Humber Unleashed

So it's a return to Humber Unleashed, which is the 1st event on this blog that I am covering for a 2nd time after attending in November last year and meeting Garrick Hagon (though without counting I think this is like the 4th or 5th one I have attended), in the previous write up I wrote about how I was glad that Humber Unleashed was held at a new venue, because it was such a more open space... and then oh so predictably they announced to be back at the old venue - don't know if it was getting some work done last time round, and then a couple of months before the event, they announced it was returning to the same place as last time, so yay and now I've made it a long winded opening to this that really wasn't needed, but if you have any previous convention write-ups the beginning is always way longer then it should be. That all been said more so than usual I was looking forward to this event as it had 2 guests I wanted to meet and also for the first time they are doing advanced tickets (which was one of the main issues at previous events - I felt like I have spent more time queuing to get into Humber Unleashed events then the actual event), however I knew I wasn't going make it for opening time so I just went the normal entry hoping there wouldn't be much of a cue. And then my Sunday plans pre-event got cancelled so then I could have made it to the event advanced but as quick as I got to see the guests it really wasn't necessary to pay that bit extra.

So I got there around 11, with a queue there but luckily they got through it quick and was in no later than 5 past and saw that both guest I wanted to meet had little or no queue, and first went up to Colin Baker, the 2nd man I have met to play the Doctor and the 28th name on my poster, he seemed a friendly enough guy - wished he and signed over himself but least he did an arrow to himself, it's growing on me the more I look at it though

next up was Spencer Wilding, when originally announced I was going to get him on my Rogue One Chirashi, but then at Valiant, Richard Franklin signed it too big - which ended me deciding not to turn it into a multi piece (so I guess he saved me a lot of money over the next few months) - and also there is some sort of question mark of what Wilding actually did in the final cut of Rogue One, with varying reports that he didn't make the final cut (only the trailer) or a more generous one scene in the final cut, it didn't help that one of the main guys from Showmasters (maybe the boss, he's called Jason Joiner) was trying to get to the bottom of it and he replied in a bit of a manner that didn't make him look good -

He could have responded addressing which scenes he was actually in bu it came across ore defensive then that (also given his size aren't a lot people little to him), but anyway he's made it to the screen for a number of roles including a couple of items I was planning on getting today, but anyway I digress I wanted him for two things, firstly I added him to my DW poster where he played multiple characters which he wrote

The poster has it looks now

And I also got him to sign my Game Of Thrones poster (the 5th name on there), he played a White Walker in the pilot

and the poster has it looks now

He was actually a very friendly guy so props to him and he's right Vader is Vader for a collector, I mean I'd get somebody whose scenes got deleted or replaced on a film I like, so I will give him the benefit of the doubt of it all.

I had a quick look around the stalls, to be honest at this point with the local conventions, it's seeing the same stalls again and again, so I was in and out within 30-40 minutes and to be grumpy for a second you seem to get a lot of people happily standing around blocking aisles talking to each other, which makes me not want to spend money..

Overall, a good time and quick, all future Humber Unleashed for me are going to depend on the guests they got, because everything else is personally not enough for me.