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Change of venue - moved from Earls Court to ExCel in London
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CarolynNC
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Mar '02
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Date Posted:
11/22/06 5:04pm
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Change of venue - moved from Earls Court to ExCel in London
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11/23/06 3:20am (1 edits total)
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LAJ_FETT
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News release on Starwars.com
Note - I editted the title to add more info. LAJ
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Jairen
Title: Manager Emeritus
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Date Posted:
11/22/06 6:04pm
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RE: Change of venue
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That has a major impact on those that have already booked hotels.
It was interesting to note that tickets and hotel packages are going to be available at the end of November.
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Cobranaconda
Title: Ex-FF-UK: South CR
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Date Posted:
11/22/06 11:28pm
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RE: Change of venue
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I've never even heard of ExCeL. Where is it in London anyway?
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johnny124
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Date Posted:
11/22/06 11:41pm
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RE: Change of venue
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Its on the Docklands Light Railway - not too far from the tube, and easy enough to get to. Its where some conventions are held already (londonexpo)- I've been once and it was an ok place.
Edit: some hotel info here
http://www.londonexpo.com/hotels.shtml
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Whim_of_the_Whills
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Date Posted:
11/23/06 1:18am
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RE: Change of venue
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It's about 10 mins out of Strafford - opposite end of London to Earls Court.
It is a much better venue though, no doubt - more space, more open and more facilities.
Total sympathy for those who booked hotels near Earls Court though - talk about pain in the butt!
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skywalker_1982
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Date Posted:
11/23/06 1:39am
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I have never known any convention to change venue just like that
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edgejedi88
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Date Posted:
11/23/06 1:43am
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RE: Change of venue
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Please note that apparently within the next 14 days there will be hotel packages available for CE.
* sits tapping feet and wonders why they didnt do it all at once...?
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LAJ_FETT
Title: Tech Admin, CollectingCCG/TCG/Boardgames
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Date Posted:
11/23/06 3:13am
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That's a pain in the butt. Earls Court was close for me. ExCel is clear across London. That'll be a long train/tube trip.
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gaiatha
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Date Posted:
11/23/06 4:22am
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At least some news about CE.
If it's really for the sake of more space I'm all for it.
So sorry for the people with hotel reservations.
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Enji
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Date Posted:
11/23/06 6:03am
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Well I like more space! 
So, I guess the banner in here needs to be modified?
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LAJ_FETT
Title: Tech Admin, CollectingCCG/TCG/Boardgames
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Date Posted:
11/23/06 8:14am
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Looks like it. Maybe timbolton can get one of the Fan Force banner makers to do one. I'm crap at banners so it won't be me.
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skywalker_1982
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Date Posted:
11/23/06 8:57am
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RE: Change of venue - moved from Earls Court to ExCel in London
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Well I made a reservation for the hotel near earls court so I shall have to cancel it.
I am not so much fussed about where it is in london cause getting around is not a problem its just the fact today we find out not only theres a venue change but packages will be available as from the end of november which is only next week so really it would be nice to have a email tomorrow or something saying when this will be.
Considering I signed up to the site mailing list quite a while ago I would have thought something like this would have been sent to people who signed up.
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Cobranaconda
Title: Ex-FF-UK: South CR
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Date Posted:
11/23/06 10:56am
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RE: Change of venue - moved from Earls Court to ExCel in London
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I'll try and book a Travelodge or ibis about 15 minutes away then. That way, it won't be packed, and I can still walk there. Plus I can get it pretty cheap 
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JediNemesis
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Date Posted:
11/24/06 2:24am
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Ouch for the people who've booked hotels. I think Excel is actually closer to me than EC was . . . Central line to Stratford and then a nice run down on the DLR.
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LAJ_FETT
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Date Posted:
11/24/06 2:44am
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There was an email from them in my inbox this morning about the venue change. It didn't really add any info that I hadn't already seen using the link in the first post though.
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Lord-Tice
Title: FF-UK: London CR
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Date Posted:
11/24/06 2:53am
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RE: Change of venue - moved from Earls Court to ExCel in London
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ExCel is a better venue and when I was there in October, a small part of me wished it was going to be held there so it's funny how it's all worked out. However, it'll only be bigger then EC if they have access to all the units, which might not be possible. But having self contained units will work out better, and the Docklands is a great part of London.
A shame because of hotel reservations and all that, but easy to cancel and start again
Looks like we'll be having some ticket info come our way soon too.
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