VikingGrrrl Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 1 minute ago, MisterOh said: FYI everyone. David is due to start signing again at 3pm. They just called out VQ #130 His normal shoot started about 20 min after it was supposed to, so he won't be back at 3 most likely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurdamoni Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 How is he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Beaker Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 36 minutes ago, Kurdamoni said: How is he? Awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurdamoni Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 2 hours ago, Tom Beaker said: Awesome. Thought so, I saw Some pictures pass by on Facebook and he looked awesome on them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EllaBlair Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 He was wonderful. We got his autograph first thing, he showed up at exactly 9am and he was so friendly. Chatted to us for a couple of minutes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abigail94 Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 Managed David Tennant on a vq and couldn't have been happier meeting my favourite doctor . thank you sm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littlemisstrouble6179 Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 Managed to get an auto also on vq and the tardis pic and he was so nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raylenth Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 David was amazing and can't compliment the management of his auto's enough, we weren't rushed, there was time for people to have some interaction with David who was happy and smiley and fine with having a chat with everyone 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nerd Who Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, Raylenth said: David was amazing and can't compliment the management of his auto's enough, we weren't rushed, there was time for people to have some interaction with David who was happy and smiley and fine with having a chat with everyone Meeting David was amazing. Both his photo shoots were very busy and chaotic as you would expect, there were some misunderstandings with the tickets sold at the sales desk, one person passed out in the queue, etc. but the staff had always everything under control. At the beginning I was thinking, “Oh god, how is this going to work out?” but was really, positively impressed by the end. I was one of the last people at both his shoots and I think they overrun only 10-15 minutes max, the photo quality was great as always, and still the sessions didn’t feel rushed at all, at one point David even had the time to do a little dance between one photo and the other The only thing I’d like to point out for the future - and this might not be the best place, but it did mainly apply to David’s photos - photo tickets sold at the sales desk do need a batch number written down. It would have saved a lot of stress and complaining. Since people buying at the sales desk were among the first to get through to the online store and book tickets, we would have had virtually low batch numbers, and it was a bit unfair to be pushed to the end of the sessions. It wasn’t a problem in the end, but it would have avoided a lot of stress and running around for the people who, like me, had clashes with other photo shoots and had to time everything carefully. Just saying, though, don’t know if SM could even be able to solve this situation or it’s all down to Eventbrite... Edited July 29, 2018 by Nerd Who Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wjbleming Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 2 hours ago, EllaBlair said: He was wonderful. We got his autograph first thing, he showed up at exactly 9am and he was so friendly. Chatted to us for a couple of minutes. Did he pick up on your accents, Ella? I remember him doing Who Do You Think You Are? a few years ago and he has family in the North West of NI! On another note, met David after he came back from his lunch break at 3 (that's what we were told he was doing, someone said above he had his lunch at 12 :-S) and it was only a quick chance we had with him but he was lovely! And he was great in the Diamond shoot as well! (BTW, @smithy270492, I don't know what happened when I was trying to talk to you earlier at the DP photoshoot but we had another shoot at 1.35 and was hoping at that moment to get David done before going to that on, to try and slot ourselves in) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EllaBlair Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 1 minute ago, wjbleming said: Did he pick up on your accents, Ella? I remember him doing Who Do You Think You Are? a few years ago and he has family in the North West of NI! On another note, met David after he came back from his lunch break at 3 (that's what we were told he was doing, someone said above he had his lunch at 12 :-S) and it was only a quick chance we had with him but he was lovely! And he was great in the Diamond shoot as well! (BTW, @smithy270492, I don't know what happened when I was trying to talk to you earlier at the DP photoshoot but we had another shoot at 1.35 and was hoping at that moment to get David done before going to that on, to try and slot ourselves in) No he didn't! Peter Capaldi did though and commented on it saying how he loved the Northern Irish accent because of how similar our dialect is to Scottish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wjbleming Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 Just now, EllaBlair said: No he didn't! Peter Capaldi did though and commented on it saying how he loved the Northern Irish accent because of how similar our dialect is to Scottish. Awk, now that makes it worse that I didn't get to meet Peter! lol Yeah, we didn't know if he would or not because of the WDYTYA connection but thought he might've done, he didn't mention it with us but thought he might do for yourselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EllaBlair Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 3 minutes ago, wjbleming said: Awk, now that makes it worse that I didn't get to meet Peter! lol Yeah, we didn't know if he would or not because of the WDYTYA connection but thought he might've done, he didn't mention it with us but thought he might do for yourselves. You're making me want to watch his episode of that again it was such a good episode! We had a lovely chat with David regardless, asked him what persuaded him to come so last minute. He said Showmasters called him yesterday morning, I guess as a last ditch attempt, saying they got Peter Davison and asking if he would come. He called Peter up to check if he was coming and then agreed. Hence the late announcement! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrehistoricCat Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 Please please please try to get David for another event with a bit more warning! I was staying in a hotel last night when I saw the announcement, but couldn't get on the ticket site due to the terrible hotel wi-fi. I really hope after today he'll agree to more cons 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autographfan Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 Is David Tennant the friendliest person in the world? I think so. Even though he had huge demand, he took the time to speak personally to everyone in the queue and was really genuine and interested, whilst also managing to get through a sizeable number of VQ tickets (I heard from someone he got to about 200 on VQ as well as seeing all the Diamond Passes?). 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homerj Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 13 hours ago, PrehistoricCat said: Please please please try to get David for another event with a bit more warning! I was staying in a hotel last night when I saw the announcement, but couldn't get on the ticket site due to the terrible hotel wi-fi. I really hope after today he'll agree to more cons I agree - great to have a photo but all the things that I had for him to sign were at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astro_Nut Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 3 hours ago, Nerd Who said: The only thing I’d like to point out for the future - and this might not be the best place, but it did mainly apply to David’s photos - photo tickets sold at the sales desk do need a batch number written down. This would have been a special case as David was only announced during the show. Normally, sales at the show would automatically end up being later batches so would be scheduled for the end of the shoot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators StuartG2198 Posted July 29, 2018 Moderators Share Posted July 29, 2018 51 minutes ago, Astro_Nut said: This would have been a special case as David was only announced during the show. Normally, sales at the show would automatically end up being later batches so would be scheduled for the end of the shoot. Nerd Who, Astro Nut is correct this is normally the case but as David’s attendance was VERY last minute things were slightly different to how we’d prefer them to be. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayhem Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 If I'd made it Sunday, I would have chatting more Duck Tales with David rather than Who hah hah... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamA96 Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 Missed out on the chance to get a photo with David although I did lay eyes on him at the event. Really glad to see people overjoyed at getting the photos with him seems like I'll have to chase David to the US lol. On a final note a big congratulations to SM for being the first convention to get all 4 Modern Doctors! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLastStarfighter Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 Damn I lost David Tennant! I hope he will be back in 2019! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravogd Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 I come from Bathgate where David was born. I’m not normally that chatty with guests but when I told him he kept asking question after question. Where did I live? Was such and such a shop still there? How’s the town looking these days? I found out he lived about 3 mins walk away from where I do and he learned to drive on the roads around my house. It made the interaction a bit more normal than usual rather than trying to think of things to say (which I can’t which is why I’m not chatty LOL). It’s a weird quirk us Scots seem to have when we meet other Scots in foreign countries (yes London is foreign ) we always end up talking about home. Same thing happened with Jimmy Vee, Capaldi and Moffat this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sassy1988 Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 Yea this announcement was typical, I had only just arrived at the Hotel when I saw the announcement and it was funny before I went online I was watching the ending of St Trinians and was like 'Wouldn't it be cool to get Tennant?' then I logged online and saw this lol Unfortunately I never managed to get a DP for him and tbh with what I had already booked for that day it may of been a blessing that I missed out as I would of had to cancel someone on my list to make room for Tennant, which I personally didn't want to do. I did try to get in early for a VQ but somehow despite it being only 10am when I got in the VQ was already at 400+. I ended up with VQ 438 iirc and the crew at his table told us the queue was closed at 400 which was typical, so close lol Yea I really hope Tennant will return so I can complete my Doctor Who collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raylenth Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 Still can't believe it happened, thought he would never be on my Marvel poster. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wjbleming Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 10 minutes ago, Raylenth said: Still can't believe it happened, thought he would never be on my Marvel poster. Might want to pinch yourself again, cos it happened! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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