As a departure from my normal beer type topics, I will pontificate (briefly) about the 2nd year Doctor Who convention Hurricane WHO I attended the 1st weekend in November. I could only go one day out of the 3 day convention schedule (a Saturday) and I was happy with what I came across. There were quite a bit of old school Doctor Who fans that were dressed up as earlier DR W characters as referenced in some of these pictures.
I attempted to dress up as the 5th doctor (Peter Davison) but this one kid did it so much better I just looked like I enjoyed cricket.
Many more new DR W fans dressing up as well, loved some of the creativity but couldn’t help getting a laugh from all the “clones” walking around.
I got to meet and get the autograph of Terry Malloy who played a major DR W villain “Davros “ in three separate episodes… At least he recognized Who I tried to dress up as!
Many people were there to see Arthur Darvill the current male companion on the Dr W television series on the BBC. He’s a little younger than Jenn and I and dresses’ very hip. In fact I ran into him at least twice outside between his panel and autograph signings (sneaking cigs no less). His panel was however packed with almost everyone who had come to the convention that day and questions varied from his stage work to his favorite monster this season on the show.
Some good stuff located in the Dealer room, many old series Doctor Who stuff as well as new. Some other sci-fi stuff to be had as well if you weren’t necessarily looking for DR W stuff
All in all I was happy with the set up and I’m sorry I couldn’t attend all the days it was going on. The only chief complaint I have is that there was very little to do from the main track. There were big chunks where there was not much to do or see beyond the dealer room which was fine by the way but it just wasn’t to a larger level that I’ve seen at other conventions. I’ve probably been spoiled by Megacon and DragonCon. My one suggestion to the organizers of the convention would be to include fan run (volunteer basis) panel tracks that would run parallel to the main track at the convention, with breaks for the big draws and guests of course. This is however only the 2nd year it has happened but there always way to improve and grow and hopefully Hurricane Who will do that. I look forward to attending the 3rd installment of the convention next year to see what they come up with next.
P.S. Look what Jenn made for me!!! (The 4th Doctor Tom Baker)
