Ai-Kon, Manitoba's Anime Convention, July 16th - 18th

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Ai-Kon, Manitoba's Anime Convention, July 16th - 18th

Category: Canadian Action Figure News and Rumors

Posted From: ActionFigureNews.ca - Canadian Action Figure News

[Robimus]

Numerous Manitoba Cybertroners who are unable to get to TFCon will be hanging out this weekend.

Kirby Morrow, the voice of Rad on Transformers Energon and Armada and Hot Shot on Transformers Cybertron, will be one of the guest voice actors in attendance.

As well on Sunday at 11am The Manitoba Transformers Fan Club: Iacon North, will be presenting Transformers: Journey To America and a trivia contest complete with prizes!

Pop in and say hi if you get the chance.

[crimbot]

Wish I could show up! I'll be high up Manitoba latitude fishing! Gods Lake.... pretty sure they wont be having any cons anytime soon

[Breakdown]

What time is this occurring as unfortunately I work till 7PM tomorrow AND on Sunday as well.

[Robimus]

The Iacon North table will be set up in the registration area:

Friday 3-7
Saturday 10-8
Sunday 10-4

We're actually outside of the convention proper so you don't have to pay anything to come and visit us, so I've been told anyway.............

Daily Admissions are:

Friday $19
Saturday $27
Sunday $19

[onecoin]

I'll be there for most of the weekend. See you guys there. I can't imagine TFcon being more fun that Ai-kon.

[Robimus]

Day 1 of Ai-kon is over(for Iacon North anyway) and it was pretty fun, although we didn't get far from our Fan Club tables in general.

Myself, Scrapper6 and Benzo roled in around three, fought our way through some truly prolific lineups and set up the table. Haggis then came by after he was done work and the team was complete.

My favorite moment of today was a fellow who's costume consisted of a radio square speaker on each shoulder.

He walked over to us shortly after we set up and said "Hmmmnnnnn, Transformers eh?" Then he punched a few buttons on his I-Pod and suddenly Stan Bush's "The Touch" was blaring out of the speakers. It was completely unexpected and completely awesome.

Anyway, we'll be out once again tomorrow starting at about 8am and will be displaying Classics/Universe and Beast Wars stuff on the tables after having covered Animated today. We'll also have some Masterpeices on display tomorrow.

Sunday will be our panel as well as the displays of G1 and Movieverse stuff.

[onecoin]

Great Stuff. Can't wait till the panel.

[Scrapper6]

I plan on bringing City Commander Equipped Ultra Magnus today for display only so you guys can have a look at him if you haven't had the chance.

I'm a little leery, but I'm sure he'll be fine under Rob's display case with his fellow Autobots.

I've got a few other surprises on the way. I think I might even bring along a few of my Sales items in case anyone at the fan table wants to pick something up, since we can't sell anything to anybody else. Plus they can stand in as display pieces.

[Robimus]

Day 2 of Ai-kon topped day 1 I think. Niteowl was set up in the dealer room so at least we had some Transformers goodies to look at.

Noodle brought by our new Iacon North business cards They look great!

Benzo brought in his MP Ghost of Starscream, a very sweet looking figure.

Scrapper brought in his City Commander Armor to display, along with a few Hot Shots.

Then I stepped out and just before I got back Kirby Morrow, the voice of Rad and Hot Shot, stopped by the Iacon North table and chatted with the crew!

Pretty cool guy from what I hear, somebody else who was present can expand on the experience I hope. Benzo got a nice picture with him and the guys got him to sign my Universe Hot Shot(which we had on display) - So now I have an Autographed Hot Shot by Kirby Morrow! I'm pretty pumped about it.

Panel is tomorrow morning and I think I'm set to go.