Fantasy Anime Comics Toys Space

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Fantasy Anime Comics Toys Science-fiction
Status	Active
Genre	Multi-genre
Location	Ghent
Country	Belgium
First held	1993
Organizer	Con-Fuse bvba
Official website

F.A.C.T.S. is an acronym for Fantasy Anime Comics Toys Science-fiction, the biggest science fiction, fantasy, comics, and anime convention in Benelux, Belgium.

Launched in 1993 in Ghent, it has grown over the years and now welcomes over 8,000 visitors at each edition. Since 1998 the F.A.C.T.S. convention is held in the I.C.C. in Ghent, Belgium. The convention currently covers almost 7,000 sq. m.

[edit] Convention features

Merchandise sold by a variety of dealers, 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 501st, the Belgian Star Wars Fanclub, since 1997 with free arcades and pinballs since 2005.
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, Alisson 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.