habitualangel

Generally no but just don't mention the final talk at Chevron 7.8 in the same sentence :) As I say "shouldn't be", but obviously we can't control what comes out of a guests mouth no it can't be controlled but to be honest my daughter brings her ds and plays that during the 'boring' talks as long as there is no sound on it doesn't bother anyone else around and yes she was at that final talk at chevron as were other children younger than her although now she is 11 (and was so proud she had a grown up ticket and not a kiddy one) she does take an interest in the talks but at the end of a long day all she wanted to do was play mario 3d! I have seen plenty of kids and adults on ipads, ds's, phones, kindles etc.... during talks so you could always bring something to occupy him if he wasn't that into the person doing the talking. I know it isn't the point of the talks to be doing something else but it does happen - just putting a disclaimer in before anyone comes and says why go to a talk if your not interested but in this scenerio better an occupied child than one that gets bored and fidgity!

Don't know about the parties although i have always taken my daughter to the ME weekend con parties at the last 5 chevron events and it has never been an issue. With regards to photos at SM and ME events she has queued with me and has either waited at the bag area or just walked straight past the guest often to their amusement, the crew are really helpful and will tell you what to do so don't worry.

Doing a very happy dance I love Sean now what do I get him to sign and is he doing photo shoots - didn't notice in the original post although that could be because I am at work trying to conceal my delight!

I understand that someone else is or has ran game of thrones con, maybe ME/SM are waiting to see if that is successful before attempting one themselves. Edited to say - return to middle earth con says will have game of thrones guests just need to wait and see who gets announced.

Glad to see you are doing another one , saw ET8 was to be the last and had a mini panic thinking you will stop doing chevrons! Will be coming but for the 1st time I won't be able to buy a ticket at 7.8 as saving money for trip to New York plus am moving house next week, but will buy it after my holiday. Have to say am wondering who the guests are seeing as its in london again - I reckon Michael Shanks and JR Bourne and if not please try and get them both!!

I'll be buying my ticket april/may time as i have done so for the last 2 bitten events - will be silver

I would love the Blue to come back but he has said on his website that he won't be doing cons for the forseeable future, its a shame but can see his point of view he wants and needs to be available for work and doesn't want to run the risk of signing up to an event and then having to cancel it. Its a shame and I am sure he will restart them, he seems to have so much fun at them.... wishful thinking the Blue will return......

For me the issue is not necessarily the cancellations, I have met both Ben and Chris before and to be honest I get quite excited at who the replacements could be but the issue I have is the replacements are all ME repeat guests and 2 of them were together at the last event they did, yes they are fantastic guests it has just left me a bit deflated that we have no one new as a replacement and I wasn't originally interested in the 2 girls who have been in approximately 1% of the show, I felt they were quite poor to have attending an SG convention although am sure they will be fantastic as is often the case with the ones I have no interest in. We haven't had many SGU people over and I don't know if you are trying to concentrate on SG1 as the last few cons have been pretty SG1 heavy, its not like SGU people don't do conventions they do and they have been over and are coming over for other events and by all accounts are fab guests. I am glad I am only silver at this event as would be very disheartened if I had paid any more. I have also done silver at 7.8 as have had to pay full price for my daughter as she will be 11 at that point and as I have no one I can leave her with that weekend the price of 2 Golds was to risky if cancellations occur. However if we are to start getting more repeats I won't be buying tickets in advance and will leave it until nearer the time to purchase if at all. There are a finite amount of convention goers and people will pay to see new guests if that isn't ME than so be it.

I'm in the travel lodge, not stayed at a park inn since 7.2, will be interesting to see if everyone staying at the hotel is attending the convention, if people have been able to book through websites (someone posted earlier to say they booked through a website in september) and still have the rooms seems they are putting them above the convention goers. I thought that they normally booked out the hotel and you had to ring the hotel to get the room. Seems to be the hotel at fault, I would press for more than a drinks voucher, if you wanted to stay at the ibis and booked in may you could have had a saver room at £29 a night! Hope everyone manages to get everything sorted without to many further issues. See you all there later!

Annoyed with the cancellation, but was to be expected - expressed my concern last week to my friend that he was still working on his film, we actually thought you would end up cancelling the event as didn't think you would be able to get replacements so near to the event. With regards to the replacements.....mmmmmm difficult am glad you got replacements however they are all repeat guests for yourselves so nothing new, am glad I only went silver this time and not gold as usual, I'll be coming and having fun as usual however all the comments that the weekend is about getting together with friends, yes it is however I wouldn't be paying for a ticket to hang out with my mates would I?? we would be doing it for free!!!!! I have already bought my 7.8 ticket but will not be buying tickets until much nearer the time in future, there have been far to many late cancellations recently for my liking.

mmmmm......not the greatest news to hear, as much as I love the judge I have met him several times, I just hope that ME manage to get a couple of decent replacements, the 2 girls currently coming, I am sure they will be great guests however this is a stargate convention and they have been in very few episodes and tbh I'm not fussed about meeting them and currently I am not looking forward to the weekend as much as I normally do.... will wait to hear on the replacements.

Manchester Birmingham None Trafford centre has a new event centre right next to it that could be an ideal place if you didn't want to do city centres - the only problem with it is no trains nearby although there is regular buses, this will need to be confirmed though, I drive and make use of the free carparking. Birmingham because its about an hour away from me so easy to get to and good transport links, other events seem to do well there.

1. none 2. Merlin 3. Terra Nova However another company is attempting to run a merlin con - I haven't a ticket because it is none of the main cast.....my point being I love merlin and terra nova (my new guilty pleasure) but to get me coming to a weekend con it would have to be main cast not someone that has appeared in a fleeting episode or 2 so I wouldn't buy a ticket until near the date of the con and as someone has already mentioned I doubt terra nova has the fanbase to warrant its own convention, unfortunately I don't do primeval which would be the most logical tie-in. Will be interesting to see what new events do pop up in the future.

T-Shirt and Mug generally, maybe a couple of extra button badges - you don't actually get a bag though

Alex Nelsan would be amazing!!!! Deborah James Frain - fab character in this and tudors Chris Bauer Ryan will add more later!