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Okay, so I dressed up into some casual otaku wear, strapped in some cash, and came all the way from my home for the very first time. For what? Well, to join in for some fun, as well as to cover on the 7th Toycon held at the Megatrade Hall at SM Megamall, Philippines. You’ll have to pardon my crappy cellphone camera though.

It was jam-packed on the opening times of the con, especially on the first day, when local celebrity Iza Calzado obliged for the opening ceremony on the first day.

Of course, the showing of Batman: The Dark Knight on the cinemas marked the con’s theme (the showing for Philippines cinema was June 16), which didn’t fail to put up a booth of its own. But the feel this I got from the con itself was pretty much like… well, meh. It was too spacious compared to cons I’ve been on other countries (crammed, 4-by-4 stalls that don’t even justify all the good contents displayed due to lack of space, with pretty much like the force of morning marketplace people going food rush for the first fresh stuff, which also applies to con wars anyway). Nevertheless, some goods were pretty much remarkable as to have people flock into them.

Ah, the lure of MMOG’s: They wouldn’t just stop selling their stuff to innocent people so they can lure them to playing their games.

Sure, there were MMOG booths, with Level Up! (just like the moneywhoresentrepreneurs they were. Filipinos, feel free to enter their site if you want to flush money into the toiletplay their games) setting up a booth of their own, which I totally ignored (FEEL THAT, FEEL THE POWER OF THE IMPOVERISHED, HAHAHAHAHA). E-Games tried to impress people with their newest “free game“, Cabal Online (with their non-free “kash” goods, which is normal on “free games“), which garnered a few people to register for free and get some goodies in return. They also had this new kiddie soccer game named GONG!, which they, of course, had people play on beta. Then there’s the Lineage II booth, giving away CD’s and merchandise for their newest patch, Kamael. But yeah, it’s pay stuff, so /ignore.

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