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Singapore's First Ever Toy and Comic Convention
Sunday, June 29, 2008, 10:11 PM
Hey everybody. I haven't been posting lately because i have been quite busy with exams and all but most of them are over now. The last one standing is my piano exams. I was down on Saturday at Suntec City for the Toys and Comics Convention and here's what you have missed out if you missed it,that is.Toys and Comic convention? Haven't heard about it before? No worries. It's something new and it's the first one ever in Singapore. It was held on the 28th and 29th of June at Suntec City's Convention Centre.
Housed within the convention hall are booths for your favourite comics and figurines. Some of the booths there include Gloomy the naughty grizzly, Monsterism Island, DEVILROBOTS and many others. There was a booth from NUS Comics too. Most notably, there was a booth by Hasbro featuring Starwars. They had the entire collection of Starwars figures featured there, i think. They were even classified according to the years etc etc. I didn't know there was so many star wars figurines!!! I was never a Star Wars fan anyway. Never ever watched any of their movies or anything related to them but i am pretty sure if you are a Star Wars fan, you sure did miss out a lot. On the downside, entry into the Star Wars booth was regulated i.e. there was a guard out there who was basically in charge of crowd control, allowing only a certain number of people in the booth at any time.
Aren't these photo frames so nice? They cost $20 each. (Ugh!)
Looks intimidating for a toy bear
Something to reassure you that the Chinese culture thrives on
Recognise any of these? V for Vandetta!!!
This picture is just cute. Plain cute.
Tofu!
The Death Note Series
There was also a section where there were people dressed up in various costumes and characters for phototaking purposes. You could take a photo with your favourite comics character. Mine wasn't there. :(.
What's toys without Lego? Lego was there with some rather amazing displays which definitely took a lot of work to build given how intricately designed they were, albeit the fact they were just blocks for kids to play with in general.
There was this section where there were doll figurines on display and they cost a bomb. I saw one that cost $725. *Gasps* Some of them are really pretty though and they don't emit the creepy aura that some dolls give off.
This is one of my favourite.
Another one of my favourite
Simply beauty.
There were a couple of booths selling T-shirts with prints of some of the characters they designed themselves. These were the booths that were the most crowded. I only managed to peek at some of the T-shirts but they were mostly for females if i was not mistaken.
Oh ya. Did i say i saw a Macdonalds booth there? Macdonalds had a booth there. No. They didn't display their collection of toys for the kid's meal. They had a booth there for getting to know more information about setting up a party for your kid at Macdonalds. It's just so out of place. Macdonalds seems to want a pie of everything huh? *Shrugs shoulders*
Apart from all the figurines, there were the comics and animation stalls. Some of them offered animation courses. On that note, the School Of Robotics was there too though i didn't really check out what they were doing there. I am done and over with Robotics.
Something drawn by a famous cartoonist(Can't remember who)[It's not very clear because of the lighting]
Some booths sold some magazines with works of their designed characters in fine coloured print. I must say that some of them were rather impressive and i felt rather compelled to buy them. But in the end, i figured that i would probably have no good use for them so i left it back at the stall. There's an english comics for the Three Kingdoms and it looked quite interesting. For those of us who love Chinese history, it might be worth a read.
Nitendo had a huge booth there too for people to try out Nitendo DS and Wii. It was one of the most cluttered booths as well. Not very surprising though. They had a couple of games on demo that you could try too. Timezone had a booth that allowed people to play DDR(I'm not sure if it's free and for what purpose) and a couple of machines that you would find at a typical arcade.
If you love Magic The Gathering, you would have loved the Wizards of the coast booth right beside the Stars Wars one. It featured their cards and all. Reminds me of my obsession with card games in the past. But that's all history. I spent a bomb on cards. :(. I think they are still somewhere in my house. Haa!!!
I bought two postcards($1 each) and a sticker($2) from DEVILROBOTS which came with a complimentary posters. I was rather tempted to buy some of the figurines but i don't have any display cupboards so they would probably go to waste. I curbed the desire!!! =P.
Cute postcards
Sticker
Complimentary poster
It's a rather small convention, i would say, as compared to most other conventions but this is the first of it's kind in Singapore. Some of the booths that i thought should be there weren't there, for example Marvel Comics. But all in all, it's still a good headstart.
Labels: Comic, Convention, Toys