One of many future Starfleet artifacts that can now be seen in San Diego during 2019 Comic-Con.
The Starfleet Museum has sent many interesting artifacts from the future back in time to be exhibited during 2019 San Diego Comic-Con.
This very special exhibition, titled Jean-Luc Picard: The First Duty, traces the life and exploits of Admiral Jean-Luc Picard, whose exemplary service to Starfleet has made him a legend throughout the galaxy.
I took photographs of a few of these very rare museum pieces for the enjoyment of my readers. They will remain on loan from the future during the duration of San Diego Comic-Con. If you can, head down to the Gaslamp Quarter and enjoy a fascinating glimpse into future history!
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Superman and Martian Manhunter are battling it out on a passing bus!
Preview Night is upon us!
2019 Comic-Con is just about ready to get underway! I walked all around downtown San Diego this afternoon taking it all in.
Are you ready?
Yes?
Then let the fun begin!
Supergirl is ready to fly to the rescue a few hours before 2019 Comic-Con Preview Night begins!Onyx Nightclub has a cool banner.It was media day at the Amazon offsite. Crowds will surge through here tomorrow!Cleaning the fountain at Childrens Park. A nice clean FOX Fan Fair will be enjoyed by one and all.Madness is already rampant and we haven’t even started.William, a cool San Diego artist, spray paints a character from South Park.Some blood has already been spattered at DeadQuarters.When that door opens, diners might encounter an unexpected surprise.Interdimensional Hole of Pancakes.Snoopy rides through space at the Peanuts Pop-Up Shop.Entertainment Weekly teams were handing out their San Diego Comic-Con edition.David Glanzer of Comic-Con International gives an interview.There’s a lot of yellow police line blocking video screens at Brooklyn Nine-Nine.This arcade game lets you Test your Seinfeld knowledge and WIN!A perfect Pikachu pic.Hey kid! Over here! It’s me, Shazam!A cool Star Wars speeder at Ripley’s Believe It or Not’s unusual Car Lot.A fantastic Carnival Row wrap on a bus.An activation being prepared at the last minute in the Interactive Zone at Petco Park.Sharkzilla is back for Shark Week! I expect some wooden pallets and surfboards might get chomped.Ride this mustardy hot dog at Adult Swim on the Green!Princess Pennywise cosplay!A boat in the Marriott Marina has a Batman banner flying in the wind.Posing for a cool pic in the Dragon Ball Z line.Here comes another Entertainment Weekly team passing out magazines to those in the line.Dragonball Z cosplay. I thought the one on the right might be Rick and everyone laughed at my absolute ignorance!Rey demonstrated her powerful Force Punch.A line has formed for Comic-Con pre-ordered merchandise.Cool Dragon Ball Z graphics greet those entering the main lobby of the Marriott Marquis hotel.A couple of Team Coco swag bags.ABC will have their Comic-Con live desk inside the window of the Chuck Jones Gallery.SoCal Pro Wrestling will have a cool Comic-Con event tonight!Iron Man is nicely dressed in this Gaslamp shop.HBO’s Watchmen offsite is being built on Wednesday afternoon, just in time for Comic-Con.There’s a functioning Stargate now inside the Theatre Box lobby!Even more cool Dragon Ball Z cosplay!
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Here come loads of photos from my morning walk around 2019 San Diego Comic-Con before Preview Night. It’s Wednesday, and everyone is working furiously to get wraps and offsites ready!
I walked everywhere: through East Village, the Gaslamp Quarter, around the San Diego Convention Center and Marriott Marquis, and down MLK Promenade.
Among other things I observed . . . the Nerdist offsite has received Museum of Mayhem window wraps. The Watchmen offsite had barely even begun their construction. The Syfy wrap is finished. The entrance of the Star Trek: Picard offsite appears ready, with the words Jean-Luc Picard: The First Duty and Starfleet Museum. DeadQuarters is a radioactive zone, and that airplane appears to have crash landed. The South Park miniature golf is about ready. The Marriott appears ready to host the Esports Lounge. One or two people walking about are already engaging in cosplay. The Dragon Ball Z activation looks really cool now. The IMDb yacht appears about ready. The Adult Swim and FX offsites are both looking pretty awesome, with some mysterious objects that make me wonder what they are. The Petco Park wraps are done, including one for ABC’s Emergence. A gigantic The Twilight Zone wrap is on the brand new Park 12 high-rise near Petco Park. The Interactive Zone at Petco Park is still setting up, and will include a Ripley’s Believe It or Not “Car Lot” with various unusual vehicles. The Chilladelphia activation has carnival games including a Shazam ring toss. I’m starting to see people hauling swag bags about. The Star Trek: Discovery wrap on the Omni is done. So are all the wraps on the Hard Rock Hotel, where IGN will be filming live on a balcony.
And if you’re tired after all this, have a seat on the Seinfeld couch!
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You don’t really eat these pancakes, it’s more like they eat you. A funny The Good Place quote at the door of Maryjane’s restaurant during 2019 Comic-Con.
I spotted even more fun (and funny) stuff outside 2019 Comic-Con during my walk this morning!
There are some building wraps I hadn’t previously seen, and I found a couple new ones that are now being applied. I saw that the lobby of the Hard Rock Hotel is being converted into the Superstore. I also noted the Warner Brothers offsite on the grass south of the Omni hotel, which will feature Detective Pikachu and Shazam, is starting to take shape…
Two days until the start of Comic-Con!
Wraps are being placed on the Hard Rock Hotel promoting NBC’s The Good Place and Superstore for Comic-Con.A wrap on the building’s south side shows characters from NBC’s Superstore. Comedy Starts Here.Putting on the fun building wrap, with two days until the start of Comic-Con.Superstore graphics now decorate the lobby of the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego.Across Fifth Avenue, the Amazon wraps are done. This one promotes The Boys. That’s one smiling superhero I’d prefer to avoid.Other stuff is springing up around downtown, like this somewhat goofy-looking banner on a building advertising Tik Tok.Businesses in the Gaslamp Quarter are jumping on the Comic-Con bandwagon. Game of Thrones and Stan Lee inspired cocktails?Syfy has moved to Seventh and J Street for 2019 Comic-Con. I believe you can catch their fun karaoke bus and trivia trolleys here.A cool Star Trek: Discovery wrap is being applied to the north side of the Omni Hotel.The Warner Brothers offsite has erected an archway that says Chilladelphia Winter Carnival. You might remember the big, climactic scene in Shazam!Freddy Freeman and his pal Shazam are perched atop another arch!
Stay tuned for more photos of Comic-Con preparation when I walk about this afternoon. I’ll post an update here!
UPDATE!
I did indeed walk about in the afternoon, and I found more fun stuff!
Batwoman banners now adorn the fences along the trolley tracks.I’m Mad. You’re Mad.The Stranger Things trolley station is returning for 2019 San Diego Comic-Con!Comedy Central’s South Park offsite features mini golf this year.Play golf with South Park characters!Amazon Prime Video was setting up displays along MLK Promenade.Flags at one end of Childrens Park, where the FOX Fan Fair will be.Another small glimpse of the FOX Fun Fair from the sidewalk.Check out the characters on the Ferris wheel!Bandai is staging their Dragon Ball Z offsite in the Marriott’s Marina Terrace this year again.Check out this The Boys wrap on the Marriott Marquis!Today exhibitors were moving their stuff into the San Diego Convention Center for Comic-Con.The cool FX Devs wrap on the Hilton is looking good.Adult Swim is getting their offsite ready behind the San Diego Convention Center.Rick’s balloon head isn’t inflated yet.FX has colorful graphics on the fence around part of their Fearless Forum.A super cool FX event space is being prepared!More Comic-Con street art on windows of Sweet Things Frozen Yogurt.A wrap is being applied to a corner of Petco Park. I’m clueless.The first activation is being built at the Interactive Zone at Petco Park. Not sure what it is, either.Another new wrap appearing on a corner of Petco Park. Resembles the Stumptown trolley wrap.History has a wrap on Petco Park promoting Project Blue Book, like last year.The Tin Fish is getting decorated with NBC Comedy graphics.Hot Damn!Sweeping the back steps of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.The Statue of Liberty has found a new home in San Diego!I detect Detective Pikachu at the Warner Brothers offsite!
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The Statue of Liberty was transported by truck this morning to San Diego’s Gaslamp Square!
She’s wearing cool sunglasses!
The statue will soon be erected at NBC’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine offsite for 2019 Comic-Con!
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A building wrap on the Hilton San Diego Gaslamp Quarter facing Fifth Avenue. The cool graphic promotes Amazon Prime’s original series and their nearby offsite during 2019 Comic-Con.
Lots of new developments today, three days before 2019 San Diego Comic-Con!
One benefit of living downtown is I can watch the world’s most stupendous pop culture convention slowly taking shape! The event seems to grow bigger and bigger every year, with more offsite activities and huge building wraps everywhere you turn!
Today is Sunday, and Comic-Con preparations are now in high gear. Here are photos of new things I saw as I walked about the Gaslamp Quarter, MLK Promenade, and around the back of the San Diego Convention Center…
The word REVOLT appears in the Snowpiercer wrap on the Marriott Marquis.Workers apply large format printed wrap material to the side of one tower.At DeadQuarters, a helicopter has appeared. Can rampaging zombies be far away now?A platform is being built at DeadQuarters, perhaps for a Walking Dead fan activity.The Star Trek: Picard building wrap facing MLK Promenade is nearing completion.At the Amazon offsite, a spooky old building is being prepared. Perhaps for their upcoming show The Boys.Another photo of the Amazon offsite being readied, three days before 2019 Comic-Con.At the Brooklyn Nine-Nine offsite, fans of the show can take a selfie in a lineup with various characters.The big Animation Domination wrap on the Omni is almost half done.At the Warner Bros. Pictures offsite, it appears Freddy Freeman and his pal Shazam have been captured by a diabolical villain in some plastic.As I walked over the Harbor Drive pedestrian bridge, I noticed another new building wrap on the Hilton.Carnival Row is replacing a wrap from ESRI, which just finished their big annual convention.A photo from the bridge toward the San Diego Convention Center. (I added a little bit of contrast to bring out the Snowpiercer graphic.)Coming down the steps from the pedestrian bridge, I saw a huge FX.The FX Fearless Forum is being readied behind the San Diego Convention Center as I type this.The big Hilton wrap promotes upcoming science fiction/technology show Devs on FX.Looks like Adult Swim on the Green will have a huge stage. No wacky canoe races this year, I believe.Getting ready for 2019 Comic-Con!
Stand by for updates!
UPDATE!
I walked around in the late afternoon and saw more stuff.
I noticed Conan’s production people are ready to move their equipment into the Spreckels Theatre. I noticed that super cool Gundam wrap is now completed. I saw a tall wrap being applied to a narrow side of the Marriott promoting Amazon’s show The Boys. I saw many more booths being set up in Childrens Park for the FOX Fan Fair. I noticed that there’s a knotted rope dangling from that raised platform at DeadQuarters–presumably fans will climb down (or up) it. Finally, the Amazon wraps on Fifth Avenue across from the Hard Rock Hotel continue to be applied.
It’s obvious this year Amazon Prime is promoting its new shows Carnival Row, The Boys and The Expanse in a very big way!
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A building wrap on the Marriott Marquis’ meeting space windows promotes Gundam 40th “Beyond” for 2019 San Diego Comic-Con.
Late this morning I took photos all around the Gaslamp Quarter and San Diego Convention Center of cool stuff being readied for 2019 Comic-Con!
A bunch of Comic-Con offsites and building wraps are now appearing!
The big international pop culture event gets started in just four days!
The right part of the cool Gundam wrap is being applied four days before Comic-Con.Another building wrap is just starting to appear. This one is on the Hilton San Diego Bayfront. I guess that, like in past years, it will promote a show on FX.The grassy area behind the San Diego Convention Center is now buzzing with Comic-Con offsite construction.Adult Swim on the Green will return in 2019 for Comic-Con.The FX Fearless Forum appears quite a bit different from their offsite here last year.Workers start to set up the FX Fearless Forum in front of the Hilton.Looking across Harbor Drive, one can see the Animation Domination wrap, which is being applied on the Omni.As I walked past the Hilton parking structure, I aimed my camera up at one of the big Marvel’s Avengers video game banners.Harbor Drive and the convention center viewed from the pedestrian bridge, with four day to go until 2019 Comic-Con! Looks pretty quiet right now.This offsite will feature two recent movies from Warner Bros. Pictures. People will walk through a large tent and see cool stuff concerning Detective Pikachu and Shazam!The Brooklyn Nine-Nine offsite is also under construction in Gaslamp Square. NBC has their offsite in this prime location every year, it seems.Part of the Brooklyn Nine-Nine activation for 2019 Comic-Con.A cool Statue of Liberty will appear about here!I turned my camera in time to get a photo of a FOX Animation Domination trolley wrap at the Gaslamp station.A mysterious wrap was going up around noontime near the Gaslamp Quarter landmark sign.I spotted a free ride FRED electric vehicle promoting WEBTOON.No parking signs are up in areas of the Gaslamp for Comic-Con week.This wrap on the Hilton Gaslamp is indeed for Star Trek: Picard, as I surmised in a past blog post. It features Patrick Stewart.AMC’s popular DeadQuarters fan zone is returning for 2019 Comic-Con, and they just started building their offsite this morning.Preparing for an invasion of zombies.Another part of DeadQuarters.Videoboards have been installed high above Amazon’s big, colorful offsite. Explore the shows…Carnival Row.The Boys.The Expanse.The Ferris wheel appears ready to go at the FOX Fan Fair. A ride on this should provide a good view of Comic-Con action along MLK Promenade!A shot of FOX Fan Fair preparations in Childrens Park.The familiar old Welcome to Comic-Con International banner is now on the San Diego Convention Center.The big TBS Snowpiercer building wrap on the Marriott Marquis should soon be completed.
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