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Marvel Science Show Comes to Canada

By Avi Weinryb
September 22, 2006 - 10:00

This fall, fans of Marvel Comics will get to be heroes. Beginning on October 18^th, the Ontario Science Centre will be displaying the Marvel Super Heroes Science Exhibition. This innovative combination of fictional heroes and real life physics will seek to show how super heroes would be able to operate in a real world.

 

This is the Canadian premiere of what is already a very popular attraction. Fans and science enthusiasts are welcome to try out any of thirty action stations, covering a wide range of Marvel’s trademark characters. Over fifty heroes are represented, including both mainstream heroes and villains, as well as some of the more obscure figures that make up the Marvel Universe.

 

Visitors can lift a car with the help of an Iron Man-style exoskeleton, dangle from a Spider-Man web, and toy with prosthetic technology that would put Doctor Octopus to shame. The power of sound will be displayed by X-Men’s Banshee, while his fellow teammate Storm demonstrates how powerful lightning can really be. If that isn’t enough for you, The Hulk exhibit will reveal the transformative power of emotion.   

 

Beyond showing off the science behind its characters, Marvel Comics is proud to display an extensive timeline of its history. Visitors can follow the illustrated chronology from the Golden Age of comics, right up until the present day.

 

Just remember comic Peter Parker fans; When you are watching a science demonstration, look out for radioactive spiders. They’ve got quite a bite.

 

 

The exhibit runs from October 18^th 2006 to March 25^th 2007. Get more info here.

 

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