For the Love of Sci Fi ‘23

Science fiction convention For the Love of Sci Fi returned for its 6th year, this time starring a host of Mandalorian and Stranger Things cast. I’ve never seen Mandalorian, and I couldn’t get into the pilot of Stranger Things, so a lot of the guests were lost on me. I’d bought an entrance ticket a while ago along with a photo op ticket for Tom Skerritt, Captain Dallas in Alien, but he cancelled, sadly. Monopoly Events, running the convention, refunded the photo op but not the entrance… so to Bowlers Exhibition Centre I went on Sunday morning. 

 

 

 

Yorkshire band Lina and the Lions performed a set. 

 

 

Tardis

Back to the Future Part II set

  

Gaming area

Lorraine's kitchen set, Back to the Future

Hopper's truck, Stranger Things

ECTO-1, Ghostbusters

Lina and the Lions

Rhona Mitra, Kate Hedges in Ali G Indahouse, Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider games, Sonja in Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

Jabba the Hut set

T-shirts purchased from Unit 13 Originals. Name the films!

Back to the Future set

Insert pun here. I'm going for Obi-Wan KenTuckey. Do better.

Gaming room with suspiciously acurate Sean of the Dead cosplayer.

Andrey Ivchenko, Grigori in Stranger Things, Kristoff in Lucifer

I ask this Grinch cosplayer for a photo. 'If you must.'

Elodie Grace Orkin, Angela in Stranger Things

Tait Fletcher, Paz Visla in The Mandalorian

Darth Vader Cosplayer in front of Death Star Wall

2 Star Wars Characters - I'm behind on this franchise tbh

Obi-Wan Kenobi cosplayer

Simon Kassianaides and Tait Fletcher from The Mandalorian

Fifth Element cosplay

Transformers

Jack Dylan Glazer, Eddie Kaspbrak in It

X Wing from Star Wars

Back to the Future Clock Tower

Brilliant Alien / Aliens cosplay with hobbit hole in b/g

X Wing

Martin Quinn, Montgomery Scott in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Nikola Djuricko, Yuri in Stranger Things

Simon Kassionades, Axe Woves in The Mandalorian, also Yusef Kabira in Quantum of Solace

A good day, despite the guests and franchises not being my thing. For the Love of Sci Fi has sadly been cancelled next year, and for the forseeable, to give the staff a break before Christmas. Fair enough. 

Monopoly’s roster is getting bigger all the time, with a recent (and possibly repeated) venture into Yorkshire so there’s plenty more to get involved with next year.