Cosplay and magic fill the area behind the San Diego Convention Center during 2018 Comic-Con!
Late this morning I enjoyed Comic-Con by walking behind the San Diego Convention Center, then through The Experience by Petco Park. This first batch of fun photos is from the area behind the convention center.
As usual, I encountered a bunch of super creative cosplay and magic at every turn!
A Star Wars stormtropper holds a humorous sign. Support the Troops.Long morning lines wrapped this way and that, but nobody seemed to mind.Cedric Diggory cosplay. An early glimpse of magic.Some cosplay pooches are part of the big spectacle.These Wonder Women made cool superhero skirts out of old Justice League swag bags!Good thing Nick Fury called Captain Marvel. Here she comes now to save the day!These zombies paused for a photo at the foot of the steps up to the convention center.I was told this cosplay is Bird Person.Check out this awesome cosplay! It’s Fire Archangel Velajuel, a Summoners War Sky Arena Monster.I was told this funny cosplay is Pac-Gentleman.Lots of visitors to 2018 Comic-Con were checking out the Bandai Dragon Ball activation.Vegeta cosplay.Mario and Luigi prepare for battle.I was told this cosplay is Radioactive Man.That’s my kind of superhero. One who brings ice cream! Who needs a utility belt?Cyclops was good enough not to remove his visor. The ice cream might melt.Amazing cosplay of some Mad Max post-apocalyptic characters.Hopefully Kylo Ren does me in before I have to witness another one of his ridiculous temper tantrums.At the FOX activation for The Passage, a scientist in a white lab jacket shows me the first human to be resistant to all known diseases. Unfortunately he has to drink human blood.Rorschach cosplay. Somehow using his lips he could make the inkblot on his mask change appearance.Some poor guy is caught between a fight between Peter Griffin and Ernie the Giant Chicken.A look at the FXhibition area near the Hilton Bayfront, behind the San Diego Convention Center.Another look. It’s late Saturday morning at 2018 Comic-Con.People place their heads in Archer character cubes for an unusual photo opportunity.Here’s Camp Paddy’s outhouse.Now that’s one very bizarre photograph being taken.Zatanna cosplay. Magic is her specialty.She must have waved her magic wand, because there’s wonderful cosplay all over the place!A cool FX guy poses beside a Mayans MC motorcycle for my camera.Mera blinked. Must be all that dry air above the water.Chillin’ at the FXhibition.Magicians perform, delighting young and old alike. There’s endless magic at Comic-Con!
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Visitor to San Diego Comic-Con takes a photo with The Nyght, patrol leader of the Xtreme Justice League, a group of real superheroes in San Diego.
Today I was walking around outside San Diego Comic-Con when I met a real-life superhero. His name is The Nyght. He’s a member of the Xtreme Justice League.
The Xtreme Justice League began in San Diego, but now has superheroes operating around the country. Their primary mission is to help local communities stay safe.
These volunteer superheroes, wearing outlandish protective garb, are highly trained for what they do. They conduct safety patrols in rough neighborhoods and offer a variety of public safety services. They report dangerous activity that they observe to law enforcement. They strive to provide positive role models for at-risk youth. They oppose vigilantism–they believe in compassion, nonviolence, volunteerism and heroism.
They also work to help the homeless.
Tomorrow–Saturday July 21, 2018–members of Xtreme Justice League from all around the country will converge in Balboa Park’s Pepper Grove to help San Diego’s homeless. Their event is from 10:30 am to 2:00 pm. If you’d like to help them out, they accept donations of items such as individual tissue packs, socks, sunglasses, water bottles, sunscreen and sleeping bags.
You can learn more about who the Xtreme Justice League is, and what they do by visiting their website here!
The Xtreme Justice League works to increase community safety. They encourage residents to become involved in helping the homeless and reducing crime. Be your own hero!The Nyght tells me a little about the Xtreme Justice League, and how they and their members from around the country will help the homeless this Saturday in Balboa Park.
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Cool cosplay of Soul Eater characters at 2018 San Diego Comic-Con!
Early this morning, as I walked from Cortez Hill down to the Gaslamp, I was joined by others heading toward the convention center for the very first day of 2018 San Diego Comic-Con.
The offsites still hadn’t opened, and one or two that I passed didn’t appear to be quite ready. But long lines were already forming!
I spotted lots of great cosplay as I walked along Martin Luther King Jr. Promenade, then over the Harbor Drive pedestrian bridge to see the action behind the San Diego Convention Center.
Buses packed with Comic-Con attendees were arriving continuously from hotels around the city. By this afternoon, the streets and sidewalks will be jammed with crazy activity!
Riddler gives me a villainous smile. Where’s the Bat-Signal?Deadpool is waiting in the DC Universe offsite line. He must like those dark DC characters.Comic-Con visitors wait in a line near Dead Quarters early Thursday morning.A big line had already formed down MLK Promenade for Amazon’s Jack Ryan Experience.I knew it! Loki isn’t dead!Officers from Starfleet have beamed down to 21st century Earth to observe our odd cultural customs.Not one super dog, but two!Even folks selling treats along the promenade were dressed up for the pop culture occasion.Stay Puft Marshmallow Man is on a rampage through The Experience! Good thing it wasn’t open yet.Here come boxes and boxes of Funko Pops!When these guys weren’t serving breakfast to hungry fans near the Hilton Bayfront, they were posing for a silly blogger.These volunteer sign guys have to keep moving as the lines grow longer.The Adult Swim canoes are on the river! I’m guessing they’ll be propelled manually with oars.A long line of wonderful, lovable nerds.The Turner yacht has docked in San Diego for 2018 Comic-Con!I didn’t see any hamburgers nearby, so I’m guessing this is pure cosplay.No need to worry. Lots of ice cream is on the way.A cool Deconstructed Bike Zone near the Hilton Bayfront promotes the upcoming FX show Mayans MC. Prepare for the return of mayhem!If you’re looking for the line for Indigo programs, it’s this way.Just a typical early morning scene on the Harbor Drive pedestrian bridge during San Diego Comic-Con.Great cosplays of WALL-E and Cruella de Vil.Cool cosplays of Deathstroke and Batgirl.A great Rey cosplay, but by sheer chance she blinked when I snapped my one photo. Maybe some sand from that planet got in her eyes.What it’s like to walk outside Comic-Con in the early morning, before the crowds become insane.These guys handed me a Top Secret envelope. Inside were instructions to head over to the Jack Ryan Experience for a mission.The Donut Bar had a pop-up in the Gaslamp. Do or donut. There is no try.A cosplay of Robin, ready for action.Spidey is taking a breather, even though Comic-Con has barely begun!
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A line of Comic-Con volunteers passes by my camera the afternoon of Preview Night.
Here we go!
I didn’t have a pass for Comic-Con Preview Night this year, but there was still lots of cool stuff to see just walking around the convention center late Wednesday afternoon!
Pop culture fans from around the world are converging on San Diego!
Syfy has a bunch of bus wraps again for 2018 San Diego Comic-Con.A fun photo booth puts visitors into a comic book at the Manchester Grand Hyatt.Most everyone is converging on the San Diego Convention Center. It’s Preview Night!I spied a few instances of cosplay, but not much yet. Wait for tomorrow!People wait for a Green Line trolley at the Stranger Things station by the convention center.Walking with vigor down MLK Promenade near the Walking Dead.Fifth Avenue will be absolutely jammed tomorrow! Stay tuned! You’ll see loads of pics on Cool San Diego Sights!If you tweet this blog a whole bunch, maybe you’ll move that needle. Maybe not.Uh, oh! Somebody forgot to put up these big yellow letters!Wow! Wonder Woman isn’t the only one offering ice cream at The Experience! Batman has a Dark Knight brownie bite!A line has already begun for Ready Player One. Where’s the Start Play button?Oh, man! It’s a life-size Hot Wheels!I got my Entertainment Weekly free Comic-Con issue! I’m going to read it as soon as I hit the publish button for this blog post! See you tomorrow!
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This is what 2018 San Diego Comic-Con looks like from 40 floors up! Without crowds–yet!
I took these photos from the top of the Manchester Grand Hyatt today at three o’clock, as people were just beginning to converge on the San Diego Convention Center for Preview Night. The various offsites, some of which are visible, open tomorrow.
Take photos of Comic-Con from high above the city the next four days and the streets will be jammed with people!
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These guys are the very first in line for Hall H, at 2018 San Diego Comic-Con. They were super friendly, excited and ready to go!
The big one is almost here!
I’ve taken even more photos of 2018 Comic-Con preparation around San Diego. I walked all around this morning–Wednesday–and observed that workers are frantically getting the many offsites around the Gaslamp, Petco Park and San Diego Convention Center ready for tomorrow.
Tonight is Preview Night.
Let the party begin!
At Dead Quarters, they have a lot to do. At least according to some ragged signs that are being created!Cartman’s Escape Room at the Comedy Central offsite appears about ready!The Convention Center trolley stop has been converted into a weird, very cool promotion for Stranger Things.This morning they were testing the Jack Ryan Experience. A test subject was carefully lowered from the mock helicopter.A creepy jacketed mannequin now stands in the Children’s Park fountain, with a cage looming among the trees behind him. Part of the Castle Rock offsite.What I called a castle has turned out to be more like a brick palace, created by Bandai at the Marina Terrace.Getting the entrance to the Lyft Lounge at Comic-Con Village ready on Wednesday morning. You’ll find it at Embarcadero Marina Park South, near the San Diego Symphony’s outdoor summer location.The IMDb yacht gets a boat wrap!The Starbucks at the Hilton Bayfront has been converted into a small Jurassic World.A BBC film crew gets ready to cover 2018 San Diego Comic-Con on the Harbor Drive pedestrian bridge.Graphics at the entrance to Rotten Tomatoes suggest that possibly Your Opinion Sucks.Someone has appeared in one of the round windows of The Good Place.Looks like a good place to me! Let’s get this party started!
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Rampage George has arrived on a truck bed near the Omni and Petco Park for 2018 San Diego Comic-Con!
We’re down to just two days until the official start of 2018 San Diego Comic-Con!
My last blog post titled 2018 Comic-Con getting ready in high gear! included a huge number of photos that I took while walking around the Gaslamp, Petco Park and the San Diego Convention Center on Sunday and Monday.
Well, today is Tuesday, and this morning I discovered lots more cool stuff popping up!
Equipment for the Conan O’Brien show during Comic-Con is being moved into the Spreckels Theatre.Snoopy graphics on the windows of Bubbles Boutique have transformed it into the Peanuts Pop-Up Shop!A photo of construction progress at The Good Place near the Tin Fish.Petco Park’s Whiskey Cavalier wrap is still being applied.This wrap on Petco Park showing Nathan Fillion promotes the ABC show The Rookie.Getting a tree ready at the Experience at Comic-Con, near the Sacred Lies activation.Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger on Freeform will also have a cool activation at Experience at Comic-Con.A photo from behind the Cloak and Dagger structure.The unusual Legion structure is being finished at FXhibition.FXhibition also includes a cool graphic depicting Archer Danger Island.It appears the courtyard area next to the Hilton Bayfront will be used to promote Mayans MC.In the FOX section behind the convention center, small rooms have appeared featuring Family Guy and The Simpsons.Yikes! The Griffin home is on fire!Walking along the bayfront toward the Adult Swim offsite two days before the official opening of 2018 San Diego Comic-Con.Rick sculpture now stands over a miniature golf hole.Looks like the archery range of Adult Swim State Park.Bandai is building a castle-like structure on Marriott’s Marina Terrace.Some awesome Bandai figures are now being set up at their offsite.SDCC 2018 exhibitors and fans are arriving in San Diego! Two days to go!The Mellow Tiger Bar will occupy part of Hulu’s Castle Rock offsite.The Castle Rock bed and breakfast is getting a paint job!The New Children’s Museum now has yellow Syfy umbrellas and signs ready, including one for the Human Claw Machine.Comic-Con paintings by the artist Suzka can be found inside Simon’s Cafe, just north of the Jack Ryan Experience. This piece is titled The Joker Card.One guy wearing cammies is relaxing at Amazon’s Jack Ryan Experience offsite.Looks like Kenny died yet again outside the South Park escape room.That big slide at Dead Quarters will be mounted here.Taco Bell was getting their Demolition Man pop-up ready in the Gaslamp. Everyone smiled for some free publicity! Nacho fries will be served.A couple of building wraps promoting Disenchantment on Netflix are being applied to the Hard Rock Hotel.
UPDATE!
More stuff is appearing early Tuesday afternoon as 2018 San Diego Comic-Con rapidly approaches! Enjoy these brand new photos!
I’m not sure I’d want to buy a plane ticket from these nice ladies.I wonder if there is an arrival time? NBC show Manifest has all sorts of cool graphics in the lobby of the Hard Rock Hotel.A new Star Trek Discovery Mirror Universe Exhibit will be inside the Michael J Wolf Fine Arts gallery in the Gaslamp.A sneaky peek inside the Star Trek Discovery offsite before it opens on Thursday.USA Networks’s Purge City store is setting up at the Padres Team Store, in the Western Metal Supply Co. building at Petco Park.That big black thing will be the screen of a huge Dell laptop. I learned people will be able to interact with an LED image using arrow keys.A Mr. Mercedes wrap is being applied to the entrance side of the Omni Hotel.The History wrap on Petco Park this year promotes Project Blue Book.I was told this is the robot torso of the Iron Giant! A cool Iron Giant sculpture will be placed atop the building at Sixth Avenue and L Street, where the Ready Player One activation will be during Comic-Con.Pushing an old school arcade game along the sidewalk.Rotten Tomatoes has their own location at Comic-Con this year, right next to the Hard Rock Hotel.Mr. Mercedes advertised on something less than a Mercedes.A good photo of one Disenchanted wrap now on the Hard Rock Hotel.AT&T’s Mr. Mercedes offsite is getting ready in the Gaslamp on Tuesday afternoon!
ANOTHER UPDATE!
Here come pics that I took late Tuesday afternoon!
I spotted the legs of Iron Giant near the Ready Player One offsite!The Mobile ESports Touring Arena is set up over the kids’ baseball field in Park at the Park.A huge banner on the Marriott Gaslamp Quarter promotes Star Trek Discovery.Taco Bell is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the movie Demolition Man.Various NBC posters have been placed about the Gaslamp trolley station.The Good Place offsite is getting a paint job!More graphics have appeared at the entrance to the DC Universe Experience.That slide and a building have materialized inside Dead Quarters.And so has an armored SWAT vehicle! The walking dead can’t be far away now!Rampage George looks disinterested in this nearby human.Petco Park’s Whiskey Cavalier wrap is done.The Rookie wrap is almost done.At FXhibition, I saw a graphic for American Horror Story on some sort of structure.Lots of colorful graphics have popped up in the grassy area in front of the Hilton Bayfront.Here are some more.People can sit in front of a green screen at the Cosmos activation. Perhaps they’ll fly through space. I don’t know.As I walked past, the Camp Store at Adult Swim State Park was being stocked.Helmets are ready for the crazy canoe races!Flagship’s California Spirit is being transformed into the IMDb yacht.The Mayans MC wrap on the Hilton is now complete.Logos are on the fence around The Experience in San Diego, which I’ve been calling the Experience at Comic-Con. I had read that somewhere.Here’s what you can expect each day during 2018 Comic-Con at The Experience in San Diego.Looks like DC Comics will be serving Wonder Woman Golden Lasso caramel and vanilla ice cream!
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A car appears to have mysteriously crashed into the Childrens Park fountain! It’s part of the Castle Rock offsite for 2018 San Diego Comic-Con. Surprises await visitors around every corner.
Four days to go until 2018 San Diego Comic-Con! There’s so much cool stuff popping up around the convention center, I can hardly keep track of it all!
This afternoon I walked around the entire area, checking out some of the building wraps and offsites that have begun to appear. Construction hasn’t begun on the Experience at Comic-Con or Deadquarters yet. I was told Comedy Central will occupy the same space at the Broad City indoor coloring book last year, but I could see no indication of activity there, either.
Check out these photos and read the captions for more information. It seems Comic-Con gets bigger and more exciting every year!
A photo of the Castle Rock sign from across Harbor Drive.These mannequins will be part of Hulu’s surprising Castle Rock experience!A guy working on the Castle Rock offsite said this is the bed and breakfast.Picnic tables have been placed in Childrens Park, which will become a spooky Castle Rock forest.At Amazon’s Jack Ryan Experience, more progress is being made.Visitors to the Jack Ryan Experience can enjoy shade under camouflage netting!The big Conan wrap on the Marriott Marquis is almost completed!Another photo I took walking around the Gaslamp four days before 2018 San Diego Comic-Con.The prominent DC Universe wrap is wrapped up!A Doom Patrol sign on a temporary structure inside the DC Universe Experience. This must be Chief’s (Dr. Niles Caulder) Lab.A Marvel building wrap is being applied above the Lou & Mickey’s sign.Inside The Chuck Jones Gallery in the Gaslamp you’ll find a bunch of cool Star Wars art.Plus some super cool Alex Ross artwork depicting DC’s most popular heroes.The line for LAIKA LIVE San Diego is growing as Comic-Con approaches.Lots of construction activity around the hub of Comic-Con’s outdoor campus.An ice cream vendor crosses Fifth Avenue. The Gifted wrap on the Omni appears above the offsite for The Good Place, now under construction.Some guys are working on NBC’s The Good Place offsite at 2018 San Diego Comic-Con.On Friday I spoke briefly to a guy putting The Good Place stickers on the Tin Fish’s outdoor tables.Turning back for another photo as I walk along.Here comes a restored PCC streetcar on the San Diego Trolley’s downtown loop Silver Line. I love riding these old trolleys, but not today. More stuff to see!Crossing the Harbor Drive pedestrian bridge, I see the tents outside the San Diego Convention Center are already set up.There’s that Jack Ryan wrap on the Omni Hotel that I photographed a couple days ago. It’s nearly finished.The FXhibition area is under construction now. Those shady canopies when seen from above spell FX.I learned this interesting structure will help promote the FX show Legion.Looking across the grass of Hilton Waterfront Park. Lots of Comic-Con offsite construction activity!FOX and National Geographic will be previewing Cosmos Possible Worlds.That big wrap on the Hilton San Diego Bayfront is in fact for the upcoming FX television series Mayan MC, a spin-off of the popular Sons of Anarchy.I believe this winding blue track will be Adult Swim’s lazy river, where go-kart “canoes” will race. I imagine those races will be visually funny!Another Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan building wrap, this one on the side of the Marriott Marquis. Amazon Video is promoting their upcoming show in a very big way at SDCC 2018.A colorful Dragon Ball Super: The Movie wrap on the Marriott’s recent meeting room expansion.
UPDATE!
I walked around Monday morning and got lots of new pics! More wraps and offsites are appearing!
Manifest, an upcoming NBC television series, promoted on a building wrap being applied to the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego for 2018 Comic-Con.Another graphic promoting Manifest on the convention center side of the Hard Rock Hotel.The symbol for Marvel hero Iron Fist in a building wrap near the Gaslamp Quarter landmark sign.Construction continues on The Good Place offsite near the Tin Fish.Getting video screens ready at NBC’s The Good Place offsite.Looks like Comic-Con fans might be served yogurt.It would be really, really hard to eat yogurt with that gigantic fork, however!The upper story of The Good Place.The Experience at Comic-Con in Petco Park’s adjacent Lexus Premier Lot is barely getting started on Monday morning. Better get to work in a hurry!Behind the San Diego Convention Center, near the Hilton Bayfront, the FXhibition is under construction. I saw these graphics which I believe will be used to promote the FX show Archer.I see FOX will be promoting The Passage in their section of Hilton Waterfront Park.I believe this is part of the Adult Swim lazy river. Workers would tell me nothing. Top Secret, apparently!Another photo of the Adult Swim offsite under construction.Comic-Con exhibitors were unloading their stuff as a small fleet of forklifts zipped about.Bandai is setting up an offsite in the terrace by the Marriott Marina, where Conival was last year.The left portion of that big Dragon Ball Super wrap is done. Very cool!The Jack Ryan wrap on the Marriott Marquis is about half finished on Monday morning.Syfy wraps are being applied to The New Children’s Museum.Getting ready for 2018 Comic-Con–just three days away!In Hulu’s Castle Rock forest, some sort of structure is being set up.The South Park Escape Room is just getting started.Dead Quarters is also just getting started. It’s going to feature a slide!And a zombie meat grinder!With a bloody conveyor belt!Purge City is starting to set up at Petco Park.Another photo of Comic-Con preparation in front of the Western Metal Supply Co. building.I learned this lot at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Island Avenue will feature a gigantic 20 foot tall Dell laptop!A peek into the space where the Mr. Mercedes Immersive Experience will be during 2018 San Diego Comic-Con.
ANOTHER UPDATE!
I walked all over the place on Monday afternoon, and even more Comic-Con stuff is appearing around the San Diego Convention Center, Petco Park and the Gaslamp!
Here comes yet another batch of photos!
Characters from South Park are readied outside a Comic-Con escape room being prepared at the Comedy Central offsite.Cool mural for Mayans MC in courtyard by the Hilton San Diego Bayfront.Some big teepees and wooden bridges over the lazy river canoe track have appeared at the Adult Swim offsite on Monday afternoon.Left side of the Adult Swim entrance.Welcome to Adult Swim State Park!Wraps on Petco Park are appearing. The two I spotted promote Whiskey Cavalier on ABC. (UPDATE! I was wrong! As it turned out this first one promotes The Rookie on ABC.)The second Whiskey Cavalier building wrap is farther along.I believe this will be a big stage in one corner of the Experience at Comic-Con.Sacred Lies, an upcoming show on Facebook Watch, will be promoted near one entrance to the Experience at Comic-Con.Erecting the huge stage in a Petco Park parking lot.Spherical shrubs at The Good Place match circular windows.I believe that’s Harley Quinn in a window of Toscana Cafe & Wine Bar in the Gaslamp.Alita Battle Angel promoted on a pedicab on the Embarcadero.The Team Coco House on Fourth Avenue is being prepared.Dell will be building that huge laptop here.At Dead Quarters, they must realize that blood meal makes for great fertilizer.The Syfy wrap on The New Children’s Museum is looking good.So is the facade of the bed and breakfast at Hulu’s Castle Rock offsite.Props are being placed in the Castle Rock forest, otherwise known as Children’s Park.Lawn chairs face a stage.Part of a Middle Eastern bazaar on MLK Promenade beckons people to head up First Avenue to the Jack Ryan Experience.A huge bazaar is about ready at the Jack Ryan Experience offsite by Amazon Prime Video.I learned visitors will climb to the helicopter, descend by wire to a top floor, then head over to the zip line. Once on the ground, there’s more training to do involving some sort of vehicle.The Dark Ops emblem is ready on the bunker-like escape room.I was told the escape room will be pretty intense.
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Superman enters a phone booth. When he comes out, who will he become?
Today I headed down to Imperial Beach to enjoy the Sun and Sea Festival. The annual summer event is famous for its popular sand sculpture contest near the pier. You might’ve seen photos I took in past years.
In 2018 the theme for the sand sculpture competition was Superheroes In The Sand.
A big crowd turned out on a sunny summer Saturday in Imperial Beach to enjoy the annual Sun and Sea Festival.Poster looks like a comic book cover! A surfer wears a cape for the 2018 Sun and Sea Festival in Imperial Beach. The original sandcastle competition!A big sand sculpture near the event’s entrance greets one and all to the Sun and Sea Festival. That caped hero seems to be holding a surfboard.I found my first superhero on the beach. It’s Wonder Woman!Here’s a tribute to a young superhero. A young lady named Angela had her wish made true by the Make-A-Wish Foundation.Titans Collide, a sand sculpture by the Sculpintures. Thanos and Hulk are ready to do battle. I hope Thanos doesn’t have that gauntlet on.Watch out Thanos! Hulk is finally really angry and ready to smash.The Coastal Carvers were creating the IB Bears. I’m not sure how exactly this fits with the superhero theme.Howie’s Crew was creating Gotham City out of sand. I see the Bat Signal and the Bat Cave!And I see Wayne Manor, too!Scooby Doo is a superhero, right? The Guardians of the Sandlot had scenes from that favorite cartoon. Here’s the Mystery Machine!And here’s a super scary creature! It’s probably an old disgruntled lighthouse keeper in a yellow slicker somehow cleverly disguised as a big monster. Just my wild guess.According to the San Diego Sand Castles, you don’t need a cape.Wonder Woman has no cape, nor She-Ra.A local guy working on sand art that celebrates She-Ra. You’ll see why, shortly.A variety of heroes gathered in Imperial Beach the week before 2018 San Diego Comic-Con.Archisand was crafting a sandcastle fantasy and a beautiful sleepy face.There were sand sculptures on either side of the Imperial Beach Pier. Lots of surfers out today, too.Sandytales was creating Dreaming, an imaginative sand sculpture with another sleepy face and whimsical castle.Here’s the castle and a smile. Creating that looks like fun!Team Sandstorm was creating their sand sculpture just north of the IB Pier.Forever Heroes. It’s a big Purple Cross.Sand spheres are sculpted to become helmeted war heroes.Many heroes behind the medal.The Sandcastle Man Team was creating a fantastic Star Wars setting.A sand sculpture rendition of a far distant world. Rebels and Resistance.The I.B. Posse created a new chest emblem for Superman. It features a firefighter’s helmet.Superman entered a phone booth in my very first photo . . . then emerged as a true hero firefighter!Here are some hero lifeguards.Why do several local sand artists like the heroine She-Ra?This sculpture by the Sand Squirrels honors a former member. I believe her name was Shera. Her surviving brother works with sand for the first time.My Heroes, by the I.B. Family Posse, has Batman and Spiderman ready side by side.A kid is surrounded by Superman and other imaginary superheroes. He wears a fireman’s helmet.My Heroes.
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A large bunker-like structure has been built in one corner of Amazon’s huge Jack Ryan Experience offsite for 2018 San Diego Comic-Con.
A week to go and more stuff is showing up outside 2018 San Diego Comic-Con!
I walked around the Gaslamp Quarter and East Village after work and got some photos! Nothing has appeared yet behind the San Diego Convention Center, or outside Petco Park. Once the ESRI conference ends and the Padres finish their home stand, I’ll bet that changes rapidly!
Read the captions!
Another photo of the Jack Ryan Experience taken one week before Comic-Con. You can see the zip line.The huge helicopter now stands near a mock building whose doors have Moorish-looking arches.Guys work on the helicopter which seems to have a fresh coat of glossy paint.The entrance to LAIKA LIVE San Diego appears ready to go. It opens tomorrow–Friday afternoon–six days before 2018 Comic-Con!If you read the final update near the end of my last blog post, you’ll recognize this mystery object!The cool DC Universe wrap on the Hilton Gaslamp appears to be halfway applied.A building wrap on the Omni Hotel is just getting started. Looks to me like it promotes The Gifted.Walking through the Gaslamp yesterday, I saw this scary clown head on the Fifth Avenue sidewalk, but today it’s gone!Amazon is erecting an offsite that promotes their Fire TV and popular channels that it features. You can find it at the corner of Market Street and Seventh Avenue.Graphic on the Fire TV tent. Watch Disenchantment on Netflix starting August 17.
UPDATE!
Here are photos taken late Friday. Lots of new offsites and wraps are beginning to appear!
With less than a week to go, Comic-Con International logos have appeared all over the San Diego Convention Center!A guy driving a lift around the convention center is getting stuff ready for 2018 Comic-Con!A big building wrap on the Omni Hotel will promote Amazon’s upcoming show Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan.Hulu’s offsite promoting Castle Rock is rising near the New Children’s Museum in San Diego.Workers get the Castle Rock activation ready for 2018 Comic-Con.More work has been done on the Jack Ryan Experience. The Jack Ryan Training Field allows fans to immerse themselves in a hyper-reality virtual reality spy experience.The huge bunker-like escape room in one corner of the Jack Ryan Experience has a cool seal. JACK RYAN DARK OPS.The cool DC Universe wrap on the Hilton Gaslamp is almost completed.A wrap on the Omni Hotel promoting The Gifted, above initial construction of an NBC offsite near the Tin Fish. Fans will experience The Good Place.Guys in charge of erecting The Good Place offsite for 2018 San Diego Comic-Con confer in the summer sunshine.A big Conan O’Brien wrap is being placed on the Marriott Marquis. The design appears similar to this year’s Conan trolley wrap.A building wrap is being applied to the Hilton Bayfront, and the Adult Swim offsite has barely begun to appear. No FXhibition as of yet.I don’t recognize what this wrap promotes–not yet! The motorcycle suggests it might by the new FX series Mayans MC–the spin-off from Sons of Anarchy. Feel free to leave a comment if you know!
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