One of our lovely fans’ daughters made this very cool video with shots taken from the Bridget and Craig Times Square appearance. Thank you, Rosemary, for sending this to us! It’s great! And thanks to your daughter as well!

STARBLOG: Liner Notes: Seeking the Sword of Truth
by David McDonnell November 5, 2009

It was chilly in Times Square Thursday morning, but there I was, standing, waiting for the sword & sorcery heroes. And after about a half-hour, they DID show up, arriving direct from the TV fantasy world into the heart of New York City via black stretch limousine. What a way to travel between mythical kingdom and civilization!

Well, if you haven’t guessed, this was a NYC press event held on “Military Island” (that isle of concrete between 44th Street and 43rd, bracketed lengthwise by Broadway and Seventh Avenue; its title derives from the U.S. Army Recruiting Station located on its south end for decades). You may have seen publicity events held there before—it’s directly in front of ABC’s GOOD MORNING AMERICA studios, and the show regularly makes use of that Times Square turf to stage concerts, contests and other antics.

Now, normally, I might NOT venture out of my warm office cave for much of anything, recluse that I have become. But this press event was only SIX blocks from STARLOG—a 10-12-minute walk at most—so how could I not go? This thing was just too conveniently located! Its purpose, by the way, was to promote the second season of TV’s only current sword & sorcery saga LEGEND OF THE SEEKER (premiering in syndication the weekend of November 7-8). Based on Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth books, it’s from ABC Studios and executive producers Rob Tapert & Sam Raimi (the folks who gave us HERCULES: THE LEGENDARY JOURNEYS & XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS), STAR TREK veteran Ken Biller and Ned Nalle & Josh Donen. STARLOG covered the series’ first season; a review of this year’s premiere will be posted shortly. So, it’s our kind of far-out stuff, yet it was comparatively nearby. I had to go.
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Here is yet another delightful write up of the Times Square appearance today. It was sent in by one of our visitors and we can’t express how much we appreciate these! Thank you for sending this is! Here it is:

I am a big fan of Bridget (your website is GREAT) and Craig. I wanted to let you know what I saw today at Times Square.

We got to Times Square at 10:15 am and went straight to Military Island where the “Seeker” car had a big sword of truth sticking out of it. There were about 10 girls dressed in red (they were a little cold) taking publicity shots in front of the car. We were waiting for Craig and Bridget and they came exactly on time. After they took about 1000 pictures for the press tour, Bridget turns to us and says ” lets go visit the kiddies!” My children had their mouths open and were speechless. Bridget is STUNNING to look at and Craig is GORGEOUS! The kids got to take a picture with them and get a hug. Bridget and Craig are two of the most beautiful, friendly, generous and happy actors you ever want to meet. My children are so happy we went today! There were many people who came over to see what was going on. I explain to them what the show was and who Bridget and Craig were. I must have talked to a lot of people because I was giving out the collector cards to everyone who asked me about the show. Some girls from the show’s marketing department were asking my children questions, reactions, etc. My girls were on cloud nine! It was our best day ever…so far.

Apparently, Bridget’s fans are EVERYWHERE! First in New Zealand to attend Armageddon Expo and now in New York’s Times Square. A fan has sent us both a write up and pictures of the event (and a huge thanks goes out to them for it!), please don’t swipe the photos as they were given to us for our exclusive use. Click on the photos to go see the larger versions in the gallery.

And now, for what happened in Times Square:
Walking to the event, I saw a car with the word “Seeker” on it. When I got to the event place, the car was smashed up with smoke coming out, a huge sword through the front engine part and the words “The Seeker was here.com” (no spaces when you type it in of course!), written on the side of the car. There was also a large poster of Richard and Kahlan fighting the bad guys, which is one of the new promo shots. There were 8 Mord-Sith handing out the 3D promotional cards (no iTunes code on the back) and posing for photos. A little after 10:30, Bridget and Craig arrived via limo and took photos with the Mord-Sith. Then Bridget and Craig took photos together, then each of them separately in front of the car. Then they signed photos and took pictures with the fans. They were so nice and must have spent 20 or so minutes, signing, taking photos and talking with people. Craig asked many of the people’s names and obliged people’s requests for hugs! They were both very friendly and giving of their time. It was great to see them as they film so much of the year in New Zealand, that to have them in the States was a wonderful opportunity.

Jane, whose apparent occupation is to go around being the Queen of Awesome, has found the following from the Legend of the Seeker event this morning in Times Suare:

First up, a live webcam of the event. Apparently there were Mord Sith wondering around earlier. For that, click here. It looks like most of the stuff is done and gone by now, but it’s still nifty to look at what’s still there.

Speaking of what’s still there…:

(click to see full size in the gallery)

Thanks Jane!

From the Confessor & Seeker Society:

This Thursday, November 5, at 10:30am Eastern Time, Craig Horner and Bridget Regan will be in New York’s Times Square to promote this weekend’s Legend of the Seeker Season Premiere Event. You can find them at Military Island, Times Square, Intersection of Broadway and 7th Avenue, between 43rd & 44th Street. The Sword of Truth will leave its mark in the heart of Manhattan!

From Chris & I:

If any of you go and want to be the recipient of much thanks and love, do a write up of the event and send it our way, we’d greatly appreciate it. Pictures rock too if you’re so inclined.

Over the past week several links have popped up in both our e-mail and in our comments. There’s just been soooooo much going on this week that there hasn’t been a good time to post them individually so instead we’re going to post them all in one post.  Ready?

Armageddon Expo Links:

Speshtian’s Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/speshtian/sets/72157622686715188/ (Thanks Seventh!)
Michael Hurst’s (LotS Director) Photos: http://www.michaelhurstnow.com/armageddonseeker.html (Thanks Maria, Seventh)
Roza4800’s Video of the Signing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUAT76xboIA (Thanks Mattia!)

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What follows is just a big bunch of awesomeness brought to you by Lisa. She contacted us about a month ago and offered to go to the Armageddon Expo and write us up a review. Needless to say, Chris and I were soooooo thankful to her that I think I said thank you every other sentence in my reply email. Lisa went to New Zealand on a photography expedition and so she also took photos at the expo. A few of the pictures are here in the article and all of them can be found in the gallery here: http://herblueeyes.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=27 All of these belong to Lisa and are a site exclusive so all the images are watermarked with both her name an the site address, please don’t swipe them. Thanks Lisa! We REALLY appreciate it!

Hey all you Bridget fans…hello from NZ! Being a Legend of the Seeker fan, I’ve always appreciated this site for compiling all the latest updates so I don’t have to hunt them down on the web myself…so as a thank-you to Lindsey and Chris, I agreed to check out the Armageddon Expo while I was on vacation in NZ. Let me just say, the only expo I’ve ever been to was a travel expo in NYC, so I was a bit out of my element. To see all the sights at the expo was a bit weird for me—but hey, I’m always game for adventure, and it was good fun!

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On October 26th, Bridget and Craig, as well as Craig Parker who plays Darken Rahl and Tabrett Bethell who plays Cara, will be appearing in New Zealand at the Armageddon Expo.

“APPEARING MONDAY OCT 26th ONLY

Armageddon is pleased to present the cast of the hit action-adventure series “Legend of the Seeker!” From executive producers Ken Biller (Star Trek: Voyager), Sam Raimi (Spider-Man), Rob Tapert (Xena), Ned Nalle (Hercules), and Josh Donen (Drag Me to Hell) and inspired by Terry Goodkind’s bestselling epic fantasy series, The Sword of Truth, ‘Richard,’ ‘Kahlan’ and ‘Zedd’ will soon discover that after defeating ‘Darken Rahl,’ they inadvertently opened a rift into the underworld.

Please join cast members CRAIG HORNER, BRIDGET REGAN, CRAIG PARKER, TABRETT BETHELL, and Producer/Director, MARK BEESLEY as they discuss “Legend of the Seeker” and give you a sneak peek at the highly anticipated second season of the series!  These guests will be participating in a panel/Q&A session on the EVENT MAIN STAGE (1PM-2PM), followed by a FREE ONE-HOUR AUTOGRAPH SESSION (2PM-3PM).  “Legend of the Seeker” is exclusive to PRIME in New Zealand.”

The article is found on the Armageddon Expo website along with brief bios of the cast members here: http://www.armageddonexpo.com/nz/tv-movie-stars/legend-of-the-seeker-cast/#skiptop

In addition, we’d like to request that anyone who might be attending get an not personalized autographed picture of Bridget that they’d be willing to send us to use as a contest prize in the future. Please e-mail us if you are willing and able. Also, if you do attend and would be willing to write up a review of the event for use on this site, that would be fantastic!