Sebster118 Posted June 3, 2017 Share Posted June 3, 2017 (edited) I know that any crew/mods are unlikely to see this, but I, and some others, have arrived at around 6.30 today. We're now in the building and the barriers have been set up requiring us to walk the equivalent of a marathon. My issue is that there have been several queue jumpers going under the barrier tapes, and some of us now have about a hundred rather than a few. I will be speaking to crew members about this when I get a chance as the chances of some of us getting early VQ tickets has reduced. Posting this here in case any crew/mods might see this. I acknowledge this is your first event at the NEC but hope this feedback helps. Edited June 3, 2017 by Sebster118 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators StuartG2198 Posted June 3, 2017 Moderators Share Posted June 3, 2017 Thanks for letting us know sebster, unfortunately there is only QS and I online who are not at the show. We will try to get something to the folks at the venue but they may not pick up our messages in time, as soon as you can please raise with a crew member. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
18blue78 Posted June 3, 2017 Share Posted June 3, 2017 So is queue jumping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebster118 Posted June 3, 2017 Author Share Posted June 3, 2017 Update: Barrier system has changed negating the marathon. Shame this wasn't the case at first. Have spoken to an NEC crew member and his response was a "nothing we can do" sort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators StuartG2198 Posted June 3, 2017 Moderators Share Posted June 3, 2017 4 minutes ago, Sebster118 said: Update: Barrier system has changed negating the marathon. Shame this wasn't the case at first. Have spoken to an NEC crew member and his response was a "nothing we can do" sort. We will feed this back into the organisers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceepeebee Posted June 3, 2017 Share Posted June 3, 2017 They ended up opening half of it for easier walking...the first few in though just walked under then as it was kind of stupid...I get it when it's fully though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebster118 Posted June 3, 2017 Author Share Posted June 3, 2017 Good news is I managed to get a couple of low number VQs and everyone else I plan to meet are open queues (including Ernie Hudson!). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wjbleming Posted June 3, 2017 Share Posted June 3, 2017 Hope that doesn't change for Ernie throughout the day, Sebster. You met him yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebster118 Posted June 3, 2017 Author Share Posted June 3, 2017 Just got his autograph. Even got him to write "That's a big Twinkie", and even gave him one. Got the Ecto 1 photoshoot with him later. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natedammit Posted June 3, 2017 Share Posted June 3, 2017 1 hour ago, Sebster118 said: Just got his autograph. Even got him to write "That's a big Twinkie", and even gave him one. I'd have probably just gone with a handshake, but fair play to you. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bumper8 Posted June 3, 2017 Share Posted June 3, 2017 7 hours ago, natedammit said: I'd have probably just gone with a handshake, but fair play to you. Brilliant! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WraithWarrior Posted June 6, 2017 Share Posted June 6, 2017 I found the same issue. We got there at 6.30 on the Saturday and when the doors opened to let us into the building, we needed to get our passes scanned, which took a while as the staff member couldn't use the scanner and people who had got there a lot later were rushing passed. We then had to walk around the whole queueing barriers only to see that as were were a few lanes from the end, someone just walked from the start straight under all of the barriers to the start of the queue at the end. This was then followed by a rush of people to the start of the line, which meant that for all the people that followed the queue properly (including people on crutches and in wheelchairs) lost their places! There was no need to make people walk all around the barrier system at the start as the queue when everyone had done the walk was only 2 lanes full Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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