WHERE: METRO TORONTO CONVENTION CENTRE
WHEN: AUGUST 28-30 2009
ATTENDANCE: 48,000 (2008)
SIZE: OVER 250,000 SQUARE FEET
RANKING: 3RD LARGEST EXPO OF IT'S KIND IN NORTH AMERICA
PEDIGREE: 15TH ANNUAL - FASTEST GROWING EXPO IN THE WORLD
HIGHLIGHTS:
Over 600 exhibitors
Over 200 professional guests
Massive shopping area
Millions of dollars in collectibles
Canada’s largest Masquerade/Cosplay event
Motion Picture and Television Series Premieres
Industry night dinner and reception
Artist alley
Workshops and Seminars
Corporate Area
Expo Exclusive Merchandise
FEATURED EVENTS:
THE CANADIAN NATIONAL COMIC BOOK EXPO
CNANIME: THE CANADIAN NATIONAL ANIME EXPO
SFX: THE CANADIAN NATIONAL SCIENCE FICTION EXPO
RUE MORGUE FESTIVAL OF FEAR:CANADIAN NATIONAL HORROR EXPO
GX: THE CANADIAN NATIONAL GAMING EXPO
Fan Expo Canada is the largest pop culture event in the country. Created in 1995 as a comic book convention, and with the additions of the Japanese Animation Festival (anime) 1998, the Science Fiction Expo(1999), the horror expo(2004), and the Gaming Expo(2005) the Expo has turned into a massive multi-media event. Fan Expo Canada has become a flagship platform for companies to advertise and launch their products and services to tens of thousands of fans within these genres. Some of our corporate exhibitors in the past have included Sony Entertainment, Microsoft, and Nintendo have all exhibited to promote their current and upcoming video game consoles and games. Alliance Atlantis, Dreamworks Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Brothers have all use Fan Expo Canada to promote upcoming releases.
Fan Expo Canada has hosted many celebrities including acclaimed actor Elijah Wood, television icons William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and Patrick Stewart, plus many celebrities from Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar, Buffy, Angel, Smallville and many other television and film hits. Fan Expo Canada continues to grow and thrill fans, retailers, professionals and companies as the media event of the year!
Get all the latest updates at www.fanexpocanada.com
