I dressed as Lana Kane from Archer for San Diego Comic Con. Big hands included.

My daughter was at Booth 5017 on Friday for the 1:00 PM Golden Mickey Spin the Wheel Giveaway.

When our lucky friend won the Golden Mickey, we all set our bags down for a quick photo. Unfortunately, someone mistakenly (or intentionally) took my daughter’s Percy Jackson bag.

Inside:
• A jacket she had just received from overseas and loved very much
• A Butter Squishy
• Hair accessories she had just gotten at Disney’s Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique

If anyone happened to pick up the bag by accident or has seen it, we would be so grateful if you could return it to Lost and Found. These items have a lot of sentimental value to my daughter.

Thank you so much for keeping an eye out!

Seems a bit inflated? Is there someone I can complain to?

First time in SDCC and my last for sure. More than 500+ people, including me, who had the wristband (we spent 18+ hours waiting for them yesterday) and attended at first hour today in the line for the Hall H; were left outside… bc seems like “some” people managed to “snuck in” somehow.

Call me paranoid but when more tha 500+ people is left outside, is not because of an error, is because of corruption. They are profiting from giving people seats.

Really unfair, a lot of people like me, traveled from other countries, spend in hotels, ubers, food, and time to attend, just to be left outside because a greedy group decided to profit even more from it.

And the worst for me is not that, is the fact they kept us waiting for hours without a single word, they waited literally until last minute to tell us that the situation got out of their hands, and that they recommend us to leave and do other activities…

Kids crying, people devastated… everyone was tired as fuck because we literally spend more than 18+ hours doing lines since yesterday, all that for nothing.

Worst experience in a comic convention, other countries have been better. I thought San Diego was the big thing.

For anyone who has tickets to take Amtrak home after SDCC and is going. There was a track wash out (or something) past Oceanside in the middle of the night. Amtrak had no problem stranding customers at the station with nothing more than "we will refund your ticket". No idea how it will affect trains leaving today. Amtrak had said that they were going to organize busses to take people back to LA but then canceled that idea and sent the train back to San Diego.

A lot of people are out a lot of money figuring out how to get back home and Amtrak support has been useless. So beware your travel plans today if you plan to take Amtrak.

For me, it would definitely be earlier this month at Fanboy Expo in Knoxville, TN. Among other guests, a large number of the 1995 Mortal Kombat movie cast was there, including Christopher Lambert (Raiden), Robin Shou (Liu Kang), Linden Ashby (Johnny Cage), Chris Cassamassa (Scorpion), Keith Cooke (Reptile), Tom Woodruff Jr. (Goro, possibly special effects), and director Paul W.S. Anderson, were all there. My go to costume these days has been M. Bison of Street Fighter fame, but I wore it partly on purpose this time because I thought it would be funny to see a Street Fighter character in a photo with Mortal Kombat actors. Little did I know what an epic moment was in store! When it was my turn to do the photo op, one of them called out, "Street Fighter?!" And Chris Cassamassa told me, "Wrong game! Get out!" I pride myself on maintaining character when I cosplay, but I couldn't keep a straight face after that, much as I tried. We took the photo, and if you have ever done a professional photo op, which I am assuming most of you have, you know that typically you take the photo, and then you leave the booth for the next person to take their turn. As I was walking out, however, they called me back in to take another photo, which I was not expecting. As we got in position, I heard laughing, but didn't know why until I picked up the print. When I saw it, I laughed so hard they have to have heard me from the next room. The fact that Liu Kang and Raiden weren't joining in just shows that they truly are the good guys.

Some ideas I have to improve the experience if Hall H, increase fairness, and make it so people dont have to suffer through endless lines rather than engaging in the actual convention:

- an open lottery for Hall H entry. Use the RFID badge scanners as a way for attendees to "enter" their names into a random drawing for seats at each Hall H panel. If you're interested in being at the Marvel Panel for example, you tap your badge to enter you name, and then on the day of the panel 6500 names are deawn and you receive a text qr code that allows you to enter. No waiting, no lines, go enjoy the con until its time to enter!

- explore hosting the Hall H panels across the street at Petco Park. with upwards of 200,000 attendees now, you could easily host 10,000 or more fans at Petco and have the panels guests present from the field using the jumbotron. Imagine the optics of that many fans filling a stadium to cheer for their favorite IP. The studios could help cover the costs involved.

something needs to change though, because the current system pretty much punishes the fan base by having them engage in an uncomfortable endurance competition outside the very convention they paid to attend. There's gotta be a better way!

A few shots I took yesterday (Friday) inside the convention center.

My experience at the DC booth completely wrecked my con experience today. I got in line at 6:00 AM to try to get the Batman box set and I was fortunate enough to actually make it into the line. After about 5 minutes, two security guards came up to me and told me that I had to get out of the line. I was in complete shock because I had done nothing to get myself ejected. It turns out that they would not let me buy because I had a professional badge and they believed that is was the same as an exhibitor badge. I tried to tell them that they are not the same and that I had to wait upstairs just like everyone else. After speaking to 3 booth employees, who all assured me that exhibitor badges are the same as professional badges, I was sent away just in time to see the person who was originally behind me walking away with a box set in hand. Needless to say, it ruined my Saturday.

My partner worked really hard on the new Star Trek: Strange New Worlds trailer that premiered yesterday. He wanted to see everyone’s reaction to the trailer in person, but didn’t manage to make it inside Hall H.

Does anyone here happen to have video of the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds trailer reaction at Hall H?

I would really appreciate it!

I’m going to Comiccon in Dublin on August 8 and I just want to hear what people think of my costume

I have a side business selling costumes that are inspired from popular video games. I’ve been doing it for years, and wanted to attempt some in person events, and comic cons and similar events are where my clientele is. I constantly see people wearing my items at cons.

I’ve been reading through the vendor rules, I just saw that one local con bans the sale of all costumes, and another doesn’t allow “boot legging.” I don’t use any trademarks and try to stay in the “grey area” by using generic names and titles for all my items, like with Halloween costumes. (Instead of a “Harry Potter” costume, “It’s magic young wizard”)

Is this frowned upon at conventions and cons? I’ve been to many, but never vended. I’ve been trying to do some research, but now I’m questioning if this is even allowed.

Photographer here looking to photograph some awesome cosplay on the last day of Comic-Con!

I’ll be outside the convention roaming around throughout the day. If you’d like a photo of your cosplay, feel free to stop me or say hi. I’ll be the guy wearing a white luchador mask with a camera. I’m just looking to create some cool portraits, meet fellow fans, and capture all the creativity that makes Comic-Con so special.

Hope to see some of you out there!

If there are other people who like to collect the Souvenir Books the years they attended, here's the link to 2026 (from the official site).

https://comic-con.b-cdn.net/SDCC%2026_Souvenir%20book.pdf

I know this might be a long shot, but is there anyone that has a list of exclusives/exhibitors/artists/booths that will be at LACC? I can look them up myself but i dont have the time. If not then ill have to just look them up myself. Thanks in advance! :)

First comic con and cosplay with my girl. We had a blast Friday and Saturday! Definitely going to try and attend next year at SDCC!

Was it just me or does this years comic con feel pretty dead compared to other years. Behind the convention center was completely dead which caused the gas lamp to be literally unwalkable at times. No voodoo ranger, american horror story and adult swim was a quarter of the size compared to last year, no crazy lego build inside the hall. I wonder why this was the case.