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In August of this year we brought you news that Monopoly Events is to bring Comic Con to P&J Live’s Baker Hughes Exhibition & Conference Hub on 12-13 March, 2022. That’s correct, Comic Con is coming to Aberdeen.
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Now I know what my fellow Aberdeenshire people are thinking, that the good people at Granite City Comic Con have already been doing their fair share of excellent geeky work with their annual events over the past few years. If it wasn’t for the break due to that certain little worldwide pandemic those events would have been continuing that great work. The great news is that GCCC has its own identity and ethos, a new team together and they’re raring to go in the not too distant future. Of course, we at 5D will be holding desperately onto the coattails of these creative individuals to try and be involved again in that. We’ve been honoured to have played our own very small part in the events since their inception – going as far as even recording a live episode of the 5D Podcast at their last pre-Covid event.
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So besides the excellent news that in addition to the work of GCCC, we now know there’s going to be another major geek event soon to be residing in the North East of Scotland when Comic-Con Scotland comes to town! So after the initial excitement of the announcement for the planned event it’s good to hear that now we’re beginning to get some information about the potential format and line-up of the March event.
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According to Comic-Con Scotland’s update earlier this week…….
COMIC CON (NORTH EAST) UPDATE
Thank you so much for the incredible patience shown by all of our friends in Aberdeen!
We’ve now got 15-20 guests ready to announce, and we’ll start this next week.
If you’re a fan of…..The Walking Dead, Sons of Anarchy, The Lost Boys, The Vampire Diaries, Back to the Future, Gossip Girl, Cobra Kai (hopefully), Robocop, and Jet from Gladiators….. plus lots more…. then we should have you covered in the first wave.
THE FIRST GUEST WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT 7PM UK TIME ON FRIDAY 26TH NOVEMBER……..
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So let’s give you a run-down of the guests announced so far…….
Jason Patric is an American film, television and stage actor. He is known for his roles in films such as The Lost Boys, Rush, Sleepers, Geronimo: An American Legend, Your Friends & Neighbors, Narc, The Losers, The Alamo, and Speed 2: Cruise Control.
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Michael Malarkey is a British-American actor and musician. He is best known for playing the role of Enzo in the series The Vampire Diaries.
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Ross Marquand is an American impressionist, actor, and producer. He has played Aaron on the television series The Walking Dead since 2015, and Red Skull in the films Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019), as well as the television series What If…? (2021), where he also voices the character Ultron. He is also known for voicing numerous characters including The Immortal and Rudy Connors on the streaming television series Invincible (2021).
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Ryan Hurst is an American actor, known for his roles as Opie Winston in the FX drama series Sons of Anarchy (2008–2014), Chick Hogan in Bates Motel (2015–2017), Beta in The Walking Dead (2019–2020), and Hector Bonner in Bosch (2019–2021). He will be the voice of Thor in the new upcoming God of War Ragnarök game on PlayStation.
Tickets can be purchased at http://www.comicconscotlandnortheast.co.uk
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News of more guests added
Claudia Grace Wells is an American actress and businesswoman, best known for her role as Jennifer Parker in the film Back to the Future (1985).
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Diane Youdale is best known as Jet from the ITV’s tv show – Gladiators.
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Joey Cramer is a Canadian actor who is best known for his role in the film Flight of the Navigator.
To get tickets please go to www.comicconscotlandnortheast.co.uk
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Voice actor guest announcement
Emily Neves
J Michael Tatum
Brandon McInnis
Ian Sinclair
To get tickets for the convention in Aberdeen please go to www.comicconscotlandnortheast.co.uk
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New January Guest Announcements made!
STEVEN OGG
Steven Ogg is a Canadian actor. He is known for playing Trevor Philips in the 2013 video game Grand Theft Auto V and Simon on the AMC TV Show The Walking Dead, and has also appeared on Murdoch Mysteries, Better Call Saul, Law & Order and Westworld.
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Alex Vincent
Alexander Vincent is an American actor, writer and sound engineer. He is known for his role as Andy Barclay in the Child’s Play franchise, having played the character in Child’s Play (1988), Child’s Play 2 (1990), Curse of Chucky (2013), Cult of Chucky (2017) and again for the Syfy/USA Network television series Chucky in 2021.
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Paul Riley
Paul Riley is a Scottish actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Winston Ingram in the Scottish sitcom, Still Game. Previously he had worked on the Chewin’ the Fat, the sketch show from which Still Game was spun-off. Riley also starred in, wrote and directed Dear Green Place, again with Ford Kiernan from Still Game.
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Jane McCarry
Jane McCarry is a Scottish actress, teacher and acting coach. She is best known for her roles as Isa Drennan in the BBC Scotland sitcom Still Game (2002–2007, 2016–2019), and as Granny Murray in the children’s show Me Too! (2006–2007).
To get tickets for the convention in Aberdeen please go to www.comicconscotlandnortheast.co.uk
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Further January Guest Announcements made!
Angus MacInnes
Angus MacInnes is a Canadian actor, most famous for his role as Jon “Dutch” Vander – Gold Leader – in Star Wars, and as Tostig in Vikings. He is currently starring in BBC Scotland soap River City as Sonny.
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Tim Rose
Tim Rose is best known for playing the role of Admiral Ackbar in the third Star Wars film, Return of the Jedi, a role which he played again in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. In addition, Rose also puppeteered the characters of Sy Snootles and Salacious Crumb in Return of the Jedi, and has been involved with other Lucasfilm and The Jim Henson Company projects, including The Dark Crystal and Howard the Duck.
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Gladiators Cast
In addition to the previous inclusion of Diane Youdale (Jet) further Gladiator cast members were announced this month; James Crossley (Hunter), Michael Wilson (Cobra), Helen O’Reilly (Panther) and Suzanne Cox (Vogue)
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Clive Russell
Clive Russell is a Scottish actor. He is known for his roles as Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline in Ripper Street, Big Innes in Still Game and Brynden Tully in the HBO series Game of Thrones.
He also appeared in the Scottish sitcoms Still Game and Rab C Nesbitt as Big Innes and in teen drama Hollyoaks as Jack Osborne’s brother Billy Brodie.
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Peter Weller
Peter Weller has appeared in more than 70 films and television series, including RoboCop and its sequel Robocop 2 , The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984), and Star Trek Into Darkness.
He has also appeared in such films as Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite (1995), the Oliver Stone-produced The New Age (1994), and David Cronenberg’s adaptation of William Burroughs’s novel Naked Lunch (1991).
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