page_title: Fan Expo Canada
section_title: Attractions
hierarchical_section_title: Fan Expo Canada / Attractions
caption_attribution_description: Hayley Atwell Q&amp;A panel at 2015 Fan Expo Canada in Toronto in 2015
context_page_description: Fan Expo Canada is an annual speculative fiction fan convention held in Toronto, Ontario. It was founded as the Canadian National Comic Book Expo in 1995 by Hobby Star Marketing Inc. It includes distinctly branded sections, including GX and SFX, and formerly CNAnime. It is a four-day event typically held the weekend before Labour Day during the summer at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and is now owned by Informa.
  Originally showcasing comic books, science fiction/fantasy and film/television and related popular arts, Fan Expo Canada has expanded over the years to include a larger range of pop culture and fandom elements, such as horror, anime, manga, animation, toys, collectible card games, video games, web entertainment. The convention is the largest of its kind in Canada and among the largest in world, filling the entire North and South Buildings of the MTCC with over 130,000 attendees in 2016.
  In 2013, Fan Expo Canada's parent company Hobby Star Marketing was acquired by Informa Canada Inc, which now organizes the event.
context_section_description: Fan Expo Canada is the site of many unique attractions that include Exclusive Pre-screenings and live presentations of upcoming television series and feature films, often including live introductions from the Directors, Producers and Cast members. Some recent projects featured at Fan Expo Canada included the television series:
  Revolution cast Billy Burke, Tracy Spiridakos and Giancarlo Esposito
  Arrow cast Stephen Amell, Willa Holland, Colin Donnell and Katie Cassidy
  Criminal Minds cast A. J. Cook and Matthew Gray Gubler
  Flashpoint cast David Paetkau, Sergio Di Zio and Oluniké Adeliyi
  entire cast for Bitten
  entire casts and producers for Continuum, Dead Before Dawn and Lost Girl
  Harry Potter Reunion with Tom Felton, Rupert Grint and James and Oliver Phelps
  In 2012, for the first time ever, Fan Expo Canada was the site of a wedding. Two longtime Fan Expo attendees were married in front of a live audience of thousands of fans on the afternoon of August 24. There was also a proposal of marriage that took place between two attendees on the afternoon of August 26. The engaged couple credited Fan Expo Canada's Nerd Speed Dating event from the previous year in finding one another.
  Some attractions at Fan Expo Canada have become standard from year to year due to their continued popularity. Some of these attractions include the aforementioned Speed Dating, Steampunk activities, Web series presentations, Star Wars sessions provided by the 501st Legion, Lolita fashion and others.
caption: Hayley Atwell Q&A panel at the 2015 Expo.
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