Now in its fourth year, the festival, which is a homage to the likes of H.G. Wells and his early sci-fi contemporaries, was extended from one day to two.
Co-organiser Helen Jansen said there had been entries from the North Island, and even the Catlins, alongside a "huge number" of visitors and designers from Auckland.
"We had 22 entrants this year but there were more people on stage, because some were compound entries.
"It has been absolutely fantastic. Everyone is very excited and very positive.
"Every year the standard gets better and the imagination that people put into it grows, and these people are not necessarily artists in their own field.
"I am held together today by duct tape and glue guns, but that's OK," Ms Jansen said.
She was also happy to see a large number of people attend the event just for the fun of it.
"There were 200 people on Saturday to see the dirigible [airship] racing, and that blew me away.
"The energy is building and, hopefully, next year it will pop."
Whangarei-based engineer Mike Johnson said he attended the event last year, and decided that he had to enter the fashion show himself this year.
"I had to enter. It just gets in your blood.
"My partner and I started putting our ideas together in March, and then it was two months of solid work over the weekends."
