Skipped over to the Yorkshire side for Sheffield Comic Con and a Red Dwarf double bill.
My first time at a Creed Conventions event was a little messy: I had photos booked with Craig Charles – Lister from UK Sci-Fi comedy show Red Dwarf, Radio 2 presenter, radio advert voice actor and Lloyd Mullaney off Coronation St. I also had a photo booked with Chris Barrie – Rimmer off Red Dwarf, voice actor for Spitting Image and Gordon Brittas from The Brittas Empire. Turns out he also voices Hillary the butler in the Tomb Raider games.
Creed use a raffle ticket system for photo ops: they’ll issue you a ticket then call out brackets of numbers when the photo op is taking place to minimise queues. This seemed to work with Craig Charles, and his op went smoothly.
Chris Barrie’s however, I straight up missed despite being stood in the photo op area at the time it was happening. I can’t explain it.
Towards the end of the day I spoke to a steward there who took me over to Chris who very kindly returned to the photo area for my one photo, just before they dismantled the booth.
Stress.
Creed also uses a PA system to announce what’s going to, which other events organisers could do with implementing, however customers still couldn’t hear. The whole event was understaffed, too – I was trying to find people who might be able to answer questions about timings, the absence of which led to the above confusion. The timings in the programme seemed to go out the window. Ponds Forge International Sports Centre, hosting the event, isn't even that big.
All fun in the end. Do I go to another Creed convention in March, to meet Michael Carter, Bib Fortuna in Star Wars? Perhaps.
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| Red Dwarf set |
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| Judge Dredd cosplay |
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| South Park / Star Wars crossover |
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| Sauron cosplay |
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| Back to the Future set |
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| Jawa cosplay |
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| Red Dwarf set |
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