A hug and a sneeze - the Blackpool shinding

POSTED BY: Wren
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KARENKAY99

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 1:30 AM

shiny!! thanks to everyone here who shared their experience!! next best thing to being there.

"They say the snow on the roof is too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger."

CALHOUN

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 2:31 AM

You are Australian? and you bought Firefly DVD's over here in Aus?

I am Australian and have asked all major stores about Firefly DVD and none have ever heard of it.

I got mine from abroad when they first came out.

LIGHTINTHEBRAINPAN

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 3:07 AM

Wren, thanks for all the great info! I'm a relative newcomer to Firefly fandom, and it's great to see that the actors have such a great rapport and ease with each other.

I have a small, stupid question: So what was Fillion's girlfriend like? Just curious...

WREN

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 7:28 AM

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Originally posted by lightinthebrainpan:
I have a small, stupid question: So what was Fillion's girlfriend like? Just curious...

Tall, slim, blonde, very very pretty and very very nice.
I am not worried though, he and I are destined to be together.

WREN

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 9:03 AM

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Originally posted by fireflyfanUK:
i posted at about 15 differnt buffy/firefly forums asking, no, begging people to try and get me nathans autograph. do you think i remembered i was a member of this forum at the time ?? no :( i couldnt make it down to blackpool, i had no money :( im glad all that went had such a smashing time tho :) and thanks wren for sharing pics with us :) the news of a possible sarenity shindig has got me a little less depressed. i might still be in with a chance of meeting my idol (nathan) after all. anyone have anymore info on that??

No proper info at present. The idea is to keep it small so we can spend a bit of time with the guests. A steward told me 500, but other people are quoting 1000 tickets.
Sean (the organiser) has already spoken to Nathan, Summer and Jewel. They have indicated they would be interested in going. I was also told that they are trying to get Adam Baldwin.
Sean cannot provide a date at present because he has to fit it around the filming, release and promotion of Serenity.
Stewards at the Blackpool shindig are allegadly getting first dibs on tickets. There is a lot of interest so I think tickets will sell quickly.

Have you tried e-bay for an autographed picture? People often get a couple of pictures signed and sell them on. I know they have one of Jewel and another of Nathan as Caleb on there.

I expect to see dvd sales rise this week. Lots of the Buffy fans had never seen Firefly. Having met the crew and had a talking to from us Browncoats they are now intending to buy the dvd. Everyone thought Nathan, Jewel and Summer were wonderful, though the Buffy people think Nathan has a bum fixation. This is because he kept making insider jokes about Trash.

NKB

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 12:42 PM

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It's just not right and it's just not fair.

Nathan Fillion

...And it doesn't leave room for a spin-off ;) lol

Well my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.

HEL

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 1:00 PM

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Originally posted by Wren:
The following is the ramblings of my shindig trip:

Friday - We ended up back in the hall where Serenity was showing. Unfortunately, there wasn't a proper sound system so all you got was a mass of very loud sound which hurt your ears. A lot of people left during the first fifteen minutes.

Quick question - why didn't you move closer to the stage??
The only seats that were reserved were the front 4 (or so) for off-duty stewards and event staff.
Unless the hall was mega packed (which happened three times, I think, for the Opening ceremony, Fancy Dress and Closing ceremony) then there should have been loads of spaces :lol:

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The merchandise area finally opened, but there was nothing Firefly related, not even the dvd!

Ummmm, I thought that the only licensed bit of merchandise is the DVD and what the autograph photo guys were selling.
Would have been a bit hard to get anything :lol:

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Finally it was our turn for the photo. Nathan was lovely.

Yum, Nathan. I just died and went to Heaven!!!!!!

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He made a fuss of my kids and gave my four year old daughter a hug. He then introduced the kids to his girlfriend. The rest of the day was geared towards Buffy fans so we left.

Ya missed the Opening Ceremony - that was a shame, as they got such a massive cheer when they came out onto the stage!

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She had enjoyed working on Dead like me and thought the show and cast were great. However, she had not enjoyed filming the sex scene because the clothes were really uncomfortable and she found the whole scene uncomfortable to do. If she could travel back she wasn't sure she would do the scene. (For those who never saw the show(I thought it was crap) she was dressed in goth gear and had sex with a reaper in a shop cupboard)

And a bunch of us thought it was really good.
Each to their own, I suppose.

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The cast of that America soap he was in (can't remember what it was called)

As I missed some of his talk - was it "2 Guys and a Girl" or "MissMatch" - just cos I meant to ask him a question about MissMatch and didn't get the chance.

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Autographs were being called by ticket numbers. If you were not there when your number cas called you missed out. The rest of the afternoon was spent waiting for our numbers, which were never called!

I heard that once your number had been called they were letting people in. Maybe I heard wrong *g*

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Sunday - They had abandoned the number calling system for two of the Buffy guests, so we queued for an hour.

That's not true - Clare and Nikolaus were always called by raffle ticket number.
This is cos Clare has been so many times!!!!

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When we got to the front of the queue they informed us people with small children could push in! We then wandered round to the other autograph room where the nice steward let us in even though our numbers hadn't been called.

I was told that you could only go in once your number had been called, regardless of whether you had kids with you, or were disabled or whatever.

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Edit: Nearly forgot, they are planning on doing a Serenity shindig next year. They hope to get this shindigs guests back, including Gina and Morena. One of the staff told me tickets will be limited to 500 and they are currently trying to get Adam Baldwin.

Dunno about ticket numbers - am guessing that it'll be in London (which is where Starfury hold most of their conventions) in which case it'll be around 600-700 people.
Which would be totally shiny if that many people came!!!

So who's going to see Summer in Halloween????

HEL

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 1:03 PM

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Originally posted by Wren:
Stewards at the Blackpool shindig are allegadly getting first dibs on tickets. There is a lot of interest so I think tickets will sell quickly.

I know that the stewards got first dibs at Starfury:Prime but that's all.
As far as I know, the tickets for Serenity haven't gone on sale whereas the Prime tickets went on sale on the Sunday of Fusion.

FIREFLYFANUK

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 1:56 PM

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Originally posted by Wren:
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Originally posted by fireflyfanUK:
i posted at about 15 differnt buffy/firefly forums asking, no, begging people to try and get me nathans autograph. do you think i remembered i was a member of this forum at the time ?? no :( i couldnt make it down to blackpool, i had no money :( im glad all that went had such a smashing time tho :) and thanks wren for sharing pics with us :) the news of a possible sarenity shindig has got me a little less depressed. i might still be in with a chance of meeting my idol (nathan) after all. anyone have anymore info on that??

No proper info at present. The idea is to keep it small so we can spend a bit of time with the guests. A steward told me 500, but other people are quoting 1000 tickets.
Sean (the organiser) has already spoken to Nathan, Summer and Jewel. They have indicated they would be interested in going. I was also told that they are trying to get Adam Baldwin.
Sean cannot provide a date at present because he has to fit it around the filming, release and promotion of Serenity.
Stewards at the Blackpool shindig are allegadly getting first dibs on tickets. There is a lot of interest so I think tickets will sell quickly.

Have you tried e-bay for an autographed picture? People often get a couple of pictures signed and sell them on. I know they have one of Jewel and another of Nathan as Caleb on there.

I expect to see dvd sales rise this week. Lots of the Buffy fans had never seen Firefly. Having met the crew and had a talking to from us Browncoats they are now intending to buy the dvd. Everyone thought Nathan, Jewel and Summer were wonderful, though the Buffy people think Nathan has a bum fixation. This is because he kept making insider jokes about Trash.

Im glad more and more people are starting to turn over to firefly now. i was a fan from the begining because i have allways been a fan of nathan, he is my idol and my inspiration.

thanks for the tip about e bay, i will try it. it would be great to get a personal autograph, and actually meet him tho, but i will try.

im glad everyone said he was a nice guy, it would have been a little disalusioning if he wasnt. you now how it is when you idolize somone, you think they are the greatest, but if you find out they arnt it can be a little upsetting. ark at me, i sound more and more like stalker boy everyday lol.

thanks again everyone for shareing the fusion info, and i will have to keep an eye out for news about the serenity shinding. i hate to think how much tickets will cost :(

thanks again

Darren
fieldrebel@aol.com

ps. join my new forum please :) i need members, its an ego thing :)

http://enterthelimbo.proboards23.com/

WREN

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 3:48 PM

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Quick question - why didn't you move closer to the stage??

Erm, I am assuming you didn't read this properly because I never actually mentioned where I was sitting. Despite that, I did change seats but the reverberations were just as bad where ever I sat.

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Ummmm, I thought that the only licensed bit of merchandise is the DVD and what the autograph photo guys were selling.

True, but I had expected some of the dealers to be selling other photos and I had expected a t-shirt with Firefly and the shindig details on it. Saying that on Sunday one of the dealers produced some air brushed Firefly shirts with Firefly across the top and planets underneath. Unfortunately they were priced at £25 which was out of my price range.

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And a bunch of us thought it was really good.
Each to their own, I suppose.

True enough, after all there are people who don't like Firefly!!!!!!!

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As I missed some of his talk - was it "2 Guys and a Girl" or "MissMatch" - just cos I meant to ask him a question about MissMatch and didn't get the chance.

It was Two guys and a girl. He also said that during his time on the show he loved doing it but hated the early starts.

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I heard that once your number had been called they were letting people in. Maybe I heard wrong

I am assuming you mean you could go in at anytime once your batch was called.
They may have been letting people in, but they were not suppose too. The reason being that if they called batch 1-100 and 50 of those people didn't turned up, they didn't want them turning up during the 500-600 session and delaying it for the people who had bothered to turn up on time. When the batch numbers 1400-1600 came up for Firefly only people with those numbers should have queued, the people under 1400 had missed their chance. The exception was people who were caught up elsewhere, such as another autograph room.

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That's not true - Clare and Nikolaus were always called by raffle ticket number.
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Fair enough, I only saw the sign on the Sunday so assumed they had run through the ticket numbers, and had moved onto the raffle system to give those that hadn't made it for the ticket numbers a chance.

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I was told that you could only go in once your number had been called, regardless of whether you had kids with you, or were disabled or whatever.

Sorry, I wasn't very clear here. Yes your number batch was suppose to be called first, but once it was if you had children or were handicapped you moved to the front of your batch queue.
However, some stewards were letting the handicapped and families through even if their numbers weren't called, this happened to us for the Emma Caulfield signings.

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Dunno about ticket numbers - am guessing that it'll be in London (which is where Starfury hold most of their conventions) in which case it'll be around 600-700 people.

The steward I was talking too (and I have no idea how 'in the know' he was) said it would probably be London, but Sean was wanting to do something in Manchester so it might be there.
A lot of people, including me, liked Blackpool so fingers crossed they will go back there.

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