Calgary Expo

In my current situation I will not be going to Calgary Expo this year. For the reasons that I am in the hole a lot of money from my car upgrades from last year, line of credit to paint the car 4 year's ago and always difficult credit card debt to pay off. Plus as I have noticed so far is the list of guests going to the show haven't given me a reason to go. They did in the past get a guest to show up a week before the event. This time it would have to be someone that I have to go see.
There will be another year to go to them convention's.

Update on Friday, March 1, 2013 at 8:59PM by Luke

Well I am heading to Calgary for the Expo. Nathan Fillion is going to be there this year. He is the last signing that I want from. I will try not to spend much money at the Expo this year, probably wont happen.

Update on Sunday, March 24, 2013 at 10:23PM by Luke

Well it didn't take me long to spend money for the Expo. I went ahead and bought a Battlestar Galactica Viper Pilot Flightsuit Costume. I am getting it made and hopefully I will get it before the show.

Here it is: Flight suit

Autographs from Calgary Expo

I have a picture of the signings I got from the Calgary Expo. One signing is Katee Sackhoff which she plays Kara "Starbuck" Thrace a fighter pilot from Bartlestar Galactica. She wrote "Frak the Cylons". She asked me what I wanted her to write down and that's what I came up with. I should of actually watched some of the show before going, but I like what she wrote anyway.
The second signing is Aaron Douglas who plays Chief Galen Tyrol who repairs the Vipers and Raptors going. What he wrote on the picture is "Get the Frak to work!" He actually came up with that one, which I liked as well. The picture with the signing would work well I think to motivate myself or co-workers at work.
Looking back at the Calgary Expo and getting these autographs that I should have tried to get into a better conversation with each of these stars. I should have planned something to say to them. Perhaps I will meet them again in the future. Oh by the way I am going to Calgary Expo next year.

Calgaryexpo 2012

This year I had decided to go to the big Comic and Entertainment Expo in Calgary literally within days of the show starting. I did debate on going by myself (8 hour drive) because I had no one to go with. I had asked my cousin if he wanted to go which he lives in Edmonton and would split the drive to the show as well.

He didn't know about the show until I mentioned about and he wanted to go as well. Our plan was to drive down on Saturday from his place in Edmonton to the show that morning. And catch part of the show that afternoon. Then stay overnight to be there early Sunday morning. We got stuck in traffic to the Stampede Park so we can maybe catch the show. After long waiting we decide to go our hotel to drop off our car and take the C-train to the Park. We got to the entrance of the show from the C-train and it was busy. We were just about to get in and the fire marshal announced that no one is allowed to enter the building because of high volume of people inside. So we left and went cruising in his Genesis turbo for a while and followed a Ferrari in the city. Which was pretty cool to hear that car run. Then we went to the hotel to check-in. My cousin and I decided to go to a movie at the Chinook Mall where we looked around for while, also had something to eat before the movie. We saw the movie Safe that Jason Statham in it. We went for another cruise after that. The whole day was prime cruising weather. The next morning we got there around 9:15 and it opens at 10. There was a huge line to get in that I had never seen before in person it was crazy. I had went to this show last year and I did not have to wait in line to get in. Main reason for the large turnout this year was the main cast from Star Trek : TNG was there. What I was there to see was Battlestar Galactica's Katee Sackhoff(Starbuck), Aaron Douglas(Chief Tyrol), Richard Hatch(Tom Zarek). I attended there panel at the Boyce Theatre. I really enjoyed that panel, it had some great questions and even greater laughs too. I had gotten Katee and Aaron's autographs with a saying on each of them which is pretty cool. I also got a few t-shirts and some posters too. I had also attended the Walking Dead Panel which featured the actor who plays Merle which is Michael Rooker. This one was pretty good. People were asking him questions that centered around his character on the show and also about his character's brother Daryl. I have only one picture of the show which was the BSG panel. I had a blast that weekend and I am looking forward for next years. I might even dress up for it.
I will post pics of the autographs and the posters when I get them framed.