Please be aware that the schedule is always subject to change until the date of the convention. Please keep checking back for updates!
Colossalcon East Schedule Ver 2.0 (updated: 8/11/18) View as JPG Image File | Download PDF
Colossalcon East is an anime, gaming, and Japanese culture convention taking place September 7th-9th 2018. Located at the Kalahari Resort in Pocono Mtns, Pennsylvania. We are your ultimate summertime vacation getaway. Close your summer with a splash at Colossalcon East!
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Guest Announcement: Samurai Dan
The husband and wife team of Daniel and Jillian Coglan are full-time martial art instructors, running a traditional samurai training center in Iowa, and have a combined 35 years of experience.
Beyond their martial skills, the dynamic duo collaborated to write, direct, host, and star in a 12 episode TV series entitled, “The Way of The Samurai.”
Daniel is also an author, with several martial art articles published, and is currently working on his second full-length novel.
Web Schedule Version 1 is Online!
Our schedule is now online! Please be aware that the schedule is always subject to change until the date of the convention. Please keep checking back for updates!
After hours waterpark party info
Friday & Saturday night 10:30pm-2:30am
Kalahari Indoor Waterpark
Admission: $25 per night, or both nights for $40(when purchased together).
Wristbands will be on sale throughout Friday & Saturday at registration and Con Ops (next to registration).
Kalahari Indoor Waterpark
Admission: $25 per night, or both nights for $40(when purchased together).
Wristbands will be on sale throughout Friday & Saturday at registration and Con Ops (next to registration).
All rides (except Tiko’s watering hole, coral cove, and kids attractions) will be open including the Paxton Grotto Swim up bar and outside hot tubs.
We’ll have the wristbands ahead of time, so we can sell them like last year at reg, and a table near reg.
Lockers and Cabanas are available. Attendees will need to inquire about Cabanas in advance(pricing varies). Lockers vary by price.
If you’re staying at the Kalahari, you get waterpark wristbands with your room for their normal waterpark hours, but If you’d like to hit up the waterpark on Friday & Saturday night without normies around, then this is a great time. If you intend to buy alcohol, please show ID to the Kalahari staff prior to entering the waterpark, and they will put a 21+ wristband on you. We are limited to selling 2000 entries. Food and drinks will be available inside the waterpark during the event.
Guest Announcement: Ghost in Blue!
Ghost in Blue is a J-Rock cover band from Kent, Ohio. They play songs from anime and video games as well as some of their own originals! After playing around Ohio for the past few years, they’re eager to be making their our of state debut with Colossalcon East! Check them out for some familiar tunes from Naruto, Death Note, Persona, and more!
Like them on Facebook at Facebook.com/ghostinblueofficial
Or follow on Twitter @ghostinblueband
Guest Announcement: Professor Shy Guy!
Professor Shyguy’s music can be best described as; high energy, chiptune-electro-rocking, 8-bit, epically vocalized, highly danceable, theatrical nerd-pop. Singing 50% about video games and the other 50% is anything from Space/Time to English Language gymnastics. He is recently known for singing Starring Star on the Funimation dub of Dragon Ball Super. You might have also heard him on Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon’s Podcast ‘the Indoor Kids’ or the Diamond Club podcast. He has also made theme songs for GuudeBoulderfist, This Week in Chiptune, PortsCenter, and more!
Guest Announcement: Super Guitar Bros!
The Super Guitar Bros aren’t actually brothers – They’re bros! Sam and Steve combine their love of video game music with their passion for acoustic/classical guitar to bring you a one of a kind musical experience. Sometimes chill. Sometimes intense. Always super!
Guest Announcement: Bubble Pop Burlesque!
Making their East Coast debut, Please welcome the Midwest’s Premier Cosplay Nerdlesque group, Bubble Pop Burlesque! With their quirky and innovative style, Bubble Pop aims to bring their own kind of sexy and a message of love, acceptance, and positivity to Colossal East. Expect smiles, laughter, and a little bit of tease as they take the stage and blow you away!
Cosplay Contest signups are now live!
You can now sign up for the Saturday Cosplay contest on the page below. Please be sure to read the rules before submitting!
Guest announcement: Todd Haberkorn
As a multi award winning actor behind the mic, on camera, and on stage- Todd Haberkorn has had the pleasure of working in a variety of mediums in the entertainment industry. The LA based actor is also a director for companies like Netflix and Funimation Entertainment as well as a producer for production groups like Geek&Sundry. And he’s even the voice of some fun toys like the Meccanoid robots- winners of the top prize at CES and America’s Most Innovative Toy of the Year Award.
In the animated world, he voice roles such as Grey Matter in Ben10, Sparrow Hood in Ever After High, Elfonso in Sophia The First, Natsu from Fairy Tail, Italy from Hetalia, Ling Yao from Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Tierno from Pokemon, Allen Walker from D. Gray Man, Hikaru Hitachin from Ouran High School Host Club, Death The Kid from Soul Eater, and many others. He even got the infamous “and I would have gotten away with too…” villain line in an episode of Scooby Doo!
As far as video games go, you’d recognize his voice in the Call of Duty Series, Persona series, World of Warcraft, Street Fighter IV, Ghostbusters, Silent Hill: Book of Memories, Borderlands 2, and Rage to name a handful. His voice makes sure to get its marathon training as an award winning narrator for audiobooks. Do a Google search and you’ll find everything from thrillers and young adult to zombie sagas and children’s books. His latest win is the 2016 SOVAS award for best narration of a classic novel.
As far as on camera is concerned see him in the internationally recognized and award winning, Star Trek Continues, as Spock. Todd’s show, Otaking Heads, is a weekly look inside the world of anime with top industry guests and fun games–catch it on Geek&Sundry.
When he isn’t fighting digital monsters in video games or trying to save the day on film, Todd travels the U.S. and internationally making appearances at gnarly pop culture conventions as a guest to meet super cool fans and sign autographs. Follow Todd on Twitter (@toddhaberkorn) and Instagram (“@official_habergram”). For merchandise like his music album, concert dvd, and t-shirts: www.thehabertat.com