Joe Flanigan to appear at Australian / New Zealand conventions in October 2007

[wraithfodder]

 

Joe Flanigan is scheduled to appear at PulpExpo in New Zealand ( October 20-22, 2007) - http://www.pulpexpo.com/ - and Armageddon  (October 13-14, 2007)  - http://www.armageddonexpo.com/ or http://cultureshockexpo.com/.  Thanks to pfalcon64 for the tip

 

 

And I'm going! Well, as soon as I get a passport, and win the Lotto jackpot cuz I don't have the bucks (or time off from work) to flit off halfway across the globe. If only.... sigh...

Comments

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

LOLZ. Sorry but given Joe's track record with cons not in the UK or US, I would not pay to go that far just to see him...

[saltyd.livejournal.com]

When I saw Joe in June, we talked about cons. He seemed very surprised that he was doing a con in Australia. Just saying.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Well, for local fans who live in NZ/Oz, it's no different than us folk driving to a Creation Con, I suppose, but if I flew over there, I'd stay for a month and see the sites.

Make note to self: win powerball jackpot...

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Oh? Hmm, unless something changed in the last month?

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

I put money on Flanigan not turning up...

Aside from Vancouver, which is where he works so he'd need a damn good excuse, Joe has yet to turn up to any con outside of the US and UK that he has been scheduled for...that I know of anyways.

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

If I went there, I'd definitely go for a holiday. Next year, I'd like to do Vancouver and Maybe SDCC, cos Comic Con seems like a good laugh. I wouldn't even go to that for the guests, it would be solely for the experience of an event that big.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't mind doing vancouver by SDCC looks VERY tempting as there's so much to see and do.

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

Vancouver I want to go to purely because it is the main SG con. I'd probably spend a week or so there and make a proper holiday of it.

SDCC just looks amazing. It's so massive and I don't think you'd even need to be at panels to have fun there.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Oh gads, just the costumes and dealers would be enough to keep going through again and again.

I'd like to do a week in Vancouver as well... One day

[angw.livejournal.com]

Well that's a bummer, I am looking forward to seeing him in NZ.

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

Please don't take my cynicism as ill-will. I do hope that he does make good on these appearances...I just don't see it given his past performances.

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

Seriously. Some of the costumes just blow me away...

Vancouver, I'd like to go find the places they film at too...as you say, one day. Next year hopefully...

[saltyd.livejournal.com]

He did make it to the NJ con last year, after disappearing from the guest list for a month or two. He was announced as a guest again a week before the con.

[lauriel01.livejournal.com]

The con in question at that point was the Best Of Both Worlds convention, which was originally to be held earlier on in the year, and then postponed until November. I don't know what happened to it after that. But this is a different set of convention organisers, and it's only just recently been announced, so I assume it's only recently been organised for him to come along as well. I emailed the con organisers and they confirmed that he was a guest though (as much as they can, of course, given the normal caveats).

[saltyd.livejournal.com]

I certainly hope he DOES go! Having met the man twice now, I want to share the delight with everyone who has a chance to meet him. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for anyone going to this con :)

[pisces227.livejournal.com]

I was very disappointed he wasn't at the Vancouver con this year. He was the main reason I got my ticket. Torri said he was back in LA coaching his son's basketball game. Can't fault him for that but I really wanted to meet him.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

All I know is that buying a ticket to any convention with actors is basically a crapshoot. They can get jobs at the last minute, get sick, etc. I honestly can't fault Joe for wanting to spend time with his kids. He probably spends a LOT Of time (all week) away from them, and you can't get back that time or those experiences once they're gone.

Hopefully he'll be able to make the Oz/NZ cons so those fans can see him.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Heh, who DIDN'T disappear from that guest list? I mean, every week another actor fell off! ;) We lost MIchael Shanks, but got Jason Momoa, so I was okay with that, as I suspect Michael will do cons more than Jason will.

[alyssa22.livejournal.com]

He's been scheduled to come to Aus and NZ several times over the past two years, and hasn't come, so I'd be surprised if he did. Unless he was planning to bring the whole family with him.

I just get the feeling he's not too keen on conventions. He probably does as many as he's obliged to do contracturally, and leaves it at that.

24 hours on a plane to get to Aus is a bit different to a few hours to get to London, so there's that issue as well.

BUT, he was supposed to come here in 2007 when Torri did her NZ/Aus cons, and didn't. He's also been scheduled for two other conventions in Aus this year, that he hasn't done.

[alyssa22.livejournal.com]

Gah! I mean 2005. I'm half asleep...

JOE FLANIGAN!!!

[seratonation.livejournal.com]

I think I just yelled my self horase yelling that Joe Flanigan is coming to NZ EEEE!!!! I'm so excited! I'd given up hope but OMG I totally need to go! Thank you so much!

*koff* I was uh... just going through your LJ to see if there was anything else I missed, and now I'm wondering if it'd be alright I freinded you, you know, so I don't miss any more very important news (like JOE FLANIGAN Coming to my neck of the woods!! :D:D)

Re: JOE FLANIGAN!!!

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Well, hope nothing happens and he makes it as he's great to meet in person :)

Sure, feel free to friend me :)