Stargate Atlantis: Torri Higginson guest at UFC (Nov 2-4, 2007)

[wraithfodder]

Just got an email from the folks at United Fan Con (UFC), an annual scifi event held in Springfield, MA. This weekend it will be over November 2-4, 2007.

Anyway, got an email which announced this (snipping out non-SGA stuff)

United Fan Con is pleased to announce 2 additional guests for our upcoming November (2nd-4th) show!!

Joining us:

Featured Guest
Stargate Atlantis' Dr. Elizabeth Weir: Torri Higgins

To purchase tickets please to go our website:  http://www.unitedfancon.com

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I went to this con last year as David Nykl was there. It was great to see him, but I almost didn't see him because the con instituted what many of us stuck in line thought was a completely anal idea that those people who bought tickets at the door could NOT get in to see the first panel. Of course, David was the first panel! I managed to get in courtesy of two very nice fans at the top of the line who let me join them. They said after this, they probably wouldn't do the con anymore as it wasn't worth the grief. (By the way, it was great meeting David Nykl, and only took me over 3 months to get my photo op photo from the con, so I won't be doing a photo op again, that's for sure).

Anyway, it's not a good sign when the con doesn't spell the name of one of their featured guests correctly. There's nothing on their site about Torri yet, but hopefully she won't be talking on the same day that Paul McGillion is talking down at the NJ Creation Con. I could conceivably do both cons (but what a hell of a lot of driving!) if the actors are on Saturday and Sunday, respectively. UFC does, however, have a  much better dealer's room than Creation, which is limited to half a dozen tables mostly manned by Creation staff selling photos.

So, is anybody doing either of these cons?  

 

 

Comments

[agentcat47.livejournal.com]

Ohmigod, this would be so cool! I live so close to Springfield!

[peterlme.livejournal.com]

Possibly

[foreverseenstar.livejournal.com]

If I can ask, since UFC hasn't updated their website yet. The email said 2 guests? Who was the other aside from Torri?

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Email said....

Joining us:

Featured Guest
Stargate Atlantis' Dr. Elizabeth Weir: Torri Higgins

Bonus Guest
Classic Star Trek`s Janice Rand: Grace Lee Whitney

These ladies join

• TV Icon: Henry Winkler

• Battlestar Galactica's Crewman Cally: Nicki Clyne

• Babylon 5's Capt. Elizabeth Lochley: Tracy Scoggins

[foreverseenstar.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much. :-) And the whole incorrect name thing, very sad. It reminds me of Creation's inability to spell McGillion correctly on tickets and site ads. *sigh*

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

That's pretty sad. I'd say it shows they're just a business and not fans, but a business should have the brains to spell the 'product' name correctly ;) Or guest, but to Creation, they're a product...

[ladyniko.livejournal.com]

It's creation & they suck big time. They won't even touch the St. Louis market because we're not "big enough" for them. (I.e., the fanbase isn't willing to pay their prices!)

I wish I could go, but no job yet = no $$. Need to start finding MT clients.....

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Hmm, and they don't even do cons in NYC and that HAS a market. They're just too cheap to rent the venues there. NYC is much more convenient to lots of folks than NJ is.

[ladyniko.livejournal.com]

Creation is just evil. They like to play cheap & dirty too - one year they were supposed to have Jimmy Doohan come out to HI and be a GOH. They decided they didn't want to pay his fees, so they went and told everyone he was dead, so then, they went back to him & said, "Oh, we're sorry. No one wants to come see you in HI. We're not going to pay your fee for this appearance."

Really underhanded. I'm glad they don't come to STL for that reason, but I wish the actors wouldn't get signed up w/ them, because they are so damn evil.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Really? I do recall at least two instances where actors cancelled out months before hand, but they didn't tell folks until you were at the door.

[scififreak.livejournal.com]

Why must it be so far away from CA? WHY!? Paul is the only main cast member I haven't met yet! He's very elusive! Though I have been about 5ft away from him at CC, so this will have to tide me over. 3 months to get a photo op? Are you *sure* it's not Creation, cause that is so totally their thing.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Actually, Creation got me the photo op in about a month, I think. I had to keep writing UFC constantly to get it. First, it was 'in the mail,' then it was sent to the wrong person, then I finally got it and honestly, Creation's photographer is better (as in printing/colorwise). Anyway, heck, we're lucky to get any decent cons in the NOrtheast at all. Zip in NYC, which is a shame. I'd love to go to Comic Con just to see the costumes and insanity! :)

I've met Richard Dean Anderson (very briefly at a hockey game), Joe Flanigan (sigh sigh, the good kind of sigh), Jason Momoa (woof!), David Nykl (so adorable). Have yet to meet Paul or Rachel or Torri.

Now if I'd won the $300 million Powerball, I could throw my own con and invite all the SGA cast :)

[scififreak.livejournal.com]

Creation's photographer is a pretty cool guy. I got a photo op with Colm Meany (of DS9) and when I viewed it on the site they had two versions. I couldn't tell which was the good one, so I asked the photographer if he could email me bigger pics of both or if I could just pay for both. He said don't worry about it and just sent me both (at no extra charge). So cool. And yeah, one was really really bad! Glad I didn't have to take a gamble and choose.

I'd love to meet David Nykl. He seems so cool. And aside from David H, Torri is my very fave cast member (that I've met). She's unbelievably cool and full of awesome. I have so many pics with her now *cough*. You are quite lucky to have randomly met RDA I think. I hear he's like a phantom as far as fandom is concerned. lol

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Sure hope Torri speaks on Sunday at the UFC con. Still waiting to see what they post on their website. I'd love to meet her! Yeah, RDA is definitely a phantom... he doens't care to mingle with fans, which is his perogative.