Collectormania Milton Keynes

Sunday 7th June - Collectormania Milton Keynes

A chillin' out Sunday morning, then in the afternoon Jamie and I ('cos Mike was at work) had a wander down to Collectormania 15 at the MK Dons Stadium. We've been to several of the Collectormania's before, but this was the first to be held in The Dons stadium so we weren't sure what to expect.

Collectormania's are events where sci-fi/fantasy and cult TV/film collectors can buy their collectibles, meet their fave star and get their autograph. Some even go so far as to spend a fortune getting their photo taken with the star, and some even go so far as to get their autograph two days running! (mad!). We have taken Jamie to meet a couple of Doctor Who stars, cos he loves Doctor Who and so he has got a couple of autographs and photographs (taken by me!) and that's really cool for him, Elizabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith) and Nick Briggs (who does the Dalek voices) were absolutely lovely and those things really make his day. We did spend ages waiting to see John Barrowman, but he is a real exception as Jamie and I both totally LOVE him! Anyway there was no one we wanted to pay good money to see or spend hours in a queue to see this time.

We largely go to have a browse around the stalls it can be an enjoyable couple of hours, some of the stalls have some pretty interesting stuff, and we go to add to Jamie's Doctor Who Battles in Time card collection, of which he now has approaching 1000. He is currently trying to complete his Ultimate Monsters set, so we hoped to add at least a few to that collection.

So was it better than when it was held in Middleton Hall in MK Shopping Centre?

Well parking was no problem, plenty of free parking and we even managed to park pretty close to the entrance we needed. The celebs were around the perimeter of the seating area so most could be seen quite easily, for those of us who go along to have a look. Most of the time, I am wondering who they are, as most of them I ain't heard of! We managed to get a good look at Burn Gorman from Torchwood, Geoffrey Hughes (from Corrie and the Royal Family) in fact he walked right past us at one point! We also saw '66 heroes Geoff Hurst and Gordon Banks, along with Ray Parlour (Arsenal) and the mighty Henry Cooper ("splash it all over"). We also spotted Darts players John Lowe and Bobby George (naturally dripping in gold!). So celeb spotting was a lot easier, although it was cold wandering about.

As for the stalls, well there didn't seem to be as many, and most were crammed into one room, we only found one selling Battles in Time cards (but managed to add 19 to Jamie's collection including one Ultra Rare) and they were very close together again, worse than Middleton Hall, so a big thumbs down for that one!

But the big big thumbs up was, I had hoped to catch a glimpse of Philip Glenister, who I totally love in Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes but sadly his table was empty, he was on a break, doing his photo shoot. But as we were looking at a stall, he walked right in front of us and we got a really good look at him, yes, he does it for me and he seemed so much taller than he does on tele too. So after that we were happy to go home.

Ciao

Sue

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