Steel City NerdCon is wrapping up this weekend after growing from a small local show into a well-attended gathering for Sault collectors and cosplayers<\/p>\n
Steel City NerdCon is going out on a high note.<\/p>\n
The annual event, being held this weekend at Blaster Power House (formerly known as Soo Blaster), is the last after eight successful years.<\/p>\n
Steel City NerdCon is a yearly gathering where vendors sell vinyl, comics, books, toys, video games, action figure dolls and other pop culture collectibles.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the last Steel City NerdCon primarily because my wife, Beth, and I have become super busy,\u201d said Mike Turcotte.<\/p>\n
Mike and Beth own and operate Vintage Games \u2019n Junque, a large antique and collectibles store on Queen Street East in the Sault\u2019s downtown core.<\/p>\n
The couple has organized and held Steel City NerdCon since 2018 at various local venues.<\/p>\n
The conventions are well attended and attract people of all ages who love to dress up as their favourite sci-fi and fantasy figures.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe recently opened another Vintage Games \u2019n Junque store in Alberta, so Beth and I are always travelling back and forth. We just felt like it\u2019s time for us to end Steel City NerdCon on a good note,\u201d Mike told SooToday.<\/p>\n
Steel City NerdCon has played a huge role in Mike and Beth\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n
The couple was married at a Steel City NerdCon event in 2021.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re so grateful and humbled by the support we\u2019ve had from the people in the Sault. It\u2019s been a good run. We like seeing people come in dressed up in costumes and checking things out,\u201d Mike said.<\/p>\n
This weekend\u2019s show attracted about 60 vendors.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a vendor here from Montreal. There are vendors from Timmins, North Bay, Sudbury, and the outskirts of the Sault. Can you imagine driving from Montreal to attend? I think that\u2019s great,\u201d Mike said.<\/p>\n
He said he and Beth have never held Steel City NerdCon for the money.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve always done it to make a fun event for people in Sault Ste. Marie.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mike said he was grateful to sponsors who have supported Steel City NerdCon over the years, including Savoy\u2019s Jewellers, Terrain Management, Classic Signs and Northern Fencing and Contracting.<\/p>\n
Most of all, Mike credits the people of the Sault for attending Steel City NerdCon each year.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny achievement supported by the community is a massive achievement. We never thought in the first year, when we held Steel City NerdCon in a little garage behind Vintage Games \u2019n Junque, that it would grow so much, but the people of Sault Ste. Marie are such good people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steel City NerdCon is wrapping up this weekend after growing from a small local show into a well-attended…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,239991],"class_list":["post-644211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-columnssuccesssteel-city-nerdconmike-turcottesteel-city-nerdcon-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}