* note - I tried to write about the order of the list of stuff that happened and when I obtained autographs but it's from my memory so it might be in the wrong order.
So... I wasn't planning on attending this event until quite recently, I mean I keep an eye on events up and down the country (even the world) to see who might be possibly on the scene - it had never really entered my conscious until there was a guest announcement - Donnie Yen - you see my Brother is a huge fan of Asian cinema and Hong Kong in particular - he's been a fan for years and by that proxy I grew up watching a lot of Asian cinema - this was the early 90's and VHS so it was mostly dubbed in that time period.
He convinced me to go even offering to pay for my accommodation for the night, and then a couple of guest annoumcements happened on top of that that all had some sort of interest to me and so with an incredibly cheap travel ticket to do the Friday and Saturday of this event (the only two days Donnie was doing) and hit the tube (and a bit of trial and error to work it all out)
Disaster almost struck on the Friday though - my Brother thought he had lost his phone and we frantically looked for it and managed to get the station just as the bus was pulling out and managed to luckily wave him and he stopped, he wasn't happy but at least he stopped... In an effort to bore you I'll just cut to the part that we got to the venue at around 12:30 so all in good time, security checked our bags and we went straight to the desk where you buy autographs (I'd prefer cash at table) and I got Donnie Yen plus ones for the others I planned to get on the Friday (which I ended up saving 2 of the vouchers until the Saturday much to my benefit), Yen's cue was huge so we'd be going there later.
My Brother went to the photoshoot for Donnie Yen he had purchased (which ended up running late which was a pattern for the weekend) and I decided to look around, and the first person I ended up meeting was The Incredible Hulk himself - Lou Ferrigno - who I had heard had a reputation as not the nicest... but he was nice, signed this awesome German poster posted here
and a close up of my signature
and he shook my hand and and I was on my way, I noticed a small queue had started to form for Hynden Walch who was signing for free on an item they provided and soon got her on an Adventure Time photo and she was sweet
Next up as Mark Dexter, who has appeared as Rimmer's Brother in Red Dwarf (Series XI I think) but as also been in Doctor Who so of course my poster makes an appearance here (here is just a close up of the autograph as the poster will make a comeback)
His onscreen brother Chris Barrie, was also sat near by so I got him on a Red Dwarf I DVD cover, another nice guy.
I then went to see Eugene Simon who plays Lancel Lannister in Game Of Thrones - such a nice, nice guy and even told him he was nothing like his character, he put an awesome quote and symbol
I met another Lannister after him and got Nell Tiger Free who was only announced on the Thursday and she signed near Eugene to make it a Lannister section
Here is the poster as it stands with 7 signatures (the 10 signature goal for the year is obtainable)
My Brother eventually left the Donnie Yen photoshoot and then we joined the queue for the autograph, to cut a long story short we queued up ages and had to cut it off before they got to us... however they gave a ticket to get in for next autograph session so we'd been seen by him. So we ended up walking around seeing the stalls - a lot of anime, sadly not enough vintage stuff for my liking - and ate some Japanese chicken and ended up coming back for the last Donnie Yen autograph session and true to their word we got to meet him, the experience was quick but she said hello, and I got him on my Iron Monkey DVD cover.
That was it for the Friday and off to find our accommodation which was a hostel, it was only £14 for the night, which could have ended up being a disaster due to us not having her passport but the receptionist looked the other way.
And that was it for day 1.
So... I wasn't planning on attending this event until quite recently, I mean I keep an eye on events up and down the country (even the world) to see who might be possibly on the scene - it had never really entered my conscious until there was a guest announcement - Donnie Yen - you see my Brother is a huge fan of Asian cinema and Hong Kong in particular - he's been a fan for years and by that proxy I grew up watching a lot of Asian cinema - this was the early 90's and VHS so it was mostly dubbed in that time period.
He convinced me to go even offering to pay for my accommodation for the night, and then a couple of guest annoumcements happened on top of that that all had some sort of interest to me and so with an incredibly cheap travel ticket to do the Friday and Saturday of this event (the only two days Donnie was doing) and hit the tube (and a bit of trial and error to work it all out)
Disaster almost struck on the Friday though - my Brother thought he had lost his phone and we frantically looked for it and managed to get the station just as the bus was pulling out and managed to luckily wave him and he stopped, he wasn't happy but at least he stopped... In an effort to bore you I'll just cut to the part that we got to the venue at around 12:30 so all in good time, security checked our bags and we went straight to the desk where you buy autographs (I'd prefer cash at table) and I got Donnie Yen plus ones for the others I planned to get on the Friday (which I ended up saving 2 of the vouchers until the Saturday much to my benefit), Yen's cue was huge so we'd be going there later.
My Brother went to the photoshoot for Donnie Yen he had purchased (which ended up running late which was a pattern for the weekend) and I decided to look around, and the first person I ended up meeting was The Incredible Hulk himself - Lou Ferrigno - who I had heard had a reputation as not the nicest... but he was nice, signed this awesome German poster posted here
And that was it for day 1.
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