Fan Expo is underway at the Toronto Convention Centre until Thursday. It’s appeal to widely diverse age groups as a source of make-believe, adventure and good old-fashioned commerce can make the mind spin. Here are a couple of videos which reveal this phenomenon. City News profiles people old enough to be parents who like to dress in Star Wars (and other) regalia and rent themselves out. They are the 501st Canadian Garrison and the money goes to charity. On the right, the astonishing YouTube business of a whirlwind personality named Michael, of Toronto (you guess his age). He talks about, discovers and generally lives a life of pop dolls made mostly by a firm called Funko. Here he visits Fan Expo.
