Bangor Comic & Toy Con is gearing up for their 2016 show, which takes place April 8-10th at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor, Maine. This is the year of Star Wars, and you can be sure the "Galaxy Far, Far Away" will be well represented at BCTC.
Tim Rose, Tom Kane and Jim Cummings have already been announced as 2016 Star Wars guests for BCTC. With four months until showtime will we see other Star Wars guests added to their 2016 lineup? As Qui-Gon would advise us, "We shall be patient."
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Read on for details from the BCTC website.
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Rose is best known for playing the role of Admiral Ackbar, the supreme commander of all space forces for the Rebel Alliance, in the sequel Star Wars Vl: Return of the Jedi! …
In addition, Rose also puppeteered the characters of Sy Snooker and Solacious Crumb in the film and has been involved with other Lucasfilm & Jim Henson movies, including The Dark Crystal and Howard the Duck!
He also helped in puppeteering the character Tik-Tok in Disney's Return to Oz!
Tim will be reprising his role as Admiral Ackbar in The Force Awakens Vll!
Tom Kane was born in Overland Park, Kansas. He is most widely known for his animation work. Notable roles are Jedi Master Yoda and Admiral Yularen in Star Wars: The Clone Wars feature film and TV series; The Chancellor in Tim Burton's 9, Magneto in Wolverine and the X-Men and Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds; Ultron in Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow and The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes; Mr. Herriman in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends; Lord Monkey Fist on Kim Possible; Professor Utonium and Him in The Powerpuff Girls; and the chimpanzee sidekick Darwin in The Wild Thornberrys. He is also a prominent video game voice actor, appearing on numerous titles – from bit parts, to major roles such as Gandalf, Professor X, and lead characters in almost every Star Wars game ever made; like Star Wars: The Force Unleashed as Imperial Captain Ozzik Sturn Lobot and Kento Marek (the father of Sam Witwer's Galen Marek) thanks to ILM's motion capture technology.
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At Walt Disney Studios, he contributed to many of their televised animated shows: Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears (taking over the character of Zummi Gummi after Paul Winchell's departure from the role), DuckTales, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, Darkwing Duck (as the lead character), TaleSpin (as Don Karnage and Louie), Goof Troop (as Pete, a role that would carry him into many other Disney shows), Bonkers, Aladdin, Gargoyles, Timon & Pumbaa, The Legend of Tarzan and House of Mouse, and animated films such as Hercules, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Pocahontas. He voiced Bering and Chilkoot in the 2006 direct-to-DVD film Brother Bear 2 and "Razoul" in the 1994 Aladdin direct-to-video sequel The Return of Jafar.
