Memorabilia survivors (just) :o)

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[Roz]

Hi folks

Well, I think we are the first "live wire" shackers back from memorabilia. It was so great to see so many of you there, and it was also great to meet some other Shackers for the first time too



I'll tell most of the story with pictures.

Here was the spiritual home of the Shack; the Cards2Collectables stall. I don't seem to have a picture of it with the banner up (which didn't go up 'til about quarter to ten on the Saturday morning), but hopefully Olly, Ed or Chris will have a picture of it in situ  - the banner had turned out wonderfully and we had a perfect frame behind us to hang it on!



This photo is a bit blurred, sorry about that but we've stitched a couple of photos together to show you the whole stall:



Lots of people came to pick up their Yak Shack badges, and who can blame them...? Even Lawrence Makore (Lurtz / The WitchKing / Gothmog) was caught wearing one:



They were really impressive - thanks Chris *butter him up here folks as we'll be needing him to do more *

When Mark wasn't sketching or providing general entertainment behind the C2C stall, we went to meet Warren Martineck - a very famous sketchcard artist who has sketched most recently for the Xena and Thunderbirds sets and has done other interesting sets like Star Trek Voyager etc.

Needless to say we had him sketch for us

Here is the man himself with his work



and these are the two sketches he did for us:



At dinner later that night we were LUCKY LUCKY LUCKY (like Kylie) enough to sit next to Inkworks' owner - Allan Caplan who (probably when he spotted I wasn't a Buffy or Angel fan) enthused about his next big product, a set to celebrate the movie "Robots" (of course Mark's eyes lit up - as he is very much into anything computer animated/generated and arty). He kindly gave us a promo pack the next morning including two Robots promo cards, I think he plans to have 10 autos and lots of sketches in the set, along with 35mm cards, but we shall see - it's not out until February/March time). The promos are viewable here:





and the suitably embarassing photos from dinner are here:

Me with Allan on the right:



And with Mark on the left (clealy looking towards the camera is for wimps )



And last but not least (well at least until everyone else joins in with their photos) here's Mark meeting two of the stars of

a British comedy - Red Dwarf:



I had a fantastic time... not very much sleep but a fantastic time. A big thank you to the guys at Cards Inc for letting us crash their big dinner do, and of course a masssssssssssssssssive thank you to Olly4Kay / Cards2Collectables who sponsored and looked after us like a King and Queen whilst we were there.

So come on everybody - I saw lots of you with cameras in hand, so please do share

[Trey]

YES please do share some more exciting adventures from Memorabilia....thanks for the pics Roz.

Unfortunately I couldn't make it..I had plans......and there was also the fact that I am on the other side of the world...   OK I would really have cancelled ANY plans if I had a chance to go but   alas, my private jet was at the mechanic's and not available to use  

[Goofyjas]

Sounds like you guys had some fun!

AWSEOME sketch card you got there.  1/1 !!

Did LM just come up and ask about it or how did that happened? Pretty cool that he was wearing one

get anything signed?

[Roz]

Sorry to hear your Jet is out of service Trey  

 

No actually I didn't get anything signed by Lawrence, Mark had a Red Dwarf thing signed by the last cast member he needed: Craig Charles (the guy in the hat with the dark glasses on) which he seems very pleased about, but that was it for signings.

Besides, at the price of not  a great deal more than a star's signature, those 1/1 skecthes were pretty cool. I wonder if they will ever do a LOTR sketch series, I know Topps had some interest in doing an Art set but I can't help but think it would be nice if they had sketchers who were involved in the making of the film rather than the talented band of sketch artists that are out there.... well, only time will tell - the point is that Lee and Howe are always happy to do a brief sketch if they see you so it's unlikely they'd say "no" to topps

[Kay]

Me with Allan on the right

I wonder who took that wonderful picture!!!

 

[Kay]

We had a walk around the show a while after Lawrence had been given the Yak badge; 4 hours later he was still wearing the next "must have" in fashion!!

Very cool!!!

 

[Roz]

Wow, that's great - the next thing we know he'll be posting "no that's not true, I did that not Viggo" etc etc... "did I tell you about the time I was knocked out by Viggo" etc... lol that's cool!

[MakTheYak]

Wow that's great! We thought he'd probably just take it off as soon as we were out of sight

He's a dedicated fan, for sure!

[Ed... Van Halen]

Just for public viewing here's my Martineck sketch, courtesy of Roz's hosting.

[mcgonagall]

It sounds like you guys had a great time I am envious wish we had those kind of things here.

I love the sketches they look so cool ( love the wolverine ) Just finished watching x men 2 when i read this post lol

[robwaddle]

Sadly, I woz unable to make it   . Hope u all had a good time

Rob

[savage727]

Hi Roz:

Thanks for posting the cool photos and stories!!  

Olly & Kay:

Great job!!  

[samwise16]

well well well as for my very short stay i found it quite alright, the whole place is a bit pants to be honest but im a showmasters fan. I didnt like that Expo was there promoting 2 stars which were £20 for an auto and £20 for a photograph with one of them, crazy

on the saturday i never went, i was meant to be getting some Tom Feltons Autos but a party was arranged for my My freinds and my birthday so i attended that  

I got quite drunk and was supposed to be at memo for about 10ish, ended up there at 2ish  :'( sorry roz

Olly & Kays stall was well nice, i like the binders being Harry Potter and not Ultra Pro, very posh   Thanks for the plate, my girly side was cool with not having one for him, to be honest i think he would have wanted harry on the front of the plate  

was good to see MPC, had a lot of stock, one day i will work for him...maybe, if he pays well  

Overall it was good, and fun. I was a bit more concerned with chasing this girl lol but for what i saw and the time i spent with Olly & Kay and MPC it was well worth going  

Thanks roz & Mark for my present, the Tshirt was wicked i wore it with the badge and did very little promoting, But i promise i will next time  

[Roz]

Guys, anyone can have a sketch done by Warren. These are his freelance sketchcards; he takes requests, and you can order them off his website.

http://www.warrenmartineck.com/sketchcards.html

It's just nice to meet him in the flesh too

[samwise16]

I think im going to have my mum buy me one of them for my xmas pressie  

[Nienna]

Ooooooooooooooooo cool!

Thanks for posting that link Roz ... I was just admiring the cards you and Ed got done at the weekend and regretting not coming down even more to see you at Memo!

Next time eh?!

[Roz]

I did see him do a sketch of Aragorn which was pretty "mint" as Samwise16 would say!

I was pondering one of those when I thought of the ring and that was the end of it!

There's tonnes of dramatic scenes people could request - if anyone does get some PLEASE post them here as I know we'd all be interested  

[savage727]

Roz:

Thanks for the link - he does outstanding work!  I am going to contact him about doing a sketch card of Aragorn like my avatar and another one of Spiderman when I have some spare cash after the holidays!  

[ferdinand_the_yak]

:O

I would LOVE an inked/colour of Legolas!

[savage727]

Gee with all the interest in Warren's sketch cards it is too bad we did not have this info about a month ago when the Secret Santa was set up!  How cool would that have been to ask for a specific character card from your Secret Santa of either a LOTR's, HP, Star Wars, or anything else for that matter!!