Sunday 20 July 2014

London Film and Comic Con 2014

Well I don't really have a lot to say in this post with the heat i have had very little sleep and work has been a nightmare. So a lot of the plans I had for July have fallen through. But stuff still happened and i should write about it... If for no other reason than i do not want July to go by with out at least one post.

I was unable to attend the London Anime and Gaming Con. But all is not lost there was the London Film and Comic Con and Hyper Japan...   

London Film and Comic Con...
I have been looking forward to this since the start of the year. I had tickets to Stan Lees talk and a photo with him.
Out side of the convention there were some Transformers parked up and they looked really cool. the Prime they had was epic and the Bumblebee was ok too. There was also a Barricade there to. I really should of taken photos... And i know that is becoming a running theme with these posts.. i really need to start take photos while i am at these things.....

Once we got inside we had a little walk round and we were amazed by how small and cramped it felt. I think this was due to the fact that they had changed the layout of the con. the dealer area was pushed up front and the autograph area was in the middle with a couple of the stages and some photo areas at the back. This was poorly designed. The layout they had last year which has not changed for as long as i can remember was simple but very effective.  This year things were very claustrophobic and there was very little room to move down. But apart from that it was a good con i just wished we were told about the second hall next door where they had put artist ally and the gaming area... that was a good idea to use two halls but a little work on the layout and thing would have been perfect.  

After we walked around we went to get our photos. This was very cool but the organisation for this photo shoot was just terrible...when we got to the que me and my friend were met with a mass of people many of them had tickets for later in the day as this was the first of two photo shoots Stan Lee was doing that day... There was no attempt to sort the mass of people out or to try to remove the people who had tickets for the second shoot away. I understand that Stan Lee was late but that still does not change the fact that things were just poorly handled. Once he had turned up then thing started to move and we were put in to the que... My problem is this should of been done before hand and they know Stan Lee is a LEGEND and was going to cause a lot of interest and lots of people were going to turn up. But when things got moving they got moving and we were moving along very quickly. Once the photos started the que started to become smaller as the mass of people started to leave and that just left the people who had tickets for the first photo shoot. Even before the shoot Stan Lee walked passed us was we were trying to ask one of the people trying to sort out everyone. Have to admit i was a little starstruck... 


And YES i know i have a Superman T-shirt on i have been reminded of this many times. I realized what i was wearing when i was on the bus to the train station... By then it was to late to go back and change.

After we had lunch we walked around and again then went to the Stan Lee talk. This was ok i was hopping for more of an insight in to the When, How, Who. But he did tell us about that but then again how many documentaries have been made him that covers him and is life. But he did say Black Panther is in the works. SO not much to say about the talk.I did find a video of his talk on the Saturday on youtube. That covered pretty much the same stuff as the Sunday talk.

Apart from that there was not a lot to say i did pick up a Superman figure to add to the collection and the Transformers Reissue Thundercracker and now i have the three original Seekers... next on my list the Coneheads.

In other news i have finally book mine and my brothers tickets for Destination Star Trek and have tickets for talks and photos. More on that in a later post. Also i ordered the tickets for the EXG con and that is pretty much all there is for the rest of the year well except for the Winter LFCC and Winter Expo... Oh and i still have no idea what to do about the One Year Anniversary of this blog... So any ideas you have let me know.