Look at this! Marvel’s superheroes have gathered together and boarded a San Diego trolley car! Those going to Comic-Con 2026 ought to be protected from the dastardly doings of supervillains…possibly…
Trolley cars wrapped for Magic: The Gathering | Marvel Super Heroes now have these cool interior graphics! Uh, oh. Heroes have been joined by Thanos and Doctor Doom…
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The vampire creations of Anne Rice have returned for another San Diego Comic-Con!
In past years, these bloodthirsty creatures of the night have shown up at the Hilton Gaslamp. For 2026, I see they’ve begun to materialize over at the Pendry hotel–at least their images on a building wrap have! The wrap no doubt will promote AMC’s gothic horror series The Vampire Lestat.
Today’s the first day I noticed building wraps going up around downtown San Diego for Comic-Con 2026.
Getting excited!
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The first building wraps for Comic-Con 2026 are now being applied in downtown San Diego!
My first four photographs, taken early this afternoon, show graphics being applied to the Omni San Diego Hotel promoting Funko POPs.
The beginnings of another wrap on the Omni appear to have something to do with Marvel superhero Wolverine. It might be promoting video game Marvel’s Wolverine for PlayStation 5–we’ll see!
Park/12 is getting a huge building wrap, too!
It appears to promote upcoming animated feature film Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender.
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Stand by for updates!
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Yet another San Diego trolley wrap has made its appearance in time for Comic-Con 2026, which is now a little over a week away!
Cool graphics for Blade Runner 2099 are running through the city!
The new trolley wrap promotes a sci-fi television miniseries created by Silka Luisa for Amazon Prime Video. The show is scheduled to be released next year.
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Awesome examples from a collection of comics fanzines are now on display on the 2nd floor of San Diego’s Central Library, just in time for Comic-Con 2026!
This look back at comics history is courtesy of Larry Thomas, who’s been collecting for many years. You’ll see issues of Rocket’s Blast Comicollector, The Comic Reader, Outlooks, Star-Studded Fanzine, Vacation in Duckburg, The Golden Age, and various others.
Check it out!
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As I walk around downtown San Diego, I’ve observed more and more signs that Comic-Con is nearing. Less than two weeks to go!
Here’s new stuff I found today…
Chainsaw Man on a board in front of Kettner and G smoke shop.
25 years of Final Fantasy X will be celebrated with music at the San Diego Symphony’s outdoor Rady Shell on July 17, a week before Comic-Con.
The following day at the Rady Shell, audiences can enjoy How to Train Your Dragon 2 in Concert!
The 4th floor IDEA Lab cosplay repair station at San Diego’s Central Library should be super busy during Comic-Con.
Finally, I saw that the New Children’s Museum opened their pre-Comic-Con SpongeBob themed activities! Here’s what you’ll see upon entering the museum.
During the con, the museum will host a fun Nickelodeon offsite!
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Another new trolley wrap has appeared for Comic-Con 2026 in San Diego!
This one promotes, Carrie, an upcoming 8-episode supernatural horror miniseries for Prime Video. It’s based on the popular Stephen King novel. The series will debut on Prime Video in October 2026.
I wouldn’t want to be a person in that car!
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Look what I chanced upon today! A new science fiction movie, Space Samurai: Oasis, is being filmed inside the San Diego Central Library!
They were filming inside the library’s huge Reading Room, which I was told will be portrayed as the interior of a space ship!
Here’s a page that describes the movie, now in development.
Cool!
UPDATE!
Three days later, they were filming by the elevators!
Various signs have begun to appear in downtown San Diego that Comic-Con 2026 is fast approaching. San Diego’s epic international pop culture event is just two weeks away!
I’ve already shared photographs of new Comic-Con trolley wraps now traveling about San Diego (for example, see my previous four blog posts). I’ve also posted photos of Avengers: Doomsday banners (now all over San Diego) and street advertisements for Magic: The Gathering | Marvel Super Heroes up and down Fifth Avenue in the Gaslamp Quarter. But more has begun to appear!
Here’s some of what I’ve noticed so far.
The above photo is of a Pokémon banner hanging in front of the Union Kitchen and Tap Gaslamp.
What’s that in my next photo? An ESRI building wrap on the Hilton? Every year, the ESRI conference comes right before Comic-Con at the San Diego Convention Center. It’s an indication Comic-Con is just around the corner!
A colorful My Hero Academia poster has been placed in a Gaslamp window.
During Comic-Con, favorite baseball movie The Sandlot was scheduled to have a special showing and talk at downtown’s Balboa Theatre. Now I see the event was cancelled, unfortunately.
Batman grins from the front window of BAIT, a specialty shop that has lots of cool collectibles.
The Exclusive Collections gallery in the Gaslamp Quarter has scheduled a special Comic-Con appearance by artist DeVon from July 24 – July 26, 2026. DeVon traces his artist lineage directly back to Andy Warhol.
MTS has provided helpful information on San Diego trolleys. Reading it, I learned they’ve logged more than 250,000 extra passenger trips during the four day Comic-Con event!
These banners are now everywhere in downtown San Diego!
Are you ready?
With only two weeks to go, Cool San Diego Sights is going into (mostly) Comic-Con mode.
Don’t worry if that’s not your cup of tea. Once Comic-Con is over, I’ll be posting more cool stuff about Balboa Park, Old Town, Solana Beach, Hillcrest, North Park and much more!
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This might be the coolest San Diego trolley wrap for Comic-Con 2026! Promoting Magic: The Gathering | Marvel Super Heroes, the graphics include multiple Marvel superheroes and supervillains!
Do you dare board a trolley featuring Doctor Doom, Loki, Ultron and Kang?
Never fear! You’ll be accompanied by the likes of Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America, Hawkeye, Vision, Scarlet Witch and Black Widow!
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