{"id":30795,"date":"2019-10-26T15:03:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T14:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=30795"},"modified":"2019-10-26T15:03:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T14:03:51","slug":"comic-con-2019-has-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/comic-con-2019-has-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Con 2019 has arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Riding the outwardly endless trend of interest in comic books and pop culture, Comic Con 2019 will take place from 25<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Oct to 27<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Oct at ExCel London.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The three-day event will host actor Shaun Pegg who features in Shaun of the Dead, Star Trek and Spaced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">American actor Roger Clark from Red Dead Redemption 2 will also attend over the weekend.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A number of stars including Mark Gatiss, Troy Baker and Sophia Lillis will make their appearance at the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many fans will have the chance to get their idols\u2019 during meet and greets to receive autographs and photo sessions at the MCM Main Stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MCM London visitors can also witness the first public showing of The Official DreamWorks Animation Opus \u2013 a giant-format, limited edition art book celebrating 25 years of DreamWorks animated films, from Shrek, The Prince of Egypt and Madagascar to Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon and Trolls, according to MCM\u2019s announcement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There shall be a cosplay masquerade on Sunday, which gives cosplayers the chance to showcase their handmade costumes and amazing performances to a live audience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Attendees and participants have been recipients of Prizes for Best Costume and Best Performance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more info, <a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/the-road-to-comic-con\/\">visit Emma\u2019s Story<\/a>. Tickets for all-weekend pass has already sold out but you can still purchase a one-day general pass from \u00a317.50 through mcmcomiccon.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Words:\u00a0Shuyue Zou Photo: Abigail Obina<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riding the outwardly endless trend of interest in comic books and pop culture, Comic Con 2019 will take place from 25th Oct to 27th Oct at ExCel London.\u00a0 The three-day event will host actor Shaun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":30796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,65,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition","category-have-you-heard","category-uknews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}