The Crowd of People at a Fan Convention Event

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Collectormania 8, a fan convention event at thecentre:mk, in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, on Friday 30th September 2005.
 
About the photograph.

This photograph may have been taken with the Olympus Camedia C-3040Z compact camera, because I didn’t have the Nikon cameras until about a year later.

The photo was taken from an upper level of the large shopping centre, looking down on a crowd of people on the ground floor.

That was happening at a fan convention event called Collectormania 8, during the weekend of Friday 30th September to Sunday 2nd October of 2005.

So many people were down there, mainly a lot of fans hoping to meet celebrities like actors, and get their autographs, plus buying memorabilia from the traders whom sells merchandises based on movies and television shows.

Sometimes the short form of “fan convention” tend to be “fan con” or “fancon”

Bearing in mind, it was happening at a main shopping centre, there is always a chance that other people, not planning on attending the event, would be there doing their shopping, thus the crowd of people are much larger.

I’ve always been curiosity about humanity and society, the way people live their lives, and specially what the crowd of people at a fan con is like.

So I thought to go up the stairs to the upper level, I think there’s a café up there, and decided to take bird’s eye view of the people, to show how large the crowd of people could be during a fan con event.
 
About Collectormania 8.

Collectormania 8 was organised by the company called Showmasters, according to the British government’s listing on companies, Showmasters Limited may have started business on 14th October 2002. They are also known as Showmasters Events, and the business had grown larger.

They run various different fan con events, of which Collectormania is one of the many, but their flagship event is often the London Film & Comic Con. They have run many of those fan convention events around the UK, often in major cities.

Unfortunately, in-depth information and sources are difficult to find on the Internet, with very limited entries on Wikipedia, so if you want to know more about it, try Google Collectormania UK.
 
About “thecentre:mk” and Milton Keynes.

Milton Keynes is a city in Buckinghamshire, about 50 miles away from London. It started life during the 1960s when the British government decided that new towns should be created to relieve the housing congestion in London. 

So Milton Keynes was founded on 23rd January 1967, it started as a town, but had grown to become a city.

thecentre:mk is a main indoor shopping mall in the central of Milton Keynes, and first opened on 25th September 1979.

Point of note, it is often spelt simply as thecentre:mk in all lowercase and as if one word, rather than spelling it out like “The Centre:mk”

According to sources, thecentre:mk is considered to be the 12th largest shopping centre in the UK.
 
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Taken on: October 30, 2021

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