Polaris Con Review : State of Trek Fandom

[palitoy]

Went to Polaris (formerly known as Toronto Trek) this weekend. They have a $10 pass to the dealer's room and I was feeling geeky.

I haven't been to a trek convention in years and Polaris, is no longer a Star Trek convention, it's more of a SF TV Con now.

Attendance seemed down, when I worked these things in the early ninties, you could barely breath, this Saturday I found wide aisles, it was still well attended.

I noticed right away, nobody seemed to be wearing a ST:TNG costume, not one picard, hell not even one spock. I did see a Doctor and Rose, Storm Troopers, Santa Claus, Spartans from 300, some klingons and about 50 Stargate people. Things are really getting diverse.

The dealers room was ok, I only went there to buy stuff from pixelbarrel (Doctor Who Importers) I noticed several card dealers.

Downer: I put about 50-75 Museum cards on the "tucked in the corner" flier table. When I returned a half hour later, they were all gone. Somebody took the whole stack, I felt like going up to the card dealers and confronting them. Totally frustrating when a jerk takes the whole lot like that.

Plus Side: I got the coolest toy ever! Check the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-9N2p5PldU

[Mikey]

Oooo, I love that TARDIS !!!!!!!

[palitoy]

Yeah, I wanted a hub really badly and this was singing to me. I can't resist pressing the "Vorp" button every so often.

[Meule]

Oh crap, that means eBay will soon be flooded with Trek cards :wall:

And if that wasn't bad enough your Tardis broke down as well apparentely. He still makes a lotta noise, but he didn't disappear... :crazy:

[palitoy]

Oh crap, that means eBay will soon be flooded with Trek cards :wall:

Yeah, mostly Kirk and Spock mind you. I didn't bring a variety for fear of being hijacked. I can't believe somebody did that, I can understand taking a stack but they scooped everything, makes me punchy/kicky.


And if that wasn't bad enough your Tardis broke down as well apparentely. He still makes a lotta noise, but he didn't disappear... :crazy:

Be patient, my two year old returns on Tuesday.

[HardyGirl]

That sucks that someone stole your cards. But what goes around, comes around. Somewhere, sometime, something will come up and bite him in the butt!:yuk:

[johnmiic]

Brian,

Maybe the best thing to do would have been to go from table to table and ask dealers if they could give a few out every so often with their sales.

Or,

put out a few cards and come back every so often and put a few more out for consumption.

Never underestimate a fan's greed!