ToyCon 2015

ToyCon Philippines uploaded a picture on June 1, 2015 with this sub-caption, "Those of us who grew up in the pre-social media era or even the pre-electronic gaming age remember a time when “Play” was associated with the outdoors." There were no gadgets and one is entitled to be connected if there are any work-related tasks that he needs to accomplish. This means that you're not supposed to be "wired" if you haven't landed yourself a job and gained clients to communicate with. Life was boring. But not really.

I grew up witnessing the neighborhood kids play Atari. My parents used to own a Game & Watch before getting a Nintendo unit. Mario was the bomb back then. Nintendo/FamiCom games aside, I inherited an electronic hand-held device called Speak and Spell. I guess it helped me a lot since I found myself as one of the top five spelling wizards in first grade. Then there were those afternoon cartoons like Care Bears, Rainbow Bright, Shirt Tales, He Man, She Ra, Thunder Cats, The Transformers, Voltes 5 and Daimos among others. It's the 80s and we don't know what a cable connection is so we only get to have 5 local channels back then and in order to watch some toons, you need to wait for the exact programming time. Any 80s kid needs to make the most out of his/her free time and this is why we have to play pretend with our "action figures". A few years later (circa my elementary years to high school years), I was obsessed with X-Men and some anime shows (like Macross, Sailor Moon, Dragonball Z). I collected a few comic sets, cards and small figurines. Post school years had me going gaga over some other anime shows and Marvel movies. Eventually, my fanaticism died down and I guess that marked the hysteria of my childhood days. 


It was a good thing when I noticed the ToyCon post in my newsfeed. I decided to tag along my cousins and experience attending a toy convention. Here's a glimpse of what happened when I attended my 1st ToyCon and some reasons why everyone (your truly included) had a blast:

 

Go Team, let's invade ToyCon 2015!

 

  

 

There were quality action figures all over the place and human-sized characters. 

 

  

Awesome merchandise and other collectibles. 

Le Boo will be thrilled with all the Captain America collectibles!

A pretty DJ graced the hall, gave the crowd something to dance for and for the men, a face to ogle at.

Because photo booths are love!

Most of all, we hoarded on a lot of freebies: free Oishi goodies, photo booth shots, a sling bag (c/o iflix), a tumbler (c/o iflix), an ID lanyard (c/o iflix), a Captain America mask (from nowhere) plus we won a bluetooth speaker from PLDT. 

I'll attend next year's ToyCon and by then, everything's going to be sweeter!

Date: June 19, 2015

Venue: SM Megamall - Megatrade Hall