Fan Expo Canada!

So I was MIA from the internet this past weekend because I went to this little convention in Toronto called Fan Expo Canada! 3 days, one hotel stay, and $300 later I have returned!

Fan Expo, if you don’t know, is like 5 conventions in one: Horror, Sci-fi, Comics, Gaming and Anime. All in one gigantic room. <3

On Friday I went to go see the Tron: Legacy Special Presentation, they took away our phones and cameras. Then after about a half an hour later the co-producer Justin Springer came out and showed us a whole bunch of concept art, as well as an exclusive clip to the film. In short, it was pretty freaking awesome.

After that I took a little trip to the Light cycle they had set up from the new Tron movie:

On Saturday one of the first things I did when I arrived was line up to go get Linda Hamilton’s autograph. Linda Hamilton played the original Sarah Connor in the first two Terminator movies. Now, since my childhood consisted of a million re-watches of said movies I HAD to go see her.

After about 45 minutes to an hour of waiting in line, I finally got to see her. She’s aged really well in my opinion and she was such a nice person. Plus, she said I was really pretty Here’s a photo I took after I got her autograph:

Later that day I went to a panel called Video game Industry: Overview and Opportunities Pro Panel. My friend and I had arrived there ten minutes early (would have been sooner if we didn’t have to go check in at the hotel), and the line was so long it started to go into the women’s washroom on the opposite side of the hallway. When we saw that I told my friend the only way we were getting in was by majorly cutting into the line. So we sat down by a pole that was near the line and once it started moving we sort of assimilated ourselves into the line. Needless to say, we got front row seats

It was a really fun and relaxed environment. It was just like a normal conversation you would have with someone, except five people were on a stage, and about a hundred or so people were sitting below watching them. They talked about the Video game Industry and how it’s evolving, what will be sort of the next big things, licensed games and their ability to sometimes not suck, and how Scott from Electric Playground was still single for a reason.

Here’s a shot I grabbed at the beginning of the panel:

The guy in the green is Scott. He was actually sort of cute XD.

After the convention closed we went to a restaurant just down the street, then about two hours later we actually got to eat. >_> I had ribs for the first time in my life, and I have to say… I prefer steak.

Then we chilled in the hotel room. Here’s a shot of the view from the window:

Then Sunday, first thing we were chilling around the Bruce Campbell signing because my friend REALLY wanted an autograph but didn’t get a ticket before they were sold out. Well, it was a good thing we were RIGHT there because they announced RIGHT then that they were selling 50 more tickets. My friend was about the 5^th person in line and was now able to get the drawing of Bruce Campbell she worked pretty hard on signed.

About two hours in line later, she had met him and gotten her thing signed. Here’s a pic of Bruce Campbell I took:

Along the way I managed to pick up:

• A Goku (from Dragonball) plushie
• Death the Kid & Shinigami figurines from Soul Eater
• A Linda Hamilton Autograph
• 3 t-shirts, one saying “Erase all humans” with an alien gun on it, one with a Zelda emblem and another of princess peach. (Pics will come later)
• The entire Meru Puri: Marchen Prince series
• Two Naruto cellphone chains (one of Gaara’s gourd, another of Shikamaru)
• A tiny Heartless plushie that will soon sit in my car

Overall my weekend was pretty awesome. Now I got to get to driving for my road test, fixing up my websites, and doing my work report. Blah.