TOYCON 2014: The Biggest Pop Culture Event in the Philippines celebrates its 13th year
Prepare for the biggest one yet! It’s time for TOYCON 2014!!
The Philippine Toys, Hobbies and
Collectibles Convention, or TOYCON as it’s more widely-known, is Asia’s
biggest and longest running convention for collectibles, toys, anime, comics,
cosplay, gaming and anything and everything related to hobbies and
collections. The convention has been
ongoing since 2002 so it is now on its 13th year of thrilling fans
and aficionados alike. It is, simply
put, the biggest pop culture event in the country.
This year’s TOYCON will highlight
the 75th Anniversary of DC Comics’ caped Crusader, Batman with a
huge Batman display area, a life size Batpod, a kids’ activity area, exciting
new Batman merchandise, and a gallery of art and collectibles of the Dark
Knight Detective.
Also catch the Samurai X fever as
Warner Brothers previews the Rurouni Kenshin live-action film trilogy Parts II
and III with a display of original costumes from the sensational Japanese hit
movie.
Get ready to be blown into space
with Marvel’s latest epic movie, The Guardians of the Galaxy, with awesome
displays, sneak peeks at the movie’s trailers and behind-the-scenes, special
fan activities, and the Marvel roster of superstar artists like Leinil Yu,
Carlo Pagulayan, Stephen Segovia, Roy Allan Martinez and Kim Jacinto.
The TOYCON also gives you the
biggest gathering of toy collections with the following prominent toy exhibits
– the G.I. Joe 50th
Anniversary exhibit, Philippine Lego Users Group exhibit, the Coca-Cola
Collectibles exhibit, One Sixth Republic and Pinoy Sixth Scale collectors
exhibit and the awesome Toycon Gallery exhibit area which showcases the best of
the local toy group community.
Fans of a galaxy far, far away
unite with the 10th Anniversary of the Star Wars 501st
Philippine Outpost. Enjoy a parade of
your favorite Star Wars characters, Stormtroopers, Jedi Knights and droids and,
of course, the Dark Lord of the Sith himself, Darth Vader as they invade the
Philippine ToyCon stage.
The TOYCON also features the
biggest in Cosplay with the Philippine Finals of the World Cosplay Summit
happening at the event and TOYCON’s own Cosplay Universe unleashes a barrage of
individual and group cosplayers led by Asia’s Cosplay queen, Alodia
Gosiengfiao.
Gaming takes center stage also at
the TOYCON with the biggest game companies, like Level-Up, War Gaming, Cherry
Credits and Uplink releasing the latest versions of their top games.
And off course, TOYCON would not be complete without the biggest exhibitor
floor of all pop culture merchandise in terms of apparel, collectibles and
memorabilia, graphic novels and comics, cosplay paraphernalia, and toys, toys,
TOYS!
The Philippine TOYCON 2014 will be held on June 20-22, 2014 at the SM
Megatrade Halls 1, 2 and 3, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City.
This is co-presented by Collectibles Unlimited and the SM Megatrade Halls,
and sponsored by Maxi Collector, Toy Kingdom, Toy Empire, Warner Brothers
Pictures and Pacific Licensing. With
special thanks to Big Boys Toy Store, Great Toys, Arigatoys, Authority Hoodie,
Transfer It, Otaku Asia, War Gaming, Uplink, Level-Up, Cubizone, Canon,
Level-Up, Cherry Credits, CIIT, Loctite, Walt Disney Studios, gaming Library
and Resorts World Manila. With media
partners, ABS-CBN, Flip Geeks, Reimaru Files, WheninManila.com, Chalk Magazine,
UNO Magazine, Manila Bulletin, Inquirer.net and 99.5 PLAY FM. Also supported by Anime Alliance and World
Cosplay Summit.
Tickets are now on sale at SM Tickets (www.smtickets.com)
For more information on schedule of activities and event details please
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