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Smugglers Rants
date posted: Jul 18, 2007 4:15 PM  |  updated: Jul 19, 2007 6:50 AM
Mark, Bex, Louis and Pauls ExCel-lent Adventure
Wow, is it over already?

It's been a few days since the doors closed and we packed stand D-74 away, but the memories are embossed into my mind. There are so many cool moments, too many to mention here. But, as I scrawl through notes of what we got up to, there are a few magic moments that stick out.

- Interviewing Billy Dee Williams (even though he was so tired after a long flight without sleep I thought he might pass out)
- Meeting and interviewing Stephen Sansweet and hanging out with his awesome gang Rojo and Lori.
- Chris Rider, the guy on the stand next to us who donated so much towards our charity drive (enjoy Mexico mate)
- Gerald Home, who signed at the Lightsabre stand for 2 days, 8 hours each day and donated half his takings to our Cancer Research UK fund. What a brilliant guy he is, and I'm proud to call him a friend.
- Dave Prowse donating photo's to our next fund raiser because he liked what we wre doing
- Hanging out at the Upper Deck at the Novotel with...EVERYBODY!
- Joe Corroney, what an amazing guy, me and Bex hope to meet up with him again
- The brilliant and so professionally executed Palitoy archive. Well done Dave, you deserve a huge pat on the back for that.
- The organisers, excellent people who worked well under pressure and came through for us in particular when we thought we'd have a big problem
- The gang at Jedi News, Norwich and District and all the stands around us, including Incognito.
- Meeting Neil Baker, Jedi Iain Armstrong and all the other brilliant fellow fans over the weekend.
- The artists in the artists alley, with their fantastic and exclusive CE artworks.
- Being told that Lucasfilm like our site.
- Seeing my wife and the fantastic Bonnie Burton get on so brilliantly (and Bex being told she had a cute a**!)
- Larry Noble, a true gent and we can't wait to interview you.
- The Force Unleashed. In a word - WOW!

But moment of the convention must go to

The Battle of the Bridge.

Just ask anyone who was there at the Waterfront Bar and they'll tell you all about it. A fan organised ten minutes of sheer brilliance that will be long remembered.

Damn, I miss it already. I didn't see a single show or get a single autograph, but I met so many brilliant people. Don Bies, Steve Anderson, my friend Danny Wagner to name but a few. Apparently Simon Pegg was there, and John Singh from LFL but we missed each other.
Well done LFL and Cards Inc, especially Barry Eldridge (enjoy the holiday, you so deserve it), and see you at the next one.