Recap of Fan Expo 2010

This past weekend Toronto played host to Fan Expo 2010. An event that’s often referred to as Canadas own version of Comic-Con. You’ve got photo ops and autographs with celebrities, thousands of items for purchase and even advertisements for the hottest upcoming movies. Sounds like fun, right? Well, some would disagree.

The event was oversold. There, I said it. People were walking around shoulder to shoulder, merchants were getting ripped off because they couldn’t keep track of everyone around their booths and even some people had to wait two-three hours just to re-enter the building due to the fire marshalls ruling of the complex reaching it’s maximum capicity.

How did all of this effect us? Not that much. Luckily we mostly stayed inside the convention centre so we didn’t have to wait to re-enter and we did buy our tickets in advance, but the general mood on the show floor was anger and bitterness towards the organisers of the event.

Sure, we were on the inside, but what was it like on the outside? Let me turn to Mary from SomeGirlFromCanada.com who wrote:

“I decided to attend the event on a Saturday, I heard that there was going to be line ups. And I am fine with waiting in lines, not for hours on end, but having to wait a little bit is understandable. Also, I understand that I did not have a prepaid ticket, and therefore would have to wait even longer. But I was ok with this. I thought that it would be organized to cater to the fans. However, there was no clear indication of where to line up if you had a ticket, or if you do not have a ticket.

However, when I arrived before I could even find out where to go, a lock down was set into place, and no one was able to enter the building due to the convention being over capacity. And the fire marshals were called in. I could hear other attendants chanting, and yelling about the situation.”

Yikes!

Moving away from the ill feelings, what’s a convention without meeting your favorite celebrity? Well, I did just that. Sendil Ramamurthy (Mohinder Suresh on NBC’s Heroes) and Felicia Day (Codex on the Guild) were definately two of the highlights. The main headliner was Stan Lee, but he just doesn’t do it for me. Sorry comic fans!

Watch Felicia Day in the Guild’s new video “Game On”:

We were able to snag an interview with Laurie B. Who’s Laurie B? She’s a highly talented artist who depicts well known movie, film and comic characters in sexy ways. Yes, she’s tackled Ghostbusters, so be sure to check out the interview below:

Welcome to Tromaville!!!

We caught a quick word with co-founder of Troma, Lloyd Kaufman! This guy is great and for anyone who ever see’s him at a conference, do yourself and do this:

1. Buy a Troma DVD or Blu-Ray (we suggest Toxic Avenger or Poultrygeist)
2. Walk up to him and get him to sign the item
3. Ask him any random question
4. Laugh at his insanely hilarious reponse

Have no idea what type of movies Troma makes? Check out the trailer to Toxic Avenger 4: Citizen Toxie:

Sex sales. It’s true, especially at conventions like this.

NerdGirlPinUps.com had their own table booked at the event. Never been to their site? We think you should, as they’ve got sizzling hot pictorials dedicated to such franchises as G.I. Joe, Dr. Who, Star Wars and even Lucha Libre!

The girls also cut a few promos for our website, and we can’t thank them enough for it! You can find the one we did with Holli Gram & Valiant Hart above, but if you’d like to view the other two, be sure to check out our brand new YouTube channel.

Not to be outdone by NerdGirlPinUps.com, Red Herring was also there promoting her Babes In Space burlesque show (which we wound up missing and kick ourselves for). She had a booth filled with beautiful women, decidant cupcakes (made by Stacey Laureyssens) and some of the sexiest 8×10’s money could buy!

You can view the promo she did for our site below:

While we were waiting for seminars to begin we came across a moment that was so adorable, we just had to share it. What is it exactly? Find out below!

*Cue the “AWWWWW” sound effects*

After leaving the Expo on Sartuday we attended two events that were being put on by Rue Morgue!

The first was an event called Santo Sangre (also put on by Raven Banner and SCT Pro Wrestling), which was a three match event of lucha libre. The most interesting part of the event was the fact it took place inside a small art musuem that was highlighted with masked luchadore art from wall to wall.

The night also marked the Canadian debut of legendary luchadore El Hijo Del Santo. While this was a historical moment in itself, Santo welcomed former WWE Divas Lita and Trish Stratus into the ring following his match.

I’d also like to thank everyone behind the lucha libre event. It was honestly a dream of mine to film a wrestling show at ringside. To include the historical luchadore El Hijo Del Santo and two of the most successful women in WWE history was just icing on the cake.

We also managed to attend Night of New Flesh. It was a horror themed party that was hosted by Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2’s Bill Moseley and the original Nightmare on Elm Street’s Heather Langenkamp. The two horror icons helped judge a costume contest which you can view in it’s entirety below:

Three days of Fan Expo and several late night events had us nearly falling over when the event was coming to a close on Sunday evening. Will we be attending next year? Without a doubt, but we’ve got our eyes on something a bit bigger… Comic-Con, we’re looking at you!

CHECK OUT OUR FAN EXPO 2010 GALLERY:

The internet is alive with the sound of… rumors!

The internet is buzzing with tons of news regarding Ghostbusters 3. Wait, how can this be happening? After all, the actual film has even been green lit yet, but that’s not stopping anyone from speculating with help from “sources”.

Perez Hilton is reporting that Rick Moranis “will come out of retirement to reprise his role in the third Ghostbusters film!”, while Bloody Disgusting is saying that “it will be revealed that Dana’s son Oscar is in fact Peter’s child as well.”

Let’s make it clear that none of this is confirmed. Rick Moranis has yet to sign onto anything, and as far as I know the script (that hasn’t been green lit) has not been finalized!

Sexy Ghostbuster Calendar: September

September is almost here, so that means it’s time for another edition of the Sexy Ghostbuster Calender!

As always we’d like to thank Scanner Productions for supplying this amazing feature every month. Be sure to check them out on either MySpace or Facebook.

Without any further hesitation, here’s Krissie!

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Stay Puft Marshmallows… they’re real!

We saw this pic on flickr a few days ago and thought nothing of it. We dismissed it as something that was simply fan made. Something that looked awesome, but we’d never have a chance to own. Boy, were we wrong!

ProtonCharging.com just informed the world that it’s actually a real product that’s currently being made by Omni. You may know some of their products, as they’ve made the Sex Panther cologne from Anchorman and even the Tru:Blood drink from True Blood real.

* Delicious gourmet marshmallows.
* Licensed Ghostbusters product.
* Box is rubbery with a marshmallow feel, for fun after you eat all the mallows.
* 16 square-ish mallows per box.
* Caffeine Content: A bit over 100mg per piece!
* Net Wt.: 6.25 oz
* Box Dimensions: 7″ x 4″ x 2.5″

You can order the marshmallows by clicking here.

New interview with Ernie Hudson

Lucas from BigShinyRobot.com just sent us off an e-mail, informing us that they just conducted a brand new interview with Ernie Hudson. Naturally Ghostbusters came up, but this interview is definitely a great read for anyone who has followed Hudson’s  career over the years.

Now, obviously one of the bigger franchises you’ve been involved with was Ghostbusters.

Yah, yah the Ghostbusters. That’s something that the fans have been very loyal to. And really have kept it alive, and I’m really really proud of to have been a part of that. Because I really do think that it touched a vein. No matter where I go I still see people who build the outfits and build the cars. That’s really cool. But then there are other movies, The Crow. It’s unfortunate what happened, but I’m very proud to have been a part of that movie. You look over your career and there’s a few that people remember and still enjoy. Most of it you do and it’s over. It has its moment and then its gone. But some people still hold onto it.

Sure. I wanted to ask you too. It’s been just over a year since that Ghostbuster’s Video Game came out. That whole experience must have been pretty wild. Did your sons get a chance to play the game? What was that like to go through?

Well, yah, the video game, I’m actually glad because when the called me about it, and I’m like, “OK, is everyone going to be involved?” And I found out that even Bill Murray was going to do the voice. It was kinda cool. It was kinda like a reunion. And then of course, when you do a video game you are never really sure. Because it’s really in the hands of other people how it’s going to turn out. My son, when we were putting it together, my third some came with me and they gave him a chance to play the game before it was actually complete. So he was really jazzed about that.

That’s really cool.

Both my younger boys have played the game and love it. And the fans, I was really happy to see the fans really responded to it well. And felt that it was very much connected to the movie. As opposed to being something like the video game that came out years ago that didn’t quite do it. So I was very happy that we got the game out. I thought the game might push the possibility of a movie. To make it happen. I don’t see any signs that that’s true right now, but I know there was a renewed interest once the game did well. I think the fans liked it a lot. I’m glad we at least got that out there.

Oh definitely. I loved the game, and I know a lot of people are excited for the possibility of a sequel for the game or for Ghostbusters 3.

Right. Yah, I hadn’t thought about a sequel of the game. But that would be cool too. I think it’s just one of those movies that really, now that people are introducing it to their kids their kids respond to it. It holds up over time. You don’t think about it at the time that twenty plus years later people would still be talking about it and watching it. That’s kinda nice.

If you’d like to check out the complete interview, click here.