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Originally posted by dis68:
this really is a don't miss

but we did as we were caught up in the motorway queue for over 3hrs because the M6 motorway was shut as a result of an early morning crash as reported here. Once we got to J16 after the grand total of 36 miles covered all morning we simply turned round

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SHOW REPORT.
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New venue for this show and what a nice place it was. Holding the show in a plush hotel instead of a massive half empty hall in the NEC was a great idea and it worked.

I did not get to the show until nearly 11.00 am due to the motorway being closed and being diverted to the NEC via Switzerland.

Arrived to find the hotel car park full but fortunatly one car came out and i grabbed his space. Thank you sir that will be £8.

Paid to get into the show, £5, nice price.

This gave access to the Collectormania show and also the Autographica show which was being held in another part of the hotel.

To be honest there was not much of intrest for card collectors, only 2 dealers in attendance, i had a nice chat with Anthony about everything that is going on at the moment and Paul & Dawn from Umbrella Cards who managed to get 26 wolfie pounds out of me. thank you to those dealers for supporting the hobby at this show, the rest of the dealers were the usual toys, photos, posters, models type of things.

Guests were everywhere and it was great to see people i had never seen before in the flesh so to speak.
Guest List included.............

Mickey Rooney
Joan Collins
Ernest Borgnine
George Kennedy
George Lazenby
Caroline Munro
David Warner

and a host of others.

David Morrisey cancelled at the last minute which must have really pleased the promotors having allready lost Gigi Edgley and Cristine Rose.

Also signing and running an auction were the people from NASA, the astronauts seemed to be charging the most for autographs, £75 in one case.
The auction was doing items that had been taken on the moon missions mounted and signed in displays. These were great to see but the prices, WOW!!
How about a costume card with a small piece of netting from the lunar module? When i left that had reached £3500 with the rest of the weekend to go and this was by far not a one off, a lot of the other items were going the same way.

This ended up being a really enjoyable day out and it will be great to go to another show at this venue.

so no other cardtalkers wolfer

No not a sign of anyone, i am starting to think i am the only one here who reguarly attends all these shows as i very rarely see anyone.

or perhaps they see me first.

whens the next one

The next show of this type is in Milton Keynes on June 6th.

thanks wolfie. did they give a date for later this year midlands

The Autographica show got a half page spread in today's Sun. Here's the link:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/ho...s/article2385180.ece

Thats an intresting little write up and some very intresting comments at the bottom from people who do not collect.

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Originally posted by red99:
thanks wolfie. did they give a date for later this year midlands

They did not announce anything at the show and i did not see a flyer for another one there this year.

thanks for the info