Living it up in London

Hey hey people!

So i'm back from London and the Toy Story premiere and you'll be glad to hear that we all had an awsome time! The film was great, it was cool to finally see the film after months of seeing sketches and reference matirial to build the models.

Here are some pics, I didn't take the D90. Its a bit of a beast and I knew I would be doing a lot of walking so I took the little Cannon. So the pics are few and simple but i'm sure you will enjoy...

So we got to London early Saturday and after cheaking in we went to find some food. I took them to 'The Tottenham Pub' , it's one of the oldest in London...you dont see many like this any more.

It's like some sort of film set from a period drama set in the smog filled street of old London town.

It even has this amazing glass sky light.

After re-fuling and talking to a mad sailor who made a very bad joke about the Titanic we went for a walk around London, and as the native I was the guide. Our first stop was a coll little shop called 'Magma'. Great for design/art books and magazines, they even do some toys and Dvd's.

It's small but packs a punch!

The place is packed with coolness and the shelves go to the ceiling.

YES! Thats me!

We then had a little walk towards Covent Garden and poped into 'Kid Robot' along the way which specialises in Vinyl Toys and collectables.

Even their bags a super cool.

Gitte and Lauge liked the shop, they don't see places like this in Billund.

Mega Dunny!

Fee and me a BIG 'Futurama' fans, so I picked her up a little collectable. You dont know whats in it until you open it...she got lucky and nabbed Nibbler.

Once we walked though Covent Garden we jumped into 'Forbidden Planet' which is like Nerd heaven. Comics, novels, dvd's, collectables, you name it they got it.

How do you get a man to read Jane Austin?....ADD ZOMBIES!

It was even a signed copy.. sweet.

This looked good, just started reading it....makes NO sence what so ever!

Got a great book about the art work of TS3 for the gang at work.

I love this kind of stuff, seeing how it got from concept to the final product is great.

We had been walking for a while now and we decided that we should head up to 'Hamleys' which is Londons oldest toy shop and have a look round. Once there we all had a little snoop around and then call it a day so we could all go do some personal shopping....that was after a vist to Starbucks ofcourse.

You know your in London when......

After a rest and a shower we all met for dinner, we went to the St Martins Lane Hotel which was styled by Philip Stark. They have a great cocktail bar and resturant there, I got Fee on the case back in DK to find us a good place to eat as she did not dissapoint!

In true Stark form there was lots of 'odd' things around the place. These faces we about 5 meter tall and all over the walls with defferent exspresions.

Mmmm Pre dinner Cocktails...two Mojhitos, one vhanila berry and a KGB. Lauge had the KGB and it came with a shot of 'Monkey shoulder'. We had no idea what that was.....

...untill we came across it at the airport. Turns out its a Whisky.

The meal was amazing, the restarunt is called Asia de cuba. It's a fusion or oriental cooking and eating with a cuban twist...super tasty! Sorry not pics of the food*
We were all stuffed after the meal, Gitte and Lauge went back to the hotel, Laurence went to meet his sister but me and Mike stayed out for a couple of drinks.....well when the company is paying it would be rude not to right!?

So the big day arrived and we all headed off to the Empire cinema.... :D

There was a huge crowed and it took us a while to get though to the entrance....dont they know i'm a VIP!!

This was awsome, the didn't have a read carpet...they had a LEGO carpet!

It was hard to get a pic without peoples feet blocking the shot, sorry. We were being hurded along by security at thei point.

Lena, Mike P, Mike A, Lauge

A view of all the 'common' people who could not get in. HAHA!

We got to watch all the z-list celebrities arriving and being interviewed by Alex.

Patton was very excited.

Alex talking to Gail Porter...she is a TV celebrity who suffers from alipechia (loss of hair) and Alex was going on about how Jessie is his favorite charecter because of her long pretty hair....ops!

Heres Woody, sorry for the blur but he was rather 'animated'....kind of looks like he is raving...or having a fit.

This was (along with Buzz, Jessie and the Alien) a give away in our goodie bags...Gitte was the one who sculpted the heads so she was very happy.

There's the whole gang...... thanks for a great day!

*Im not a food pap...I just cant do it!