Going to Comic-Con 2024 in San Diego? Would you like to sink your teeth into Batman? Or Deadpool? Or Yoda? Or even Superman?
You’ll have that sweet opportunity should you walk down Fifth Avenue in front of the Pendry hotel’s Provisional restaurant! These superhero and pop culture donuts will be there and waiting for hungry fans during Comic-Con 2024!
I swung by the Donut Bar in downtown San Diego this morning and saw my smiling friends who work there. They already have some demo Comic-Con donuts, which they held up for me to photograph! Freshly made donuts like these will be available at their pop-up in the Gaslamp Quarter.
Super yum!
I’m not sure sinking my teeth into R2-D2 would gain the approval of my dentist. Too bad!
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It’s less than a week to go before the start of Comic-Con 2024. Preparations for the big international event in downtown San Diego have accelerated into high gear!
If you’ve been following this blog, you’ve seen a number of trolley and building wraps that are already finished or in the process of being applied. Today, however, completely new building wraps are appearing by the waterfront, and “offsite” activations have begun construction!
I walked around East Village early this morning and the Gaslamp Quarter late this afternoon. I’ve captured a number of photographs that provide a taste of the exciting pre-Comic-Con action in downtown San Diego!
Peacock’s Those About to Die Chariot Racing offsite is under construction in Gaslamp Square. It’s near the big new video board, which is showing an advertisement for the Roman gladiator series that premiered yesterday! (You can spy the growing wrap for FOX’s Animation Domination on the Omni hotel in the background.)Presumably chariots will be racing here!Here’s a relatively new trolley wrap design that I hadn’t seen until today. It promotes The Boys on Amazon Prime.The Hard Rock Hotel is being wrapped with SpongeBob graphics. I posted other photos recently.Is this Comic-Con? No, this is Patrick!Wrapping the Fifth Avenue side of the Hard Rock Hotel is now beginning in earnest.On the convention center side of the Hilton San Diego Gaslamp Quarter, a wrap goes up promoting Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe on AMC. I’ve photographed a couple of other related wraps on the hotel already–one of which you can glimpse here.I’ve spotted a couple of Comic-Con logos now on the San Diego Convention Center.On the Marriott Marquis, looks like a Star Trek wrap is going up. The thing on the left is an Esri User Conference wrap now being removed. That convention in San Diego is over.A huge wrap is also going up on the Hilton San Diego Bayfront. It will likely promote a show on FX.Advertisements posted along Fifth Avenue promote a special Comic-Con cruise!Walking Dead’s Daryl Dixon, The Book of Carol characters in the windows of the Pendry hotel.Graphic in the window of the Sonic the Hedgehog Speed Cafe pop-up. I plan to go there tomorrow!A simply painted Dungeons & Dragon 50th Anniversary expanded into this awesome mural a few days ago. It’s outside Super7.Some of the fun collectibles in BAIT in the Gaslamp Quarter. They’re going to have all sorts of activities during Comic-Con 2024!
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FOX has returned to San Diego Comic-Con in 2024 to assert their Animation Domination!
This afternoon I saw that a huge building wrap is now being applied to the Omni San Diego Hotel. Over the years, the tall building has been Fox Broadcasting Company’s canvas during Comic-Con, strategically overlooking Gaslamp Square and the San Diego Convention Center. Their past wraps have promoted their perpetually popular animated shows.
How long has The Simpsons been running now? Almost four decades? Is that possible?
Here are some photographs. I’ll take more photos as the wrap grows and post them as an update below.
What’s this? Alvin has arrived and is photobombing me!
He must be jealous of FOX’s Animation Domination.
Alvin! ALVIN! ALLVINNNNN!!!
UPDATE!
The next day (with no pesky Alvin)…
ANOTHER UPDATE!
And later…
ANOTHER UPDATE!
The next day…
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I’m not sure whether we should be comforted. Because Deadpool and Wolverine are now looking down on our ever lovin’ city!
Why are these Marvel superheroes in San Diego, and up on the exterior of the Hilton Gaslamp? They’re here for Comic-Con 2024! Yes, their movie will be premiering on the Friday of San Diego Comic-Con. The hype and anticipation has reached an unprecedented level of crazy!
The incomplete building wrap, which I photographed this afternoon, appears to involve Marvel Contest of Champions and promote Google Play.
Lots of cool building wraps are appearing all around the Gaslamp and San Diego Convention Center. If you’ve been following Cool San Diego Sights, you’ve see a few already! I know that more are on the way, so stay tuned!
I’ll take more photos of this cool wrap in a day or two when it’s completed, and I’ll post them below as an update!
UPDATE!
The next day…
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Check out these eerie promotional wraps for Comic-Con 2024! They’re now being applied to the exterior of the Hilton San Diego Gaslamp Quarter!
The building wraps advertise two spooky shows on AMC: Mayfair Witches and Interview With the Vampire. The Hilton Gaslamp is usually a venue for AMC offsite activations during San Diego Comic-Con.
I’m sure more wraps will be appearing on the Fifth Avenue and K Street sides of the building–those typically advertise shows on Amazon Prime. We shall see!
I’ll share more photos of these AMC wraps as they get closer to completion. I’ll post those pics in an update below!
UPDATE!
Next day…
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Today I spotted SpongeBob SquarePants checking into the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter! Perhaps I should say onto and not into, because he’s part of the super fun graphics now arriving on the exterior of the hotel!
Check out today’s photos of the Paramount+ promotional wraps that are now being applied. It’s the 25th anniversary of SpongeBob SquarePants as you can see on the smaller wrap, which faces Fifth Avenue.
I’ve learned the interior of the Hard Rock Hotel will also be decorated with a SpongeBob theme for Comic-Con 2024. I’ll take those photos when that happens!
I’ll also take photos of these exterior wraps as they progress, and I’ll post them below in an update.
UPDATE!
Next day…
ANOTHER UPDATE!
And the next day…
YET ANOTHER UPDATE!
Annnnd, the next day…
AND YET ANOTHER UPDATE!!!
How many days will this go on? SpongeBob–you’re wearing me out!
Enough! If you want to see the rest of this immense Hard Rock Hotel wrap, head down to the Gaslamp during Comic-Con 2024!
YIKES! I CAN’T STOP!
One more…
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Daryl Dixon has arrived in San Diego for Comic-Con 2024. I saw him this afternoon as I was walking up Fifth Avenue!
Two big building wraps promoting The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon were being applied to the Pendry Hotel for Comic-Con. I took these photographs!
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon’s second season will premiere on September 29, 2024 on AMC.
I hope Daryl didn’t look down and see me shuffling through the Gaslamp Quarter. Because I’m a walker. Bad pun.
You might recall that last year the Pendry Hotel also had eye-catching wraps promoting Daryl Dixon. You can see one photograph here. When these 2024 wraps “wrap up” I’ll post an update below with new photos.
By the way, I’ve learned the Pendry won’t have Comic-Con related donuts inside the hotel this year. The Donut Bar donut pop-up will be available outside, by the Fifth Avenue sidewalk, in front of the hotel’s Provisional restaurant. Word from my friends at San Diego’s world-famous Donut Bar is that Deadpool and Wolverine donuts should be available this year. Yum!
UPDATE!
By the following late afternoon, this progress had been made…
ANOTHER UPDATE!
Then, finally…
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Here we go! Comic-Con 2024 is a little over a week away, and gigantic building wraps and banners have begun to appear in downtown San Diego!
Late this afternoon I walked near the San Diego Convention Center and through the Gaslamp Quarter, and observed how many workers must have been very busy today!
First, I noticed the tall Park 12 high-rise near Petco Park has a humungous double building wrap promoting Nickelodeon’s Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which will be streaming on Paramount+ on August 9.
On the Harbor Drive side of the Hilton San Diego Bayfront hotel parking garage there’s now a big banner advertising the video game Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree.
On the San Diego Convention Center side of the same parking garage there’s an even bigger banner anticipating DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO. The video game is coming on October 11, 2024.
On the corner of the parking garage is this…
While walking near Gaslamp Square, I looked up at that new big video board and discovered a long advertisement for Those About to Die, a Roman gladiator series on Peacock that begins on July 18! NBCUniversal usually has their offsite here.
Look what’s going up on the Hard Rock Hotel! A wrap that celebrates SpongeBob’s 25th anniversary! SpongeBob Squarepants premiered on July 17, 1999.
Finally, I noticed a big mural at Happy Does on Fifth Avenue. It indicates that Paramount+ offsite The Lodge will be here!
Woohoo! Comic-Con 2024 is getting very close, so I’m taking Cool San Diego Sights into “Comic-Con mode” for the next couple weeks!
Don’t fret if you don’t care for this stuff, however. I’ve got San Diego photos that I’ll share after Comic-Con ends that many of you might like. Stay tuned!
UPDATE!
The following day (July 16) I took this photograph of the Hard Rock Hotel. I learned from a hotel employee that the interior will have a SpongeBob theme this year.
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Dungeons and Dragons mural painted outside Super7, days before San Diego Comic-Con 2024.
With about a week and a half to go until the start of Comic-Con 2024, more and more signs are appearing around San Diego that anticipate the epic international pop culture convention!
I took these photographs this morning during a walk in downtown San Diego–through the Gaslamp Quarter, East Village and Seaport Village.
The Chuck Jones Gallery will have a pop-up in Seaport Village during Comic-Con 2024.A sneaky peek through the window of the Chuck Jones Gallery pop-up in Seaport Village.One of several cool posters inside the Gaslamp Lumpia Factory in San Diego. Offsite events will be held here during Comic-Con 2024.Deadpool holds a Comic-Con Pronto card on the big outdoor MTS video board, across from the San Diego Convention Center.Ad outside American Comedy Co. promotes Doug Loves Movies Comic-Con Edition.Marvel superheroes in the window of CVS in the Gaslamp Quarter.Fifth Avenue in the Gaslamp will be filled with fans and cosplayers during Comic-Con.The Onyx Nightclub will have a load of fun waiting during Comic-Con weekend!
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Comic-Con 2024 is less than three weeks away. Around San Diego there are more and more signs that the epic international event is fast approaching!
It seems that dozens of San Diego trolleys are now wrapped for Comic-Con–you can spot them all over the city. The fifth, latest Comic-Con related design I photographed this morning. It’s from Jack in the Box, and features Deadpool & Wolverine and new Mini Chimi Bang Bangs!
A couple days ago I saw Scarlett Johansson in a graphic on the big new video screen in Gaslamp Square. The video board will probably be busy during Comic-Con promoting upcoming movies and other popular entertainment. As I’ve walked around, I haven’t seen any offsite construction . . . yet. But I did see a guy with a cool shirt!
The Fantastic Four street lamp banners have expanded beyond the Gaslamp Quarter and can now be seen throughout downtown San Diego. Marvel appears to be going all out promoting the highly anticipated movie!
As usual, clever shops along Fifth Avenue in the Gaslamp have displays in their windows that might appeal to pop culture fans.
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