Vacationland Entertainment

01/12/2025

😮😮 dang Bangor Anime just announced their last guest. They didn’t hold back this is huge!

*GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT *

Please welcome Bryce Papenbrook to the 2025 Bangor Anime! Taking place February 21st-23rd, 2025 at the Cross Insurance Center.

Bryce will be appearing all SATURDAY AND SUNDAY!

Bryce Papenbrook sometimes credited as Bryce Rothstein, is an American voice actor, former kickboxer and martial arts instructor who works for Bang Zoom! Entertainment, FUNimation Entertainment/Crunchyroll, Studiopolis, SDI Media, VSI Los Angeles and NYAV Post. He is known for his roles as Meliodas in The Seven Deadly Sins, Kirito/Kazuto Kirigaya in Sword Art Online, Rin Okumura in Blue Exorcist, Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Makoto Naegi in Danganronpa: The Animation, Masaomi Kida in Durarara!!, Eren Jaeger in Attack on Titan, Inosuke from Demon Slayer and Shiro Emiya in Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works.

He is the son of late voice actor Bob Papenbrook and voice actress Debbie Rothstein.

📅 February 21st-23rd, 2025
📍 **Cross Insurance Center:** Bangor, Maine

Buy single day tickets here: https://www.crossinsurancecenter.com/event/bangor-anime/

Buy weekend passes and VIP passes here: https://www.tixr.com/groups/vacationlandent/events/bangor-anime-117735

12/25/2024

Hello everyone, and Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the entire crew at Vacationland Entertainment! As a surprise gift to you all, we have decided to announce the winners of the Vendor Scavenger Hunt we held at BCTC this year!

1st Place (2 VIP Passes)- Julie Stroba
2nd Place (2 Three Day Passes) - Delanie Nichols
3rd Place (2 Weekend Passes) - Amy Armstrong
4th Place (2 Day Tickets) - Ryan Adams

Congrats to the winners, and we will be in touch after the New Year to give you instructions on how to claim your prize!

12/01/2024

Last day of the Christmas Bazaar come on out to the Bangor Grande Hotel & Conference Center. Event runs from 10am to 3pm! Free entry and a ton of awesome vendors here.

11/25/2024

Whoa check out the first guest announcement for Queen City Expo!!

🌟 *GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT *🌟

Please welcome Erik Estrada to the 2025 Queen City Expo! Taking place November 14th-16th, 2025 at the Cross Insurance Center.

Erik will be appearing all 3 days!

Erik Estrada is an American actor and police officer. He is known for his co-starring lead role as California Highway Patrol officer Francis (Frank) Llewelyn "Ponch" Poncherello in the police drama television series CHiPs, which ran from 1977 to 1983. He later became known for his work in Spanish-language telenovelas, his appearances in reality television shows and infomercials and as a regular voice on the Adult Swim series Sealab 2021.

📅 November 14th-16th, 2025
📍 **Cross Insurance Center:** Bangor, Maine

11/22/2024

Join us for a festive Christmas Bazaar weekend November 30th and December 1st. brought to you in collaboration with Northeast Collectibles. Vendor spaces are still available, so contact us to reserve your spot. Expect crafters, food vendors, toys, gaming, authors, and more! And, it's free to the public, so come one, come all!

11/13/2024

Will you be joining us? Limited vendor space still available

Join us for a festive Christmas Bazaar weekend November 30th and December 1st. brought to you in collaboration with Northeast Collectibles. Vendor spaces are still available, so contact us to reserve your spot. Expect crafters, food vendors, toys, gaming, authors, and more! And, it's free to the public, so come one, come all! Northeast Collectibles

11/05/2024

Join us for a festive Christmas Bazaar weekend November 30th and December 1st. brought to you in collaboration with Northeast Collectibles. Vendor spaces are still available, so contact us to reserve your spot. Expect crafters, food vendors, toys, gaming, authors, and more! And, it's free to the public, so come one, come all! Northeast Collectibles

11/01/2024

Latest addition to our Portland convention Pine State Expo!

*GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT *🌟

Please welcome John O’Hurley to the 2025 Pine State Expo! Taking place April 18th-20th, 2025 at the Holiday Inn By The Bay.

John will be appearing all 3 days!

Award-winning actor John O’Hurley has catapulted into one of television’s busiest and most versatile actor/show host, Broadway star, advertising hero as well as being a New York Times best-selling author and Billboard chart-topping composer. O’Hurley is best known as “J. Peterman” on “Seinfeld” which is now the #1 syndicated show in the world and can be seen in 85 countries. John won a Screen Actors Guild Award for his work on “Seinfeld.” It was O’Hurley’s unique portrayal of the wry and witty “J. Peterman” that led to dozens of advertising campaigns for companies earning him multiple advertising and marketing industry awards. Most recently he won Best Actor at the NY Television Festival for his performance in the title role of “ The Tramp”. He captured America’s heart with his turn on Season 1 of “Dancing with the Stars,” where he officially won the ABC series with the highly contested “Dance Off “ and was named one of People Magazine’s, “Sexiest Men Alive”.  O’Hurley is now the regular host of NBC Sports highest-rated yearly show, “The National Dog Show presented by Purina,” a twenty-year-old Thanksgiving tradition to more than 30 million viewers, as well as The Beverly Hills Dog Show airing on NBC in Spring. He was also host of the long-time popular game shows “Family Feud” and To Tell The Truth”. One of the most recognizable voices in entertainment, he is the voice of many animated characters like King Neptune on “SpongeBob Square Pants” and the Mayor on Disney’s hit “Phineas and Ferb.”

📅 April 18th-20th, 2025
📍 **Holiday inn by the bay convention center :** Portland, Maine

But your VIP Passes & Tickets here: https://tixr.com/e/111364

10/25/2024

Newest announcement for our anime convention Bangor Anime happening next February 21st-23rd!

***GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT***

Please welcome Kent Williams to the 2025 Bangor Anime taking place Feb 21st-23rd, 2025 at the Cross Insurance Center!

Kent will be appearing all 3 days!

Kent Williams is an American voice actor who works on English dubs of Japanese anime. He is known as the voice of Mercenary Tao, Dr. Gero, and Supreme Kai from the Dragon Ball franchise, Father in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, the Judge from the Ace Attorney anime series, and Dr. Hatori Soma from the original Fruits Basket series, as well as its 2019 reboot. Kent has also voiced Mr. Compress in My Hero Academia and was just announced as the voice of Dr. Vegapunk in One Piece.

Get your tickets here: https://www.tixr.com/groups/vacationlandent/events/bangor-anime-117735

10/24/2024

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10/22/2024

Look who just got announced for our Portland convention Pine State Expo!

🌟 *GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT *🌟

Please welcome Dante Basco to the 2025 Pine State Expo! Taking place April 18th-20th, 2025 at the Holiday Inn By The Bay.

Dante will be appearing all 3 days!

Dante Basco is an American actor. He is known for his role as Rufio, the leader of the Lost Boys in Steven Spielberg’s Hook, Dolph in the cult filmBut I’m a Cheerleader, the lead character Ben Mercado in the hit indie film The Debut, and for voicing the titular protagonist of American Dragon: Jake Long and Prince Zuko in Avatar: The Last Airbender.

His voice acting roles include Zuko’s grandson General Iroh II in The Legend of Korra, Quoc Wong in The Proud Family, Jingmei in The Boondocks, Tuck in Generator Rex, Scorpion in Ultimate Spider-Man, and Jai Kell in Star Wars Rebels.

📅 April 18th-20th, 2025
📍 **Holiday inn by the bay convention center :** Portland, Maine

But your VIP Passes & Tickets here: https://tixr.com/e/111364

10/22/2024

Welcome to the new Vacationland Entertainment page. This page will be used to promote all 3 of our conventions, as well as markets, and will be doing live auctions for past con items as well!

With all that said we are excited to share that we’ve had a number of vendors reach out to us asking if we would run a Christmas Bazaar this year. We originally were going to not host one. But since we had so many asking for it. We are excited to share that November 30th & December 1st we will be hosting a bazaar this is FREE to the public and will take place at the Bangor Grande Hotel & Conference Center.

Interested in being a vendor? Email Miki at [email protected]

04/07/2024

We are open til 4pm today. Come see the new set up and get some great deals before the convention!

03/07/2024

We are open 12-5 on this rainy day. Come check out the new signed items, Pokémon, and new vendor items we have in the shop.

01/23/2024

You’ve been asking for awhile and we finally have a restock of Japanese packs! Come buy and pick up some shiny treasures ex packs before they are gone!

01/13/2024

Due to the weather and how fast and hard the snow is coming down we will not be open today. If you do have to go out stay safe and be careful.