The golden garb of Terran Empire royalty. All hail the Emperor, Philippa Georgiou Augustus Iaponius Centarius.
Uniforms, props and weapons that appear in the Mirror Universe episodes of Star Trek: Discovery are being exhibited in the Gaslamp Quarter during 2018 San Diego Comic-Con! It’s free and the general public is welcome.
Last year’s Star Trek: Discovery exhibit was amazing, and this year there’s a cool new twist. The various uniforms and weapons that are on display are all from Star Trek’s dark Mirror Universe.
If you enjoy Star Trek or simply want to see some really fantastic, detailed props, check it out! You can also pose for a photo on Emperor Georgiou’s throne or visit an official Star Trek shop with collectible Comic-Con exclusives!
The Star Trek: Discovery Mirror Universe Exhibit at 2018 San Diego Comic-Con. Long Live the Empire.Emperor Georgiou’s Imperial Sword and Scabbard, Terran Empire Throwing Disc, Imperial Guard Truncheon.Michael Burnham’s Terran Empire Captain Uniform.Emperor Georgiou Undercover Attire.Paul Stamet’s Terran Empire Science Uniform and Keyla Detmer’s Terran Empire First Officer Uniform.Sylvia Tilly’s Terran Empire Captain Uniform.Ash Tyler’s Terran Empire Security Uniform.Uniforms of the Resistance are also on display.Terran Resistance Officer.Mirror Universe Sarek.Terran Empire Phaser Rifle, Terran Empire Hand Phaser, Terran Empire Daggers, Terran Empire Hand Agonizer.Captain Lorca Terran Armor and Jacket.Many fantastic uniforms, props and weapons are on display at the Star Trek: Discovery Mirror Universe Exhibit at 2018 San Diego Comic-Con.
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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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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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Dozens of amazing stop-motion puppets can be viewed inside LAIKA LIVE San Diego at 2018 Comic-Con!
Wow!
If you thought last year’s Laika Experience at Comic-Con was great, you’ll be absolutely stunned by LAIKA LIVE San Diego in 2018!
Not only are there lots of detailed puppets, models and scale movie sets, but during the tour visitors can meet and talk to an actual working armaturist and an animator! Anyone interested in how Laika produces their films can ask any sort of question, and the friendly guys explain everything–from how puppets, their armatures and costumes are created and manipulated, to how scenes are conceived and filmed.
Visitors to LAIKA LIVE San Diego also get a preview of the upcoming funny and heartwarming movie Missing Link.
If you can, visit this Comic-Con offsite before Comic-Con actually begins and the lines get really, really long.
Here are some photos. Read the captions for more info. I’m no expert, so I hope I’ve described things correctly.
There’s a lot more to see than what I cover here. Many detailed displays that visitors can view during the tour explain the complicated process of making a Laika movie!
Before beginning the tour, visitors can pose with various Laika characters, like Other Mother, for a photo.While we wait to begin the tour, we watch a video explaining various aspects of Laika’s animation and how their fantastic movies are produced.Visitors are encouraged to vote for this LEGO model of Coraline’s house by photographing a QR code. Given enough votes, LEGO will produce the kit!A board contains Laika fan art and letters.Examples of one letter and some fan art.Visitors to LAIKA LIVE San Diego get character fans as free swag.The tour has begun. Here we see a large model of Coraline’s Other World House Exterior, or Pink Palace. The 1/16 scale miniature was used to film several exterior scenes.A closer look, with models of Coraline characters on the porch.A friendly LAIKA armaturist describes how puppets are made, manipulated and repaired at his workstation, dubbed the Puppet Hospital. He answered every sort of question!Two of the puppets, I believe from ParaNorman.A look at the Puppet Hospital and some of the tools used to make, modify and repair Laika’s many puppets.Once a puppet’s physical posture is slightly altered, the turn of a key tightens up the armature for another camera shot.Next we see how this Laika animator captures images of Kubo on a small set of his village using a camera on a running rig.One camera shot is analyzed.Software allows many frames to be merged and edited into a completed film.Some puppets have many faces that can be attached, each with a slightly different expression.The tour continues to a large set that is being used to film Laika’s upcoming funny movie Missing Link. The detail of the Pacific Northwest forest is extraordinary.The friendly LAIKA tour guide poses for a fun photo!Near the end of the tour, there is a life-size replica of Coraline’s Other World Living Room.A fantastic set and puppets used in the filming of The Boxtrolls.More cool sights during an amazing tour of LAIKA LIVE San Diego at 2018 Comic-Con!
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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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This morning I observed that DC Comics is beginning to set up an offsite for 2018 San Diego Comic-Con.
A big crane had begun lifting stuff up onto the terrace of the Hilton Gaslamp. Crates on a truck were marked Chaos Room, Swamp Thing and Chief’s Lab.
I was told by one guy working on the project that the offsite would include a Batmobile! Perhaps that explains the heavy duty crane. It appears this DC Universe project is being built by Giant Spoon.
I’ve also included a quick photo of the WB superheroes Rabbitville sculpture which is just inside the lobby of the Hilton Gaslamp.
As I see more, I’ll post updates here!
UPDATE!
Late today–Tuesday–I walked around the DC Comics offsite again. Looking high and low, I didn’t locate the Batmobile, but I did see a big DC Comics building wrap being placed on the exterior of the Hilton Gaslamp. The graphic includes lots of cool comic book covers, featuring a variety of different DC Universe characters!
The beginnings of a DC Comics building wrap on the Hilton San Diego Gaslamp Quarter, site of their 2018 Comic-Con offsite!
UPDATE! SPOILERS!
I saw it early Wednesday morning! The Batmobile has arrived for the DC Universe offsite at the Hilton Gaslamp! It’s the one from Batman Returns!
I’ve also learned Penguin’s big duck vehicle from that same movie will also be present!
Batmobile from Batman Returns arrives in San Diego for the DC Universe offsite during 2018 Comic-Con!
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A huge helicopter now stands high above the street on a steel structure for the Jack Ryan Experience at 2018 San Diego Comic-Con!
Check it out! More cool stuff is appearing around downtown for 2018 Comic-Con!
The Jack Ryan Experience has been under construction for a few days now, and that helicopter I spied in the parking lot is now way up in the air on a huge steel structure. It appears the zip line will descend from the helicopter across a backdrop depicting a rugged Middle Eastern landscape!
I also spotted three gigantic banners hung from the parking structure of the Hilton San Diego Bayfront. They advertise two upcoming video games: Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Kingdom Hearts III.
Ten days to go until Comic-Con officially opens!
The Jack Ryan Experience graphic backdrop appears complete. Lots of crates in the parking lot indicate there’s much more set to up before this Comic-Con offsite is ready.A look at the gigantic Jack Ryan helicopter from across the street. A zip line will run from it along a Middle Eastern aerial landscape.The Hilton Bayfront parking structure has three huge banners hung as of today for 2018 San Diego Comic-Con.A prominent banner facing Petco Park and downtown promotes the upcoming video game Shadow of the Tomb Raider.Another banner on the Harbor Drive side of the parking structure also advertises the new Tomb Raider game.A huge banner facing the San Diego Convention Center features Disney characters and promotes Kingdom Hearts III which debuts early next year.
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