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San Diego gets ready for TwitchCon 2024!

Thousands of video live streamers and fans will soon be converging on the San Diego Convention Center. San Diego is getting ready for TwitchCon 2024!

This year, TwitchCon will be bigger than ever, and evidence of its popularity has begun to pop up around downtown–in particular the Gaslamp Quarter.

TwitchCon 2024 will run this weekend from September 20 to September 22. The San Diego Convention Center is already decorated for the event, as you can see from these photos taken Tuesday afternoon.

The TwitchCon Block Party will be held in the Gaslamp Quarter near the convention center on Fifth Avenue this Saturday, September 21, beginning at 7:00 pm. Head on down for three hours of food vendors, live music options, themed photo ops, plenty of spots to chill with friends, and more.

A bunch of advertisements concerning TwitchCon have appeared up and down Fifth Avenue. Here are two “glitchy” ones…

And check this one out. Find five marbleverse marbles and get free loot!

Gamers! This is really cool.

Bards & Cards at 936 Fifth Avenue will be hosting a free event. On Saturday, September 21, from 11 am to 4 pm, you can meet Briana White, the voice of Aerith Gainsborough in Final Fantasy VII Remake! Get her autograph and photos!

Briana White is also a Twitch streamer. She’s known as TheStrangeRebel.

Finally, if you’re a fan of Sonic the Hedgehog, go check out the Sonic the Hedgehog Speed Café at 910 J Street, just north of Petco Park. They debuted before Comic-Con and will remain open to the public until early November.

Inside they’ve got fun graphics for photo-ops, all sorts of Sonic merch, and really great fast food. Tonight I took home one of their Knuckles chicken sandwiches and it was tasty good!

UPDATE!

Next day, street lamp banners were appearing in the Gaslamp…

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Photos of Sunday morning outside Comic-Con!

It’s the final day of Comic-Con 2024 in San Diego. As usual, I went for a morning walk with my camera in hand.

In the early morning few people were about. I imagine many fans were sleeping in after yesterday’s super exciting Hall H reveals by Marvel, the Crunchyroll concert at The Shell, and other late night San Diego Comic-Con parties.

By mid-morning a crowd was growing in the Gaslamp Quarter and outside the San Diego Convention Center. While two offsites had disappeared overnight (the Bathroom Battlestation and MrBeast Lab), lines for the activations behind the convention center near the bay (FX, Voodoo Ranger, Adult Swim, Hulu, Abbott Elementary, and Dragon Ball) were already long.

Sunday is a day when many local San Diegans come out to enjoy the free offsite activations. I saw lots of families with kids!

Walking down Fifth Avenue early Sunday morning I saw this!

Police bomb-sniffer dogs were getting underway. Thank you for keeping everyone safe!

A fun photo near the FX offsite early in the morning.

Banners remain for the two Crunchyroll concerts at The Shell.

Additional colorful One Piece graphics remain at the San Diego Symphony’s outside venue, The Shell.

No super long Hall H line winding through Embarcadero Marina Park South on Sunday.

A Comic-Con view on Sunday morning from Embarcadero Marina Park South.

The Dragon Ball line on Sunday morning was long. They give out good swag.

Back in the Gaslamp. Wolverine and Deadpool got their masks confused!

You can see how the crowd was growing during the course of Sunday morning.

Romans in togas greet fans passing the Those About to Die chariot racing offsite in Gaslamp Square. A line was growing here, too.

Setting up a sign by the SpongeBob squirting activation.

A hot dog with mustard and no ketchup. Promotion of Universal Basic Guys on FOX.

Shortly after ten o’clock the Petco Park Interactive Zone was already quite busy!

Once more I’m behind the San Diego Convention Center. Comic-Con International chalk art!

Pirates busy signing in visitors along the Adult Swim line.

Having fun on the big carnival swing ride at the A.V.A. FEST of Abbott Elementary.

LANFest, through gaming, raises money for charitable causes. See their website here. They have 18 chapters in 3 countries!

Stilt walkers greet fans to A.V.A. FEST during Comic-Con 2024.

Captain Hook cosplay near the FX offsite. Its line was very long by late morning!

Now I’m heading back over the Harbor Drive pedestrian bridge. Less cosplay on Sunday, but still some good ones!

Waiting a long time for a free slushy isn’t my cup of tea.

I’m afraid I missed the Dexter activation. I’m going to steer my feet toward home.

I have some cold water at home. Thanks anyway!

A decent crowd in the Gaslamp Quarter just before noon. It’s Sunday at Comic-Con 2024.

Powdered Toast Man cosplay from The Ren & Stimpy Show. Makes me wonder about lunch: What’s in my refrigerator?

I hope you enjoyed my photographic coverage of Comic-Con 2024. I think I’ll call it quits. My aging legs are tired!

It’s time to transition my blog back to its more normal self. I’ll be publishing a variety of posts concerning San Diego: unique events and festivals, museum exhibits, historic places, nature walks, street art–the usual Cool San Diego Sights stuff. I’m never entirely sure where I’ll walk next. Or what I might discover by sheer chance!

I do know I have photographs concerning Balboa Park coming up in the next couple days. So if you live in San Diego, or simply love the city, stay tuned!

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Another wild and crazy Saturday at Comic-Con!

Huge crowds–crowds so humungous and dense that a body can barely move! Sudden celebrity sightings! Amazing cosplay absolutely everywhere! Uninhibited creativity run amok! It must be another Saturday at San Diego Comic-Con!

Comic-Con 2024 has come roaring back after several difficult years due to COVID and a writers strike. This year it seems like nothing had happened at all. Practically everyone loves Comic-Con and San Diego is fortunate to host such a wildly popular and simply wonderful international event.

As someone who traveled to San Diego from out-of-state told me (after asking for directions to the convention center): this is nerd heaven!

Yes, I had to walk outside Comic-Con a couple times today, to experience the wild and crazy atmosphere. I took some photos of what I happened to run across, including one very famous actress out in the crowd!

Enjoy!

Wall to wall humanity behind the San Diego Convention Center.

Here comes Emilia Clarke off the IMDb Boat, leading actress in Game of Thrones!

Ranch dressing cosplay. You don’t see this every day.

Yes, if you don’t like crowds, this might not be for you!

Looks like the chef has emerged from Tacos El Gordo.

I can’t recognize about half the cosplays, sadly. Perhaps you can help me with this one.

A typical sight in the Gaslamp on the Saturday of Comic-Con.

Those MTS workers at the trolley station have a front row seat to the Comic-Con craziness!

Cosplay of Lucifer Morningstar from Hazbin Hotel.

Oh, nooo! A mutant-seeking Sentinel has arrived. All those Wolverines now in San Diego better watch their back!

Phew! Doctor Strange has sent the Sentinel away using powerful magic.

These crazed Psycho guys have been hanging around Comic-Con all week. Someone should send them back to the Borderlands.

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More cool cosplay at San Diego Comic-Con!

Ms. Pac-Man cosplay at San Diego Comic-Con.

Not only is San Diego Comic-Con back in full force for 2024, but the cosplay you can spot around downtown, the Gaslamp Quarter and convention center is plentiful, and frequently amazing!

Here are more cosplay pics taken outside during Comic-Con 2024. Simply walking around randomly is like journeying through a wonder world of fantasy and imagination…

Feast your eyes on another collection of cool cosplay photographs!

Static Shock and Captain Marvel cosplay.

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Costumes of Doctor Who and Star Trek at Comic-Con!

Costumes worn by actors in both the Doctor Who and Star Trek science fiction franchises are now being displayed in San Diego for Comic-Con 2024!

The free-to-the-public exhibition is titled Friendship is Universal. It’s located at two separate locations: 226 and 230 Fifth Avenue in the Gaslamp Quarter. The original television and movie costumes fill the latter address, and that’s where I took these photographs yesterday afternoon. (I’m afraid I accidentally missed two Star Trek costumes as I moved through the exhibit–Seven of Nine and Kathryn Janeway.)

If you’re in San Diego during San Diego Comic-Con this year, check it out! The offsite activation opens each day at 11 am. There is a photo op and merch to be had at the second address, just a few steps away. The lines for both locations tend to be small.

If you can’t see these costumes in person, please enjoy some cool photos!

Through fifteen Doctors and their companions and over a dozen brave captains and their crews, we’ve traveled on journeys spanning the cosmos…

Doctor Who costumes:

Left: Amy Pond, Vincent and the Doctor Costume. Right: Eleventh Doctor, Various.

Left: Yasmin Khan, Flux Costume. Right: Thirteenth Doctor, Various.

Left: Fourteenth Doctor, 60th Anniversary Costume. Right: Donna Noble, 60th Anniversary Costume.

Left: Ruby Sunday, Boom Costume. Right: Fifteenth Doctor, Boom Costume.

Star Trek costumes:

Left: Beckett Mariner, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Right: Brad Boimler, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

Left: Nyota Uhura, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Right: Hemmer, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

Left: Emperor Philippa Georgiou, Star Trek: Discovery. Right: Michael Burnham, Star Trek: Discovery.

Hat and pipe used by Data playing Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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A fun Friday stroll around Comic-Con!

If a traveler had arrived in San Diego today, not knowing our city is in the middle of Comic-Con, and if they were to walk anywhere downtown or near the San Diego Convention Center, they’d conclude people have gone completely nuts. And to a certain extent they’d be right! Nuts can be good!

Check out these photographs I took while strolling outside Comic-Con today. The crowds were enormous. Super creative cosplay was everywhere. Some silly, bizarre sights designed to attract attention certainly attracted my camera!

A throng of Deadpools riding unicorns? Marketing genius! Funny, too!

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Crazy creative fun outside Comic-Con 2024!

It might seem like chaos. It is certainly a bit crazy. It’s what happens when thousands of creative, fun-loving people gather together all at once and have a big party. That’s what it’s like in downtown San Diego outside the convention center during San Diego Comic-Con!

There is cosplay–costume play–everywhere you turn. There are new movies, television shows, video games and more to explore with fun activations. There are new discoveries around every corner. There’s just a big crush of humanity, and everyone is smiling and having a good time. Adults can be a kid again and not worry what others think. Kids can dream and see the possibilities of human creativity.

I took loads of photos today. I’ve got lots of blog posts coming up, so stay tuned! But first let me share a bunch of semi-random shots taken today (Thursday) that give you a taste of the wonderfulness of Comic-Con 2024.

I promised to mention the smiling group that’s in the the next photo. They were out and about promoting Quirkies, which offers all sorts of cool merch. Thank you for the refrigerator magnets!

If you see this Rick and Morty truck, walk up to the passenger window and you’ll probably get a cool pin!

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Thursday morning lines, cosplay at Comic-Con!

Star Wars cosplay at Comic-Con 2024 in San Diego.

Thursday morning, a couple hours before Comic-Con 2024 would open at the San Diego Convention Center, downtown was already buzzing with activity.

Fans were patiently waiting in lines for their favorite outdoor activation to open later in the morning. (One of the major offsite activations was just beginning to set up.) Plus, cosplay could be seen around the convention center, the Gaslamp Quarter, and elsewhere in the city!

Enjoy these photos from my Thursday morning walk outside Comic-Con…

An early Thursday morning line for Paramount+ offsite The Lodge.

The Star Trek and Dr. Who offsite Friendship is Universal still has work to do.

Unknown 9 Awakening statue appeared overnight, seemingly.

Unknown 9 Awakening video game graphics at Lou and Mickey’s.

Gobbling some breakfast near a vampire and a witch.

BoxLunch Collective setting up a canopy on MLK Promenade.

I hope the Bathroom Battlestation doesn’t roll away!

The Mr. Beast Labs toxic waste truck has finally arrived. I got a photo over the high fence.

Why aren’t these guys wearing hazmat suits?

Demon Slayer cosplay by the Hot Wheels truck!

Waiting in line to board the Voodoo Ranger. Kinda early for beer, isn’t it?

IMDb Boat decked out for San Diego Comic-Con 2024.

Star Wars cosplay on the Harbor Drive pedestrian bridge.

Lots of fans were arriving from the hotel buses.

Walking along near the Gotham Ice truck.

Fans heading toward the San Diego Convention Center on early Thursday morning for Comic-Con 2024.

Donut Bar pop culture treats outside the Provisional on Fifth Avenue.

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Pirates, cosplay, and San Diego Comic-Con fun!

The crazy good times at Comic-Con 2024 in San Diego have begun!

I took one final walk late this afternoon, a couple hours before the San Diego Convention Center would open its doors for Preview Night. And what did my camera capture?

Fun people! Creative activities! Cool sights in every conceivable direction!

And Comic-Con hasn’t even begun in earnest! I can’t wait for tomorrow!

Reporter for IGN prepares to go on camera in San Diego’s Gaslamp during Comic-Con 2024.

IT’SUGAR candy store in the Gaslamp has exclusive tokidoki merch for sale.

Crowds are growing in the Gaslamp near the San Diego Convention Center on the afternoon of Comic-Con Preview Night.

Batman nemesis Penguin has brought his Gotham Ice truck to San Diego. Uh, oh!

Banners on Harbor Drive indicate Heroes At Work.

Have a question about Comic-Con? Ask this friendly guy!

Do you dare enter the Adult Swim Pirate Parrrty offsite? You have to pass through this gigantic skull!

It’s a pirate parrrty! And one heck of a big nose ring!

These pirates seem awfully civilized. What are they *really* up to?

These guys can spell A.V.A. FEST. They get a passing grade.

Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed cosplay! Very cool!

Fans are already exploring the Dragon Ball offsite.

Here’s the end of the line for Dragon Ball exclusives, I believe.

Hot Wheels is back again with their cool truck!

However, the Sharpie truck is stuck in Harbor Drive traffic.

Looking for a restroom? Watch for this sign!

Part of the Bathroom Battlestation under construction. Looks like he needs a laxative.

Cool artwork by a local artist along MLK Promenade.

I’m now back to Fifth Avenue looking at the Omni Hotel’s big FOX Animation Domination building wrap.

My goodness! These Borderlands Psychos seem to be everywhere!

I’ve seen this caricature artist in Balboa Park.

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Fun photos of a walk on Preview Night day.

A fierce dragon mural was the first thing I spotted on my Wednesday afternoon walk in downtown San Diego. It’s the day of Comic-Con 2024 Preview Night, and the action was picking up outside the San Diego Convention Center as you’ll see in my upcoming photographs.

That toothy dragon, by the way, was being installed in front of the Super7 shop, where they have a special Dungeons & Dragons theme this year.

Okay! On with the photos! Read the captions…

More graphics and activity inside the Sonic the Hedgehog Speed Café on Wednesday! Tomorrow Sonic himself will be making an appearance!

Fandom PARTY banner now hanging at the Hard Rock Hotel.

SpongeBob wasn’t squirting passersby…yet!

A peek over the fence of the Petco Park Interactive Zone. That’s one big hand!

The Petco Park Interactive Zone is taking form.

Balls now fill the A.V.A. FEST ball pit!

Lots of people are carrying swag bags as they walk about.

Photo ops everywhere, including at the Dragon Ball offsite.

The Bathroom Battlestation is being set up. Hopefully people don’t sit inside playing games on their phone for long. Other people have to go, too!

Looking down MLK Promenade past the Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes offsite.

Star Wars rebel pilot and his super cool Star Cruiser poses for photos!

The Crow poses in Gaslamp Square with his own movie poster!

Moxxi’s Borderlands bar entrance has appeared at the Hard Rock Hotel.

A line has already formed for the Unknown Comics Pop Up Store.

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