yellowmarlin

I agree with everything said so far. With two months to go, my guest list consists of a single comic book colourist, who I already met a month ago. Usually, my budget would be starting to creak by now. LFCC is starting to bear an uncomfortable resemblance to the film fairs.

Most of the guests that I’ve met in the last 5 years would have been on my maybe list pre-Covid. I’ve skipped a few events, and one I attended without meeting any of the guests. I bought a £40 Lego minifig to make the trip worthwhile. At the moment, I’ve got nobody on my list for LFCC.

Great guest, lovely person.

One for the maybe list.

Have you considered inviting Gladiators? You’ve had cosplayers, wrestlers and drag queens. Gladiators seems like a natural fit.

So far, there’s only one maybe on my list, so how about some of the following: Rosario Dawson Ariana Greenblatt Hayden Christensen Lars Mikkelsen Evan Whitten Paul Sun-Hyung Lee Claudia Black Jane Edwina Seymour Shakira Berrera Genevieve O’Reilly Adria Arjona Stellan Skarsgard Anton Lesser Michael Jenn Kathryn Hunter Fiona Shaw Forest Whitaker Ben Mendelsohn Alan Tudyk Dafne Keen Sophie Thatcher Sofia Boutella anyone from ST:SNW

Sofia Boutella, Sophie Thatcher, Ariana Greenblatt & Dafne Keen please. More generally, any Ahsoka, Andor & SNW cast.

Might be a name for my Ahsoka poster and a chat about Bosch.

David Tennant or Indira Varma (or both) to accompany Freema please.

Sophie Thatcher Sofia Boutella Indira Varma Freema Agyeman

I only went on Saturday. Joined the queue outside just before 08:00 and was in the building by 09:15. I met everyone that I wanted to thanks to diamond passes for Pom and Varada. Another 8 Star Wars guests. All lovely, although Pom didn’t seem to be enjoying herself. However, I did not enjoy the experience. Saturday was just far too crowded and the layout was exacerbating the problem. I was relieved to finally get away at 15:30. Queuing outside meant the bag checks slowed the entry process, Faye Marsay should have been VQ from the start, the diamond pass queue was disorganised (initially) and the photoshoots had too many people blocking access while waiting for their batch to be called, partly because they wouldn’t have heard anything from farther away.

Yeah, I’m packed and ready to go as well. The Santa hat is taking up more space than anticipated.

Aiming for 3 photoshoots and 9-12 autographs on Saturday. If I have to come back on Sunday to finish off, I’ll add in the TNG duo photoshoot.

Danny Glover fixed my clash for me. The Lethal Weapon duo photoshoot bumped Pom’s photoshoot until after the Andor duo photoshoot. Now we await the last minute cancellations.

Photoshoots A and B are usually pretty close together, right? I’ve got a slight clash on the Saturday, but a diamond pass for the earlier start, so it should be doable. Right?

Not worth your while? I’ve had a few years like that. I once showed up with a few maybes on my list but left without meeting any of them. I bought a £40 Lego minifig so that it wasn’t a wasted trip.

Great guest. Shame about Ravi. Hope you can also get Ryan and/or Kyriana.

Melissa Navia and Rebecca Romijn Dafne Keen and Ariana Greenblatt Kyriana Kratter, Ryan Kiera Armstrong and Robert Timothy Smith Sophie Thatcher and Sofia Boutella Robert Emms and Anton Lesser

I added 3 but lost Elizabeth Dulau.

I’m not yet trimming, but I’m conscious that I may have to if I add many more, both for budgetary and time considerations.

Oddly, this is shaping up to be my best LFCC in years. Guest list in double figures, more than one diamond pass for the first time ever, eyeing up a couple of duo photoshoots and I’ve even ordered a commission from one of the comic artists. I’m starting to wonder if I might need to come back on the Sunday to finish off.

Lovely person to meet. I’ve become a big fan of Kleya Marki after rewatching Andor.

Melissa Navia and Rebecca Romijn Dafne Keen and Ariana Greenblatt Kyriana Kratter, Ryan Kiera Armstrong and Robert Timothy Smith Sophie Thatcher and Sofia Boutella

How about Nick Blood’s Much Ado co-star Freema Agyeman? And as many from the Disney+ Star Wars series as possible.

I’m hoping that SM have come up with an upgrade option for DP photoshoots. A solo with Varada is of little interest to me, but a duo with Faye is a different matter entirely.