Fantasy Anime Comics Toys Space

F.A.C.T.S. is an acronym for Fantasy Anime Comics Toys Space, 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 10,000 visitors at each edition. From 1998 until 2008 the F.A.C.T.S. convention is held in the I.C.C. in Ghent, Belgium. The 2009 edition will take place in Flanders Expo for the first time. The convention currently covers more than 8,000 sq. m.

Convention features

 * Merchandise sold by a variety of dealers (100+), most West-European, but also some from the U.S.A.
 * 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 Fanclub, since 1997 with free arcades and pinballs since 2005. And the 501st Legion: the biggest star wars fanclub 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, life-size snowspeeder, Jabba the Hutt palace set, Outrider ship interior, droids, Alien lair and much much more.
 * The possibility to meet comic artists from the likes of Adam Hughes, Allison Sohn, Joe Jusko, Mike Deodato Jr., George Pérez, Romano, and Cam Kennedy
 * The possibility to meet actors from the likes of 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 the Benelux.