It’s finally Preview Night at Comic-Con 2022. And the fun has already begun!
Crowds are gathering and offsite activations are nearly ready, or actually open in some cases, such as The Gray Man Training Program by NETFLIX.
A bit of cosplay is appearing here and there.
Lots of fans, many with swag bags slung over shoulders, are getting a peek inside the convention center, before Comic-Con “officially” begins tomorrow!
I walked around outside in the late afternoon with my camera to capture a little bit of the fun!
The crowd is growing in the afternoon of Comic-Con Preview Night. A photo past the Gaslamp Quarter arch toward the San Diego Convention Center.The Hard Rock Hotel is now Lumon Industries of the Apple TV+ show Severance.It’s Rocketeer! He’s on the cover of this year’s Comic-Con Souvenir Book. (Flying over the El Cortez Hotel, where Comic-Con got started years ago.)Medieval figures mingle in front of the castle that promotes HBO’s upcoming House of the Dragon.This would make for one very cool farmer’s market!Miles Morales Spider-Man poses with a big smile! I think Spidey just defeated Mysterio.A crowd oohs and ahhs at one of the Audible sand sculptures.Folks were already lined up for The Gray Man offsite. I think these might have been media folk. I’m a mere blogger.Run for it!Looks at all the humanity near the San Diego Convention Center.Watch out! It’s Saturnino with a head!You might want to watch out for Chucky, too.Herman Munster and pals are on the scene promoting COZI TV.A hugemungous Sesame Street Mecha Builders inflatable Cookie Monster! Watch out for falling crumbs!Someone said that’s Ozzy Osbourne. A super creepy version, I guess!The Bob’s Burgers Movie activation on the grass near the Omni will be handing out free hamburgers starting Thursday! I’ll be there!Just wait ’til you see the massive crowds starting tomorrow.Fear not! Moon Knight and Doctor Strange are here to save the day!
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Less than a day to go until Comic-Con officially opens for 2022! As you might imagine, lots of people are bustling around trying to get their stuff ready!
Workers at many activations are in a hurry to complete the downtown “offsite” attractions that will welcome huge crowds beginning tomorrow.
I took one final long walk through the Gaslamp Quarter and around the San Diego Convention Center this afternoon to see what I might see..
Barriers are being set up on Fifth Avenue just north of the convention center. This section of street will be cosplay central beginning tomorrow!Someone attached a memory from last year to the Tin Fish restaurant sign. This is where the SDCC Shrine was located during the two years Comic-Con was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.An offsite by the Omni hotel is setting up. Looks pretty crazy at the moment.And just down the walkway, Bob’s Burgers was setting up their Comic-Con activation.Getting the Sanctum Sanctorum ready! A small offsite promotes the recent movie Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.The hotel shuttle buses this year all have Amazon Prime Video wraps on them. This one promotes Invincible.A helpful smile and an answer awaits!A little detail work to ready the big FX offsite.All sorts of graphics are now up at ABC’s Abbott Elementary offsite.Oh, look! That is this year’s Adult Swim on the Green.I’ll keep it a mystery.Workers were putting up big graphics on the IMDboat.Yikes!Getting the Voodoo Ranger IPA “pirate ship” ready!The Gray Man offsite is ready, just waiting for the big crowds tomorrow. I was told the race/obstacle course itself is relatively short. But once inside it’s definitely cool looking!The Audible sand artists are running out of time!A big smiling Franklin Armstrong has appeared on the windows of the Peanuts offsite.A long banner has been added to the MLK Promenade side of the House of the Dragon.And the front of the castle is beyond awesome. Look at those doors!Getting the Dungeons & Dragons tavern ready. They better hurry up!
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Early this afternoon, one day before 2022 Comic-Con officially gets underway, a small line had already formed behind the San Diego Convention Center.
Yes, this line will grow and grow and grow, and a large crowd will spend the night holding coveted positions, because the legendary Hall H is where the biggest pop culture panels are held.
This year there will be panels concerning Marvel and House of the Dragon and Black Adam and The Rings of Power . . . and no doubt big celebrities, huge surprises and blockbuster revelations!
First in the Hall H line gets first pick of seats to the biggest attraction at Comic-Con, which itself is the biggest fan convention in the world.
So who is first in line this year?
Joe!
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Bugs Bunny came out of his hole this morning, emerging on a sidewalk in San Diego. Walking around, chomping on a carrot, what did he see?
He saw that preparations for 2022 Comic-Con continue downtown at breakneck speed!
Among other things…
A big silver Vulcan salute will greet visitors to Star Trek’s cool Starfleet Outpost. Most Comic-Con offsites open to the public on Thursday. (I believe I saw this big hand at the Comic-Con Museum during their Gene Roddenberry exhibit.)The second Severance building wrap on the Hard Rock Hotel is done. Looks like some coworkers I’ve known.More photo op panels have appeared at the NBCU Corner.Boxes full of Good Guys. The clerk needs to check the shelves. One isn’t completely unwrapped.The Rookie wraps are completed, decorating Petco Park.Many box trucks in line. It’s the Comic-Con move in at the San Diego Convention Center. Here come the big exhibitors!The Bandai offsite behind the Marriott Marquis is taking form.A wall provides the history of Dragon Ball films.Very cool!The Krapopolis super slide now has Greek graphics. Where are the oars?The Gray Man offsite now has rubble.The Audible sand sculptures, still being created, are like works of art.Another amazing sand sculpture.The Peanuts offsite activation on MLK Promenade will feature The Armstrong Project.The House of the Dragon castle’s appearance just keeps getting more awesome. This might end up being one of the coolest ever Comic-Con offsites…A very sedate, tranquil Fifth Avenue in the Gaslamp Quarter, on a quiet Tuesday morning. That will change drastically in two days!
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A full-size, working Spanish galleon docked this morning behind the San Diego Convention Center for Comic-Con!
San Salvador, a replica of explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo’s famous ship, will be hosting a special 2022 Comic-Con offsite. Visitors will think they are boarding a pirate ship to sample Voodoo Ranger IPA adult beverages!
Of course, they’ll actually be on a ship of the Maritime Museum of San Diego. The San Salvador was built on Spanish Landing near the airport seven years ago.
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The pre-Comic-Con action is really picking up in downtown San Diego. Today is Monday, several days now before SDCC 2022 opens.
Look at all the new offsite activity, and the new building wraps, and all the rapid construction that’s going in the Gaslamp and near the convention center!
The Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves offsite activation for 2022 Comic-Con is being prepared at Sixth and Island.The Star Trek: Picard offsite will fill the outdoor patio of Happy Does on Fifth Avenue. I noticed lots of cool graphics ready to be installed.A huge Severance building wrap is now being applied on the Fifth Avenue side of the Hard Rock Hotel. Your orientation begins here.At the NBCUniversal offsite, by the Tin Fish, those mastodon tusks look rather familiar. Didn’t I see them here during Comic-Con Special Edition?Now that the Padres have finished their home series with the Diamondbacks, workers have begun putting up big wraps on Petco Park. I learned this one will promote The Rookie.The Star Trek wrap over on the Marriott Marquis is beyond awesome.Another corner of Petco Park getting started.This will be the entrance to the FX offsite near the Hilton San Diego Bayfront, behind the convention center. Looks amazing.I see a columned building and a stringy tunnel in the FX labyrinth. Various shows will be promoted.It looks like a small nursery along a stretch of the bayside boardwalk. Lots of trees and shrubs are being used for this year’s epic FX activation.Vendors are now unloading their stuff in a parking lot behind the San Diego Convention Center. The massive Comic-Con move in has begun!At the Bandai offsite near the Marriott Marina, something has emerged from a crate. Are those two huge limbs that belong to Great Ape Vegeta?Here’s a better look at the Batman Cartoonito banners on the parking structure of the Manchester Grand Hyatt. They went up yesterday.Looks like a combination of Batman and the movie Cars.Here comes another gigantic wrap on one side of a silvery Marriott Marquis tower. It promotes The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power!The CW has banners all over the place advertising The Flash and Superman & Lois.The Gray Man offsite is taking shape. You can see parts of the race/obstacle course. You better put on some fast shoes!I learned this is the beginning of the Peanuts offsite. Their pop-up will be called All Things Armstrong. That Charlie Brown orange looks familiar.Beavis has arrived in San Diego. Butt-Head can’t be far behind.HBO’s offsite promoting upcoming series House of the Dragon looks cooler and cooler as time goes on. Was San Diego suddenly transported to medieval times?Even downtown’s Ace Hardware is getting ready for Comic-Con!
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As we get ever closer to the opening of 2022 Comic-Con, more and more cool stuff is popping up in San Diego, particularly near the convention center!
For the past several days I’ve been documenting Comic-Con preparations downtown. Well, today, Saturday, I walked around again and found more stuff to share!
The distinctive Comic-Con logo now appears all over the San Diego Convention Center!Workers are setting up the outdoor canopies near the convention center. There will be huge crowds for Comic-Con as usual. Fortunately, the weather is forecast to be quite comfortable.That huge Star Trek wrap on the Marriott Marquis is looking really awesome. (I had to add contrast to my hazy zoom photo.)FX continues to set up their large offsite activation by the Hilton San Diego Bayfront. I believe those artificial hedge sections will form the walls of a simple labyrinth.Local artist Shirish Villaseñor works on the Starbucks windows graphics. They show scenes from Shrek. Her painted windows on Sweet Things Frozen Yogurts next door are the Faces of Comic-Con.The rear of the FX offsite for Comic-Con under construction.The big American Horror Stories wrap on the Hilton is getting bigger…Almost done with the cool Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero wrap decorating the Marriott.The other day I was informed correctly! FOX will have a small offsite with a Super Slide and photo opportunity on the grass opposite The New Childrens Museum.Cool trolleys all over!Sand artists have begun carving the three Audible sand sculptures.The big TREK building wrap seen from MLK Promenade across Harbor Drive.Looks like a Beavis and Butt-Head wrap on one side of the Hilton Gaslamp!House of the Dragon offsite looks ominous. I’m now told there won’t be a maze inside, but something. Looks exciting, whatever it might be!More graphics have appeared at the Hilton Gaslamp for The Walking Dead special event.The Krapopolis wrap grows on the Omni hotel. NBC hasn’t begun their offsite construction by the Tin Fish yet, nor is there anything on the grass by the Omni…The cool Severance wrap on the Hard Rock Hotel is nearing completion.That banner on the Gaslamp trolley station fence is left over from the recent ESRI conference at the convention center.Here comes another wrap on the Hilton Gaslamp! This one promotes Interview With The Vampire.Nerdy stuff is popping up all over downtown San Diego with less than a week to go before Comic-Con!
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It’s Friday before 2022 Comic-Con. Preparations for the big event are now well underway around the San Diego Convention Center and the Gaslamp Quarter! This weekend workers are going to be very busy!
Many building wraps are up, and others are rapidly appearing, section by section. More offsite activations have begun construction. The pre-Comic-Con atmosphere around town is becoming increasingly electric! (I’ve noticed quite a few people wearing superhero t-shirts!)
I walked around downtown after work to see what progress has been made.
First, I saw that FX is setting up their outdoor labyrinth in the park by the Hilton San Diego Bayfront–their usual spot. FX always creates an awesome offsite experience. As usual, they’ll be promoting a variety of new and favorite shows.
The beginning of a huge wrap on the Hilton promotes the FX weekly anthology series American Horror Stories.
Check out the huge Star Trek wrap on the Marriot Marquis hotel! Every series. Every episode. Sign me up!
I walked around the Marriott and what did I find…
Workers are applying a huge Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero wrap!
After crossing Harbor Drive, I checked out the parking lot by 1st Avenue where NETFLIX will have their The Gray Man offsite. Looks like the activation includes a derailed train? I guess we’ll find out soon enough!
Then I headed down Martin Luther King Jr. Promenade to see how the Audible sand sculptures are doing. The sand is still compacting and drying, waiting to be carved…
Then farther down MLK Promenade I saw that the platform that will support the indoor maze of House of the Dragon has plastic walls. And I see two wraps up ahead, too!
What’s this on the Hilton Gaslamp? You tell me.
Wow–I see The Walking Dead is preparing to welcome people to their special Comic-Con event inside the Hilton Gaslamp hotel…
And look up ahead! That huge building wrap on the Omni hotel is enlarging.
I see it promotes FOX’s new animated comedy Krapopolis! (I wonder what those ancient Greeks would think about this?)
Lastly, I spied a big The Gray Man wrap on the San Diego Lions Manor building…
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Comic-Con Special Edition is happening this weekend in San Diego, and I walked around San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter and convention center today with my camera.
By the early afternoon I was surprised to see a good crowd forming, and there was more cosplay than I expected. The La Brea and Peacemaker offsites were pretty busy, too!
The Freak Brothers bus behind the convention center near the Hilton Bayfront seemed a bit lonely, but that made it easier to snag three cool posters and some collectible mints!
Enjoy these photos of cosplay and fun during Comic-Con Special Edition on a sunny Saturday!
Rick and Morty cosplay on Fifth Avenue in the early morning.When I returned to the Gaslamp around midday, people were lined up at NBC’s La Brea offsite activation.Flash stopped running for a moment to smile for a photo!Not nearly as busy as a normal Comic-Con, but still a fair amount of activity.Pikachu and friends!A good crowd at the Peacemaker Proving Ground.Spaceballs cosplay!Inside the Peacekeeper Proving Ground, participants had to help rescue a hostage.Another tactical group enters the dangerous obstacle course.Working my way back, going to head toward the Hilton Bayfront.The X-Men are poised for action! Is Magneto nearby? Great cosplay!It’s “Bat” Girl! Very cool!Spider-Man cosplay. I saw many kids out having fun.Uh, oh! It’s Cheetah! Is Wonder Woman going to save me?Freaking out at The Freak Brothers bus!A future Superman!A little Marvel, a little DC. Lots of fun!Even more creative cosplay in the Gaslamp!Deadly Crimson is a comic created by Melissa LeEllen. Learn more at DeadlyCrimson.com!More cosplay on Fifth Avenue. But now I’m heading home.Hogwarts cosplay!
Today I also checked out the brand new Comic-Con Museum in Balboa Park. It’s amazing. Stay tuned for that!
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How many buildings greet you with a mind-boggling optical illusion? The Town and Country Resort’s convention center in Mission Valley does!
Stand by Fashion Valley Road in front of the convention center’s west entrance and stare at the seemingly 3-dimensional pattern between the doors. Or stare via your computer or phone at my final photograph.
What’s in?
What’s out?
What is a brain to do?
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