TOYCON PH Announces Activities for June 13-15 at SMX Convention Center

June 13-15 will be the date to remember if you are looking forward to have a grand time at TOYCON PH POPLIFE Festival Event happening at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City.

The theme for this year is CELEBRATION, something apt for their 22nd year in the country. Toy collectors, gamers, cosplayers will converge in the venue to make sure all anime heads get their fix. There will also be concentration on Trading Cards, Beyblade matches, RPG and Battle gaming. There will also be cosplay competitions too. They will be occupying the whole Ground Floor of SMX plus an additional function room on the second floor for game matches, plenty of space to go around on that day with your friends and family. 

They will host qualifiers for tournaments and send them to France for the championship, something that serious gamers would want to consider. 

Just to give you an idea, there will be over 400+ dealers and toy sellers in this event this year, the biggest number they have accommodated so far in the history of TOYCON PH. There will be 114 toy designers that will come to the Philippines and also have local talented ones to man their own booths and side events too. Some established brands and new ones will also participate including Japanese guests that may surprise you on different dates. It'll be super fun and exciting, it's going to be the biggest pop event you'll ever get to attend in the Philippines.

Here's the full press conference held at ELEMENTS in Centris QC this afternoon:

Official apparel, merch and figures from NBA will also be there, and we heard talks are being done to bring an NBA player along in this event too. This includes the biggest toy brands like Lego, Bandai, Banpresto, Legendary Beasts, Quiccs (They have an exclusive one, a sequel of Voltes V to be revealed soon) and Voltes V too. 

This will also be the year for the first ever TOYCONcert with several groups and performers lined up, details will be at the TOYCON PH social channels. There will be a dedicated "ARTISTS" alley for designers, comic art, toys, so if you want to have them signed or get unique products from budding ones, this is the place to be!

The last day will have the TOYCON COSCON Finals, and the international art toy design competition powered by the folks from MindStyle. Japanese superstars RYOTA OZAWA Kaizoki Sentai Gokaiger Gokai Red and YUI KOIKE Gokai Pink. Rica Matsumoto, Miyuki Ueda who voiced different iconic Japanese cartoons will be here. All will be part of the Seiyu lineup that they have from June 13-15. They will also have cosplayers from around the Southeast Asian region who will visit the event, pretty promising for big fans of these ladies. Calico Toys will be bringing them over. 

TOYCON PH will be super fun as One Piece Tagalog dubbers will also have a reunion, specifically on the 14th. To add, there will be a POP CULTURE Awardee in TOYCON PH for 2025, previous winners include Michael V and Bigboy Cheng.

You definitely should not miss this!

Be My Lady On its Last Week!

Having been able to watch the show quite consistently for 10 months get me a little excited about how this happy story ends. Loving Erich Gonzales is not a chore, but more of a joy to do because I'm telling you, among the stars that ABSCBN has on their roster, she's the most down to earth. I couldn't say that to other stars I know personally. 

Anyway, I'm also excited about what will happen with Phil and Pinang's story now that their wedding is already happening. This chemistry between Erich and Daniel is just undeniable and even after being tried a couple of times by other networks, they remain on top because of good reason, they remained to be that feel good family-concentric program they started with in the beginning. Erich quirps "I'm grateful and blessed to be part of a show that brings families together and that exactly is why we're trying to do even better to tell the story of the Crisostomos even at trying times."

Here's the EXCLUSIVE video they showed us during the event. This is the Finale trailer. Bring tissues if you're about to cry!

The series will also be shown in Kazakhstan, Myanmar and Africa in 2017 and it'll surely touch more lives in the coming months. We hope they'll get positive feedback from those regions too. This finale week will still get viewers hooked as some anticipated trials will still haunt the newly weds. Will this make them? Or break them? Make sure you watch Be My Lady on their finale week 11:30AM right before SHOWTIME and afternoon primetime shows 

Here's some snippets of the FUN press conference held earlier. Hope you like this!



Still love you Erich!

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Alden Richards and Maine Mendoza for "Imagine You and Me" Blogcon

This is the most awaited movie of the year and just like me, and the millions of fans of social media phenomenon AlDub (which they are fondly called) are excited about seeing "Imagine You and Me" a film made for national bae Alden Richards and Maine Mendoza. The two have been inseparable since their accidental chemistry happened a few eons ago in the longest noontime show in the country Eat Bulaga. 

Now I've already had the privilege to talk to Alden a couple of times and I know he's been so down to earth still, but I haven't had the chance to actually interview Maine so my plan was to ask her a lot of questions in this blog conference. Unfortunately we were allowed like 2 questions, but I was so happy how she answered it liberally and quite long. She actually had mentioned (while she was answering one question from another blogger) that she thinks she's a "pessimistic" person. I was really surprised (actually shocked) she said that out of the blue but when she explained and said that she was always like that and Direk also mentioned how Maine was so hard on herself during scenes in IYAM because once they did it on screen and she sees some little things she doesn't like. 

She goes ahead and says it to Direk and everybody on set so they can shoot it again. I think in some way it made her part of the creative process, not that she's a perfectionist. I actually think Maine wants this movie to be good because they are dedicating this to the millions of fans that have been there to support them and they don't want to short change YOU and ME. :) 

In that short exchange, and the little introduction I had with Maine made me feel how much she's telling people that she's real. She knows how much love she's getting but ultimately she wants people to know she's the same person as when she started. I don't know about you but when I see them together, I don't think Alden and Maine is doing this for kicks. I do feel this is something REAL, something that people may think is just for screen but for me, I feel they're really together. It's the actions, the small things that they do when they're with each other. You can't question that. 

Anyway, there's another reason for you guys and gals to be happy because Imagine You and Me will finally be seen on theaters tomorrow. To celebrate that, let me share with you some photos from the #IYAMBlogcon which happened a few days ago. I've also included videos of the interview on the bottom of this post. Please make your friends know it's showing on July 13, 2016 and also on the last week of July for other countries. Enjoy!   

Alden arrived with Direk Mike

Maine doing wacky faces, starting the blogcon very fun!