week in the Eventbrite 'reminder you have an event' emails they always send.

There pretty much aren't any I'm afraid. They pop in once in a blue moon but that's it, and Showmasters latest ticket post said they are out of the office now so won't be able to reply as much

Photoshoots can be bought online (and at the onsite shop) up to 15 minutes before the start of the shoot.

The sale end date is under the title of each item in the shop. Photo's are up to 15 mins before the shoot, everything else looks to be the day it's for.

If the batch number doesn't come back they will likely treat them all as 1 or 0. All tickets should update but unfortunately there's not really anyone official here to ask. Keep an eye on it in the next few days and if not email them

I haven't got the schedule open at the moment but you can find it on the Prop shoot column (it's not a prop shoot but as is will be outside they didn't have a spare column for it so put it there)

Older then

If it's travelling in general, hopefully the 2 weeks to the con might make a difference.