Dozens of funny characters are running amok inside the Omni San Diego hotel. They’re swarming up the columns near the front desk and crowding about the elevators in the lobby. They’re even inside the elevators! Amused hotel guests can’t avoid them!
But what do you expect when it’s Comic-Con 2023, and FOX’s Animation Domination has taken over the Omni?
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Enjoy a cool batch of Dragon Ball photographs! This year’s Dragon Ball offsite at San Diego Comic-Con is just as impressive as ever!
I took these photos in the morning shortly after the activation opened at 9:30. The line was moderately long but moved quickly. You can find all this coolness behind the Marriott Marquis hotel, on the outdoor Marina Terrace.
Many people stood in a separate line to purchase Dragon Ball exclusives. Make sure you queue in the correct place! (Those who simply walk through the exhibit are given a really great swag bag.)
If you can’t make it to San Diego Comic-Con this year, check this out…
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One of the most visually stunning activations I’ve seen outside Comic-Con 2023 so far was put together by Bandai Namco Entertainment. They are showcasing their ever popular Tekken fighting video games.
I didn’t even know this Comic-Con offsite existed until I walked down MLK Promenade a day or two ago. Well, today it is open. I stepped inside and my eyes almost popped out of my head!
Right as you enter, four actors portraying classic Tekken characters pose on a platform, and the lighting inside the darkened room makes them look unbelievably awesome–almost unreal. They slowly shifted their poses as I took several photos.
Nearby, visitors could play Tekken at many stations. There are also cool photo ops like the one you see above, free refreshments (thank you for the cold can of Sprite on a hot day), and face painting!
Keep your eyes peeled as you walk down Martin Luther King Jr. Promenade across from the San Diego Convention Center. This small but very cool Tekken activation is not far from Camp Snoopy.
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Enjoy these photographs of cosplay spotted outside Comic-Con 2023 on Thursday!
Every year San Diego’s epic Comic-Con has some of the best costume play to be found anywhere. I’m sure I’ll see many, many examples the next several days…
Davy Jones cosplay.Star Wars dark side cosplay.Victorian era Starfleet officer cosplay.Peter Parker and Miles Morales cosplay.Batwoman cosplay.Dragon Ball cosplay.Marge Simpson cosplay.Cobra cosplay.My tired brain is drawing a blank. Leave a comment!Roronoa Zoro cosplay.Harry Potter cosplay.
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The Comic-Con Interactive Zone is worth checking out this year!
The lines this morning weren’t too horribly long to get into what is officially called the Interactive Zone at Petco Park. It’s called that because a variety of activations are set up in one of the ballpark’s nearby parking lots. I waited maybe 15 minutes to get in.
Once inside the Interactive Zone, fans will be met with three huge, completely awesome sculptures based on characters in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. On the other side of the entrance is another super cool sculpture, called Attack of the Metallic Menace, that was created to raise awareness about the harm of vaping.
That guy vying with Captain America for weightlifting prowess was posing inside a GNC activation, where I got a sample of a scrumptious muscle-building milk shake. (Watch out Captain America! I’m feeling stronger already!)
What else did I find? A fun activation that celebrates the 30th Anniversary of the coming-of-age movie Dazed and Confused. There’s pinball game and a pool table where you can play. Of course, there’s a photo opportunity, with the expected reference to rockers KISS!
And, as you might hope and expect, there’s plenty to eat from several food trucks and stands, and shady picnic benches galore. It’s a fine place to rest and get a bite while exploring all the cool stuff outside Comic-Con!
You might spot some cosplay, too!
The Interactive Zone at Petco Park, located near the Harbor Drive pedestrian bridge, will be open right through Sunday.
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There’s a super fun offsite activation at Comic-Con 2023 that pop culture fans streaming through the Gaslamp might miss. But you shouldn’t! It’s called Roseanne Lanford Days!
Whether or not you’re a fan of the Roseanne TV show, you’ll find lots to do and lots of cool swag to win!
The activation is loosely based on the town where Roseanne and her sister Jackie worked as waitresses. Once you walk through the activation’s archway, it looks like you’ve stepped into an old-time carnival. Shoot a hoop, knock over pins, toss a ring on a bottle and you can score DVDs, Roseanne bags and shirts, magnets, stickers, and other cool stuff. There’s free popcorn, photo opportunities and live entertainment. And there a big screen TV sweepstakes you can enter, too!
Roseanne Lanford Days is located on Sixth Avenue at E Street. Look for the signs on Fifth Avenue. It’s will be open Thursday and Friday from 10am to 6pm.
Check it out!
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Early this morning, I took a long walk through downtown San Diego this first day of Comic-Con 2023. As the minutes passed, I noticed more and more Comic-Con attendees arriving by bus and by foot. Most were lining up outside the San Diego Convention Center.
I spotted some cosplay and captured other fun pics!
Putting up barriers in the Gaslamp Quarter in anticipation of huge crowds later on.Ed Lenderman of KUSI News gives a silly blogger a smile!Lines forming outside the San Diego Convention Center early Thursday morning.Dedicated fans make their way down MLK Promenade toward Comic-Con.The standby line for the Interview With the Vampire offsite was beginning to grow.Almost ready!Many wait for the opening of the Dragon Ball offsite.Obi-Wan Kenobi is ready to take me down!A line has formed for the FX offsite.One Piece cosplay on the Harbor Drive pedestrian bridge.More fans heading to Comic-Con early Thursday morning.Shuttle buses are arriving from San Diego hotels.Getting a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles activation ready.Seems I’ve arrived at Grand Central-42 Street Station!It’s the 25th Anniversary of That 70s Show.We had a station wagon similar to this when I was a kid.A street artist was displaying his cool artwork on the Fifth Avenue sidewalk.Not sure what this is, but looks like fun!Lots of Comic-Con related donuts can be found at the Donut Bar Pop-Up Shop inside the Pendry hotel.Witcher cosplay in the Gaslamp Quarter!
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I’m covering Comic-Con again this year. To see all my current and past blog posts concerning Comic-Con, click here and scroll down!
I live in downtown San Diego and love to walk around with my camera! You can follow Cool San Diego Sights via Facebook or Twitter!
Enjoy lots of photographs taken today around the San Diego Convention Center and Gaslamp Quarter. It’s Monday, three days before the official start of Comic-Con 2023!
Offsite activations are rising all over the place, new building wraps continue to appear, and there’s a definite sense of excitement and anticipation in the air!
Read the photo captions!
The Jurassic Park offsite is now setting up in East Village. I wasn’t allowed to take a photo through the front door, but it looks like this might be epic!Abbott Elementary wraps are going up on the exterior of Petco Park.Some shade is ready for fans waiting in line outside the San Diego Convention Center. It should be quite warm this week!The FX offsite is now fenced with graphics promoting many shows.Is this guy screaming in anticipation of huge crowds?Outside the FX site during my midday Monday walk.Peeking into the FX offsite.The huge building wrap on the Hilton San Diego Bayfront promotes FX mini-series Shōgun.Now walking down the bayside boardwalk toward Adult Swim on the Green.Another Comic-Con, another ride on the Adult Swim hotdog!The way I felt after a vigorous summer walk in the San Diego sunshine.Now I’ve reached the Hulu Animayhem offsite. Looks like a lot of hot air.Who are all these people just standing around?You can get your selfie with a favorite character.Workers are setting up the Dragon Ball offsite behind the Marriott. Looks like the layout is much like last year.They’ve got a couple days to get ready!The Wheel of Time building wrap on a Marriott Marquis tower looks pretty cool!I believe Hero House will sell pop culture collectibles and cool stuff. They were setting up beside Martin Luther King Jr. Promenade.Walking along MLK Promenade.Looks like Camp Snoopy is getting ready! The Peanuts offsites are always fun.Spooky black waiting area for the recently announced Interview With the Vampire activation at the Hilton Gaslamp.A recreation of a New Orleans street will await fans of Interview With the Vampire.Check this out! It’s the Quantum Leap activation under construction. I’ll bet fans walk in through that circular entrance…When visitors walk through here, will they travel through spacetime?NBC show banners at Baja Rick’s Cantina, which used to be the Tin Fish.Watch out! Here’s Chucky!The huge Yellowjackets wraps on the Hard Rock Hotel are finished.Yellowjackets video wall inside the Hard Rock Hotel.Putting up Yellowjackets banners along Fifth Avenue sidewalk.Paramount’s offsite The Lodge is looking great.A sneaky peek into The Lodge.Hasbro boxes in the windows of Sparks Gallery at 530 Sixth Avenue. This will be The VAULT: A Hasbro Pulse Store!National Geographic joins the Comic-Con fun with a big wrap on the Margaritaville Hotel. It promotes Arctic Ascent.
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I’m covering Comic-Con again this year. To see all my current and past blog posts concerning Comic-Con, click here and scroll down!
I live in downtown San Diego and love to walk around with my camera! You can follow Cool San Diego Sights via Facebook or Twitter!
Several cool new faces have appeared outside Comic-Con 2023 since my walk around downtown San Diego yesterday!
I caught these faces with my camera this afternoon for all to enjoy.
Those two faces above–‘TIL ALL ARE ONE–are part of very cool artwork leaning up against Paramount’s coming offsite activation in the Gaslamp. The Lodge will be located inside Happy Does.
The big Star Trek wrap on the Marriott Marquis has added the face of Picard…
The Sand Land world premiere screening wrap on the Marriott now features the face of character Beelzebub…
Piccolo is pictured on a crate waiting to be unloaded in the Marriot Marina Terrace, where the Dragon Ball outdoor activation will open to the public during Comic-Con…
A deflated face up in the air above the future Adult Swim on the Green offsite activation…
Jack in the Box has a trolley wrap featuring Jack fan art, it appears! I spotted these faces in the trolley yard from the Harbor Drive pedestrian bridge…
Finally, check out this cool graphic on one of the Amazon Prime Video wraps near the Gaslamp Quarter Archway. I’m afraid I don’t know the character. Leave a comment if you do!
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I’m covering Comic-Con again this year. To see all my current and past blog posts concerning Comic-Con, click here and scroll down!
I live in downtown San Diego and love to walk around with my camera! You can follow Cool San Diego Sights via Facebook or Twitter!
All sorts of tasty sights are popping up around downtown San Diego before the start of Comic-Con 2023!
Today is Saturday. Check out some of the fun stuff I came across while walking around the San Diego Convention Center, through the Gaslamp and into East Village!
A funny hamburger with eyeballs promotes Good Burger 2 from Nickelodeon.The anime film Sand Land will have its world premiere screening at Comic-Con on July 21, 2023.This cool structure will be part of Hulu’s Animayhem activation behind the San Diego Convention Center.And beyond it, you can see the big Star Trek wrap on a Marriot Marquis tower.Archer prop probably needs to be transported over to the FX area.More structures being set up for Hulu’s Animayhem.I can’t wait to check it out during Comic-Con!Adult Swim on the Green hasn’t made much construction progress, seemingly.The FX offsite this year is under construction. It appears to be less elaborate than usual.FX will promote its shows here.Alice in Wonderland and the mad tea party have been painted on the windows of Starbucks at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront.Looking across Harbor Drive toward the huge Special Ops: Lioness building wrap.I love the FOX animation wrap on the Omni so much I took another pic today of one section!Looking toward the Gaslamp Quarter Archway from Gaslamp Square.Looking at Hard Rock Hotel from Gaslamp Square.Worker setting up the NBC offsite at Gaslamp Square.The NBC activation appears to have several structures.A big Yellowjackets wrap being applied to the front of the Hard Rock Hotel.This should look pretty cool when finished!Here’s one of the nearby Amazon Prime Video wraps: Invincible.Happy Does will be the site of Paramount’s “The Lodge” offsite.Workers busy getting The Lodge ready for Comic-Con.Part of the big Daryl Dixon wrap on the Pendry hotel. The dead are still walking on AMC.Dead City on a Pendry window.Fear the Walking Dead. I don’t want to become food, so I’ll keep my head on a swivel!A super cool activation at Ninth Avenue and J Street. It’s the Sonic the Hedgehog Speed Cafe!Sonic runs across an East Village window.A few would-be-Sonics were waiting in line for the unique culinary experience. Hungry fans weren’t moving too quickly, but quite excited!
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I’m covering Comic-Con again this year. To see all my current and past blog posts concerning Comic-Con, click here and scroll down!
I live in downtown San Diego and love to walk around with my camera! You can follow Cool San Diego Sights via Facebook or Twitter!
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