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Hi,

Right now, I'm sitting in London's Victoria Station under close scrunity of the many security cameras waiting for my train to Bracknell where I'll be given a one-week training.

I've roamed the city to fill some unbearable gaps in my comic archive. If you want to do the same, here are some places you might want to check out:

- Forbidden Planet, 71 New Oxford Street. They have all the new and recent issues and an (mostly unsorted) grab bag. Don't go here if you look for some old issues.

- Gosh Comics, 39 Great Russel St. (near Forbidden Planet). Nice store with new and sorted old issues.

- Mighty World of Comicana, 237 Shaftsbury Avenue (also close to Forbidden Planet). Only old issues and comic books but all perfectly sorted. They claim that they can get you any comic and I believe them

- Book&Comic Exchange, 14 Pembridge Road (Close to Notting Hill Station). They have a large array of perfectly sorted old comic books, issues and normal books at very cheap rates. Definitely worth a look.

There are more but that were the only ones that I could check out on Saturday. On Sunday, I went to the James Bond exhibition in the Science Museum, also worth a look.

See you next Sunday,

Sound like you're having a great time in London. I've never been there but hope to someday.

Forbidden Planet has a world wide reputation, but I haven't heard about the others on your list. Thanks for the useful information.

The Bond exhibit sounds cool. I've been a fan since I my dad took me to see Goldfinger. Harold (Oddjob) Sakata was a huge wrestling star in Hawaii.

The Bond exhibition has a lot of original props, models and stuff from the latest movie, Die Another Day (the ice cruiser, the BMW with the machine guns, the ice palace) and other movies (the strange chain/circular saw, the helicopter plus the pier which it took apart). But I'd recommend it only to real fans. If you just like the movies, it's a bit disappointing seeing how poor some of them props are actually made. They work in the movie because you don't have the time for a closer look

But it brings some memories of nice movies and you can play with some gadgets (voice activated lock and a nuclear power plant which you can blow up to stop some maniac - or not... didn't quite understand what that station was for because no one ever managed to *not* blow it up ).

Stan Sakai wrote:Sound like you're having a great time in London. I've never been there but hope to someday.

It would be good to meet you sometime Stan, so please keep it in mind

I would agree with most of what Digulla said about comic shops. Apart from Forbidden Planet which is well known, you do have to hunt about to get stuff. I usually get my UY comics mail order from a place in Bristol as they were the only ones to guarentee getting it in for me each issue.

And at the moment... the weather is good

Mayhem wrote:And at the moment... the weather is good

Yeah, I also noticed that. For once in a lifetime, the weather is warm and nice and enjoyable in England.

What's wrong? Didn't someone pay the "Ugly, horrble, rainy, stormy-weather" bill?