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Just seen the sad new that Mira Furlan has passed peacefully at the age of 65. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55763658 She has gone beyond the rim to new adventures.

The big question first When will the timetables be updated ? EVERYONE wants to know when the Picard talk will be . Secondly the web and printable versions are not the same. I have noticed that the Robin Curtis in costume photshoot is showing at 15:05 on the web version and 13:05 on the printable version, so whcih one is corrent. If the prinatble version is the correct one, then I'm going to miss the Discovery talk (Which is probably the one talk I wanted to attend) as it clashes slapbang in the middle and had I known this I would not have ordered the photoshoot. I know people are going to say, go to the talk, leave for the photoshoot and then come back or do the photoshoot and then see the end of the talk, but I've had issues in the past where I've been refused entry into a talk because it's already started and the room is full. I've also noticed several other differeneces between the web and prinatble timetables, so this is not just the Saturday one. Also one thing I would like to see is the date the timetable was published on the timetables, this is on the web version but not on the prinatble version which at least let us know which version is current. I'd assume that they are the same source file. so i don't kknow why this is not already done. Another thing would be if the prinatble version was available as a PDF.

Tried from both iPad and PC. Shows the entrance tickets, photoshoots, then just the headers for evening entertainment and talks, but nothing else.

Noticed this post the other day after reading something on teh BBC web-site regarding the cancellation of Winter LFCC. Firstly would have been nice for some sort of notice on the web-site that the opening ceremony was no longer included in the Commander Package. Secondly, I've tried to order tickets, but they don't appear. Have they sold out ?

Just had a photo shoot refund which I think maybe for the Two Dax’s. Have we lost Terry or Nicole ?

The talk is not the issue here, if it had been at the end of the Sunday I would have gladly missed it. But by making the selection of which day the photoshoot will be on does lock me down to that specific day and in this case I feel that those attending Saturday have been given a better deal. (Two PS and the talk). Some of us have these things called jobs, so Sunday is the only day I could attend. All I was suggesting is that an earlier PS could maybe have been arranged for Sunday diamond passes. Given in my experience that Saturdays are always busier than Sundays, taking another 20 - 25 minutes out of the signing time on Sunday does not sound unreasonable and what I said was merely an example of what could have been done. It would clear the majority of Sunday diamond passes I would guess. Instead I have to wait around for 4 to 5 hours for the photoshoot. If I had the choice I would get my money back and just buy a standard photoshoot.

Doesn't appear to be an issue on Satuturday ? There are two photoshoots and the talk. By now I would have expected that the organisers would have a rough estimate of how many Sunday Diamond passes purchased.

Little disappointed that there is only one photo session and no talk with Ming-Na on the Sunday. The talk I can understand, but I'm sure that it would have been possible to find a small gap for diamond pass holders (10:35 - 1050 looks clear, hint, hint) to get their PS in the morning I assume diamond passes will go through first. With hindsight I could probably have saved some money by not getting the diamond pass.

Why does the shop say the Diamond Pass is £195 not £190.

Only had six photoshoots this year including two diamonds, but this was the worse experience I have had. I don't know if Showmasters have changed who they get to take the photos this year (it certainly wasn't the guy who usually does the main photos). Friday was two photo shoots, Sean and Laurie, which are OK most likely because these weren't rushed. Even got asked if I wanted a re-take after the Laurie one, but I was OK with the result. I don't take a very good picture anyway due to a squint which means that on some photos it looks like i'm not looking in the right place, which means it takes me a few moments to orientate myself. I also have issues with peronal space (I'm not used to being so close to people I don't know) which means I tend to leave a gap between myself and the guest. Again takes me a few seconds to get sorted. Saturday was just Micheal Emmerson, which was rushed so had both of the above faults. Sunday I had Jeremy, which although rushed is probably the best of the photos, as he has come across to me. Michelle Gomez was next, which was a different photographer and run as much by Michelle as it was by the crew, it's not my best side (my MAS is showing, but I can crop it off.) but my other issues are negated because the photo is back to back. Then we come to Famke, I know that there were special circumstances as to the way this shoot was set up, but the white line was an additional issue to deal with. There is a gap that you could have driven a bus through, not to mention that I would not have seen the bus coming because I am looking in the wrong direction completely. I was rushed out of the photo area before I could get a good look at the photo so had no chance of asking for a reshoot either. Surely the photographer could have picked this up and maybe asked us to turn towards the camera more or move a little closer, I paid a lot of money for a diamond pass so a little consideration to get a decent pciture would have been appreciated.. I was totally devastated and close to tears and just left the show completely spending the next half hour just trying to pull myself together. I am now seriously considering how I deal with future photoshoots or whether to just give up altogether. I miss the old days when Malcom was taking the photos, he always checked and called you back if there was an issue. I know there's the possibility of a reshoot, but if you are rushed out of the photo area without been given the chance to ask it doesn't help. We'll see what happens in Sheffield in two weeks time.

Which show were you at ? My photoshoot experience (once inside) over the weekend was OK\Bad\Bad. Only visited A & B, where the crowd control was OK but still need a better way of distributing information rather than someone basically shouting until their voices gives out.

As it appears no-one has started one for Michelle thought I'd give it a go. The most amazing guest I have every met, totally bonkers but the highlight of my weekend. We had a brief discussion about her ears (The one's she had on top of her head, not the one's she was born with), including mind controlled one's I saw at the gadget show a few years back, which I had been very impressed with, but had no money to buy at the time, then forgot about.. Hopefully she'll get some for next time, because I've ordered mine today.. The photoshoot was funny, although I know a few people who didn't appreciate some of the antics. I hope to meet her again soon, ears and all.

Another disappointing googy bag. One thing I would suggest for next year would be to give us a show guide rather than having to buy one from the sales desk. The free autograph vouchers tickets were OK, but given the number of £10 guest and the fact that it could not be used as part payment for a higher priced guest as disappointing. Then there was the two tombolla tickets which were supposed to have given you access to two of the diamond talks, which some of the staff in the stage area were not aware of. I wasn't interested in any of the diamond guest talks that I hadn't already bought a diamond pass for already, so didn't use these. What I would have done would have been to drop the tombola tickets, given us an additional £10 guest, allowing us to use them for any non-diamond guest. I was lucky that I could use both of mine this time.

Was certainly a very good guest to meet and unphased by some of the chaos going on around him. Met him in the early Friday morning just before he was moved down to the end so the leaking roof could be fixed. I hope you can bring him back to another event, maybe with a couple of other members of the Person of Interest cast (AMY, AMY, AMY hint...hint) would be a great double-photo shoot.

I can now understand why Famke was sat on the chair and the no touching policy. I think some of the blame lies with Showmasters themselves, especially if llike me you had the Sunday photoshoot. The Sunday morning photoshoot was cancelled and moved into the gap at 2PM. This was less time then the morning slot so everyone was rushed through. Personally I was extremely disappointed with the photo I got with Famke, not only is there a gap you could have driven a bus through, but I would not have seen it because I was looking in wrong direction (I'm going to pick this up in another topic as I have some additional comments about this generally) I spent a lot of money for a diamond pass and came away with something that I was literally in tears about when I got to look at it (after been ushered out of the photo area so had no chance to ask for a reshoot) and will probably burn. Autographs were brisk (Felt the same as when I met Stan Lee), only person I've every met that was worse was Carrie Fisher back when Collectormania was in the MK Centre, she never looked up once, just kept signing what was ever put under her nose. The only good thing was the talk, where Famke came across as a very open and funny person.

Any chance we can get the schedule in PDF format so we can download onto phone or print out.

I'm hoping it's Claudia Black (Although my "accountant" isn't). She did an LFCC way back when it was at Wembley Exhibition Centre and was announced\cancelled a couple of years back. https://www.facebook.com/saveourchevronfamily/ https://twitter.com/SaveChevron2016 https://plus.google.com/communities/100810069790259683278 .

Things have gone very quiet here, usually everyone is posting photos. Anyway thought I'd get the ball rolling and since this was (most likely) the last Chevron (Hope not) had these thoughs. If anyone wants to add additional categories please feel free. Number of Chevrons attended (There have been 13) 12/13 (3 Silver\9 Gold) Missed 7.1 due to lack of funds\job Favourite Guest Amanda Tapping Favourite Experience Meeting everyone, I can’t pick one. Favourite Talk\Stage Show\Stage Quiz Chico : The Mind Reader Top Three Guests you would have liked to have met (This is a hard one for me, so many) Chris Heyerdahl (So TT will have someone to talk to face to face) Julie Benson Elyse Levesque

So long as you are coming for the whole weekend the following is probably true. If you are coming for a few specific guests then standard will do you. If like me the number of guests you wanted to see is in dounle figures then gold is the way to go. If you want to guarantee to see a specific guest and they are diamond, then that is the way to go but remeber that a diamond pass is for that guest only. It does not get you in the venue and has no Q-jumping power apart from that guest\guests. Only with a gold pass can you join the back of any non-diamond guest Q be it autograph or photoshoot. If you are buying a diamond pass you realy need to attend all weekend, I know of people who had MJF diamond passes but only expected to come for the one day, most were accomodated but some were turned away. Something else I learnt this year was that if you were a trader your pass acted as the same as a gold pass.

Just read the post from Jason and for the most part I agree with what was said although I've not gone all the way through the other posts so some of this might be repeated.. As far as I could see there was only one set of available stairs going down from level three, which were narrower than those to the other levels which did cause a bottleneck on the Saturday. It took us half an hour to get down from Level 3 to Level 1. Another issue was the positioning of the Q for photoshoot A which went right in front of the access to the lift. I know it was moved last minute, but surely someone would have realised that they were blocking access to the lift. Lastly there was the positioning of the bullet time stand, whilst it was an interesting and facination opportunity, people did tend to stop and linger in the area, which made getting around past difficult. Here are my suggestions for next year. Where there are two sets of stairs, make one set up and the other down, sign it and police it. Virtual tickets for the lifts\where there is only one staircase. Don't have guests on the balcony side of the upper level as I found that you had to dodge around and through these Qs. Clearly defined walkways, especially on the balcony area and around any big exhibits like the bullet time stand, which would keep the flow of people moving. Put guests closer to the photoshoots. I.E. Guest that are signing on Level 3 should have photo shoot on Level 3. Looking forward to next year and heard the rumours about using the extra space, but if the preview day is Thuirsday then I'll see you then. Batch numbers on photoshoots. I'd assume that next year all the photoshoots will be batched, can I suggest that gold are called in batch order as well. (Gold Batch 1, Gold batch 2.... standard batch 1.....) Finally the good things: The diamond passes worked well, although I think people didn't fully understand them at times. One thing I would hope would happen next year is that the times of the signings for the duamond pass guests be publicised, only got my Sigorney signature on the Satuday as I was passing after a photo shoot. Sunday there was a notice on the wall with the times Sigoney was signing, so hopefully this would be continued.

We may have had the B-Team, but they did a first-class job. We'll done to everyone who crewed this weekend and hopefuly they'll let you continue. Probably the most relaxed Chevron since the good old days @ the Park Inn. Guests were the best and this was certainly the funniest (and rudest) line-up we've had. Great guests for next year and finally someone has realised that guys need someone to cuddle up to as well, looking forward to the next announcement, Would have booked for next year whatever, but stood around for the two hours before the desk opened (We missed you Alison). Got gold 8 this time, lowest I've had. Quiz was great even if some of the questions were a bit ambiguos. The nearest galaxy outside our solar system is the Milky Way, because we are in it. If the question had been "Which is the nearest galaxy outside the Milky Way" then the answer would have been correct. This would also exclude all the dwarf galaxies which are all considered part of the Milky Way group. Free chocolate bars\crisps and soft drinks is a great idea, hopefully this will continue next year, Thanks to my fellow B&Ts for letting me join your team, if we had been a bit braver we might have been in the dance-off. Finally let's not forget that there was another event this weekend run by our favourite people; We may have all had a relaxing time in the Rad, but I'm sure they were rushed off thier feet (One of the crew said we had around 250, they had 6,000+) and something like Sherlocked generates both money and publicity for SM\ME which can't be a bad thing. It always amazes me that we still get newbies (Shout out to the Aussie girl, I think we can say she had the full Chevron experience) but as Jason and Mark always say, it's the fans that keep Chevron going, but it's them that get these great guests for us all to meet. Thank you everyone whether you were at Chevron or Sherlocked.

SHEFFIELD

Yvie explained the table order to us the other day. If you take the schedule and turn it through 90 degrees clockwise, you get the guest order. Simples.

As I see it the two types of pass are this. Normal Gold Pass Access to all talks (Free and pay for) with priority seating. To get access to the audiance with Stan Lee event on Saturday, you would need to buy a ticket and won't get priority seating. Normal goody bag. Comic Gold Pass Access to the audiance with Stan Lee event on Saturday with priority seating, Access to all free talks, but would have to buy tickets for any paid talks. No priority seating for talks. Comic specific goody bag. Both Passes Free entry to all three days (Suspect they will also do same as last year and give early entry on Saturday\Sunday) No need for virtual Q tickets. Priority Qing for photo shoots. Access to chill out room. One thing I have noticed is that there is no mention of how limited the Comic Gold Pass will be.

Hadn't noticed that the Facebook forum link came here, but that could just be an old link from last years event. From what was said last year I doubt that the event would be in the UK, but somewhere in Europe so SM probably won't be involved. The e-mail came from Media10 not SM so there's no really way to tell until Tuesday. I do hope it is in the UK but I'm not expecting a good result. As for tickets there were VIP, Platinum, Gold, Silver and Standard.