We have some more photos from last weekend’s Toronto Fan Expo. In this set we have Tahmoh Penikett speaking at his panel as well as Felicia Day and Amy Okuda from The Guild.
One thing I forgot to mention in the last podcast, was that a number of the console companies had booths promoting upcoming games and some were even available to try out. The volume of people and my own impatience unfortunately meant that I didn’t get to try any of these out so take my opinions with a huge grain of salt.
Ubisoft were demoing several games including the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood. I can’t comment on the game-play so much but somehow the graphics are even better this time around. Sony was demoing the PlayStation Move controllers and Nintendo also had a number of games available to try out. Microsoft also had booths set up for people to try out Halo Reach and Kinect and I was a bit underwhelmed with both. I’ve had fun with just about all of the Halo titles but this time it just seems like more of the same. And maybe for some that’s not a bad thing but I’m finding it harder to each year to get excited about it. I guess we’ll see when the game is released later this year. Kinect on the outset looked like it could be a lot of fun. But as I watched people try it out, I got the nagging feeling that this was just Wii Sports all over again. Really fun to try out with your friends and play through a few times, but later gets relegated to the shelf to collect dust. I am curious to see how the technology will develop and how they can integrate the technology into more advanced titles but out of the gate I’m not knocked out. But I hope they prove me wrong.
In the meantime check out some of the second set of photos below. You can find the first set here.
This past weekend was the annual Toronto Fan Expo featuring a number of panels and events dedicated to Sci-Fi, horror and comic books. There were a number of celebrity panels featuring Dean Stockwell, James Marsters, Summer Glau, Stan Lee, Tahmoh Penikett and a whole pile more.
I’ll have more to say on the upcoming podcast, but in the meantime here are some of the photos that I snapped over the course of the three day conference. More photos and video to come.
Toronto Comic Con hosted a panel for Caprica just as the show was reaching its mid season finale. The panel featured Magda Apanowicz (Lacy Rand) and Luciana Carro (Priyah Magnus) who fans may also recognize as Kat from Battlestar Galactica. The ladies shared their experiences working on Caprica including working with CGI Cylons, James Marsters and what they’d like to see happen in the remaining episodes of Season 1.
I had a chance, along with the Televixen, to meet up with Kandyse McClure of Battlestar Galactica at last weekend’s Toronto Comic Con. Since it was recently the one year anniversary of BSG’s series finale, it was good chance to reflect on some of the pivotal moments of the show for her character, Anastasia Dualla. We also got some info on what projects Kandyse has coming up in the future.
I had a chance to chat briefly with Ernie Hudson while he was a guest at Toronto Comic Con 2010 and he was gracious enough to answer a few questions on camera. I asked him about his thoughts on Oz and its impact and what he’d ideally like to see if/when there is a Ghostbusters 3. Check out the video below.
