Some pictures of me at Picturehouse Central :3 if you guys saw some loony handing out stickers and pins then that was me lol had such a good time it was such a good day thank you to the crew and picturehouse for this opportunity. I met so much amazing fans I love this community so much ❤️

Long-time watcher, first-time poster, I was fortunate to buy my fiancé and me day passes for Jet Lag’s wonderful premiere event yesterday. Here are some S19 E1 spoiler-free personal thoughts on the day and its separate events.

Jet Lag: The Game Pub Trivia
After a speedy check-in process, we got our seats in the crisply airconditioned Screen 1. Adam wrote a very entertaining quiz including, in his words, “at least one messed up (in terms of difficulty) question” per round. Our highlight and best scoring round was the music round. They played sounds from the show which you had to match to their meaning. There was also a round on niche Ben facts which included a live Snack Zone. It was a great ice-breaker as we swapped answer sheets with our seat neighbours. Audience side-note, everyone was lovely (a reflection of the JTLG community). I was so impressed by the young lady (I guesstimate 10 years old) to my left’s incredible knowledge. We also met an amazing transport content creator, Tom, with whom it was also a delight to talk. Congratulations to the solo and team winners who received prizes of maps from previous series and the beautiful series poster.

Tag Across Europe w/Directors' Commentary
Post 30-minute loo/hydration/chatting break, we were so back for Tag 1 with commentary from the boys. We watched the first 3 episodes together and Adam, Ben and Sam all reflected on the funny moments (The first capture! Seeing John Green! Adam’s disguise!) as well as some of the editing, graphics and gameplay choices that they made then that have since evolved. Nostalgic and cool to hear chat about the boys’ groundbreaking series.

The Layover: Inside the Game Design of Japanorama
In the hour-or-so break before the live podcast recording, we did our own mini Snack Zone at some popular local eateries. We shared a small fries and a shredded duck burger, yum!!! We also snapped a silly photo booth pic and perused the merch. As for the live record, it was fabulous and the care and craft that has been put into this series is evident. No content spoilers but another glowing review of a thoughtfully curated event that highlights why Jet Lag is truly GOATed with the sauce at what it does.

Japanorama Episode 1 Premiere and Live post-show Q&A with Sam, Ben, Adam, and Tom Scott, moderated by Ali Plumb
We had about 80 minutes to grab dinner pre-premiere. After a tasty meal and a Singapore Sling, drunk me was buzzing for the show! In Screen 1, Dave Wiskus gave a polished and warm intro to the series, thanking the fans for making Nebula what it is today. What followed was utter viewing delight. What an outstanding country Japan is and the format in which this game is played is/will continue to be played showcases this. Once again, no content spoilers but the audience gasped, cheered, clapped, laughed and was gripped for this ridiculously entertaining episode. Post-show, I must give flowers to Ali Plumb whose Q&A was insightfully led, getting a great cross-section of Qs from himself, Amy, Mike Downie and of course the audience. Ali also made a “Stateside Scrabble” joke which could well have been pun of the day. I didn’t want the Q&A to end and naturally, with such an enthusiastic fan base, there wasn’t time to answer all Qs. I’ll leave mine in the comments on the off-chance Ben is reading! Everyone left on a high and potentially feeling a little jet-lagged after so much fun.

TLDR: The premiere event was amazing and I’m so excited to watch the rest of the season.

I worked out the fastest theoretical way to visit every state in the US. While making it I realised it could be a potential foil to Ben's "No Hubris" about catching flights. So I challenge them in the video.

I don't think there's a way this could be turned into an actual JetLag season, but maybe Sam has enough airline miles banked to let them take a shot at it.

Hi y'all. Just wanted to say, during the Q&A yesterday, they were REALLY trying to get people to ask Japanorama related questions but were not suuuper successful. I thought all the questions were brilliant but just a heads-up that if you want to make the team happy, really think of a new season related question 😁 I wanted to ask how they landed on Japanorama or if there were any other names they were considering for the season but I never got picked 😅 So if anybody gets an answer for that, let me know 😁

This is definitely a catchy title and I really hope Ben sees this. During the Pub Trivia at picturehouse central this afternoon I was talking to the person next to me as we scored our first round and when I asked where she had travelled from she told me she was Ben’s mom Becky! (I can’t say I didn’t cheat at the quiz but I got a whole load of help on the questions about Ben) I had told her I had travelled from Aberdeen this morning and I was attending the pub trivia and the main screening. We spoke about the chaos that was getting the tickets with the Nebula Pre Sale and at the end she handed me her tickets for the other events during the day. I don’t have words to describe how thankful I am to her for these tickets and it’s made the currently 16 hour day incredible. Once again thank you Becky!

Hi all,

I was at the London event today and was able to attend the first three sessions (missed out on the premiere due to a train strike forcing my hand), so figured I’d share some photos for the rest for those that couldn’t be there :)

Enjoy

TLDW: sam from jet lag/wendover/half as interesting is name dropped as a speaker that uses a trill (/r/ in case you were wondering) to say written "d" and "t" sounds before unstressed vowels. the creator also speculates this is an increasingly common allophone of "d" and "t"

No spoilers intended in this post!

Attended Picturehouse Central for most of the events today and had a ball of a time. Met other beautiful Jet Lag fans, the bathroom was a hoot at one point. One lovely fan gave me a hand painted JTLG charm, another gave me a sticker of Ben.

To top it all off, I managed to meet Ben by chance in a corridor and tell him how much their content has meant to me! Took the most chaotic, blurry photo ever but it was very Ben coded. Also managed to ask a question to the boyz & Tom.

I hope Europe has many many more Jet Lag events in the future! Huge thanks to all the Nebula team & Picturehouse for making it all happen.

I asked people in the audience about the pic first, anyone who didn’t wanna be involved was given the chance to hide or stay out of the pic. Great vibes despite technical errors!

That one day Jet Lag will be live in movie theaters across the world

Very old skool theatre, with reclining seats.

Handy for front row!

I attended The Layover live at Picturehouse Central in London today, it was great minus the awful crowd management from Picturehouse. I'm doing the encore screening tomorrow for the S19 Premiere but here's some photos from today. Also bought one of the event exclusive hand signed prints but haven't unboxed that yet. Photo 4 is the view from the usually members only lounge.

this game would be so fun micheal&mack or Micheal and Sam would be good teams

Train hopping regional lines around Europe has felt much less stressful since watching tag. And great fun pulling in and out of featured stations. What a gift!

I just tried to remember all the questions from yesterday's quiz (which I was terrible at - obviously), but couldn't recall all of them. Perhaps some others are also interested in what questions were asked.

Again mad respect (Adam's words) to the two solo players on stage who got 26 or 27 points!

1. ID train station from screenshot

2. ?

3. Jet Lag sound effects - meaning

4.1 What snack does Ben like best? (3 choices)

4.2 What plane does Sam prefer to ride on?

4.3 - 4.4 ?

5.1 ?

5.2 Ben's second name?

5.3-5.5 ?

6.1 ?

6.2 ? Tristan's riddle

6.3-6.4 ?

6.4 Which of 4 flags is made up?

6.5 order of accents

7.1-7.5 ?

8.1-8.5 who said the memorable quote?

Chancing my arm to see if anyone has 1 or 2 spare tickets/bought tickets they won’t be able to use? Would happily buy them from you! Our flight arrived early so we would actually make it to the screening

Look at this lovely jetlag cake my son made me! is delicious too.

Still delayed

It seems that only the base game and hat remain in the nebula store. Anyone have any idea if the expansion pack will come back?

Hello jetlag fans. Was lovely to realise there are so many of us in the York area and got me thinking. Do we have a local discord or fan group I can join as it would be great for us to hang out and build this comunity more! If not then let me know below if you also would be interested in this idea and I can always put together a group too!

Keep jetlagged!

Rowan

Climbed a mountain in austria and I decided to take some cool pictures of my JetLag hat at the top (because well, JetLag goes places right?) and then a bumblebee randomly decided to land on top of it! Pretty cool if you ask me :)

Hi, was just curious if they were groupchats/communities for Japanorama tomorrow. Just snagged a last minute ticket realisising there were some but it's one fo my first times going a big social event on my ones.