A friend of mine invited me to the con as a spur of the moment thing. We quickly slapped together our Hellboy costumes and went over to pay Doug Jones a visit:
The man is a sweetheart, I think the only other movie personality I've ever met who was this genuinely kind to his fans is Peter Mayhew. A marvelous time was had by all, we entered the costume contest on a spur of the moment thing once again and we had a great time, I think the best moment was during the kids category, a mini-Vader went in front of the crowd and all the costumers spontaneously broke into the Imperial March, then the rest of the crowd joined in to make the kid's entrance most epic indeed. Then another kid showed up dressed as senator Kelly but in fact her suit was a tear-away design to reveal Mystique underneath, the costumers around me all agreed that we were in trouble... If a 7 year old can do tear away costuming we will soon be obsolete
It was a very different model than what I am used to for costume contests but the overall experience was quite fun and the best part was we didn't have to wait around for 3 hours or more in a green room.
The turnout for the con seemed reasonable, given this is it's first attempt on Toronto terrain I don't know what kind of numbers you were expecting Spat but judging from your reaction to the costumer turnout we seem to have answered the call and then a little more
The fire alarm went off at some point and I found it very ironic that a hall filled with so many super heroes was still forced to evacuate the premises ^_^ I guess spandex and fun foam isn't quite fireproof enough hehehe.
It was nice to see so many familiar faces from the Toronto fandom show up on "neutral ground" let's call it, since there was no clique politics involved at this event everyone was able to mix and mingle without having to worry about taking sides for other upcoming events this year. A very refreshing environment to socialize in I must say.
I hope the event was enough of a success for Spat and his crew to want to return next year
Martin
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