LFCC 2012 - random cosplay

As well as seeing a good selection of Doctor Who cosplayers, I saw some great costumes from other films and tv programmes.

Here is a little gallery of the best.

LFCC 2012 - cosplay Who?

The London Film And Comic Convention may encompass sci-fi and fantasy in all its forms, but there is always a good showing of Doctor Who cosplayers.
As I went round I did my best to snap as many costumes as I could. Here’s what I found.

Despite matt Smith being the most popular Doctor of the moment, I did find a number of classic series costumes.

Nice to see a young closplayer as the Seventh Doctor; I shan’t say too much about the costume the Fifth Doctor is wearing (since I made it!); I’ve seen this Fourth Doctor before - he makes me smile; and really cool to see a First Doctor, especially with half the original TARDIS crew (William Russell and Carole Ann Ford) attending the event!

David Tennant star may be on the wain, but there was still a good number of Tenth Doctor cosplayers in attendance, all of them wearing the right suit and tie combinations!

I’m still not quite sure what the muppet in the pram was about, but its costume was cool too!

The lad in the blue suit had a really good alternative match to the Nina Ricci tie. I was impressed!

I also found a group of Doctor Who cosplayers who were raising money for charity.
There was a variety of Doctor cosutmes as well as K-9 and a weathered looking classic series Cyberman!

They also had a curious new series Dalek, but painted in a form of classic series colours. I’ve seen a few of these around and am expecting to see a few more when I attend NorCon alter this year.

The Dalek was escorted around the event flanked by two UNIT officers - one classic and one new series.

LFCC 2012 - product Who?

While at this weekend’s London Film And Comic Convention at Olympia, I took a good look around the dealers tables.
There were a lot of cool Doctor Who stuff on offer, most of which was the standard fare you would see at Forbidden Planet or any good science fantasy bookshop.

But if you looked beyond the usual, you could find one or two interesting things to buy.
Here are just a few I thought of note.

Knitted K-9s
Yeah - everyone seems to be knitting things these days, but these caught my eye and made me smile.

Russian Dolls
An original twist on a classic idea, these are pretty and nicely painted.
I do, however, have to pull the seller up on a couple of things. I was looking at them in their glass car, trying to get a good photo or two, when the stall-holder and maker of the dolls came up to tell me about them.
His hard sell and relentless information was quite off putting, and I found their note on the publicity material that they were Patent Pending made me frown as I bet they are NOT BBC licensed.

Matt Smith doll
Something that is distinctly BBC licensed is the posable Matt Smith!

I have seen the publicity photos of Matt and Karen with the dolls, and have read about the attention to detail they contain.

The face is scarily lifelike, for such a small doll.

Seeing it up close was certainly interesting. The doll and costume is certain surprisingly accurate, with a reproduction of the Shetland Tweed fabric, with the stripes and pattern repeat just right.
His jeans and boots are also pleasingly accurate.

The doll comes with a variety of interchangeable hands so he can hold a number of prop sonic screwdrivers and accessories.

LFCC 2012 - queuing chaos theory

Last year I had a great time at the London Film and Comic Convention at London’s Earl’s Court.

This year it was staged at Olympia’s Grand Hall, as was less of a pleasant experience.
I had bought myself an Early Bird ticket for the Saturday, which gains me entry after 9am, whereas the standard ticket holders don't get in til after 10.30am.

With the impending London Olympics the underground has been rife with weekend closures for engineering works and this weekend was no exception. Luckily for me my route was unaffected, but there were substantial barriers for a lot of people heading for the event.
However, they all seemed to have got round this as when I got there I was confronted by a sea of a thousand-plus people. Last years venue has a substantial open space in front of it and it was possible to have two distinct queues for early and standard entry; Olympia by comparison just has a pavement out front along which there was a chaotic queue which snaked its way back and forth in front of the venue, with people slowly moving in opposing directions.

I joined a queue which seemed to contain people with the same ticket as me, and at one point we started moving. Hurrah!
I followed the queue as it moved and at the point when I expected it to turn - it just evaporated and I found myself standing in open pavement. Looking round I found all branches of the queue had suddenly rushed for the door, leaving me behind!!

Chaos ensued as officials told us to go to the North entrance - on a building that has its doors labeled with numbers! No-one seemed to know what was going no and it was not far off 10am before I could get in.

Once inside, the first thing I came across was The Batmobile from the early Batman films. It is pretty awesome - and large!






I was a honey pot for anyone in Batman cosplay and there were some great costumes to see.

The Batman and Catwoman looked superb, and the Batmobile was the perfect backdrop.

There were lots of ‘celebrities’ on hand to sign autographs, for a fee.

Representing Doctor Who were William Russell and Carole Ann Ford - the only surviving members of the original TARDIS crew - oh, and Janet Fielding!

Around the corner promoting his appearances in Merlin, Buffy and the Nescafe adverts, as well as Doctor Who.

Being a modern convention, a vast area was given over to the trade stands all out to part you with your money.

Finally I thought I’d share with you my Where’s Waldo photo of the convention floor. Can you spot The Doctor’s TARDIS?