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Coming up are the following events in Australia:

BUFFY AND ANGEL CONVENTION!!!

The Hub Productions proudly presents Iyari Limon (Kennedy), Andy Hallet (Lorne), Mark Lutz (Groosalug) and James C. Leary (Clem) in Sydney on Saturday the 29th and in Melbourne on the 30th of January 2005, from 10:00am to 6:00pm

For more info see: http://www.thehubproductions.com/

SUPANOVA!!!!

Supanova Pop Culture Expo 2005
April 9 & 10, RNA Showgrounds,
Gregory Terrace, Brisbane, Queensland

October 15 & 16, Wharf 8
53-59 Hickson Rd, Sydney

Confirmed for the Brisbane Expo are the following:

FILM & TELEVISION
Andy Serkis - Gollum from Lord of the Rings & King Kong
Ray Park - Darth Maul from Episode I & Toad from X-Men
Daniel Logan - Boba Fett from Attack of the Clones
Devon Murray - Seamus Finnegan from Harry Potter

COMIC-BOOKS
Michael Turner – Aspen, Witchblade & Superman/Batman
Glenn Ford - Artist of The Phantom
Jason Rand – Writer of Small Gods & Helios

ANIMATION
Sean Schemmel - Goku from DB:GT & Shaman King
Jonathan Ross - Marik from Yu-Gi-Oh!
Soon TBA from DuelMasters

For more info see: http://www.supanova.com.au/


Well I would LOVE to go to Supanova in Brisbane just to see Andy Serkis and Devon Murray!! But alas, I am in another state and can not afford the plane flight  :( oh how life sucks!!!

There may be other events happening but these are the only two I have come across (plus they are the ones that interest me the most!!) You can meet with your fave stars and get their autos at both the Buffy/angel convention and supanova!!

Are there any Aussie forum members going to these events.????

The Supernova one sounds good, hadnt heard of it before now, but I cant afford to keep flying up to Sydney; Im already going up next week for the LOTR exhibition....

I WANT TO MEET ANDY SERKIS!!!!!!!!!!  :'( :'( :'( :'(

I would love to... but I will have started my thesis already and will have no time >:(

The Buffy Convention is practically in my backyard;) But sadly, I am not a Buffy fan... what a waste :(

can we trade places hubby is a buffy fan and i want a auto from devon lmao

I am a buffy fan but I dont think I will be spending the money to see these four, granted they are good but arent really the characters that I favour in buffy/angel.

I have an idea in my head about driving up to Sydney for Supanova in October, but it depends on who will be there. The list of guests has only been released for the Brisbane show and I dont know if it will be the same for the Sydney one. If it is, then my idea may be put into action!! I will just wait and see :)

If I do go to Sydney for Supanova are their any Yak Shackers that would like to meet up with me?? It would be fun to meet ya'll  8) hehe Or are there any Yak Shackers in Melbourne that wouldn't mind a road trip to Sydney?? Ok so I havent even made up my mind if im going yet...getting a bit carried away hehe  ;)

SUPANOVA SYDNEY 2005

Oh wow....just look at this guest list: http://www.supanova.com.au/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=431

highlights for me: John Rhys-Davies and Matthew Lewis

All info here: http://www.supanova.com.au/index.html

Anyone going to go???

cant go...ill be in brissie having a short holiday...and i meet JRD last year...

 :(

well I dont know if I will go...if no one else is going then I wont drive up for it

I would have come with you if i was going to be around...  :-[ im always up for a road trip  ;)

Doesn't matter lovey can always go next year...plus it is coming up to my last few weeks of my uni degree and i really wanna get my assignments done so i can pass and graduate...5 years it has taken me and i just want to get it over and done with haha!!

*raises hand*

I'll be going Trey, most likely anyways! So we can meet up if you are interested... I see that apart from JRD, there is the person who does the voice for Maes Hughes in FMA - very excited about that! :o :o :o

erm....its like a 8 hour drive to sydney  :o i didnt realise it was that long! With the price of petrol these days I would be better off if I got a flight!! I will have to say no for now but if they have cheap airfare sales in the meantime  :o=  then I will come!!

 :-\ So Trey what is the price of gas on your side of the pond? It just hit $3.00 a gallon in Texas and jumping up everyday because of the hurricanes we have been having. :(

erm I dont know about gallons at all...and what that would equate to here in Australia...it costs about $1.35 a litre here so depending on how many litres your car takes it could cost anything from $40 to $100 to fill up your car. I dont have too big of a tank so it costs about $55 to fill up at the moment.

1 litre = 0.2641721 gallon - Is the price you stated for AU$ or US$?

that $au1.35, though i got mine for $1.25 two days ago...

This is giving me such a headache - I failed math miserably. :-[   So if 1 AUD = 0.761182 USD, how much is that a gallon in USD? ???  I think it's easier just to stop driving altogether instead of trying to figure this out. ;)

sounds like a plan  ;D from what ive read in the paper, out prices are cheaper compared to many countries, but given we used to pay 60-80c per litre, $1.30 is quite expensive. Thank goodness i have a small car, runs for ages on one tank of petrol...

haha its giving me a headache too...bugger it, i cant work it out.

$1.30ish a litre it pretty cheap compared to other countries i do agree, but we get alot of our petrol subsidised by the government so really it is much more expensive than $1.30 but we only have to pay $1.30..does that make sense?
 

Yeah, I gave up trying to figure it out - Where's Tower when you need him (he's a math whiz ;D )?  I think it makes sense. :D  I live in California, so our gas is higher than other states because our gas is specially treated for some environmental reason. :P

got it (i think)! works out to about $us3.55 per gallon

Wow! :o  So you're actually paying more then we are! :o  I'm glad I drive a small car too. :)

how much do you pay?

Im assuming my calculations are correct...if 1 litre=.264 gallons, then we pay $au1.25 per 0.26 gallons, = $au4.73 per gallon, = approx $us3.55 per gallon...

We're at around US $3 a gallon for mid-grade (the price depends on the grade of gas).

yeah...the price above is for standard petrol, its a bit more for the premium stuff (though it seems to go further, so prob cheaper in the long run)

well im glad u had the patience to work that out  :D

 :) AMAZING! :o I ALWAYS THOUGHT WE WERE HIGH! ??? I GUESS US AMERICANS ARE A BIT SPOILED. :P

only took about a minute (and i have too much time on my hands, my lab work is all running on its own...)

Well if my math isn't too dodgy I have just worked out that in the UK (London more specifically) the price of petrol is currently 94p per litre which is:

£3.56 a gallon
USD 6.28
AUD 8.25

Now that really is worth a few  :o :o :o

If my subtraction and division is way off please someone correct me  ;D

well we all know that someone is getting rich it just doesn't happen to be us lmao

Hang on - are you taking into account the fact that the American gallon is tiny?

A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) is equal to 4.545 liters. The United States liquid unit is equal to 3.785 liters.

Yes we do pay more for our petrol because it's taxed to high heaven (soon this will be something we have worldwide eventually - a carbon credit - one person get's a carbon allocation that they can "produce" in a year or so, or at least that's the plan), but the Americans have a smaller gallon, did you account for that Sharon? Sorry if you did ;)