We had a chance to attend the Hot Import Nights show this past Saturday night at the Orange County Convention Center. There were plenty of cars, booth babes and loud music. Hot Import Nights is the country’s largest touring automotive lifestyle event and one of the leading influencers in the sport compact car market. In [...]

Photos by carandmodel.com Orlando will get to experience the glamorous lifestyle of real-life speed racers at the country’s largest and most unique touring automotive lifestyle event series, Boost Mobile Hot Import Nights (HIN), from 5 p.m. to midnight this Saturday at the Orange County Convention Center HIN Orlando will mark the seventh stop on HIN [...]

Paul Buck, Vietnam Veteran and museum volunteer (second from right) explains the history of various military items to visitors from New York. (Photo by Don Blaney) By Janie Blaney, MSgt.USAF Ret. The Veterans Tribute and Museum is a little gem tucked way back in the corner of the Osceola Square Mall in Kissimmee. Inside, visitors [...]

The Orange County Regional History Center will unveils its newest permanent exhibit, “Destination Florida: Tourism Before Disney,” on Friday. The new installation will take visitors back in time to the ‘Golden Age of Tourism,’ nearly a century before Disney. Visitors may be surprised to learn tourism in Florida stretches back to the late 19th century, [...]

Due the success of the History Center’s first Retro Game Night on March 14, the museum is bringing the event back from 7 to 11 p.m. tomorrow night. Retro Game Night is being held in conjunction with the Kid Stuff: Great Toys from Our Childhood exhibit. Editor’s Note: The exhibit is gone, but Retro Night [...]

The “Villains – Movie Characters You Love To Hate” exhibit at the end of the Studio Backlot Tour reopened on Friday after a rehab. They’ve rearranged and updated it a bit with costumes and props from Enchanted, Star Wars, Pirates of the Carribean and the upcoming Narnia movie. More photos below.

Celebration plays host to an Exotic Car Festival and the Great American Pie Festival this weekend. Also as part of the Exotic Car Festival, there will be a special showing of Back To The Future to Benefit Make-A-Wish and a talk with some who helped make the movie, including Christopher Lloyd. Tickets can be purchased [...]

Gotham City residents gather. The Ninja Babes From Space. MegaCon 2008, the mega-comic book and anime convention was this past weekend at the Orange County Convention Center. We were there to capture all of the excitement, well, not all of it because there’s so much going on. The main focus of the convention is the [...]

The annual FX International Show started out many years ago as just the FX Toy Show. When I first started going, it was held at the Orange County Convention Center and was a large event with a few celebrities. As the years went on, the show dwindled in size, had less celebrities and moved to [...]

Matt previously posted about the Kid Stuff exhibit at the Orange County Regional History Center. I’ve added a brief video tour of the exhibit, showing some of the more fun toys displayed within: Low-Quality Streaming: High-Quality Downloads: iPod-friendly 640×360 Version | 540p HD Version It’s a really fun exhibit that not only allows you to get [...]