Arccon: Overview 2016 (KLZ events)

Liv and I went to Arccon 2016 (June 25 th & 26th). It was organised by KLZ Events. Arccon is fan convention  with guests from the series The Flash and Arrow. February 27th, I was home alone. Just browsing the internet. When I saw this promotion for Arccon. The prices for the passes were lower: We must have seen it at exactly the same time. Liv and I started talking via Whatsapp immediately. Well, within a few minutes we bought the tickets. Yes that was a very spur of the moment decision. In my opinion it was now or never, so we decided to just do it! At that moment, there were 3 guests announced. (Colton, Rick and Manu). Later on also Katie and Shantel were announced. We were very happy with this awesome line-up and already bought some photo ops and autographs. Later on, we received the bad news that Colton had cancelled, followed by Katie and Manu. Well that wasn't fun! All week I walked around with a grumpy face, grumpy cat would be jealous of. But, KLZ also had good news. They found replacements quickly: Matt Ryan, Violett Beane and Michael Rowe! I was especially happy with the announcement of Matt Ryan. I loved him in his role as Constantine (he really does a brilliant job on portraying this one).But I was thrilled about all three replacements. 

This was our first KLZ convention! 

The panels were definitely one of my favourite things during this convention. Oh, there were so much panels! We almost lived in that panelroom. That was big plus for me. All the actors did panels, most of them more than one. Alone, or in a duo or a Flash panel. There were so many panels to attend! And I feel like I got to know the actors better because of it. Usually you just see 1 panel of an actor. And it takes about 30-45 minutes. And that's it. Then there are mostly questions about the series/ movies they play in. This was different: There was singing, dancing, anything! It was just so much fun. And all of the actors answered a lot of personal questions as well. It felt really close and very open.  Oh yes the panels...they were great. I also liked the setup of the room the panels were in. It was like a movie theatre, so the chaors were nice and comfortable and the view was magnificent. In other Q&A rooms you all sot on the same level, so if tge person in front of you moves his head, you have to move also. This can lead to some very uncomfortable positions. But all of this wasn't an issue at ArcCon, you could just sit back and relax and enjoy the show. And a show it was...like Carola said there was dancing and singing, but there was also time for serious issues. 

The photo ops were organised well. You'd see on the screen which pass needed to go for a photo op on what time. That was easy to follow. I got a photo op with Shantel and Rick. It surprised me how many people already thought of a pose they wanted to do on the photo. This made me feel a bit insecure and unprepared :). I think it's great that they all already had a pose for the photo. I hadn't thought about it at all and I was nervous about it. But it all went well. For the next time I'd think of a pose as well. We didn't queue for that long. But the photo op wasn't rushed either. I talked a bit to them during/ after the photo, so that was very nice. 

Picking up the photo took quite a while. On saturday we had to wait a long time for Liv's picture with Matt. We waited untill 20.00, but then left. (We hadn't eaten all day, so we really needed to go to a restaurant). We picked up the photo the second day. On sunday things were better. We could pick up our photo's before getting the autographs. That was great, because now I asked them to sign the picture from the photo op! 

We only tried out the food the second day. The first day we made a mistake in calculation (of time) during the break. And because of that, we lost the time to eat! And a lot of sweat and breath to get back to "The Egg" to attend the Full Meeting Room. On the second day we made that up. Liv ate a cheeseburger and I had some cheese croquets. We shared fries. The food was great. There was just one food stand at the convention, but that wasn't a problem for us. The waiting time wasn't too long and the food tasted great. Prices were fair as well. 

Before the convention we e-mailed and tweeted a lot with KLZ events. I have to say: the are FAST! I always an answer within a few hours (if not even faster). That was very nice, it gives some clarity quickly. I really liked that. They were all active on twitter, facebook and e-mail. Also the other visitors of the conention were always willing to help. It felt very nice (Especially during the though times ith cancellations) to get answers quickly. At the convention communication was good as well. I was confused one time: For Matt's autograph. The rest was quite clear. Though I have to say, if it's your first time for a convention like thisit seems a bit confusing on forehand. (To get how the timeslots are working, what the registration means etc). But luckily the girls from KLZ are always willing to help.