Gallifrey One’s Miracle on 34th Street is in the books… and we want to thank all of YOU for helping us make it happen.
With 3,101 attendees, guests and staff welcomed to this year’s event, we think this convention was the smoothest and most fun we’ve ever done. All of our program rooms were usually filled to capacity, and our guests were all outstanding. We’re especially thrilled that we could bring Sir Derek Jacobi, in an extraordinarily rare appearance, and we know he had a great time, as did our other guests.
We would like to thank all of you for your gracious attitudes toward our staff and guests. We know many of you picked up the dreaded “con crud” during and after the event (a sad fact of life at any convention with attendees from around the world, no matter the topic) and we’re happy to say we’ve received very few notifications about COVID infections, some of which aren’t sure if they got it at the convention or shortly thereafter. As our program director said during Closing Ceremonies, Gallifrey One is not perfect; we’re a fan convention, and even though we try our best and our hearts are in the right places, we know there is always room for improvement. To that end:
Feedback: If you’d like to let us know what you think, we welcome your feedback via email. We welcome both positive and negative feedback; constructive criticism is very important and we definitely love hearing from you about anything you think we could do better.
Pictures: We’d love to see your pictures of the convention! See “Have Convention Photos To Share?” below.
Charity Auction: We are delighted to announce that we will be making a donation this week of $21,733.50 to The Trevor Project, our charity this year. We’re going through the last few contributions right now, and will have a specific amount in the days to come. Our thanks to Kimberly Spicker and Jaslyn Robbins at The Trevor Project, as well as our wonderful charity auction staff who went the extra mile this year to bring in as many donations as possible, and especially thanks to those of you who bid (including the top item, $6100 for a fully signed Firefly cast print).
Special Thanks: The Gallifrey One Board of Directors — Robbie Bourget, Joyce Lloyd, Cathy Johnson and Shaun Lyon — would like to first thank our guests who appeared at this year’s convention:
Sir Derek Jacobi, Billie Piper, Alex Kingston, Segun Akinola, Matthew Waterhouse, Frazer Hines, Camille Coduri, Jacqueline King, Rachel Talalay, Ray Holman, Brian Herring, Shaun Dingwall, Annette Badland, Eric Roberts, Jaye Griffiths, Sally Knyvette, Brian Croucher, Jan Chappell, Jonathon Carley, Kevin Jon Davies, Dominic Glynn, Robert Strange, Gigi Edgley, Chase Masterson, Stephen Cole, Mark Morris, James Goss, Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson, John Dorney, Gary Russell, Lisa McMullin, Tony Lee, Jody Houser, Paul Cornell, Peter Anghelides, Simon Guerrier, Lizbeth Myles, Alfie Shaw, David Gerrold, Barbara Hambly, Gareth Kavanagh, Ian Winterton, Julie Benson, Shawna Benson, Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, Gillian Horvath, Christopher Jones, Dan Peck, Keith Barnfather, Trina Ray, Kim Steadman, Sarah Milkovich, Krys Blackwood, Anita Sengupta, George Shaw, David Raiklen, Scott Tipton, Sandra Gimpel, Robert Napton, Craig Miller, Eliza Roberts, Susanna Malak, Brad & Christine Galey, Rory Ross, Eyad Elbitar, Warren Proulx, Larry Nemecek, Travis Richey, and Jason Haigh-Ellery.
We would also like to thank our entire staff, whose names can be found on the Our Team page.
We would also like to thank our guest sponsors and representatives, our interviewers, special event organizers and program contributors including Jason Joiner, Paul Jones, Laurence Wreford, Howard Hayes, Matthew Campbell, Alex Bond, Natalie Ekelund, Kelley Crume, Zoe Bennett, Kimberly Spicker, Jaslyn Robbins, Gary Russell, Ken Deep, Steven Warren Hill, Athena Stamos, Bob Mitsch, Stephen Cole, Joy Piedmont, Paul Booth, Warren Frey, Steven Schapansky, Chris Burgess, Kim Rogers, Sage Young, Deb Stanish, Sue Cowley, Tony Lee, Paul Cornell, Dan Murphy, Kat Griffiths, Riley Silverman, Julia Ree, Jess Jurkovic, Ramie Tateishi, Amanda-Rae Prescott, Ben Paddon, Gene Smith, David Bickerstaff, Ave Maria Hackett, Patrick Beckstead, Heather Berberet, Kat Alysha, Paula Deming, Piers Britton, Keith Barnfather, Gareth Kavanagh, Sidney Elizabeth, Karen Tucker-Parks, Julian Owen, Ian Kubiak, as well as our friends at Showmasters Events and their staff. Additionally, thanks to our participating vendors and artists in our Dealers Room and Art Show.
We would also like to extend a very special thank you to Steven Beydler, Abigail Descombes, Allison Walsh, Hannah Williamson, Marisa Kofmehl, Paulina Martinez Guillen and everyone at Disney Plus, as well as Vanessa Hamilton, the Doctor Who brand director at the BBC, for their incredible show of support and work to give us a wonderful surprise for our attendees this year: a greeting from the set of Doctor Who to our fans by Ncuti Gatwa himself, along with a poster giveaway (which we distributed Saturday afternoon and much of the day Sunday until supplies ran out.) Please note that due to Disney+ licensing issues, we are unable to post or share the video that we aired on Saturday afternoon and during Sunday’s closing ceremonies (sorry!)
Most of all, thank you – all of our attendees, our panelists, our cosplayers, our dealers, our exhibitors, our tireless enthusiasts, our volunteers, and our friends – for making this an AMAZING year! We could NOT do this without all of you.
Have Convention Photos to Share?
Our 2024 Facebook Event Page will remain online indefinitely and is a good place to share your photos of this year’s convention… though many people are also posting their photos and memories on the unofficial Gallifrey One Fans, Friends & Attendees Facebook group, which is an unofficial and separate group run by Gallifrey One attendees (but fully supported by us!) Meanwhile, if you wish to submit photos for our online photo album let us know via email. For our online gallery, which we are still working on, we are mostly interested in good, high-quality photos of our guests, our discussion panels, and amazing cosplay; at this time we are not looking for photos of individual attendees posing with guests.
Photo Studio Pics Coming Soon
Digital copies of all of the photos taken in this year’s Photo Studio will be online very soon… we will announce it here, as well as on our Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Looking Ahead to Gallifrey One 2025
The clock now resets again, as we begin the countdown to next year! We are pleased to announce Gallifrey One in 35 Millimetre, February 14-16, 2025 at the Marriott Los Angeles Airport Hotel. Everything you love about Gallifrey One will be back: great guests, panels, interviews, special events, dealers, the art show, badge ribbons… all the fun that has become an annual tradition.
Tickets to Gallifrey One 2025 will go on sale in April 2024. In a change to what we’ve been doing for well over a decade, we have chosen to return to the sliding scale registration model; the initial prices on tickets that begin to sell in April will only be available for a short time, and will then increase in five-dollar increments over the subsequent months. We feel this both rewards our early supporters (especially those who support us time and again without any guests being announced) and helps us in the later months: the earlier you buy your ticket, the more budget we have available at that time for booking new guests.
Ticket prices will be announced soon, and will also include a small processing fee, which will be added to each order. We will be soft-launching ticket sales again this year (i.e. they’ll just go on sale, we aren’t giving a day and time they’ll begin.) We did not sell out in 2024 (though we came very close… only about two dozen tickets were left unsold, as we went in with 65 still available and sold about 40 on site.)
We will once again be selling tickets via Member Solutions. As a reminder, we no longer sell convention tickets on EventBrite (though our Convention Photo Shoots partners do use EventBrite for selling their add-on items).
We will also be opening convention T-shirt/tote bag preorders at the same time as tickets go on sale. This is also through Member Solutions, but will be a separate process (we wish we could do everything on the same form, but that causes us issues behind the scenes.) Prices will be posted on the order page and you can select your T-shirt size at that time. (We do not, and will not, have a design until the convention happens; this is for convenience only, sorry.) Please note that if you don’t purchase your convention merchandise during your ticket purchase, you can always come back at a later date.
We can also mention that hotel reservations at the Marriott LAX Hotel will take place toward the in late April or early May. After ticket sales are open, we will announce an exact time and date for hotel reservations. This is, unfortunately, the least pleasant part of Gallifrey One for everyone, including us, as hotel rooms on our discount block usually sell out within minutes. Never fear, there are always plenty of local hotel options (some even cheaper than the Marriott!) and convention attendees can always find a place to stay within a very short walk from our host hotel.
Finally… we’d like to once again remind everyone that we no longer permit ticket resales, and refunds are not given for any reason (we budget our convention entirely on the proceeds from that year’s ticket sales.) You can, however, purchase multiple tickets in your own name and reassign them to friends or family members at a later date, provided no money changes hands.
The Last Word…
As much as Gallifrey One is created by all of us, the key to its success is all of you. We could not possibly do this without our gracious and supportive attendees, who return time and time again to take part in our show. We have the most dedicated and wonderful fan base, not just in Doctor Who fandom but anywhere in the world.
We look forward to welcoming you all to Gallifrey One in 35 Millimetre in February 2025… a trip through old Hollywood, Doctor Who style, with some special surprises in store. See you there!
