McFarlane Toys, NECA And More Attending Power-Con 2023 In August

The folks at Power-Con have released a listing of toy manufactures that will be attending the 2023 Power-Con convention which once again will be taking place in Columbus, OH from August 11-13. For more details on how you can attend, click here.

Power-Con which is run by Val Staples started out originally as a Masters of the Universe fan-con, but then last year they made the jump to trying to become a more generalized action figure based convention.

Many of the companies listed as attending this year are small independent toy manufacturers with the names of long-time attendee's such as The Four Horsemen and Super7 being there, who of course originally had roots in the world of Masters of the Universe.

Last year when Power-Con made the move to becoming a more generalized toy convention, they managed to attract the likes of NECA Toys who held its first own dedicated company panel revealing a number of new TMNT products. This year Power-Con seems to have expanded even more by bringing in the likes of McFarlane Toys who of course has licenses for brands such as DC Comics, Spawn and more.

Up until now it's taken Entertianment Mega-Conventions like SDCC and to a lesser extant NYCC to bring in the major toy manufacturers, so it will be interesting to see if something like Power-Con which is a smaller independently owned con, can grow large enough and become the ultimate action figure dedicated convention that perhaps one day will entice all the major toy companies to attend like Hasbro and Mattel.