Fantasy Anime Comics Toys Space

Fantasy Anime Comics Toys Space (F.A.C.T.S.) is a Belgian science fiction, fantasy, comics and anime convention, and the biggest of its sort in the Benelux.

Launched in 1993 in Ghent, it has grown over the years and now welcomes over 30,000 visitors at each edition. From 1998 until 2008 the F.A.C.T.S. convention was held in the I.C.C. in Ghent, Belgium. The 2009 edition took place in Flanders Expo for the first time and has been expending there ever since. The convention currently covers more than 24,000 sq. m..

Convention features

• Merchandise sold by a variety of dealers (100+), mostly West European, but also some from the USA.
• Competitions including card games, consoles, model kits and cosplay.
• Demonstrations on make-up artistry, model kit building, etc.
• Large screen projections, mostly of recent anime titles.
• Presence of TeeKay-421, a Belgian Star Wars fan club, since 1997 with free arcades and pinballs since 2005. And the 501st Legion: the biggest Star Wars fan club in the world.
• Props, vehicle replicas and set pieces such as the ones made by the Belgian Costume Division VZW: AT-AT 1/3 scale, including life-size snowspeeder, Jabba the Hutt palace set, Outrider ship interior, droids and Alien lair.
• The possibility to meet comic artists such as Adam Hughes, Allison Sohn, Joe Jusko, Mike Deodato Jr., George Pérez, Romano and Cam Kennedy.
• The possibility to meet actors such as Jean-Claude Van Damme, Robert Englund, Ernie Hudson, Lance Henriksen, Michael Ironside, Anthony Daniels, John Terry, David Carradine, John Rhys-Davies, Ray Park, Don S. Davis, Corin Nemec, Jeremy Bulloch, Dirk Benedict and Matthew Wood.
• The largest gathering of cosplayers in Benelux.

External links

• F.A.C.T.S.
• Flanders Expo
• review of FACTS 2004 @ Rebelscum