Tag: fun

Healthcare workers as superheroes street art!

I saw this today and thought you might enjoy it, too!

Healthcare workers as superheroes has been painted on an electrical box in San Diego’s Grantville neighborhood. You can find the fun street art at an intersection near Kaiser Zion Medical Center.

Spider-Man is swinging along holding Boba Fett, apparently taking him to the hospital emergency room!

Did the web-slinging Marvel superhero rescue Boba Fett from the sarlacc? Does that explain the Star Wars bounty hunter’s survival?

We rise by helping others…

Thank you healthcare workers!

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Sense of Wonder: creative fun in Oceanside!

This might be the most fun interactive art exhibition you’ll experience all year! It’s showing for one more week at the Oceanside Museum of Art, and it’s titled Aaron Kramer: Sense of Wonder.

Do you love crazy, clever, fun-loving inventions? Upstairs at the museum you’ll find loads of them! Playful artist Aaron Kramer likes to tinker and make mechanical wonders using found objects.

Visitors to the Oceanside Museum of Art can turn cranks and press buttons that activate wacky kinetic creations. Wires, old springs, bottles and tin cans, cardboard, odd pieces of wood, broken things–magically become spinning whirligigs, dipping hummingbirds, dancing figures . . . even contraptions that trace images on paper!

I’ve always loved these sort of whimsical creations. Remember that scene near the beginning of the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang–that crazy, elaborate Rube Goldberg-style contraption that automatically made breakfast? These small works of art are just as fun!

If you’re young at heart, you’ll be pressing every button and turning every crank! Through August 23, 2026, that is, when this super cool exhibition wraps up.

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Top-secret Mindbender Society at Fleet Science Center!

Few visitors to the Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park successfully join the top-secret Mindbender Society. You, too, can become one of the elite members!

But do you have what it takes?

Visitors young and old are invited to step into Mindbender Mansion and solve “rooms” full of puzzles. Most of the puzzles can be solved geometrically or mathematically. At least one that I noticed requires a little bit of physical coordination.

By solving the brainteaser puzzles and unlocking secret passwords, museum visitors can be featured on the Mindbender Mansion’s digital Wall of Fame and achieve everlasting glory!

Mindbender Mansion is an awesome new feature of the Fleet Science Center. It’s located in the museum’s old box office area. You might recall how I blogged about the museum’s major redesign and remodel. The kid-friendly museum is now better than ever, with lots of cool new things to see and do!

A few photos I took today…

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Fun art outside Replay Toys in North Park!

How can you not love this? Enjoy photos of super fun art outside Replay Toys Boutique in North Park!

In addition to a colorful mural, there’s a column plastered with little plastic toys and figures just outside the front door.

Replay Toys is a paradise for shoppers seeking new and pre-owned quality toys and rare collectibles.

During my last walk through North Park, I paused for a moment to take these pictures…

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More fun new street art in East Village!

A bunch of electrical boxes were recently painted with fun street art in San Diego’s East Village.

I happened to stumble upon another one today. It’s not far from Petco Park, which explains the Padres graphics!

I see it was painted about a month ago by artist Kate Caughey (@kcaughey).

To see more newly painted boxes near Petco Park, click here and here!

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Gaslamp Urban Pickleball returns to San Diego!

It’s back! Gaslamp Urban Pickleball has returned to downtown San Diego for another summer of fun!

I saw the courts set up on Fifth Avenue as I walked along this afternoon, an hour before the event would begin. A couple guys were already practicing.

There are vendors to check out, too. Thank you Monster for the free drink!

If you’d like to play pickleball on summer Thursdays on the streets of downtown San Diego, go check out the event website here.

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One last walk outside San Diego Comic-Con 2026!

Enjoy one final collection of photographs taken during San Diego Comic-Con 2026!

This long, final walk through the Gaslamp and around the San Diego Convention Center was simply amazing.

Lots of people were still about, checking out the offsite activations that remained open on Sunday. Lots of cosplay still.

I got the impression many fans didn’t want Comic-Con to end. But, alas, it’s Sunday late afternoon as I type this. All good things must come to an end.

It’s Dr. Peepers!

At the Nickelodeon offsite, the slime dunk tank was still active!

Well, that does it for this year’s Comic-Con coverage!

Cool San Diego Sights will now return to my more usual blog posts… after a couple of days rest!

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Sunday morning walk around Comic-Con 2026!

It’s Sunday morning outside Comic-Con 2026 in San Diego. Less crowded. Some of the con goers have left. Some of the activations have closed.

Today is the day many local families come downtown to enjoy the Comic-Con spectacle and fun.

Photos from a morning walk…

Here’s the Apocalypse Hellfire 6×6 truck inspired by Super Troopers 3.

Watch out! Sharks approaching behind you!

Wiley Jawhary of KUSI television was getting ready to interview folks in the Hulu Animayhem line…

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Crazy creative fun on Saturday at Comic-Con 2026!

Saturday is the craziest, wildest, most creatively exciting day every year during San Diego Comic-Con. 2026 is no exception!

Look at what you might encounter by simply walking around downtown San Diego.

The Gaslamp Quarter in particular is absolutely jam packed with people, engaged in cosplay, enjoying the experience, coming and going to the convention center, offsites, restaurants, hotels…

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Nintendo Switch Sports Resort at Comic-Con!

A super fun offsite activation at Comic-Con 2026 takes place outside the Hilton San Diego Bayfront hotel. It promotes the upcoming release of the Nintendo Switch Sports Resort video game!

The wait wasn’t too long today, made more entertaining by competition between Comic-Con fans on a big outdoor screen.

Once inside, we could sample playing the twelve sports featured in Nintendo Switch Sports Resort. Friendly staff show you how.

From archery to thumb wrestling to 100 pin bowling, the motion control sports are a lot of fun!

When you exit, you score a cool visor, too!

Some pics to provide a taste…

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