Wizard World - Day 2

Sunday morning held the promise of a great interaction between Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell, stars of the Wizard World Toronto Comic Con, in a Quantum Leap reunion. The two were scheduled to attend a Q&A with the fans, telling stories about the show. And it certainly did not disapoint!



A packed room was on hand for the two stars, as they talked Quantum Leap, and a little bit about Enterprise and Battlestar Galactica.



Scott talked about how he was amazed that an actor of Dean's stature would be on the show, but was glad he was.



The both joked that "Sam's" main contribution was a total of two words..."Oh Boy"! But Scott was able to turn that around on Dean by saying that he said it different every episode!!
Neither understood the ultimate ending of the show, and also left it to the audience to pick there own "best episode", but Scott was able to tell everyone that the final show was a "maybe" show, in that Donald Bellisario had to write it assuming that there may, in fact, be another season. He went through much the same with Magnum PI, in which Magnum was in a coma, and once the decision was made to bring the show back, Magnum recovered. Unfortunatley for QL fans, that was the end. The crew didn't even get a wrap party, the show just came to an end. Speaking of Magnum, there was discussion to try and get Tom Selleck in for a mirror shot, so Sam may have jumped into Magnum!!



Some of the other stars at the show included Amy Acker, who was on the show Angel,





Colin Ferguson, who stars in Eureka,



and even Simpson's illustrator Phil Ortiz, who for a small fee would do a quick drawing of whoever you want, be it live, a picture, or even a cell phone image. He had a long line of people wishing to be "simpsonized"!!



What I can only describe as some "DIY" costumes including R2D2 and Han in Carbonite!



A couple of Bat peeps;



Transformers....who are robots, but in disguise!!



Are you looking at me!??



Aliens vs Ghostbusters!



And here's some other characters at the show!

Anime North

The Toronto Congres Center was home to the Anime North convention. Now, I will be honest, I have no idea of who, or even what, these guys were dressed as, but for sure enjoyment, you just can't beat events like this, and things like the Fan Expo or various Comic Cons.

Some of the costumes had themes, like "BIG".
There were Big Hands;



Big Guns:







And Big Heads:



Many had very elaborate, home built costumes:













While others had simple things, like contacts, that made them stand out as well!



These guys had great costumes,



and ended up winning an award for their efforts.



Fotunately for me, I didn't have to pay to get in, becuase I didn't need to be inside, as many of those attending were outside, enjoying the weather as the sun was out.





Another person on hand was Lady Vezina, who was advertising (very effectively if you ask me) for Cinched Tight Corsets!

Comic Con number two!

In a suprise to me move, the owners of Fan Expo, Hobbystar, decided to have a Comic Con over two days, instead of last years one, and more importantly, it was free admission. Well, its not really free if you have to pay 20 bucks to park, but heck, thats true for most events!

Usually these events attract a large number of costumes, and while there were some, I didn't really see too many.

The guests were Alan Ruck, most famous as Cameron Frye from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, as well a character in a Star Trek movie,



Dominic Keating,who played Lieutenant Malcolm Reed on the Star Trek series Enterprise, and Richard Hatch, known to most as the Original Capt Apollo of Battlestar Galactica!



Richard hosted a Q&A sesion where he talked about whats new in his life, what projects he was involved with, and what he felt about some of the other versions of BSG.




One of the biggest things to me was his comment about the original creater of the show, Glen Larson. He apparently provided the rights to the new show, with a condition that if a movie was not made within a certain time period, that those rights would revert back to Glen. That has happened, and he is now working on a remake, not a reimage, a remake of the original BSG, directed by Brian Singer, of X-Man fame.

And of course, I couldn't resist picking up a few autographs from him, as I've been a fan of the show for years. And yes, I do love both versions (I'm not counting Galactica 1980!)



Some of his projects include;

The Pod;
The Great War of Magellen;
and Who the Frak!

He even took some time during the show to check out this guys autograph table!