I wish I'd been able to go, since it's my old stomping grounds, but I haven't had the time/budget for a while now. I've only been to maybe three Furnals? All in their old venues out near the airport. I really wanted to see what it was like at the downtown location! I was there to attend in 2020, and that's right when the Covid shut-downs started. Quite a challenge to get a flight home.
Furnal gets some people coming up from the U.S., but the dealer's room is largely Canadian vendors - I suspect the bureaucratic aspects might be a deterrent (or tariffs?) - but then, only about half the American population has passports. The convention often overlaps with Toronto Comicon on the same weekend, or they're very close to each other.
I wish I'd been able to go, since it's my old stomping grounds, but I haven't had the time/budget for a while now. I've only been to maybe three Furnals? All in their old venues out near the airport. I really wanted to see what it was like at the downtown location! I was there to attend in 2020, and that's right when the Covid shut-downs started. Quite a challenge to get a flight home.
Furnal gets some people coming up from the U.S., but the dealer's room is largely Canadian vendors - I suspect the bureaucratic aspects might be a deterrent (or tariffs?) - but then, only about half the American population has passports. The convention often overlaps with Toronto Comicon on the same weekend, or they're very close to each other.