I am most certainly interested in coming to this Lion Party. (Although perhaps you meant interested in being the American representative? In that case, alas, I cannot help. ).

Exams shouldn't be a problem for myself, although my brother's birthday is December 10th and we're having company, so I naturally don't want to miss his birthday. In that way, December 18th would work better for myself.

If I am living in West Virginia in December, Jo, you know I'll be there!
I would totally help you plan and be the US rep, but not knowing where I'll be living right now, I can't give you a positive answer. Pray!

Well, I'm planning on attending this, but I still have to talk to my parents about it. Either date works for me, although I'll probably be having a Narnia party Dec. 10th, and will have already seen the movie twice (Once at midnight, and then again that same day in the afternoon as I've done for both movies so far) but I don't really mind, I just hope the movie isn't awful.

(If he's coming) I nominate Digs for our representative.

I'll always be a,
NL101

NL101!!!! I would love to meet you! Now, I have to go to this LP!

I second the nomination for Digs!

Oh dearie dearie me. . .

I suppose I could accept this nomination, although I nominate Jo as my vice-representative.

I have no idea what would go into getting the tickets. . . but if somebody who'd done it before could perhaps PM me with the details of doing such a thing. . . I suppose I could do it.

Simple. Call the theatre, order the amount of tickets, collect money from other NWebbers! Or else do the third step first. And figure out ticket prices, of course!

I really want to meet everyone that's going to this party. It's so far away, though, and I'm not too keen on making the drive alone. I'm gonna talk to my parents.

I would be honoured to work with you in this, DiGs. What I'll do is make the initial call to the theatre in the next few weeks, and get preliminary info.

I agree, sweeet (and it would marvelous if you could come!), that to collect the money from the attendees first before ordering the tickets would be the wisest route. That was also the advice given me from an experienced LP planner. *coughramagutcough*

sweeet, what if you brought a friend along, just so you don't have to drive all that way alone? *is excited that we will see sweeet in a couple of months, as well, at the The Two Towers symphony in Grand Rapids, MI in October!* (If anyone wants to join us in that, please PM me! /shameless plug )

As I've mentioned elsewhere, I'm leaning more and more towards December 18 for our LP. It seems that most things are pointing us to this date, instead of opening weekend. Can you believe it? The release date is less than four months away!

We'll need to wait until into September to hear from students coming about their exam schedules, after which we can move forward with firmer plans.

I have no idea what would go into getting the tickets. . . but if somebody who'd done it before could perhaps PM me with the details of doing such a thing. . . I suppose I could do it.

I'll go ahead and post instead of PMing you and answer it for anyone else who might be wondering the same thing.

I've set up two Narnia events, the first was the lion party for LWW and the second one was for the Narnia: Exhibition last year in Kansas City.

For the LWW lion party, the theater that we chose had advance ticket sales online. If this is an option, I HIGHLY recommend it. Everybody is responsible for their own tickets instead of you having to keep track of them, and it's less of a risk of being sold out when you arrive at the theater.

For the Narnia exhibition in KC, there was a big group discount, so I paid for all of the tickets with my own money and as people arrived there, they paid me back for their ticket. There is a risk in doing this if people decide to back out at the last minute, you could be stuck holding an extra ticket. Luckily with this event, I knew most everybody that was there and where most of them lived so I was comfortable doing this.

I hope that helps!

You can do it, Digs!

I have PM'd Jo with a lot of the info from the 2 LPs we did. Maybe she can forward the PMs to you.

I'm interested! School exams might cause problems, but I believe I'll be finished by the 18th (if that ended up as the date). The only complication is that we might be gone that weekend. We'll see, though.

Yep, I will do that with your PMs, ramagut. And thanks to you, too, fk, for your suggestions from experience. I like the idea of advance ticket sales online, so everyone can purchase their own, but we'll see.

It's 99% sure we will aim for December 18th as our LP date. This day seems to work better all around. And let's hope the weather remains cooperative for driving that weekend.

I just phoned the Regal Cinema's 1-800 number and spoke to a staff member who was very helpful. I know I'm really early phoning for a December release, but ... why not? She said advance sales wouldn't go begin until 14 days before, minimum, so we have awhile to wait. Groups are 25 or more. If everyone comes who I have mentioned this to, there would be around that many, but maybe not quite.

Also, do we want to see it in 3-D or not? At this point the Lima, OH theatre doesn't know whether they'll even have both. My preference is non 3-D, but ... I will go with what the majority would like.

I really don't like watching movies in 3-D, so I'm voting no on this one. It gives me a terrible headache after a while.

I'm thinking if we have a divided group on this, we can split into two: one group heading for the 3-D showing; the other, the regular. Hopefully they will have both! (I know exactly what you mean about the headache, DiGs, as well as some nausea, as well as just feeling constricted, somehow. )

*hopes to get more info and may possibly be able to come*
We had that week's plan open up after something else cancelled this week!
I really hope we'll be able to go, thanks for the help Jo!!!

Without seeming too rude, I would like to respectfully request that we do not go to watch the 3-D version. We're with you guys, it does give us a headache.