Next Friday (Queen’s Platinum Jubilee bank holiday), Saturday and Sunday sees the UK Games Expo return to the NEC.
I’m expecting the Friday (the day I plan to be going) to be just as busy as a Saturday usually is, because it’s a bank holiday.
The plan is to pick up the second hand copy of Ghostbusters 2 the board game that I’m buying off another member of the Board Game Trading and Chat UK Facebook group. This was arranged a few weeks ago.
Lunchtime those of us from Fenland Gamers that are at UKGE are meeting up to have a group photo taken. Which I’m sure will be accompanied with banter and talk about our expo experience so far.
There will not be lots of new games bought at the expo. I just don’t have the budget. Having to get four new tyres on the car have stopped anything like that happening. The budget is very very tight. So unless there is an amazing bargain in my very restricted budget range, there will not be one of those “here is my expo game haul” photos.
Who knows maybe I’ll see the attraction of the open gaming at the expo this year!
Like you, I’ve got to pay out for a new tyre before I go (not all four fortunately though); it is being fitted this afternoon. It doesn’t help that my family car ha low profile tyres, which are ridiculously expensive , even for a budget tyre. Oh well, at least the hotel and entry tickets are already taken care of.
The only thing I’ll be making a bee-line for is the Queen Games stand (which fortunately isn’t too far from the entrance). This is to try and get a copy of Old London Bridge (if the price isn’t too high). There’s something about only needing to visit the Queen Games stand on Jubilee weekend :) Of course, there is the Fenland Gamers photo meetup, happening at 1pm by the main entrance to Hall 1. Other than that, we have two days that are our own. I also would like to meet the folks at the Carrooka stand, but that is not for a purchase, just to say hello.
This year there is nothing that we really want to see or purchase, so we’ll be able to try more stuff this year and buy much less than we do usually.