Keep Mike Towers Away From Showmasters Events

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• Ren Dikomite
• Concerned Committee member.

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  • As a Committee member on two conventions, I have experienced first hand Tower's disregard and verbal abuse of a long standing community in his rampage towards some sort of 'Anime League new world order'. I have no affiliation with Showmasters but would fully encourage anyone who wished to bulid up an anime base at their convention to reject Towers and search for more established, organised and well conected promoter such as Sweatdrop or Manga. I am signing this annonymously because I have experience of Towers and his fangirls unpleasant campaigns to anyone who stands against him.
• Worked with him

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  • I've worked with him and his harrassment, he wasn't even meant to be involved with me and yet I couldn't get rid of him He was incredibly rude at the event too.
• Simon McCann
• Concerned voice of the Cosplay Community

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  • Mike Towers and his associations remind me of a brainwashing Cult, hoping to turn a fun, fan-minded hobby into something it is not. I have been attending events for almost 10 years and have helped run various events as well as act as a voice for a large part of the cosplay community. I regretfully will not attend any Showmasters events whilst this man is associated with them, and will be unable to encourage members of the Community to attend these events either.
• Andrew Lakis
• Disgruntled Dealer

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  • Traded once at an event this man organised, never again. I certainly would not associate with any other event he was heavily involved with again.
• Paul C
• Concerned dealer

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  • I would prefer not to sign anonymously but as others who have signed this petition have commented Michael Towers has a well established reputation for harassing anyone who voices a negative opinion about his activities. I have traded at an event run by Michael and was horrified both by the lack of basic organisation and his appalling disregard for health and safety. I actively avoid any event he is heavily involved in and I would advise any fellow dealer or member of the community to do the same.
• Leonie Speller
• Connie
• Gaz Woods

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  • This man, frankly, creeps me out. Not someone you want to be associated with.
• Debbie Naismith
• Laura Buckley
• Eilidh McMillan

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  • He is just plain immature and I am just sick of seeing him try to force his opinions on everyone everywhere.
• David Mace
• Lindsay Burdon
• Richard Hohne
• David Stokes
• stopsthepwandas

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  • We have seen a cavilcad of disasters from this mans involvement with the UK manga scene, along with his intimidation tactics to any who oppose his new manga order, and so support any attempts to remove him from involvement with this fine event. Him not having a thing to do with it can only make it better.
• James gammell

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  • I have little experience with the man, save that when i heard about the manga alliance and asked some simple questions on their forum anime league they were promptly deleted by him and swept under the rug. As a reaction to light questioning , i was not impressed.
• Ross Mills
• Wayne Pearce

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  • Michael Towers has taken credit for things he obviously had no hand in creating (such as the entire LFCC), and backed out of obligated events (Dimensional Manga's panels).
• Luke Nelson

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  • I have to say that this man's reputation will ruin Showmasters events.
• Jason Craig McCall

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  • Towers is a self-serving, power-mad, tyrannical, babbling idiot with severe delusions of grandeur. He cannot & WILL not deliver on his overblown promises. He lies, cheats & avoids responsibility when he can to weasel out of any hole he digs himself into; when he can't, he'll either ignore criticism within his own little fiefdom or whine about things outside of it. He WILL expect people to drop what they're doing INCLUDING day jobs to do all his work for him (not lifting a finger himself) & try to take all the credit and/or profit - he has crowed about the latter in the past openly, in front of those he took monetary advantage of. He DOES back-stab and spread poison against anyone he takes even a slight dislike to, and tries to destroy their own good works by taking them head-on in a usually far inferior manner. He is not liked or trusted one inch outside his own dominion. The vast majority of UK anime fandom refuses to have anything to do with him; I strongly suggest Showmasters takes the same stance. JC McC
• Sammy
• Bryan McDowall

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  • I have been aware of this person's movements for some time now. I feel his imposition into the anime community has shadowed other long standing, non-benefiting and hard working people. He is a self serving glory seeker, aiming not to improve or serve the animation industry and fans in the UK, but to franchise it by plastering his 'mascot' (a panda with a bandana and dyslexia) over events which he has no intention of enhancing. Please be wary of Mike Towers, his reputation will only damage your event.
• Matt H

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  • I have experienced the 'work' Mike Towers does at a number of events around the country. If he isnt arguing with people who run events that arent his own (Usually trying to let him advertise and promote his own events) he is showing alot of disregard for for the events he runs and people who help him run them. Either his own events are badly run with little organisation, or he is letting people who work for him interupt organised events to try and promote their own material, and isnt apologetic about it.

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