Ultra Heroes EXPO New Year Festival

is an annual exhibition and stage show event primarily held at Tokyo Dome City's Prism Hall.
It was first held in 2007 under the name , then it went by from 2009 to 2015, until settling on its current name since the end of 2015.
Each festival has a stage show with an original story featuring characters from the Ultraman Series entry running at the time. They are known as and are performed four to five times a day. Tickets for these stage shows can be purchased online beforehand or at the event.
==Exhibition==
The events feature a plethora of attractions including Ultraman-themed carnival games, dioramas depicting Ultras and Kaiju, and displays detailing the history of Ultraman and its creators, accompanied by props used in the series. There is also a gift shop called the selling Ultraman merchandise, which includes items exclusive to that year's event.
Like many other Ultraman events, the festivals feature , which is a photo booth where guests can take photos with Ultras. Specific Ultras are scheduled to be available there at certain times.
When the event was called "It's the New Year! All Ultraman Assembly!!", the exhibition hall was Japanese New Year-themed, decorated with banners, festival stalls, and statues of Ultras in traditional Japanese clothing.
==Events==
===Tokyo Dome City===
No.	Title 	Date 	Battle Stage
1 	 	December 29, 2007 - January 6, 2008 	https://news.mynavi.jp/article/20071210-a007/
2 	 	December 26, 2009 - January 3, 2010 	https://ameblo.jp/agul-aqua/entry-10420601466.htmlhttps://ameblo.jp/agul-aqua/entry-10422614779.html
3 	 	December 23, 2010 - January 5, 2011 	
4 	 	December 29, 2011 - January 7, 2012 	
5 	 	December 28, 2012 - January 6, 2013 	
6 	 	December 27, 2013 - January 5, 2014 	
7 	 	December 26, 2014 - January 7, 2015 	
8 	 	December 31, 2015 - January 11, 2016 	
9 	 	December 29, 2016 - January 11, 2016 	
10 	 	December 29, 2017 - January 8, 2018 	
11 	 	December 29, 2018 - January 6, 2019 	
12 	 	December 28, 2019 - January 5, 2021 	
13 	 	December 26, 2020 - January 4, 2021 	
14 	 	December 25, 2021 - January 4, 2022 	
15 	https://twitter.com/m78expo/status/1555829780548726784	December 24, 2022 - January 4, 2023http://ultra-expo.com/prism/2023/	
16 	 	December 29, 2023 - January 8, 2024https://m-78.jp/news/post-6859 	
===Other Locations===
Title	Location 	Date 	Battle Stage
 	West Japan General Exhibition Center, Kitakyushu	December 27, 2013 - January 5, 2014	
 	West Japan General Exhibition Center, Kitakyushu	January 2-12, 2015 	
 	Sukagawa Cultural Center, Sukagawa 	March 20-21, 2019 	
==Home Media==
Recordings of the 2011 and 2012 Battle Stages were included on the DVDs for the Ultraman Festival Live Stages of the same year. A second set of Ultraman Festival 2012 DVDs were later released without the Battle Stage.
From 2013 onwards, a DVD has been released for each Battle Stage under the "Ultraman THE LIVE" label. The DVDs were titled "Ultraman Battle Stage (year)" from 2013 to 2015 and "Ultra Heroes EXPO (year) Battle Stage" from 2016 to 2021. The 2022 DVD was simply named after the event itself,https://www.tc-ent.co.jp//products/detail/TCED-6463 while the 2023 and 2024 releases include the name of both the event and stage show.https://www.tc-ent.co.jp//products/detail/TCED-7022https://m-78.jp/news/post-7051 The 2024 show was released on a set containing both Blu-ray and DVD discs with the same contents.
No DVDs were released for the 2008 and 2010 Battle Stages, nor the stage shows held in Kitakyushu.
Ultraman Festival 2011 Ultra Live Stage 14 DVD.png|Ultraman Festival 2011 DVD containing the 2011 Battle Stage
Ultraman Festival 2012 Ultra Live Stage 15 DVD.jpg|Ultraman Festival 2012 DVD containing the 2012 Battle Stage
DVD New Year 2013.jpg|2013
DVD New Year 2014.jpg|2014
DVD New Year 2015.jpg|2015
Ultra Heroes EXPO 2016.jpg|2016
Ultra Heroes EXPO 2017.jpg|2017
EXPO 2018.jpg|2018
EXPO 2019.jpg|2019
EXPO 2020.jpg|2020
Ultra Heroes EXPO 2021 Battle Stage DVD.jpg|2021
NEW GENERATION THE LIVE Ultraman Trigger STAGE 3 DVD.jpg|2022
Decker STAGE 4 DVD.png|2023
Blazar The Other Hero Blu-ray DVD.jpg|2024
==Trivia==
*The name "It's the New Year! All Ultraman Assembly" is a reference to Japanese comedy TV show .
*Ultra Family Grand Assembly was held at the Sukagawa Cultural Center every year since 1989, until a Ultra Heroes EXPO was held in its place in 2019.
==External Links==
*Official website
*Ultra Heroes EXPO Twitter account
==References==
Category:Exhibition Events