European Premiere of Christopher Robin

On Sunday, I was very lucky to attend the European premiere of Christopher Robin at the BFI Southbank in London. I got this chance after I won a competition through the Walt Disney Studios Facebook page after answering a question right and from that I won four tickets for the premiere.

What a day this was, I could collect my ticket from 4pm, so we had a wonder around London first and visited various places such as the Disney Store, Toms and Spectrum Beauty who recently opened on Carnaby Street. We walked slowly over the Thames to Southbank and ate our lunch in the National Theatre and walked out to what we discovered was the behind of the premiere. We checked out what was happening and they were letting people in to go behind the barriers. Unfortunately, they were sticking to their 4pm ticket collection which was fine. So, we went back and collected the tickets which were so cute they had Tigger on the back. We waited for about 15 minutes before they moved us in, in that time we saw Hayley Attwell who plays Evelyn Robin in the film, get out of her car and have her photos taken which was a surreal moment. Then we got to walk the carpet, the actual premiere carpet and on our way in the voice of Winnie the Pooh/Tigger, Jim Cummings, nearly walked into my boyfriend, again a surreal moment.

Once inside the BFI, they had decorated it for the premiere which was so cute and subtle. At the bar, they had some juice or water which was completely free. We sat and people watched for a while whilst we drunk our juice which was lovely and refreshing after a very hot day in London. We had to be seated at 5 so we went into screen which was NFT 3. It was a lovely little screen where we were greeted by Winnie the Pooh on the screen, added to the amazing treatment on each seat there was a little cinema goodie bag of dried mango, a bag of popcorn and a bottle of water. We had the best seats as well we were the back row, right in the middle so we had the prefect view throughout the film.

The best part of the day was just before the film started an announcer came into the room and introduced the screen to the director who bought and introduced all these people into the room such as Jim Cummings, Hayley Attwell, Ewan McGregor which was insane being in the room as all these incredible people it was a dream. I won’t say too much about the film apart from it is wonderful, everyone young and old needs to see it as I feel it has important life lessons within.

This was a dream day for me, I can’t thank Disney enough for making the magic happen, they truly are the best company. It was a once in a lifetime experience I can’t believe I lived, me and my boyfriend love Winnie the Pooh so much so for us to experience this was magical. Disney truly make magic happen for people.

I hope you enjoyed this post, until next time

Stacey x

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