Anime North 2013

Expect many pictures of Anime North 2013 next year. I will be there on the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. As for Toronto Anime Con, I will be missing it for work. (ノ￣-￣)ノ

To cover for Toronto Anime Con, December will have a post on *spoilers* mall food courts.

March Toronto Comic Con 2012

Hobby Star hosted Toronto ComiCon, also known as Toronto AnimeCon, this last Saturday. Oie Lin and I got there at 10:30 AM and there was already a long line-up at the ticket booth. There was only one line that consisted of both people with pre-registered papers and people waiting to buy tickets at the box office. It took awhile before the line was split into two, but that was after the box office was opened at 11.

We got to the show's main floor around 12 PM and the first thing that caught my eye was this guy:


When we got into the dealer's room there was... a large Batman car!!


*Insert Batman theme song* Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na, Batman!


When I took the photo above, I wanted to insert a speech bubble with something random written in it. This is all I have to offer:


There were tables in the hallway outside of the dealer's room that promoted a few organizations and entertainment. The first table at the end of the elevators (the entrance to the convention's main floor) had Christian Potenza and his workmates having a meet and greet. The Ontario Ghostbusters were at the other end of the rows of tables.




Upon leaving the convention around 1 PM when it was getting crowded, I took two pictures of some of the main floor from the elevators.


Storm Troopers get their own photoshoot screen background! :D Maybe there could be specialized ones for Anime North this year. Hm... That's an idea: a room full of different backgrounds on screens for people to take pictures with. I'd prefer setting up scenes with actual items than a background image of them, but it's more cost-effective as a simple background screen. Maybe.

At the end of the day, this was what I brought home:

Two issues of Aliens, two issues of Stranger, and a one-day ticket.

Conclusion: This year's annual March HobbyStarCon was small and sweet.

Anime North 2012: Registration

Anime North is implementing their attendance cap this year. Being the cheap anime fan I am, I plan to help a fellow con-goer by not registering this year and simply hang out around the convention's free zones. Free zones are where the convention staff and volunteers don't check for convention badges to access an area. This means that access to certain panels and events will be restricted.

What I will do when I'm there? Bother the con-goers, as usual.

"May I take your picture?"

As for Toronto Comic Con and Toronto Anime Con on March 10 and 11, I'll have to wait and review my workload. Chances are, I'm not attending. I'm a bit pressured to attend though, since I missed last December's Toronto Anime Con.

DTAC 2010

I have examinations during the following 3 weeks. I guess I'll have to miss another anime-related convention.

Conventions, Conventions

_{This post is a follow-up to Where did TAC go?.}

A few of my friends mentioned that the dates for the next March and December Toronto Anime Con (TAC) were released a few weeks ago on Hobbystar Marketing's website. TAC's going to be on Sunday, December 12, 2010 and the weekend of March 19-20, 2011.

I didn't get the chance to attend any conventions this last summer, so I want to be there for both TACs.

December Toronto anime con

Too... many exams. I cannot attend.

December Toronto Anime Con 2008

If I had known that you only need to pay money to get into the dealer's room, I would have saved that ten or fifteen dollars and stayed in the lobby to take pictures of people. As for the books I bought for my sister and myself: the world's biggest book store had them and they were on sale.

Madeline and I kept wondering around the convention area taking pictures of random cosplayers and people. I'd say the fun level was 3 on a scale of 5. I kept harassing random people to do things for me to capture. The first request was dancing, and that's when I felt like making a music video of the convention.

Video for DTAC 2008.



Description of the place, time, and what's happening is on its YouTube page.


Here's a little bit of the description:

Utahikarasu and I wanted to do an experiment where people stand in a line facing in one direction. Each person would stay on a spot with their hands on the shoulders of the person in front of them. They would then push the shoulders of the person in front of them, but there was a misunderstanding. The line ended up as a chu-chu-train.

The convention was great. The line to get into the dealer's room didn't take over 2 hours and the dealer's room was very crowded. Being in a crowd is fun and frustrating. (YouTube)

There were some pretty random people, but that's common in conventions. I think. By random I mean they would suddenly appear from somewhere unnoticed, they ask for hugs when it's not relevent to the topic you ask them, and people dance. They just start dancing. Okay, maybe these things wouldn't seem random if I hang out with them all day, but I don't do that.



Conclusion: DTAC is a cool story.

March Toronto Anime Con 2007

(I'm going to be adding comments in brackets in my old posts from my old blog about my time in conventions.)

The first free convention I've ever attended. I was very excited to be there. Since it was free entry, my whole family attended. (Oh no.) My father kept taking pictures of people without asking them first. (He was raging with the camera in hand and people were raging at him.) XD We only had 2 hours there, so I decided to find and take pictures of all the Sasuke (Naruto) cosplayers at the convention with Madeline. Not surprisingly, most of the Sasuke cosplayers were female. (Sad to be you you creeper.)

Conclusion: I'm a creep at conventions.