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On 7/2/2023 at 9:59 PM, D-C-A said:
I remember Tosin being extremely pleasant, almost scared and overwhelmed from my opinion
I didn’t have an unpleasant experience with him, just a weird one.
I was running late, arrived about lunchtime but wasn’t too worried as he was there the next day, but as I passed his table there was no one there. I assumed he was stopping for lunch, but no, he was just there on his phone waiting for the next person.
in 20 years I’ve never found it that easy getting a current cast member, needed a VT for nearly all of them.
I’ve had longer queues for Star Wars extras.I then joined the queue next to him for Camile.
I won’t be there this weekend, I’ve done all the summer events since 2006, but there was no one of major interest to me this time round. I did consider just doing Friday, but between the trains and my health it’s not worth the agro. Got enough Ewoks.
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On 6/12/2023 at 1:10 AM, D-C-A said:
i saw an announcement that the YALC is returning this time in the winter, my guess is they've booked too many guests this con and need to spread it out, maybe winter will make use of more space, i hope they get some Doctor who Writers at least.
There haven't been a huge amount of Who writers on the YALC floor before, the only ones I needed were Juno Dawson and Alistair Reynolds.
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3 minutes ago, D-C-A said:
At this point i'd prefer to meet her, as i've got two signed DVDs but not meet her yet, which yeah i really want to, also whilst this breaks TOS a little i will risk it, but Damn a real old Guest got announced elsewhere, dude is 98 nearly 99 and is doing a signing, legend.
Yes I think he's done one or two there before.
You know Chris Matthews at the London Film Fair this weekend is Star Wars (New Hope) and Tenth Planet don't you?
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On 6/11/2023 at 3:21 AM, D-C-A said:
Annekke Wills is again for Lost in Time, but i'd also have her on "The Moonbase" as the obvious choice and then of course a single signature on "Light at the End".
Anneke sells signed DVDs and other things on her official website.
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14 hours ago, Geoff K said:
Do SM take £50 notes when paying for autos at the guest desks?
In theory you could use 220 50 pence pieces for a Chris Lloyd auto and I'm not sure they can refuse you.
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Do we know which Doctor Who stories she's in? Be a help to narrow it down a little!
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On 1/3/2021 at 8:41 AM, shakeYourGrooveThing said:
Having said that, although that might b slightly jumping the gun, personally I think events can start as early as April as long as they are done at reduced capacity. Reason I say this I receive e-mails from the ATG theatres website and most of the shows r due to re-start mid-late April.!
Seated events are a bit different - you can space out the seats and you know everyone will spend most of the time in those seats. Could even have screens between seats. You can operate a one way system to limit any bottlenecks and queues. You can tell people to arrive at a set time and there’s no advantage to being early.
most of that could not work with a comic con. A small signing with a handful of attendees in the building at one time could just about cope as well as a shop.
At a comic con you are queuing to join a queue. The further back you are the more you miss out. If you have an 11am photoshoot (for which times won’t be live until a week before) you need to be in by 10:50.But at least with schedules you can make plans and prepare - the autograph side is still a free for all.
Preselling autographs could solve some of those uncertainties. If people could strictly follow rules. But if there’s one thing we’ve noticed over the past year, it’s not our strongest point.
And you’ve also got guest availability; $$$$$ for a long weekend is off the cards if you’re looking at a week’s quarantine either side.
finally, looking at private signings certain guests aren’t getting any cheaper. Even working from home. If an event had to sell 1000 photos to pay for a guest and they can only sell 500 would you pay double the price to stand on the other side of screen?
I’m curious to see how such challenges will be approached.
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On 1/12/2021 at 9:21 AM, natedammit said:
= reduced (by a lot) guests = reduced (by a lot) vendors = reduced (by a lot) experience = no grooviness.
Also a lot of them have presumably already paid. For a big event expecting a large crowd. If you then get a small event and a small crowd surely you’d expect a (partial) refund.
Even the first postponement meant ticket holders would have been paying summer prices for a full venue then got a smaller winter event for the same price.
there’s also the problem that anyone who bought a ticket for last summer can still decide they’d rather have the refund afterwards. If the event was limited to say 5000 and that number are sold; 1000 could still decide against going and it’s even further under capacity.
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On 10/15/2020 at 5:46 PM, Wrong Name said:
They have said that they have a lot of money tied up in hotels and flights for guests. Most likely they are doing deals with those companies to move them to new dates. Keeping that in mind, it means that Showmasters themselves don't actually have the cash to be able to refund everyone if they offered it. The vouchers allow them to basically keep the company going at a time where a lot of companies are having to close because of the virus and lack of income. They have had some cash coming in from the autograph sales, but this probably isn't even close to what they would make from a regular year with cons.
They’ll going to face a problem next year that’s normally laughed away.
every year when a guest pulls out someone will say I was only going for them, I won’t go so I want my entry ticket refunded.
no can do, you booked that for the event, not the guest.
this time there’s a comeback - no I booked for 2020, not 2021. I’ll have my refund.
since you can literally decide on the day, they’ve given far more power back to the customer.
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I think the longer we go without it being cancelled is going to make people a lot more hesitant about booking in the future.
if you were told you had to self isolate the week before the event are you supposed to just write the costs off?
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Well the original event was moved Seven weeks prior to the planned date. We’re now at Six weeks.
Technically, it’s still happening.
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Have to say, not having done an event for 7 months now I’m not sure I really miss it.
i was going to sit out Winter anyway, possibly Spring.
I might even qualify for the medical badge now after an unexpected last two months.
Bank balance is a lot more healthy though.
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On 6/7/2020 at 12:31 PM, Raylenth said:
Nothing has been confirmed, but they initially said Winter would be bigger than it usually would be anyway so they probably may have needed more halls, and as it's now essentially Summer but in November I'd not be surprised if they take the whole venue again (Especially to help with spreading us out). Of course that's just me guessing, until we get the floor plan we never actually know for certain, even with Summer
That’s assuming no one else had already booked a hall for November, only 4 weeks before Xmas. And even before the postponement Jason was saying Summer would be smaller than usual to help accommodate other events that lost March to June bookings, so they might still be looking space in November.
Personally I can’t see me attending for the next 18 months - Even assuming the trains get back to normal and Hotels don’t jack up their prices I’m not sure I’d find the risk worthwhile.
my bank account is looking a lot more healthy without events too. I could get used to that...
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On 3/28/2020 at 1:01 PM, Starbuck73 said:
Amazingly concise & thorough update, thank you Jason. Big love to you & the entire Showmasters family.
I have an underlying health condition & have been indoors for 3 weeks already with another 9 to go.
We're pretty safe in Devon. Considering how close I was to having a cosplayer sneezing on me at the Spring event, I think I'll give the summer event a miss this year.
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1 hour ago, Spacecadet is here said:
I would of thought maybe the Price was a bit too high, He was £10 for Star Wars and now £30 because of Doctor who? He was cool in the photo shoot.
Cheaper than Jenna when she’d only a few episodes under her belt. But yes, certainly a few seem to think his price was a bit high.
1 hour ago, Diabolik said:What was that then?
Perhaps this says all you need to know about how well received the latest Doctor’s outings have been...
almost expect he’d have been busier signing before his episodes had been broadcast.
He’d have been busier if his action figure was out. But that’s not saying much. If he’d been less busy he’d have had to pay us.
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I couldn’t believe how quiet he was. Never seen anything like it. A new series companion might just go open queue at the end of the day, but to be able to just walk up an hour after opening... unprecedented. Especially since he is a Star Wars pilot too.
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Is he only in the Deleted scenes then?
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Could do with an update.
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On 8/7/2019 at 9:38 AM, Raylenth said:
As Queen says the venue map does show the different signing area's and bar the Star Wars zone on the ground floor they are all next to each other. the best thing to do is to have a list of who you want to see, then you can concentrate on getting the VQ's you need for any big guests and once you have done that, walk around and find and see the smaller guests.
The Star Wars guests weren't down there.
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22 hours ago, Lemon said:
Hoping next time it will work better.
Was a great idea. And fantastic if it works properly.
But had no use for it today
Yes it’s a great idea, and if it could be used to indicate signing status people wouldn’t have to force their way toward the front of the autograph area to see what number they are up to.
Still, they have launched it at the deep end, at their biggest show
would have been handy if they’d had the YALC guests too, they seem to stick very well to their schedule, just needed to grab hold of one
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I haven’t found him yet, if anyone can point me in the right corner please.
Answered.
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43 minutes ago, Faerie Tanith said:
Not one for me, but I'm amazed she's only £35- every Doctor Who fan I know is nuts for River Song!
She’s been before though and hasn’t added a Marvel or Star Wars film to her credits.
And it’s still an increase, she was what £20... £25? last time. So it’s still a reasonable increase.
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Any idea on the Doctor Who stories?
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Who was it then?
Doctor who guests (LFCC 2023)
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I have some pretty obscure ones signed. It’s always the last thing the actors and writers expect to see. They even sometimes say it’s the first one they’ve signed.
like Ben Aaronovitch and Steven Moffat on the Bernice Summerfield Treasury, Marina on the Martha Jones, and The Inbetweeners on theirs.
and one of the first things I got David Tennant to sign was Colditz. Think I have the full cast on that.
I don’t get everyone on everything anymore though. Whilst I might have Trevor and Chris on every series of Jago and Litefoot that they could sign, and Sophie on pretty much every story she’s been in, one River cover signed by Alex is enough. I still got about 5 things signed by her last time.