Online Booking and Ticket sales to ended - Tickets on Sale at the door all weekend!

All online sales of Visitor Tickets and Exhibitor Table has ended.

Visitor tickets will still be available on the Doors all wekend at the following prices:
 

Adult - Day - £9

Child Day - £6

Adult Weekend - £14
Child Weekend - £8

Family Weekend (2 adult, 2 child) - £30

For those who have already purchased your tickets, you can pick these up either on the FRiday at the Ramada from 5-8pm or from the Brunels old station from 10am on Saturday.
 

Please note - Those who have collected tickets on Friday will gain first entry to the show, followed by those picking up online tickets and then those wishing to pay on the door.

What to eat at expo?

Feeling peckish at the show?
Well, we've got 2 great options at the Expo this year!

The Purin Purin Maid Cafe

Let the maids treat you like a Master (or Mistress) with a great selection of hot drinks, cakes and snacks to eat in or take away or have then send you a special message on a selection of traditional hot foods (dances optional).

Marco's Olive Branch

Local culinary favorite, Marco's olive branch restaurant will be on site all weekend serving a morning and lunchtime menu for all the hungry comic fans and exhibitors!

With fully stacked breackfast baps and traditional Italian lunches to eat in or take away you won't go hungry this expo!
Also serving a selection of cold and soft drinks and a fully stocked bar on site all weekend.

Tea and Vikings at Expo

Tea obsessed genius of mild inuendo, Dr Geof is bringing his travelling Museum of the First Tea Company to Bristol Expo:

THE FIRST TEA COMPANY
TRAVELLING MUSEUM OF
THE FIRST TEA COMPANY

Curator: Dr G.Banyard
Senior Archivist: Mr G. Powell
Clerk of Works: Mr D. Griffiths

with kind donations from the collections of:
Mr Kit Cox, Ms Vyctoria Hart, Brig Matt Broom, Dr Vincent Swann,
Mr Peter Harrow, Prof Jamie Matfin, Herr Döktor and several others

admission free

OPEN 10 am - 5 pm
SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Bristol Comic Expo
May 12th & 13th 2012
Brunels Old Station, Temple Meads
The City of Bristol, BS1 6QH

A temporary museum concerning a fictional tea-related reality

NO OCELOTS
NO BALL GAMES
NO BALL GOWNS
STRICTLY NO TEA-DUELLING

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A Visitor's Guide

The "First Tea Company Travelling Museum of the First Tea Company" is a very real, if temporary, museum that documents the very made-up history of a very fictional tea-and-cake related military organisation. Or, to put it more simply, it's an affectionate mockery of museums and historiography. With tea.

The museum was born from Geof's love of tea and making fake old things, as well as in response to the need for a pretend military organisation for issue #11 of his fetishman comic series. The museum itself had its first ever outing at the Piece Hall in Halifax in December 2010, as part of a series of First Tea Company Tea Tournament events that Legacy Comics had been hosting that year. The "Strictly No Tea-Duelling" sign subsequently inspired Mr John Naylor's founding of the popular sport of Tea-Duelling. After a significant overhaul it has subsequently been displayed at:

Leeds Steampunk Market (October 2011, Leeds)
Thought Bubble (November 2012, Leeds)
Leeds Steampunk Market (March 2012, Leeds)
Olympus 2012 Eastercon (April 2012, London)
London Steampunk Market (April 2012, London)
Tomorrow's World ... Today! (May 2012, London)
Whilst much of the museum is lovingly created by Geof, he is indebted to some very lovely people for their help. Significant thanks go to Gareth Powell, David Griffiths, Cathy Royle and Alexandra Wynn, the latter of whom sacrificed half of our anniversary to help build the version for October 2011. In addition, a number of the actual exhibits have been very kindly created and/or donated by some very fine and talented people:

Kit Cox, Vyctoria Hart, Matt Broom, Trevor Wilson, Peter Harrow, Ian Crichton, Jamie Matfin and others

The characters and events portrayed in the museum are most likely highly non-existent and wholly untrue. Please feel free to ask about our guided tours. Tea-duelling strictly prohibited. Much tea was consumed during the making of this museum.

sincerely yours,

Geof Banyard
Curator & First Tea Lord

EXIT VIA GIFT SHOP
ENTRANCE VIA GIFT SHOP
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ASK ABOUT OUR GUIDED TOURS

and just for the icing on the cake we can exclusively announce the premiere of Geof's long standing and highly whimsical publication - Fetishman #15 - Vikings

Viking fans - You do not want to miss this!