I guess it might help to bounce ideas around as to what other things people think Baron Von Tree may have missed, or stuff that people would be looking for? Figure stands? Comic bags? Figure bags? Repro weapons? Figure display cases? T-Shirts? (non AF included - although I'm sure there'd be guaranteed to be one of them there!!!
). That sort of thing.
Again, not necessarily saying those are things that I'd be buying loads of, but more your impulse purchases, rather than your "AF or nothing" stalls. Easier to spend lots of "a few quids" on stuff, than one big purchase?
I certainly never went to Memorabilia expecting to buy my Silver Surfer T shirt off Tree, but it was too cool not to, and is now one of my fave pieces of clothing! Same with Comic bags - been meaning to buy some off the internet for ages, but never get round to it, so when saw some at Memorabilia I just picked them up. Wasn't a matter of whether they were a pound cheaper on Ebay - they were there, I had money in my pocket, I bought. The old fashined way, and lots more rewarding it is too! If a Vendor were selling acrylic cases I'm sure folks may be tempted for a few, as the extra quid or two you might be paying to the stall holder would be more than offset once you consider that normally we have to pay postage from the States. That sort of thing. I guess if people showed up expecting rows upon rows of Action Force stalls they'd be sorely disappointed, so it's a matter of tapping into the other, fringe interests we all have outside of AF, or the things loosely connected to it (the customs, the displays, that sort of thing).
Dave - get someone there selling Queen Memorabilia - then none of the Toy stall holders will get any of my money as our lass will have spent it all on pictures of Freddie Mercury! And if you could combine it with a stall selling vintage Gramophones for Annie I'm sure between the two stalls they'd make a killing!!! Me and Eddie would be pissed off though!
And, sounds stupid - how about a Convention Exclusive Pint Glass - either engraved with the Shads logo, or printed onto it? I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that I can never resist a fancy new pint glass? I have them from all over the world, wherever I go I seem to end up with one - be it Vegas, Australia or the local! Sure they'd not cost too much, and I'd bet most going would pick one or two up? Even the straight edgers or the teetotallers amongst us would have one I'd have thought - dont need to use them for beer!!! Just theirs would last a whole lot longer than mine, as I tend to put mine down on the patio whenever we have a BBQ, and then accidentally punt them into the oblivion when I'm half cut.
As I say, just ideas, but I think we should all try to help Dave out here with ideas, even if they do seem a bit daft at all? Come on, dont be shy!
(check that out - a whole post from me without going off on irrelevant random tangents or swearing lots. Bollocks.)
