Get 50% Off Wichita, KS Time Eddy Tickets!

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The Time Eddy convention is descending upon Wichita, Kansas, and it’s about to land!

This weekend (October 2nd – 4th), big names like Colin Baker (the Sixth Doctor), Nicola Bryant (Peri Brown), Andrew Cartmel (script editor for the show in the 80s), Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon), Nev Fountain, and more, will gather together for the first Doctor Who convention Kansas has seen in 25 years.

If you don’t already have tickets, now is your last chance to get an excellent deal!

Get My Perks is offering 50% off Saturday (October 3rd) tickets to Time Eddy!

An explanation of what single day tickets gets you (from Time Eddy’s official website):

Single Day tickets Entitle bearer access to all panels, interviews, autograph sessions, games, cosplay, merchandise areas for specified day only. Some guests may assess separate autograph and picture fees. Junior tickets are for ages 7 – 13. Children 6 and under can enter for free if accompanied by a ticketed adult. Maximum two junior and or two free under 6 attendees per paying adult. To register children under 6 please email admin@kansasdoctorwho.com.

Time Eddy really has a lot going for it, not only does it have an impressive line up of guests, with a nice mix of writers and actors, but it also has a cool purpose – or a mission statement of sorts, if you will. Kieran Kinsella, show runner for Time Eddy, explained this in our exclusive interview with him:

 I don’t like these mega-cons, where you go and you wait in line for three hours and pay $200 just to get a signed photo of someone who you see for two seconds. Time Eddy’s going to be a bit more old school. There will be a lot of guest interaction with the attendees.

This is perhaps the thing that has impressed me the most about Time Eddy. It’s really fantastic to have a convention that sets itself apart from the status quo in that way. Kieran went on to emphasize that most of the guests prefer to interact more with the fans as well:

…a lot of the guests don’t like seeing the lack of interaction. There were a couple of writers that I spoke to that were going to come, but weren’t able to because of work. One of them said to me ‘Look, I’m not going to come, if it’s like when I went to Comic-Con and you just stick me in some booth and people just drift by me so I can give autographs. I’m only coming if I get to interact with the fans’

And I was like ‘That’s exactly how I want it to be.’ So that’s what we’re going for. The guests will be very accessible. We want to do a lot of fun activities that the guests are involved in.

He also explained how they tried to get a good representation of every era of the show, even though they are a little light on the Tom Baker era and NewHu:

We’re trying to get a good representation of all the different eras of the show — although we’re a little bit light on the Tom Baker side. The way it has evolved, it’s more geared towards the classics series – which wasn’t necessarily the plan, but it’s just the way things worked out.

And when asked if any potential guests declined for any reason:

Yeah, mainly because of work schedules. That was the biggest issue – especially with the new series people, since a lot of them are working right now. For a convention too, it’s tricky because unless you have some massive corporation, it’s a huge gamble paying for this top star to come here, knowing that he’s saying ‘but at the last minute I might cancel it because I’m busy filming episodes,’ because then you’re left with nobody.

Don’t forget to get half-priced Saturday tickets for Time Eddy!

Sounds like our kind of convention…

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