03-08-2017, 07:06 AM
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Help, save, whatever.
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How much does the actor keep from each photo? What's the percentage?
Also a lot of these people I have never heard of. I wonder if sometimes there is an actor just waiting for people to take pics with him. That would be sad. 
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03-08-2017, 10:59 AM
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Also a lot of these people I have never heard of. I wonder if sometimes there is an actor just waiting for people to take pics with him. That would be sad. |
Not an actor but... http://lonelyvirgil.net/
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03-08-2017, 11:10 AM
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Also a lot of these people I have never heard of. I wonder if sometimes there is an actor just waiting for people to take pics with him. That would be sad. |
IIRC Garrett Wang just showed up one year at the Calgary Expo (2012?), year of The Next Generation reunion. He set up his own table signing autographs. Eventually the organizers recognized this and made him part of the expo officially, that year and many years since, but what a sad little start.
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03-08-2017, 11:10 AM
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In the Sin Bin
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What a tremendous waste of money. I guess it keeps the line in check though.
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03-08-2017, 11:12 AM
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In the Sin Bin
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Originally Posted by savemedrzaius
How much does the actor keep from each photo? What's the percentage?
Also a lot of these people I have never heard of. I wonder if sometimes there is an actor just waiting for people to take pics with him. That would be sad. |
Saw this with Nigel Dawes at Chinook once.
Just sat there with no line and the occasional person coming up to him.
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03-08-2017, 11:46 AM
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Saw this with Nigel Dawes at Chinook once.
Just sat there with no line and the occasional person coming up to him.
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Scorpion?
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03-08-2017, 12:34 PM
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I've never been to one of these. Is there a significant board game component? Mostly I'm wondering if there would be people selling board game tables. I've found one guy who apparently makes them custom here in town but I wouldn't mind seeing some other options if they're out there.
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03-08-2017, 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
IIRC Garrett Wang just showed up one year at the Calgary Expo (2012?), year of The Next Generation reunion. He set up his own table signing autographs. Eventually the organizers recognized this and made him part of the expo officially, that year and many years since, but what a sad little start.
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Wait, what? Really?
He just showed up and sat there? Did he take money for his autograph? How is that even legal?
That blows me away. That is just so....sad. And strange.
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03-08-2017, 12:53 PM
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I've never been to one of these. Is there a significant board game component? Mostly I'm wondering if there would be people selling board game tables. I've found one guy who apparently makes them custom here in town but I wouldn't mind seeing some other options if they're out there.
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Although I've never specifically looked for board game tables, I'd say the answer is yes. There is a significant board game component and I'd be surprised if there weren't at least a few booths selling custom tables.
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03-08-2017, 12:58 PM
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I've never been to one of these. Is there a significant board game component? Mostly I'm wondering if there would be people selling board game tables. I've found one guy who apparently makes them custom here in town but I wouldn't mind seeing some other options if they're out there.
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Don't recall any board game tables, but I wasn't really looking. The last couple years down in the Big 4 there is a section with a number of tables and a wall of board games that you can play. A great way of trying random games. Last year we got to try a demo of Santorini, which was pretty fun.
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03-08-2017, 01:33 PM
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Norm!
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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
IIRC Garrett Wang just showed up one year at the Calgary Expo (2012?), year of The Next Generation reunion. He set up his own table signing autographs. Eventually the organizers recognized this and made him part of the expo officially, that year and many years since, but what a sad little start.
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Usually the secondary actors in Star Trek series have a serious career slide after the show ends. They go to occassional guest spots on TV series to D list movies that show up in the Walmart Bin. Then they slide right into fan made Star Trek Movies. Then for some they vanish completely, others continue to struggle along making money at Comic Expos and other events.
Its actually really kind of sad. I'm betting a lot of these people said to themselves "I'm on a Star Trek series that's going to go 7 years and I'm going to get paid, and people will hire me forever"
Really Star Trek TV series are really career killers.
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03-08-2017, 01:51 PM
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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
IIRC Garrett Wang just showed up one year at the Calgary Expo (2012?), year of The Next Generation reunion. He set up his own table signing autographs. Eventually the organizers recognized this and made him part of the expo officially, that year and many years since, but what a sad little start.
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Wait, what? Really?
He just showed up and sat there? Did he take money for his autograph? How is that even legal?
That blows me away. That is just so....sad. And strange.
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He came by himself and paid for his own table as a vendor like everyone else in the shopping area. He wasn't in the autograph area. He wasn't officially noted as a guest. Just another joe trying to make a living and even then people were walking by his table like he was invisible. He was selling his own pictures and autographs. It was sad to see but always a funny story to tell about a Star Trek actor down on his luck. All the other cast members were paid a big sum to show up, were catered to, had assistants, drivers, and hotel rooms. Ensign Kim bought his own plane ticket and hotel room and just showed up by himself to hock photos.
IIRC, they realized he was there and got him to be an emcee at part of the TNG event.
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03-08-2017, 01:55 PM
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I remember the forlorn faces in the wrestler's table area. Honky Tonk Man, Ted DiBiase, Virgil..... no one at their tables. TNG cast had line ups around the block.
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03-08-2017, 02:16 PM
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A world where no one came to see 'The Honky Tonk Man' (<-seriously??) is a world not worth living in.
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03-08-2017, 02:25 PM
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Norm!
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Yeah, you line up to see the popular acts and you stand in line for 2 hours, they scrawl their autograph and if you're lucky let you take a picture without charging you extra. Then you're pushed along.
Meanwhile if you go to the lesser celebs you walk up, they're bored, they'll actually hold a conversation with you and your kid that's more then "Hows it going buddy, there you go next"
Honky Tonk Man is actually pretty amazing to talk to because at these events he pretty much lives his gimmick.
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03-08-2017, 02:40 PM
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In the Sin Bin
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I was going to say, sounds like it would be cheaper to go bar hop around downtown that night and hope to bump into one of them. Cheaper and with the illusion of it being organic. Might even get a chance to chat with them.
Better than standing in line and paying $130 to get a picture with crappy Bourne.
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03-08-2017, 02:41 PM
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Wait...'The Honky Tonk Man' is a real thing?
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03-08-2017, 02:43 PM
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Norm!
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He's cool he's cocky he's bad
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03-08-2017, 02:43 PM
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