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I am usually the one saying that. At the time of typing someone was chatting to me and I typed in the wrong name. Have now corrected...goes to hide in the corner :)

I challenge every person who has "mocked" this list to sit down and look through each Collectormania/LFACC list, and also those run by other organisations, and honestly say which guest they were suprised turned up. James Marsters and Carl Weathers come to mind immediately. My case is not rested yet, but those are my opening arguments. Acting talent and film companies have product to promote. They do press junkets etc and meeting the fans over a weekend can shoot a film or tv series through the roof. It is all about money to film companies and alot of acting talent. Acting talent need to provide for families, life styles and pensions. By promoting films/tv series and making them bigger allows them to shoot for bigger roles which mean bigger paydays. Having met some of the list above and seen interviews etc, I do not believe these people are unrealistic.

Meeting the guest is the thing for myself and that is why I try to go to full weekend conventions if there are guests I would like to ask questiosn etc in a talk environment. Talks at signing events like LFACC and CM are short and not the same relaxed atmosphere as a proper convention. Once I start collectiing autos from a series or a film, it then becomes a challenge to meet the entire or as much of the cast as possible. I tend to buy a group cast photo to get autos on as it looks nice framed. As regards valuation, it depends on the actor or actress. Age is irrelevant. It is the rarity of the autograph and on what it is signed. If the person signing does so on a limited edition print etc etc then it's value increases. But hey, I go to meet the cast member. I never sell and I never keep count of how much I spend as I might have a heart attack.

Hey, until you lot told us who he played I didn't know what character he played. I am hoping to meet him because of his role as Scopius in Farscape. One of my favourite characters.