Pop culture: a crazy world at the Toulouse Game Show!
Unmissable event for pop culture, the Toulouse Game Show takes place until Sunday, November 28 at the MEETT Exhibition Center in Toulouse-Aussonne.
For its fourteenth edition and after two years of absence due to the health crisis, the Toulouse Game Show festival is making a comeback with a new program, renowned guests and a new setting to welcome the 250 exhibitors and 63,000 visitors expected. Transformed into life-size comic villages, the halls of the Parc des Expositions have something to delight fans of video games, manga, science fiction and cosplay, who can also enjoy quality entertainment. “I have always been a fan of Japanese animation. My presence here is the fruit of a challenge thrown at me by my children who did not think I could cosplay myself.
My costume took me fifty hours of work, but I’m proud of it, ”laughs Célin, dressed as a Ghostbuster. Amateurs or initiates, visitors can also enjoy many activities, including immersion in the fantastic worlds that have marked the history of literature and cinema. While it is rare to be able to assist key players in international sagas, TGS Toulouse Occitanie has the honor of welcoming Tom Felton, interpreter of Drago Malfoy, famous student of the Slytherin house.
The real meets the virtual
Among the other guests scheduled for the occasion, comedians, designers and even Youtubers will be present. Temple of the imagination, the event is also an opportunity for some artists little known to the general public, to meet their virtual community: “The conventions allow us to have contact with people, to know their reactions to what we are doing. In our branch, on sells on the Internet. Some people have been following us for years but we have never seen them. The fact of finally being able to meet, it’s great ”, sets Tony, exhibitor and member of a group of artists around the manga universe. For fanatics who travel to conventions in France, the TGS Toulouse Occitanie remains an exceptional meeting place and gathering around a common passion. “I often come to conventions. The TGS is a first for me. The goal is to meet again, to be among friends, between people who are more or less from the same world. It’s a good way to bring together as many people as possible, to be in community ”, confides Léa, a young dresser, with a friend who is a costume designer.
Against traffic jams, take the tram!
For its new edition organized this weekend at the MEETT Aussonne Exhibition Center, the Toulouse Game Show is a great success. Faced with the traffic and parking difficulties observed yesterday, visitors are recommended to use public transport to get to the event: the T2 tram line depending on the airport to the T1 line serves the Exhibition Center directly on the forecourt of the entrance from Blagnac airport.