WELCOME TO THUNDERCON 2025! Description: If you are the kind of person who wants to be involved from the moment the doors open to the very last minute before they close at the end, then this is for you. Meet the Masters of Ceremonies and get an introduction to the Con, great for first-timers, or for those who have seen it every year.
INTERACTIVE EVENT ALERT! Join Lala at the Paradox Pavilion for a full day of creative fun! The highlight of the day will be making your own Crushed Glass & Resin Suncatcher for just $30. While you can pop in anytime, there will be two special pre-registered sessions with guaranteed seating and inventory: 12:00–1:00pm 2:30–3:30pm Pre-register to secure your spot, or drop in and try your luck—outside of these times, everything is first-come, first-served. Other activities happening all day: Slime Station – $8 Rock Painting (rocks generously donated by Lockstone Yard & Patio Centre) Diamond Painting Mini Canvases – $15 Take-Home Kits (8x10 for $17, 11x14 for $25) Wood Cut-Out Shapes to Paint – $7 A day full of sparkle, paint, and creativity—come craft with me!
GAMING EVENT! This is a tournament-style event and will require prior sign-up. Description: Get ready for Raising Rabbits - A Board Game Tournament, where we'll hop into some fierce competition and have a blast playing. Raise rabbits in this Euro-style economy and auction-based engine-building board game. To enter the tournament, sign up here.
GAMING EVENT! This will be a drop-in game run throughout the day in 15-minute blocks with 15 minutes between games. Description: Each player takes on the role of a Villager, a Werewolf, or a special character. It’s your job to figure out who the Werewolves are and to kill at least one of them in order to win... unless you’ve become a Werewolf yourself.
GAMING EVENT! This will be a drop-in game run throughout the day in 2-hour blocks, starting at 10:30 am, 12:45 pm and 3:00 pm each day. Description: The original beer & pretzels roleplaying game! For kobolds in the service of King Torg (ALL HAIL KING TORG!) their life will undoubtedly be silly, brutal, and short. They may be obliterated by meteorites, betrayed by friends, or brained by frying pans. Games set in the Kobolds Ate My Baby line cast you as these kobolds. Cheerily march to your death upon the beaks of chickens in the original beer & pretzels roleplaying game!
INTERACTIVE ACTIVITY ALERT! Try Tripped, a fun, fast-paced, light strategy game. It’s a race across North America where you leave your hometown, sprint to 6 other cities and get back home again before any of your friends. But watch your step… because at some point you’re going to get Tripped! It’s the name of the game. Demos by the creator all day.
Featuring: The Northern Dragon, Devon Phillips Description: As Creative Director and Fire Performer of Northern Dragon Fire Performers, Devon transforms his journey with mental health into breathtaking artistry, turning struggle into sparks of beauty. Get ready to feel the heat and the heart behind the flames when Devon takes the stage at ThunderCon 2025!
Featuring: Jamie Young and Rick Strickland Description: Like cosplay, prop building is a love letter by fans for fans of our favourite films, shows and comic creations. Join some of ThunderCon's favourite local makers as they discuss what it takes to manufacture the props that make the fandoms.
Featuring: Star Wars Costuming Club Description: Members of the Star Wars Costume Clubs will be discussing armour, fabrics, patterns and colour choices in becoming part of a Galaxy Far Away. A look into the clubs themselves, and making a difference in the lives of others.
INTERACTIVE EVENT ALERT! Featuring: Star Wars Costuming Club Description: Join the Thunder Bay Star Wars Costuming Club for a bit of a march about. See Mandalorians, Jedi, Sith, Rebels and more. Follow them or just watch as they march past.
GAMING EVENT! This is a tournament-style event and will require prior sign-up. Description: Get ready for Raising Rabbits - A Board Game Tournament, where we'll hop into some fierce competition and have a blast playing. Raise rabbits in this Euro-style economy and auction-based engine-building board game. To enter the tournament, sign up here.
Featuring:Â Matthew Cimone, Northern Ontario Klingons Description: Star Trek inspires. It promises us that a better future - a kinder future is possible. As Gene Roddenberry said "There will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to read." And that through cooperation, curiosity, and solidarity, we can get to that future and create the world we wish existed today. Trektivism is the act of taking that inspiration and realizing it. Trek actors harness the dream of Trek to do incredible good in the world. Fans like you can partner with charity organizations to help the vulnerable and battle terrible illnesses. Trektivism can and does change lives. This panel will talk about what kind of future we want to create together. Come to this open discussion where we can gather as Trek fans to share our activist, social, and political work to summon the Roddenberry future as well as ways to get involved if you're looking how to!