The Philippine TOYCON: The Biggest Pop Culture Event in the Philippines celebrates its 13th year
What’s
bigger than dinosaurs? Giant
robots. What’s bigger than giant
robots? Godzilla. What’s bigger than Godzilla? Freakin’ outer space! Where a bunch of aliens
are busy guarding the galaxy.
There’s
nothing that can compare with bigness.
But sometimes, even the thought of “bigness” is an understatement when
you find something that can contain all these things and add in a huge dose of
fun and thrills. Prepare for the biggest
one yet! It’s time for TOYCON 2014!!
Event photo during Philippine TOYCON last year, 2013 courtesy of toyconph.com
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.
Popstar Princess Sarah Geronimo also participated in Cosplaying in last year's
Philippine Toycon
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.
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 visit:
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