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Title: Hey is any one going to the Toronto Comic Con this weekend?
Post by: bandonov on March 23, 2010, 09:00:45 PM: I have always wanted to go the Comic Con in San Diego (Wife will not let me) :( But at least I have the Toronto version to go to for now!
http://www.wizardworld.com/home-toronto.html (http://www.wizardworld.com/home-toronto.html)

Has any one been to this one? With a cover charge of $35 to get in I wanted to make sure I will not be wasting my time. I bought my tickets online so I saved on the cover charge.
Title: Re: Hey is any one going to the Toronto Comic Con this weekend?
Post by: BHMike on March 23, 2010, 10:13:48 PM: I'm pretty sure this is the first one from Wizard in Toronto.
Title: Re: Hey is any one going to the Toronto Comic Con this weekend?
Post by: Realboss on March 24, 2010, 12:38:33 PM: Let us know how it is. I myself am curious but could not go.
Title: Re: Hey is any one going to the Toronto Comic Con this weekend?
Post by: bandonov on March 24, 2010, 01:04:23 PM: I will be happy to give you all the details. There is so many guest speakersautograph sessions it looks like it will be a great weekend!
Title: Re: Hey is any one going to the Toronto Comic Con this weekend?
Post by: pdaat on March 24, 2010, 01:29:33 PM: I was going to go to this show, but I'm going to C2E2 in Chicago as a manventure with my BF of 35 years instead. Should be great!
Title: Re: Hey is any one going to the Toronto Comic Con this weekend?
Post by: bandonov on March 24, 2010, 02:57:58 PM: I went to the C2E2 site http://www.c2e2.com/ (http://www.c2e2.com/) very impressive. Have fun!
Title: Re: Hey is any one going to the Toronto Comic Con this weekend?
Post by: bandonov on March 28, 2010, 11:31:14 PM: He is the problem with this Comic Con. I went on Sunday, it was not that busy in the morning. Most of the good stuff was gone by then. Only half of the special quests were there and the vendors were maning selling comic from thoes long white storage boxes. If you were looking for old comics you would had a blast as you had room to move and time to hagle on prices. But at $35 admission it was not worth it for someone looking for Toys. I paid only $25 as I bought them online. Not sure if will go to this one again, at least I will not go on a Sunday. Talking to the people there they said that Saturday was much better. There was not much GI Joe there it was split between 25th aniversarry and ROC. All I picked up was a ROC Firefly for $15.
Title: Re: Hey is any one going to the Toronto Comic Con this weekend?
Post by: bandonov on March 29, 2010, 08:20:40 AM: I wanted to make sure I did not leave a negative feeling about this Con. There were some fun and exciting things that happened. First was the Iron Man 2 both, they set up a free photo up with cardboard cut-outs of AC-DC with you holding a guitar. I was cursed out by a half naked woman dressed up a sluty vampire. What happened was I but a comic called the Vampire Conspiracy at the Fan Expo that included a DVD. I was asked if I liked the book, but I said I had no time to see it and actually forgot about that I purchased it until I saw her both. She was not happy with me to say the least. It is not often you get yelled at by a sluty vampire, so I enjoyed it. The priceless moment is when we walked by the Iron Sheik both to see that he was so tired or bored that he was sleeping sitting up holding his cane.
Title: Re: Hey is any one going to the Toronto Comic Con this weekend?
Post by: Raptor on March 29, 2010, 09:33:05 AM: Quote from: "bandonov"
It is not often you get yelled at by a sluty vampire, so I enjoyed it.

:lol:
Title: Re: Hey is any one going to the Toronto Comic Con this weekend?
Post by: pdaat on March 29, 2010, 10:57:17 AM: Quote from: "bandonov"
He is the problem with this Comic Con. I went on Sunday, it was not that busy in the morning. Most of the good stuff was gone by then. Only half of the special quests were there and the vendors were maning selling comic from thoes long white storage boxes. If you were looking for old comics you would had a blast as you had room to move and time to hagle on prices. But at $35 admission it was not worth it for someone looking for Toys. I paid only $25 as I bought them online. Not sure if will go to this one again, at least I will not go on a Sunday. Talking to the people there they said that Saturday was much better. There was not much GI Joe there it was split between 25th aniversarry and ROC. All I picked up was a ROC Firefly for $15.
I'm no con veteran, but Sunday is the day with less events. It's also the day when some of the good stuff may be gone, but it is also a chance for vendors to try and clear out stuff before they pack it up - like the last 1-2 hours at the CanJoeCon.
Title: Re: Hey is any one going to the Toronto Comic Con this weekend?
Post by: darrenmrppv on March 29, 2010, 07:22:33 PM: I went on Saturday and had a good time - I wanted to meet some wrestling legends (Demolition, Hacksaw, Superfly, and Iron Sheik). It cost between $10 - $20 to get pics with them. They also had some wrestling matches with comic/video game characters such as Mario (Mario Bros.) vs. Kingpin and Professor X vs. Bain (the batman character) - if anyone walked in after the bell rang, they would have been shocked seeing this guy punching a guy in a wheel chair!

I got my pic taken with some fans that were dressed up - one with Snake Eyes and the Baroness and one with Cobra Commander and a female Cobra trooper (saucy!) I picked up the GI Joe past and present Rockslide for $30. All and all a good day!
Title: Re: Hey is any one going to the Toronto Comic Con this weekend?
Post by: bandonov on March 29, 2010, 09:04:31 PM: Quote from: "darrenmrppv"
I got my pic taken with some fans that were dressed up - one with Snake Eyes and the Baroness and one with Cobra Commander and a female Cobra trooper (saucy!) I picked up the GI Joe past and present Rockslide for $30. All and all a good day!

I'm so jealous that you got Pics of those characters. Please share you Pics.
Title: Re: Hey is any one going to the Toronto Comic Con this weekend?
Post by: darrenmrppv on March 29, 2010, 09:43:46 PM: I will post the pics in the next couple of days (When my buddy shows me how) :)
Title: Re: Hey is any one going to the Toronto Comic Con this weekend?
Post by: grunt 4 mvp on March 30, 2010, 12:30:43 AM: Sounds like a good time.
For me it would have been all about the old school wrestlers. :)
Title: Re: Hey is any one going to the Toronto Comic Con this weekend?
Post by: darrenmrppv on March 30, 2010, 09:48:35 PM: Here are the pics! (I hope)

(http://http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/7529/comanderandofficer.jpg)

(http://http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/8420/snakeeyesandbaroness.jpg)
Title: Re: Hey is any one going to the Toronto Comic Con this weekend?
Post by: bandonov on March 30, 2010, 10:15:33 PM: The Pics are great! I wish I was there Saturday.
Title: Re: Hey is any one going to the Toronto Comic Con this weekend?
Post by: BHMike on March 30, 2010, 11:19:55 PM: Tell me you at least told them of this site, the Canadian Joe Con, etc etc.
Title: Re: Hey is any one going to the Toronto Comic Con this weekend?
Post by: bandonov on April 06, 2010, 10:08:02 AM: Well they have already booked the next Toronto Comic Con, for March 18-20, 2011!

http://www.wizardworld.com/home-toronto.html (http://www.wizardworld.com/home-toronto.html)

It is too early to see who is coming, but this time I will go on Saturday!
Title: Re: Hey is any one going to the Toronto Comic Con this weekend?
Post by: pdaat on April 06, 2010, 10:59:00 AM: Quote from: "THE Mike™"
Tell me you at least told them of this site, the Canadian Joe Con, etc etc.
I'll wear my Con shirt to C2E2 for you Mike.
Title: Re: Hey is any one going to the Toronto Comic Con this weekend?
Post by: Robimus on April 07, 2010, 11:05:24 AM: I hear it had its good points and its bad ones.

The catch is this. Look at the guest lineups for the other Wizard World Con's in the states. Toronto got shafted on the guest list really, so hopefully Wizard will beef that up next year for you guys. Dushku didn't show, Saite and Hudson are fine.....but then compare that to some of the Wizard USA cons that have William Shatner, Adam West, Burt Ward, Billy Dee Williams, Kelly Hu, so on.

They also apparently had big issues with bringing in their dealers from the USA, something they can hopefully fix in the future.

Wizard World is expanding big time on the Convention scene. They will likely be offering 4-5 Canadian events and upwards of 50 USA conventions within the next couple years.
Title: Re: Hey is any one going to the Toronto Comic Con this weekend?
Post by: RedSkullz on April 22, 2010, 02:09:29 PM: A buddy and i went to the WW comiccon on the opening day friday. I have to say we both had a great time and got some great deals on comics. There was barely anything at the show in regards to toys. A couple of vendors had some newer toys, but there was nothing for vintage stuff.
Pretty much all of the guests were there on the friday, and there was absolutely no lineups to talk to any of them.(nor was there hardly any lineup to get in at the 12 pm open)
I'll definitely be going again next year, as well as going to the Fanexpo and some other conventions this year.