MCM Expo (Day 1)
There were loads of Valve people, and a whole Portal GROUP this time!
I got asked for tons of photos. And inside was even better. I met both Wheatleys. 83 They are so fantastic.
There was a whole section for NOT-ANIME for once, which was great to get away from all the overbearing Japanese stuff that usually hogs all the space. They had some display behicles in there, like the Blues Brothers car and a Star Wars ship and a time-travelling DeLorean.
There were games booths and an arena where people's homemade robots were fighting each other.
And the best thing was, I didn't know this in advance, Anthony Daniels was there. AKA C-3PO. AKA the guy my mum used to work with.
So we queued for absolutely AGES, and had to pay £25 for an autograph we already have one of for free. But we went up there, and I was intending to ask if he remembered my mother, and before I said anything, he was just staring at me. And he asked if we'd met before. So I explained and asked if he remembered my mum and he's all "of course!" and when I said we were her daughters he just looked BOGGLED.
So then we had a chat about their old producer at the BBC and he told us to wish her well from him and I was just reeling because I wasn't sure he'd even remember her from over 25 years ago, but... he almost recognised me! I resemble my mother a lot, so really, I look like she did 20 years ago, which is what he must remember.
It took all of our spending money to get it so we didn't buy anything else, and we gave the autograph to my mum even though she already has one from back then, haha. But it was so friggin cool.
I got asked for tons of photos. And inside was even better. I met both Wheatleys. 83 They are so fantastic.
There was a whole section for NOT-ANIME for once, which was great to get away from all the overbearing Japanese stuff that usually hogs all the space. They had some display behicles in there, like the Blues Brothers car and a Star Wars ship and a time-travelling DeLorean.
There were games booths and an arena where people's homemade robots were fighting each other.
And the best thing was, I didn't know this in advance, Anthony Daniels was there. AKA C-3PO. AKA the guy my mum used to work with.
So we queued for absolutely AGES, and had to pay £25 for an autograph we already have one of for free. But we went up there, and I was intending to ask if he remembered my mother, and before I said anything, he was just staring at me. And he asked if we'd met before. So I explained and asked if he remembered my mum and he's all "of course!" and when I said we were her daughters he just looked BOGGLED.
So then we had a chat about their old producer at the BBC and he told us to wish her well from him and I was just reeling because I wasn't sure he'd even remember her from over 25 years ago, but... he almost recognised me! I resemble my mother a lot, so really, I look like she did 20 years ago, which is what he must remember.
It took all of our spending money to get it so we didn't buy anything else, and we gave the autograph to my mum even though she already has one from back then, haha. But it was so friggin cool.