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Comic Con Liverpool – 6th to 8th March

Comiccon Liverpool is returning this March and, as ever, the line-up is huge.  The 40+ guests hail from a wide range of TV and Film.  Many of the guests will be well knows to fans of 90’s and 2000’s film and TV, but if you’re also looking to meet 80s legends then this is the […]

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For The Love Of Sci-fi 2019

Monopoly Events Presents ‘For the Love of Sci-fi 2019’ The world’s biggest Sci-Fi fan convention is BACK and bigger than ever! Join the party as FTLOSF celebrates its 5th birthday with its army of loyal fans and celebrity guests at Bowlers Exhibition Centre, Longbridge Rd, Stretford, Manchester M17 1EH, on the 7th and 8th of December 2019 (with […]

For The Love Of Horror 2019 – full line-up!

For The Love Of Horror is a fantastic new concept brought to you Monopoly Events team which crosses a scare attraction with a fan convention. After a hugely successful launch event in 2018, we’ve come back bigger and better, as we represent some of the most iconic horror films and franchises of all times. We are pleased to […]

HORROR ICONS UNITE TO CELEBRATE ICON ROBERT ENGLUND

Horror Icons such as Corey Taylor, Bill Moseley, Eli Roth, Corey Taylor, Ken Kirzinger, Michael Berryman, Andrew Divoff and R.A. Mihailoff are uniting together in the upcoming documentary ICON: The Robert Englund Story, to celebrate the iconic status and career of genre legend Robert Englund. As well as celebrating his Horror Iconic status the documentary […]

Wales Comiccon 2019

Wales Comiccon first launched in 2008 and has remained one of the main places I go to to meet what I class as 80s legends. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Comiccons, they are a complex thing to try to explain – They are an event where people can dress up like their […]

For The Love Of Sci-Fi Review

Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd of December saw For The Love Of Sci-Fi return to Manchester! The two day event brought together guests from the world of TV and Film, along with live artists, prop builds, cosplayers and traders into one huge event. There was also an opening concert on Friday which featured Ray Parker […]

For The Love Of Sci-Fi

The weekend of December 1st & 2nd sees a HUGE Sci-Fi event descend into Manchester. For The Love Of Sci-Fi, from Monopoly Events, is bringing Film legends and TV stars to Manchester. If you remember 80s film classics like ET, Predator, Rocky and Red Sonja then you will love meeting the guests at this event. […]

Comic Con Scotland – For The Love of 80s

“Whoa!” That was genuinely what I said when I saw the line-up of guests at Comic Con Scotland. I go to quite a few Comic Cons every year and the main draw for me are the guests. I do love buying geeky things from the stalls, and I do go to talks to listen to […]

The Quarter Arcades ‘PAC-MAN™’ ¼ Scale Arcade Cabinet

Numskull Designs is incredibly proud to team up with BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment for the first in a series of Quarter Arcades exclusives! The world’s most recognisable video game ‘PAC-MAN’ has gone back to where it began with one of the most realistically-presented formats of the original platform. ‘PAC-MAN’ as a character inspired generations and the […]

Deck of Justice

For a big section of my early childhood I played card games. I would’t say I grew up playing card games, as regular readers will be aware I spent most of my childhood, from about age 10 onward, on my Spectrum. But the rest of my family loves card games, so we had loads of […]

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