Where to begin?
LOL
I've had a reasonable amount of sleep, now, and the Airsoft related issues that bollixed Sunday evening up are now on their way to being resolved, so I feel a bit better and can therefore properly post my untainted thoughts of the weekend
First off, thanks to all of you who made the journey from Englandland for this.
For a little while after this was announced, I was worried that nobody would make the effort to come up as so many more events take place down south - Looks like our shouts of "Oi! You lot! We come down there for your events, get your collective asses up here and make ours go with a bang!"
And go with a bang it did
I've been checking the Google Blog search, and there's a few folk already mentioning us in their reports of the event... And the camera flashes that I'm still seeing are testimony to the UKCM's pulling powers.
Hell, we even got a load of bugless shots taken, and more people than ever before knew who we were.
I never got called GI Joe ONCE!
Cheers to Fraz for pulling off such a fast, and more importantly GOOD job on Kat's armour.
She had a great weekend, partially as a result of your efforts there, and is now dying to get cracking screwing up your lovely paintjob ready for November.
Having two bugs is cool, too - Even if one was a bit dehydrated, and the other quite the opposite.
Bug spooge is the best addition you could have made to Abe, Gareth. Long may you disturb people with ropey strands of slime.
I'm glad y'all enjoyed Saturday evening.
I was worried when I saw the weather on Sat morning, as when I first invited everyone round for a BBQ, I didn't know quite what "everyone" would end up entailing!
So t'was good that the weather held - And even better when it turned out that we COULD all fit comfortably into my lounge.
Just
PVB still hits like a girl, though. Hehheh.
What else, what else?
Repeatedly bumping into Wossname from Torchwood, thinking he was a crew member. ( Kat did the same ).
Repeatedly bumping into Joe McGann Off Of The Upper Hand, and knowing fine well who he was.
Unlike some. LOL
I was dead chuffed that my shoulder lamp stabilisation method worked - I can pick up my entire armour by the lamp handle now, and it won't budge, and all thanks to one little Ikea bookshelf bolt and two washers.
Yay.
Few things I'd like to see go better next year...
I think it'd be worth our while to hammer out a "Standard guest list" of some sort with Showmasters ( Has our CO decided if he wants the job full-time, yet?
) so we're not wondering what the deal's going to be the night before a show.
Given the amount of interest we can get for a show, I think a guest list of 10-15 is perfectly reasonable for a show that's going to get 7500+ attendees, with any UKCM over that number paying in, and the group as a whole splitting the cost. ( If need be. Heh heh heh. )
I'd also like a chat with the Cosplay girls to make some suggestions for tightening up their show if they plan to do it at the next one - I think that had enormous potential, with a little bit of forethought and polish.
And I do think that we should perhaps do some more "in character" sweeps of the venues we go to... Take the Bug Walks up a notch or two but also do some purely-marine work with us "hunting" bugs.
No need to actually CATCH them... So long as there's plenty of shouting into radios and looking Tactical and stuffs!
Umm...
So yeah. More comments later when I think of them - Which I likely will when I upload my pictorz.
I'll leave you with this
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