Andrew Fenwick-Green shares Dr Who Collection at YCC
Welcome to our collection!
We look forward to seeing you all on the day! Mine and my wife Deborah’s collection grew steadily from Nov 2003 when I came across my very first piece of Dr Who memorabilia, and for that matter my biggest want in my life at that time!
As a fan of Dr Who for as long as I could remember and my main fav focus being the Daleks! Then we had the 7th Dr story, “Remembrance of the Daleksâ€, that was it, I had to have the Special Weapons Dalek! In my eyes that was the Dalek to have! Then come 2003, in the run up to the shows 40th Anniversary I got wind of a Dr Who convention being held in Stockton–Upon-Tees, just a few miles from my home town of Sunderland and what do you know, the charity auction to be held on the Saturday night was a replica Special Weapons Dalek!
Its as if the planets had all aligned to make this moment happen! I was having it, no matter what! So with the help from my friend and future wife Deborah, in the form of a loan until my student loan came through, the convention was upon us and word gets to me that someone else was also planning on bidding for this beauty! So here comes the auction, I have a max budget of £2000 no more! Oh the Dilemma! Do I bid bit by bit and get into a bidding war and risk pushing the price of the Dalek well beyond my max bid of £2000? Or do I go in with a big bid and hope it spooks the other buyer who wants the SWD after bidding and winning on an Imperial Dalek the previous year!
So the auction starts and here it comes! Auctioneer says who will give me £1? I wait a moment, then I shoot my hand up while saying £2000! The room went quiet for what seemed like minutes then a massive roar and the whole room applauding me, going once, going twice, Sold!! Room erupts again and it sinks in that I’ve done it!
In 2014, my son Ciaran asked me along to Yorkshire Cosplay Con 6 to be his helper so he could use my Ood costume from Dr Who. The buzz it gave made me wanting for my old life in the cosplay costume world until I offered my collection to Kitty for future YCC’s.
So sure enough the invite came to attend Cosplay Con 7 AND 8! As the 8th Dr once said, “it was an offer I couldn’t refuse!†So we look forward to seeing you all for chats about our work around the costumed charity scene and the chance to give you some great photo ops with our collection of Daleks, Ood, Exillon and of course, trusty K9 and you might just see Dr number 7 too!
View this PDF for more about his collection and what to expect at Yorkshire Cosplay Con.
