After many years of attending the
London MCM Expo, I thought I’d bring my trusty
Nikon D70 and snap away some photos for the blog. In case you’re not familiar, the London MCM Expo is basically London’s version of the
San Diego Comi-Con except with a larger dosage of
anime. So you’ll find dozens of superb artists ranging in Manga to Marvel and DC to Dollhouse aswell as a ton of games and basically a day to geek out at. There’s also a healthy dosage of celebs as appearances from the Fringe, Merlin, Caprica and
Stargate Universe cast as well as the usual anime voiceover actors were out in force. Although not having as many guests as the London Film and Comic Convention due to be held next month in July, it still gives fans a chance to meet and greet their onscreen idols.
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Among the dozens of freebies that naturally make their rounds at the expo, this year’s goody bag was quite the treat with Monster Hunter PSP expansion disks, T-shirts, posters and action figures galore to keep those with an eye for loot happy. Along with the freebies, it seemed like the anime shopping section or Harajuku land as I like to call it, definitely got larger with more and more plush toys and bleach costumes out on display for happy go lucky cosplayers to get their mittens on.
My personal highlight of the show was the 30-minute panel done by SGU in which (an almost high) Jamil Walker Smith, a stunning Alaina Huffman and a witty David DeLuise graced the main stage. It was especially interesting to hear how each of the actors got their part in SGU and also how they dealt with the initial “bad air” that the show picked up after Stargate Atlantis was cancelled as well as hearing many funny anecdotes in between. Jamil also assured fans that things should be ok with the franchise despite the problems MGM were currently having with the fact that the number one franchise for MGM was 1.) James Bond and 2.) Stargate. So hand on heart, I hope we’ll continue to see more from the awesome Stargate franchise.
Also from the London Expo homepage:
There were three records [broken] at this May's MCM Expo. First was the turnout which was in excess of 41,000, then we set a NEW Guinness World Record for the Largest Handheld DS Party beating a 3 year old record held by Australia and lastly the longest line of people ever to enter the show.
Also a special shout out to Lee Townsend for the amazing Batman sketch he did for us and also to Andie Tong who was amazing to meet and an astoundingly good artist. There was a Manga artist who did one of the portraits of me and my girlfriend whom we unfortunately didn’t manage to get the name of, but hopefully we can track her down.
So here are some of the many photo’s I took from the London Expo this year. Apologies for the amount of noise there are in the photo’s, took some time out to reduce a lot of them already but is something I need to look into in the future when taking photos. There are more photos are on the Picasa album site and even more swell up my hard drive but if anyone could recommend me a better photo sharing site other than Picasa and Flickr, as for some reason the images are coming out at a lower quality and “noisier”, please let me know in the comments section below.
Check out the full album here: London MCM Expo Album
I’ll also be attending the London Film and Comic Convention on July the 17th/18th so make sure you check back here for photos from Earl Court.
Note: Star Wars will be taking over as it’s the 30th Anniversary of Empire Strikes Back so expect a lot of Star Wars related photos then.
After many years of attending the London MCM Expo, I thought I’d bring my trusty Nikon D70 and snap away some photos for the blog. In case you’re not familiar, the London MCM Expo is basically London’s version of the San Diego Comi-Con except with a larger dosage of anime. So you’ll find dozens of superb artists ranging in Manga to Marvel and DC to Dollhouse aswell as a ton of games and basically a day to geek out at. There’s also a healthy dosage of celebs as appearances from the Fringe, Merlin, Caprica and Stargate Universe cast as well as the usual anime voiceover actors were out in force. Although not having as many guests as the London Film and Comic Convention due to be held next month in July, it still gives fans a chance to meet and greet their onscreen idols. 
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