So i was lucky to attend the Toronto Fan Expo this year as it would be the last one i would be attending in Ontario. Saturday was their biggest line up of guests and booths being set up. oh of which was Stan Lee, one of the creators of many popular comic characters in marvel comics. he has worked on many other stories in DC that being Flash, Green Lantern, Superman etc. his recent visit is also to promote his new comic coming out for Boom! studios called Soldier Zero. Stan was situated in the corner of the building. but what a huge corner it was. the line up was that of a roller coaster ride at a big theme park. getting in line for tickets was medium compared to the size for stan lee. and what a sport he was taking photo ops and chatting with his fans. 
 
   Tons of vendors from many of the local hobby and comic stores were on hand in the building, many of which i partaken in. one being of which Heroclix. a small miniatures game based on comic heroes and villians. others were of media giants like Nintendo, Microsoft, as well as promotions for movies and tv industries. at the Marvel booth there was a press showing of the new avengers animated movie that is going to be coming out. DC had showings for the new full length feature of Batman and Superman: Apokalypse. 
 
   Artist Ally was another hit from the expo with many artists from many spectrums of the comic book and art industry. I took the oppertunity to try to speak with Francis Manipul. he showed up an hour late for his shedule to do some signing i chalked that up to the DC panel he did based on up coming work during the brightest day series. I had my variant cover of Avengers #4, This fan expo exlusive has a art done of the Super hero team known as Alpha Flight. It has been hinted that Alpha Flight will be Chaos War event that is coming soon in marvel comics.
 
   But not all the expo was great and grand. Though those are some of the few things that was going on it does paint the entire picture. there were many instances of public outburst due to the security issues of the event. there were 3 levels being used for the convention center and on the main floor where people would be able to head up to the second where the main booths and events are happening the escalators were shut down by security and were allowing handfuls of people up one at a time. this made it apparently worse when few people cut through the crowd to flash passes to grant them full access outside of the crowd. 
 
   When it came to overall consideration and organization of the event by the hosts themselves. this was rated a 2.1 out of 5. the main booths were organized but information to the attending people and organization of their security monkey's were not best handled. The anger was so intense against security it would have been close to having the Geek riots of '81. don't remember? best that you don't spock ears and comic books everywhere.. it was horrible. 
 
   Outside of that. Many guests came down as Felicia Day from the hit internet series The Guild, was on hand to join in on the festivities with one of her cast mates, Tinkerballa from the show. The original Batmobile was on hand as well then later handled by the Dynamic duo themselves of Adam West and Burt Ward from the 1960's Batman show. those luck to be there for a photo op *cough cough* got to take part in it as well as meet the cast as well as Julie Newmar one of the few women who played catwoman in the original series. 
 
   The day ended, I and company headed home from the festivities with bags of gifts, memories and a handfull of comments on the use of security. another year has come and gone at the Toronto Fan expo. many celebrities, vendors and gaming going on, its hard to let silly things like security and bad management keep you down. and come on the costumes were amazing. yet i found i was one of 2 orange lanterns in attendance. and i came out with a cool raccoon with a lightsaber T-shirt so win win. 
 
   Sorry i don't have pictures posted ill get around too it later when i have the time. Thanks for reading the blog on the fan expo. ill see you guys in the reviews or future blogs. have a good day and good journey.