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Chrome dome

30 Monday Apr 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in Calgary Expo, random

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Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo

One of the many cosplayers at Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo this past weekend.

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‘Hello? Hello? Anybody home?’

27 Friday Apr 2018

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Back to the Future, Calgary Expo

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.

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DeLorean

22 Sunday Apr 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, Calgary, Calgary Expo, Canada, random

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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.

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Function and fashion

05 Friday May 2017

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Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo

I don’t recall seeing this done before in cosplay at Calgary Expo: A smartphone embedded into a costume — an used as part of same. Spotted at last weekend’s convention.

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Encased!

03 Wednesday May 2017

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Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo

Amid the dizzying array of dazzling costumes I came across at Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo on Sunday, this depiction from Star Wars is one of the standouts, in my humble opinion.

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Calgary Expo throwback

29 Saturday Apr 2017

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alberta, arts, Back to the Future, Batman, Batmobile, calgary, Calgary Expo, canada, cars, comic books, comics, convention, DeLorean, entertainment, Hollywood, sci-fi, science fiction

Batmobile, Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo

In anticipation of my one and only day attending the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo tomorrow, here are two iconic vehicles from the comic and science-fiction world — Batman’s Batmobile, above, and the DeLorean from Back to the Future, below. Spotted both during my first Calgary Expo back in 2012.

Chronological device, Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo

Outatime, Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo

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Light sabre rattling

20 Monday Apr 2015

Posted by Ricky Leong in Calgary

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Here’s something neat I spotted at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo this weekend: Some light sabre rattling and juggling in a corner of the Big 4 Building. Photos from Expo coming soon!

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Cultural crossover family

27 Sunday Apr 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in Calgary, fun, random

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Multiuniverse

Here’s a neat mashup of different science fiction universes. Spotted Saturday at Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo.

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One more day …

27 Sunday Apr 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in Calgary, fun, random

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Captain America & crew

We’re down to the final hours of the 2014 Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo. I’ll be wandering the convention Sunday afternoon … so see you there!
P.S.: Flaky Internet connections not withstanding, I’ll be tweeting.

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Alien encounter

27 Sunday Apr 2014

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Reunited

One of the marquee events at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo this year was a cast reunion for the movie Aliens.
The actors discussed (among other things) their time on the set, their experiences working with director James Cameron and the impact of Alien on the sci-fi genre.
Here are a few snaps from Saturday night’s show.

Hearty handshake

It's a projection

Congenial hosts

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