15 Wednesday May 2019
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A family that (cos)plays together, stays together, am I right? Revellers and participants begin to assemble at Calgary’s Olympic Plaza a few Fridays ago at the conclusion of the annual Parade of Wonders, marking the official start of the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo.
02 Thursday May 2019
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One of the premier events connected with the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo is the annual Parade of Wonders in downtown Calgary, featuring some of the big names attending the show and a gaggle of cosplayers in full costume. Also at this year’s parade, which took place last Friday, was Batman with his Batmobile and a fully kitted-out DeLorean (above) from Back to the Future — without the flux capacitor, it seems.
25 Tuesday Sep 2018
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Good advice from a vendor at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo back in April. (Don’t mind the typo, however …)
08 Tuesday May 2018
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Is there anything a Lego character can’t do? Here are two set up to make music. Spotted at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo a few weekends ago.
02 Wednesday May 2018
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One of the many collectors’ items on sale at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo this past weekend.
01 Tuesday May 2018
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Calgary Expo is likely the only time you’ll see quidditch at Stampede Park, as was the case this past weekend.
30 Monday Apr 2018
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One of the many cosplayers at Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo this past weekend.
27 Friday Apr 2018
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This is why you should relish asking questions.
A boy named Sam, attending a Back to the Future reunion panel at Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo Friday night, lined up to ask actor Tom Wilson what it was like to play Biff Tannen in the trilogy. If he really wanted to know, Wilson told Sam, he’d have to come onstage.
“Get up here,” Wilson beckoned in a very Biff-esque way. Sam obliges … and once up there under the bright stage lights and the even-brighter gaze of thousands of spectators, Sam got to be on the receiving end of a scene in which Wilson repeatedly rapped him on the head while he asked, “Hello? Hello? Anybody home? Think McFly, think,” as he did to actors Michael J. Fox (Marty McFly) and Crispin Glover (George McFly) in the films.
Wilson then declared Sam a professional actor, handed him what appeared to be a real Canadian $20 bill and ordered the kid to “get outta here.”
Actor Lea Thompson (Lorraine Baines-McFly), clearly delighted, captured the whole thing on her phone.
It is an Expo experience Sam will surely not forget.
22 Sunday Apr 2018
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The DeLorean from Back to the Future, on display at the 2012 edition of the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo. Three of the main cast members from the movie, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson and Tom Wilson, will be appearing at this year’s Expo, which runs Thursday, April 26, to Sunday, April 29, 2018, at Stampede Park in Calgary.
18 Thursday May 2017
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Here are a couple of cute costumed kids spotted on the floor at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo at the end of April.
Ricky Leong 