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A1 in Braehead is always a good choice, I didn't get there till around 3:30 and still got a good 20 odd comics. Forbidden is notorious for only stocking a set amount of FCBD titles, last year there was only 4 different choices.

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Free comic book day?! The North East needs that........

It's worldwide, not just Scottish. It gets bigger and bigger each year. I just went into Stirling instead of Glasgow this year, much easier :dance:

 

Cool i was in Stirling for Free comic book day too i was there at about 10:30 :smile:

 

Nice and early lol. Seen your wee side thing, Im in Dunipace as well most days so Stirling is handy for it. Shame Falkirk has nothing, but not sure of a huge demand.

 

Thats true lol worried they would be all sold out :smile: i know what you mean it would be great to have a comic/memoribilia shop in falkirk but i dont think there would be a big demand for it there used to be a wee music/film memoribila shop in falkirk called fame but it only lasted a year,do you work in dunipace ? :smile:

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Free comic book day?! The North East needs that........

It's worldwide, not just Scottish. It gets bigger and bigger each year. I just went into Stirling instead of Glasgow this year, much easier :dance:

 

Cool i was in Stirling for Free comic book day too i was there at about 10:30 :smile:

 

Nice and early lol. Seen your wee side thing, Im in Dunipace as well most days so Stirling is handy for it. Shame Falkirk has nothing, but not sure of a huge demand.

 

Thats true lol worried they would be all sold out :smile: i know what you mean it would be great to have a comic/memoribilia shop in falkirk but i dont think there would be a big demand for it there used to be a wee music/film memoribila shop in falkirk called fame but it only lasted a year,do you work in dunipace ? :smile:

 

Live in Denny, work in Glasgow, own a business in Dunipace haha. Its "Red" if that gives you a clue. Did you make it out for the gala?

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Free comic book day?! The North East needs that........

It's worldwide, not just Scottish. It gets bigger and bigger each year. I just went into Stirling instead of Glasgow this year, much easier :dance:

 

Cool i was in Stirling for Free comic book day too i was there at about 10:30 :smile:

 

Nice and early lol. Seen your wee side thing, Im in Dunipace as well most days so Stirling is handy for it. Shame Falkirk has nothing, but not sure of a huge demand.

 

Thats true lol worried they would be all sold out :smile: i know what you mean it would be great to have a comic/memoribilia shop in falkirk but i dont think there would be a big demand for it there used to be a wee music/film memoribila shop in falkirk called fame but it only lasted a year,do you work in dunipace ? :smile:

 

Live in Denny, work in Glasgow, own a business in Dunipace haha. Its "Red" if that gives you a clue. Did you make it out for the gala?

 

I went to the Denny Gala, although not til around three o'clock because I was working. The rest of my family went before that and said that the turn out was massive. It was still busy when I arrived

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Free comic book day?! The North East needs that........

It's worldwide, not just Scottish. It gets bigger and bigger each year. I just went into Stirling instead of Glasgow this year, much easier :dance:

 

Cool i was in Stirling for Free comic book day too i was there at about 10:30 :smile:

 

Nice and early lol. Seen your wee side thing, Im in Dunipace as well most days so Stirling is handy for it. Shame Falkirk has nothing, but not sure of a huge demand.

 

Thats true lol worried they would be all sold out :smile: i know what you mean it would be great to have a comic/memoribilia shop in falkirk but i dont think there would be a big demand for it there used to be a wee music/film memoribila shop in falkirk called fame but it only lasted a year,do you work in dunipace ? :smile:

 

Live in Denny, work in Glasgow, own a business in Dunipace haha. Its "Red" if that gives you a clue. Did you make it out for the gala?

 

i know the one lol,i did make it to the gala it was alot busier than i thought it would be my nephew enjoyed sitting in the fire engine and the wee rides,did you enjoy the gala ? :smile:

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In Glasgow they have a special policy at the door where you need to give the crew member giving you your ticket a handshake and also you must try and be as Scottish as possible when talking to guests to make them feel at home. Unfortunately for them that means lots of passive agressiveness and fans not wanting to spend their money. I'm only joking. For anyone visiting Scotland for the first time we aren't really like that. Not at all.

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sooo this will be my first collectormania event...

any advice for a newbie going alone? :)

 

We really are a friendly bunch, you'll be fine. Last year was my first collectormania and I went with a friend who had no interest in anything there whatsoever. After being asked about leaving every 5 minutes last time, I've decided that this year I'll be going alone (so you wont be the only one).

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You'll need to learn Scottish english then.

 

haha, i've been up here 3 years so i'm starting to get the hang of it. friends back home say i'm starting to sound a bit Scottish too, but i don't believe them.

 

 

sooo this will be my first collectormania event...

any advice for a newbie going alone? :)

 

We really are a friendly bunch, you'll be fine. Last year was my first collectormania and I went with a friend who had no interest in anything there whatsoever. After being asked about leaving every 5 minutes last time, I've decided that this year I'll be going alone (so you wont be the only one).

 

 

that's good to know :) yea, i'm pretty certain most of my friends would be bored and not want to hang around, so i figured i'd just go alone. and then i saw these forums and decided it would probably be a good place to make friends. haha. to be honest i'll probably have that much i want to do and see when i'm there that i won't even notice i'm on my own.

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Just wondering, will there be any more "big" guests announced? There's just so many guest announcements for LFCC every day, and every friday there is another big guest, just getting a little jealous :blush:

 

More doctors? MK got a few,

Companions?

 

 

Just really wanting some more announcements of big guest's as it's my first year and i'm only going to meet Who guests and i would like there to be alot more

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You'll need to learn Scottish english then.

 

haha, i've been up here 3 years so i'm starting to get the hang of it. friends back home say i'm starting to sound a bit Scottish too, but i don't believe them.

 

 

sooo this will be my first collectormania event...

any advice for a newbie going alone? :)

 

We really are a friendly bunch, you'll be fine. Last year was my first collectormania and I went with a friend who had no interest in anything there whatsoever. After being asked about leaving every 5 minutes last time, I've decided that this year I'll be going alone (so you wont be the only one).

 

 

that's good to know :) yea, i'm pretty certain most of my friends would be bored and not want to hang around, so i figured i'd just go alone. and then i saw these forums and decided it would probably be a good place to make friends. haha. to be honest i'll probably have that much i want to do and see when i'm there that i won't even notice i'm on my own.

 

 

 

No you need to let them go now. You're in Scotland now, soon to be independant. It's time to find new friends and live a new life. I'm guessing your social circle is like most peoples, the gothy one, the rich one, the sporty one, the brainy one, the one that looks 20 years older than their age. All we need to do is take you to McDonalds and get you a milkshake and sit you in amongst lots of young people at dinner time and you'll be chatting away and laughing and using the free wi-fi then your friends from England will phone and you'll be like 'ach away with ye, i'm too busy eating haggis neeps and tatties and drinking irn bru than listen to you, jock and angus are my new pals.'

 

 

 

 

London is getting more guests because they are trying to make it the biggest event in Europe and also it's London so of course they will get more. That's where all the tourists go and all the famous celebrities live and the TV studios are and the Queen lives there and it's the heart of the UK. That's why big singers do 4 shows in London while the rest of the UK gets 1 or 2. It's London! It's the hub of all things.........popular and cool and ......hip. We'd all love in London if we could wouldn't we. We could get our own big tower block and live in it, all the scottish geeky people. Thats actually another good idea for a movie! I'm gonna write it and get it made. Then i'll be at the shows signing DVDs of it. I'll have my own table next to.....Stan Lee maybe or one of the other big guests like...........someone from Doctor Who. I wouldn't charge much though. I'd want to be different. Even if they just paid me £50,000 for the 3 days I could just sign for free after that and meet all the fans. Infact the more I'm thinking of it the more this idea is better suited to a sitcom. Like a british big bang theory.

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No you need to let them go now. You're in Scotland now, soon to be independant. It's time to find new friends and live a new life. I'm guessing your social circle is like most peoples, the gothy one, the rich one, the sporty one, the brainy one, the one that looks 20 years older than their age. All we need to do is take you to McDonalds and get you a milkshake and sit you in amongst lots of young people at dinner time and you'll be chatting away and laughing and using the free wi-fi then your friends from England will phone and you'll be like 'ach away with ye, i'm too busy eating haggis neeps and tatties and drinking irn bru than listen to you, jock and angus are my new pals.'

 

actually my social circle mostly consists of me, my duvet and a packet of biscuits and my english friends only ever contact me if i contact them first, which sucks. i haven't really made many friends up here, tbh since i work full time (obviously i have friends at work, but they stay at work) and moved up here alone - i'm not really the type to go clubbing/to the pub on my own - and any attempts at making friends at events/gigs has resulted in me finding people that have travelled from further afield so i gave up and became a social recluse. haha.

 

i'd never actually tried haggis until i moved up here and i'm now completely addicted to it. and one of the few friends i do have works for barrs so i'm nicely topped up on irn bru and limeade. :D

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I'm much the same way, I don't do the pub or clubbing thing because I don't drink and no one really wants to sit with someone who doesn't drink and I don't know how well many patience and attitude would fare. Different if i'm getting something to eat or something. I've went to a few gigs alone infact just a few weeks ago I went to see Katy Perry alone and much like the last time I went alone I did get some funny looks off people but I'm not a middle aged dude standing with a beer in my hand or some guy who obviously spent more time on his skin and hair than the girl he was with. I'm just a regular guy. Although to be fair the girl was tiny and i just stood in front of her the whole night lol. Ahh my scottishness is coming out now! I'll need to shut up before i tell more stories. It's fine though, I actually like it because I think if you have people go with you then they either go with you out of pity or if your Scottish, they tend to think that means you're paying for them to go so you need to pay for them to go aswell. It's like going to the cinema, some people can't go alone, they just can't do it, they just don't have the confidence for it, they need someone to go with them and it's just like a gig, you can't talk to them during it. It's not a social thing, it's a solo thing. You can only really talk to someone before and after the event but some people do get nervous going alone to things. I went alone to Collectormania Glasgow last year and it was fine. I've been to quite a few on my own. You get more of a laugh I think because you you're not worried about making someone else happy.

 

If you're working full time how much time do you really have to socialise anyway? Not a lot if you're not into socialising or the 'after work drinks' on a Friday. Every place I worked I knew people that lived for Friday, couldn't wait for the Friday so they could drink. There's always one that goes for a quick pint during lunch but that might just be a Glasgow thing. But that's their life. Just work, pay the bills, work all week so you need very little food in the house, get a drink and then back to work and repeat, rinse, repeat. Nothing wrong with it, most people are like that. They have a routine, a way of getting through life and they stick to it. Ours is just a little bit less exciting lol.

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Yea, i'm quite happy going places on my own that aren't kind of based fully on the socialising side. i go to gigs and theatre shows and snooker matches on my own all the time, but you don't really get much chance to talk at those anyway, so it doesn't make a difference whether you're with people or not. and conventions i tend to like making new friends there, or just sparking up conversations while i queue so i don't mind being alone there. at cons it's probably easier being alone to be honest because if you have slightly different interests things will probably clash anyway, in which case you either have to make a sacrifice or split up.

 

I did start seeing a guy a year or so ago and started going out to pubs in glasgow after work, but i'll be honest i prefer to get home from work, and then just crash out or just have a shower and then do stuff in the house. it's not that i don't drink i just don't see the point in wasting money on alcohol when you don't really get anything out of it in the end. work is pretty unsocial too really, the only time they ever go out for drinks on friday is for peoples leaving do's or special occasions with clients, so it's mostly just a lunch time chat with them. being an engineer as well, (25. female) the majority of people at work are a totally different generation, married with kids my age so it's not really like i can tag along on nights out with them in an attempt to meet new people haha.

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Yea, i'm quite happy going places on my own that aren't kind of based fully on the socialising side. i go to gigs and theatre shows and snooker matches on my own all the time, but you don't really get much chance to talk at those anyway, so it doesn't make a difference whether you're with people or not. and conventions i tend to like making new friends there, or just sparking up conversations while i queue so i don't mind being alone there. at cons it's probably easier being alone to be honest because if you have slightly different interests things will probably clash anyway, in which case you either have to make a sacrifice or split up.

 

I did start seeing a guy a year or so ago and started going out to pubs in glasgow after work, but i'll be honest i prefer to get home from work, and then just crash out or just have a shower and then do stuff in the house. it's not that i don't drink i just don't see the point in wasting money on alcohol when you don't really get anything out of it in the end. work is pretty unsocial too really, the only time they ever go out for drinks on friday is for peoples leaving do's or special occasions with clients, so it's mostly just a lunch time chat with them. being an engineer as well, (25. female) the majority of people at work are a totally different generation, married with kids my age so it's not really like i can tag along on nights out with them in an attempt to meet new people haha.

 

Like I said, you won't be the only one attending by yourself. Last year I asked my friend to go along with me simply because I didn't know what to expect. He had his 'I'm too cool for this' head on which resulted in us coming home pretty early on. It was a good thing that Robert Englund's talk was on later in the afternoon or we'd have went home even earlier. This year I'm actually looking forward to going along by myself as I'll have more time to look around, meet the guests, buy some unnecessary stuff that my wife will hate, and hopefully speak to some of the nice folks i've met on here.

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Many people do get something out of it, they get to numb the pain of reality for a few hours lol. I shouldn't laugh. You could ask them to bring their kids along and then you can hang out and have dinner at their house lol. A lot of works are like that and then in 20 years time you'll be one of them and you can pass your knowledge and wisdom down to another young woman starting on the job. When I was working a lot of contracts and temp jobs everyone had different times for breaks and lunch so you could never really talk to anyone because everyone was different and just did their own thing so there is no choice really but to sit in a canteen on your own or go out and buy something to eat.

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