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Probably one of my favourite stores at the moment is the West End Disney pop up shop which is currently at Covent Garden. It’s a summer store for Aladdin and The Lion King west end shows, where you can see several different costumes and props from the shows as well as offering some special events and interactive experiences! As some of you may know, The Lion King and Aladdin are two of my favourite movies and Aladdin is my favourite west end show I’ve been to see. So when they announced this shop was happening I was freaking out!!! I only got to visit the first time last Tuesday when I met up with some lovely disney instagrammers, some who I had met before and some who I hadn’t! So that in itself was such a lovely experience but to then go the pop up store made it even more magical!! At the store you can participate in a treasure hunt around covent garden’s piazza, where you search around for hidden lamps that contain letters. The letters then make up a word (associated with Aladdin), and if you get it correct when you get back to the store you can win a signed poster from the cast of Aladdin and The Lion King west end shows! Amazing right!!So of course we took part in the treasure hunt, and we got the poster! It’s so pretty and I cannot wait to hang it up in my bedroom at some point! Also they gave us a Lion King sticker (which I have stuck on laptop case of course!!), plus there is photo spot where you can pose with the lamp, so obviously we did that too! It was such a great experience and I loved to be able to share it with my disney pals!! I loved it so much I decided to take my mum to see it yesterday, and she really liked it too! The store is fairly small which is a shame, so it was quite busy when I went the second time. But it was still just as magical. I did try to get mum to take some pictures by the lamp with me, but she refused (why she did that I do not know!!) so I ended up having two sets of pictures by myself with lamp… It was a lovely experience, I loved seeing the props and costumes too as well as watching the tv screen to discover some cool facts about the two west end shows. However it is only open until the 26th August! So if you want go you better go soon!!! It’s such a shame it isn’t a permanent store, but fingers crossed they will do something similar in the future!! Here’s some pictures I got!! Lidia xx Social Media..
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![]() I’m sorry but I couldn’t stay away! I went again to see Killer Joe play on Wednesday, and was even better than the first time! My brother and I got seats right at the front of the stage (we were essentially sat on the stage it was that close), and honestly you could see so much more and you literally felt like you in the trailer with the characters. We were literally touching distance away from the set, I’m not even joking! Here’s a sneaky picture I took how close we were… thats my skirt, and thats where the set was where the tv is…. The seats were also right at the side of the stairs you take when entering the studio (as its called), so I was right by the stairs. Which meant the actors entered and exited right beside me…. Yes Orlando bloom on several occasions did that, and he had to pass in between the tv and our seats so you can imagine how I was feeling!!! Also, a little story time to show how much of a fangirl I am… one time during the performance he was exiting by those stairs so he had to pass me, but he was holding his jacket fairly low to the ground and it by accident knocked my knee and I was basically screaming inside… Also in one scene Killer Joe (Orlando Bloom) meets Dottie (Sophie Cookson) and Dottie hides behind the tv because she has no idea who this guy is who’s entered her house. Killer Joe then walks towards the tv and introduces himself to her and goes to shake her hand. This was literally right in front of our faces. So of course I was freaking out a bit then too because Orlando was soooo close. Overall the performance was so much better than first time. Not that the first time was bad, the seats just weren’t as good and you couldn’t see everything. We noticed all the little details of the set as well as see more what was going on throughout the performance. We felt so immersed in the performance because everything was literally done right at our feet. Then to make the evening even better, we waited at the stage door (yes another fangirl moment) for Orlando to come out and see fans. Unfortunately I didn’t get a picture with him because there was around 70+ people there and loads were pushing! And to be honest I bet half of them didn’t even go and see Killer Joe Play!!! BUT he ended up going back inside after he met with some fans, then he came back to get on his motorbike to leave the studios. So that was a great sight.. seeing him leave on his bike (with his little dog Mighty in his bag!!) and there wasn’t a lot of people there by that time too, so I could fully see him and basically just stare at him whilst he was leaving. Also, one woman asked him a question about taking pictures and he said “yes take as photos as you want guys” which I thought was so sweet and kind of him! And at one bit he thought he had lost his phone, so he was asking “guys where’s my phone?” Which I thought was pretty funny… i think it ended up being in his pocket… shows you I’m not the only one that freaks out thinking they’ve lost their phone when in fact its right in front of you, haha!! Anyway heres some pictures I got…. Also a girl helped me to get him to sign my Killer Joe booklet!!! So, wednesday was literally one of the best evenings ever and I honestly will remember it all for the rest of my life. It still hasn’t sunk in and I don’t think it will to be honest. I got home that night and had a little cry (happy tears) because I just couldn’t believe what happened!! So yeah there you go, Killer Joe has finished and I’m so gutted, but I can’t wait for Orlando (and the other actors too!!) to do more plays/shows in the future. I will definitely be going!! Bye Killer Joe play, you were great… Lidia xx Social Media.. |
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