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Quick Reminder - Supanova Pop Culture Expo Returns to Sydney
posted on by Jon Hayward
Details
- Where: The Dome, Sydney Showground, Olympic Park, Sydney, NSW.
- When: Friday the 17th (1pm to 8pm), Saturday the 18th and Sunday the 19th of June (10am to 6pm).
- Cost: Weekend passes start from $70 online and $90 at the door. Daily tickets from $28 online or $35 at the door for Friday and $32 online or $40 at the door for Saturday and Sunday.
Guests
There are guest signings available at various times over the weekend, if you would like to find out when the guests are taking photos and signing please check out the event programme.
Troy Baker
After getting his start voice acting in Case Closed through help of his friend Christopher Sabat, Troy soon followed on with a massive amount of voice acting including roles in Bleach, Dragon Ball Z, Fullmetal Alchemist, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Naruto, Naruto: Shippuden and One Piece.
He has since went onto voice Loki in Marvel's Avengers Assemble, Ultimate Spider-Man and Guardians of the Galaxy, Steeljaw in Transformers: Robots in Disguise and Batman in the Lego Batman series.
However it was his role in 2005's Brothers in Arms that catapulted Troy into video game voice acting including roles in Red Faction: Guerrilla, Resistance 2, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 (Kanji Tatsumi), Transformers: War for Cybertron and the Sonic Series (Espio the Chameleon) amongst a multitude of others. His roles as Booker DeWitt in Bioshock: Infinite, Joel in The Last of Us, Delsin Rowe in Infamous: Second Son and most recently Sam Drake in Uncharted 4: A Thief's End have since cemented his place in the industry.
Troy will be appearing with Chris, Jeremy and Sean in a Q&A in the Cosplay Theatre at 3:00pm on Friday, be performing a concert at 6:00pm on Saturday and hosting his own Q&A on Sunday at 12:00pm. You can find further information on Troy's signings here.
Chris Sabat
Chris Sabat has voiced everything, most famously known as Vegeta, Yamcha and Piccolo in Dragon Ball Z he was also responsible for the ADR direction for the show and helped produce many titles that we know and love today. Chris has also voiced Alex Louis Armstrong in Fullmetal Alchemist, Elfman in Fairy Tail, Daisuke Jigen in a series of Lupin the III specials and Roronoa Zoro in One Piece. Most recently Chris was responsible for producing and voice direction on both Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine and Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' alongside reprising his roles as Piccolo and Vegeta. He has also appeared as Kyoma Mabuchi in Dimension W, reprised his role as Batou in Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie, Ddraig in High School DxD and Albert in The Devil Is a Part-Timer!
Chris will be co-hosting a Q&A with Troy, Jeremy and Sean in the Cosplay Theatre at 3:00pm on Friday and hosting his own Q&A on Saturday at 10:30am. You can find further information on Chris's signings here.
Jeremy Shada
You will know Jeremy Shada best as the voice of Finn on Cartoon Network's Emmy-nominated series Adventure Time and his multitude of voice acting roles in multiple cartoons including Batman the Brave and the Bold, Chowder, Penguins of Madagascar and Paranorman. And while his japanese dubbing roles are small with additional roles in My Neighbors the Yamadas, Jeremy has recently voiced Lance in the rebooted Voltron: Legendary Defender for Netflix.
Jeremy will be co-hosting a Q&A with Troy, Chris and Sean in the Cosplay Theatre at 3:00pm on Friday and his own Q&A at 11:30am on Saturday. You can find further information on Jeremy's signings here.
Sean Schemmel
The one and only English voice of Goku in Dragon Ball, Sean Schemmel also voiced King Kai in the series, Gaston in Berserk and the Berserk film series, Lucario in Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, Amidamaru in Shaman King and Bronk Stone in Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal. You will have recently heard Sean reprise Goku in Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' and Doctor Indigo in One Piece Film Strong World. Sean Schemmel is also a ADR Director and has completed script adaptations on several anime series including Samurai Deeper Kyo.Sean will be co-hosting a Q&A with Troy, Jeremy and Chris in the Cosplay Theatre at 3:00pm on Friday and his own Q&A at 11:00am on Saturday. You can find further information on Sean's signings here.
Additional Events
Madman National Cosplay Championship
The Sydney heat of the MNCC is scheduled for Saturday in the Cosplay Theatre at 2:15pm.
Highlights
Here's a few of our highlights for Supanova over the weekend;
Saturday
- 10:30am - Anime Trivia Thanks To Anime at Abbotsford - Supanova Seminars.
- 12:30pm - Critical Hit in Concert - Cosplay Theatre.
- 4:00pm - Supanova Cosplay Competition - Cosplay Theatre.
Sunday
- 2:00pm - HanabeeLIVE! - Supanova Seminars.
- 2:30pm - AnimeLab MINIGAMES with Jess - Anime Theatre.
- 3:30pm - Madman Anime Snacktime with Sly and Jess - Anime Theatre.
- 4:00pm - Supanova Cosplay Competition - Cosplay Theatre
You can find the schedule for Supanova Sydney here.
Full information on Supanova Sydney including location and directions and ticket prices are simple to find. But you can visit Supanova's website or facebook page for further information.
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