I’ve covered San Diego Comic-Con for many years. Cool San Diego Sights now includes hundreds of cosplay photos that were taken around the Convention Center and Gaslamp Quarter.
While we impatiently wait three months for 2019 Comic-Con, I thought I’d share 150 of my favorite photographs. These include some of the weirdest, funniest, most jaw-dropping examples of cosplay that my roving camera has happily recorded.
Enjoy!
Adora Belle Dearheart and Moist von LipwigAhmanet of The MummyAlice and Mad HatterAnt-Man and the WaspAquamanAquamanAquaman, Mera and cosplay friendsAssassin’s CreedAzog and a NazgûlAzrael BatmanBatman and BaneBatman looking grimBatman, Robin and evil supervillains ready for a pool partyBaymaxBlack Mage encircled by Supergirl and dancing friendsBlack Widow and Ant-ManBlack Widow, Captain America and smiling friendBombshell BatwomanBumblebee and barbarian friend boarding a trolley in San DiegoCableCaptain America strikes a poseCatwoman and Jane Doe of BlindspotCloud StrifeCobra CommanderConeheadsCyclopsCylon Centurion from Battlestar GalacticaDark Angel OliviaDarth MaulDarth Vader in cool sunglassesDaymanDeadpool takes many forms, including a hot dogDeathstroke and BatgirlDisco Darth VaderDoc BrownDragon Slayer OrnsteinDragon Ball ZElectroElemental Hero AvianFast food superheroesFerengi from Star TrekFire Archangel VelajuelFrog Glenn with Batman and two RobinsFrozoneGame of ThronesGame of ThronesGamoraGarden gnomesGhostbustersGokuGreen ArrowGuardians of the GalaxyGumby and PokeyGurren LagannHarley Quinn and DeathstrokeHarley QuinnHaru of The Cat ReturnsHawkman and HawkgirlHenchman 21Hermione Granger, Daredevil and American MaidHomestuckImmortan JoeJawa from Star WarsJay Garrick version of FlashJudge Dredd and Judge DeathKevin Flynn from TronKevin from UpKlingonsKrieg the PsychoKuato from Total RecallLady SifLEGO CyborgLiliana VessLittle MermaidLoki and ThorLokiLord HaterLovecraftian steampunk Cthulhu-like characterMad HattersMad Max duoMad Max trioMadame VastraMadder Red of BedlamMadoka MagicaMercy and Reaper of OverwatchMing the MercilessMOBA LegendsMouth of SauronMystery Science Theater 3000Nightmare Before ChristmasObi-Wan KenobiOpera Bugs BunnyOrange Vader and friendsPac-ManPepsimanPikachuPoison IvyPost-apocalyptic Super Mario Bros.Professor McGonagall and DumbledoreQuidditch players for the Montrose MagpiesR2-D2RiddlerRobinRocksteady and BebopSalsa PicanteSamurai JackSans from UndertaleSatsuki KiryuinScarecrowSharknado victimsShe-Hulk and RavenShe-Ra has arrived to save the day. Her friend looks like a messed-up Phoenix, but I’m not sure…Sheriff Deputy Rick GrimesSilkSilver SurferSilverwareSnow WhiteSociety For Creative AnachronismSome sort of astronautSora from Kingdom HeartsSpeed Racer and Mario charactersSpiderman and VenomSpiderman driving a pedicab outside San Diego Comic-ConSpockStar Trek BarbeeStar WarsStar-Lord and ThorSteampunk Ghostbuster with proton packSteampunk ladySteampunk version of BatmanSteven UniverseStormSuper ShredderTARDISThe Addams FamilyThe Venture Bros.The Witcher characterThorTransformer in the GaslampTweedledum and TweedledeeUndead zombie running amok inside the San Diego Convention CenterUnknownVenomWALL-E and Cruella de VilWarlock from DestinyWolverineWonder Woman and a Golden Age enemyWonder Woman and MaleficentWonder Woman and Superman
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Dan Plante of KUSI News gives the surfing hang loose sign!
I was heading to the Hazard Center trolley station after work when I noticed traffic had been diverted due to the flooding of Mission Center Road by the rain-swollen San Diego River.
I headed down to check things out . . . and here comes smiling KUSI News television reporter, Dan Plante.
Sharkzilla has taken another bite of a surfboard at The Experience during 2018 San Diego Comic-Con!
As you will see, I had quite an experience at The Experience late this morning. This free public attraction is one of many offsites found around downtown during 2018 San Diego Comic-Con.
The very moment you enter, prepare to be mesmerized…
Looking down at The Experience in Petco Park’s Lexus Premier Lot from the Harbor Drive pedestrian bridge.People stream into the fun, free to the public Comic-Con offsite.Near the entrance, buses from hotels around the city drop off a motley group of Comic-Con attendees.Shark fins bob past the big stage at The Experience.People relax and watch a demo video game up on a big screen.Shortly after I arrive, three lovely, sweet, irresistible ladies with Sacred Lies prepare to encircle me with their scarfs.I’m encircled! Hello! Sign me up for your cult, or whatever it is!I spotted Pac-Gentleman again, near Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. That seems a lot of marshmallow for a gentleman to waka-waka-waka gobble all at once.But I could probably digest a few free scoops of DC Super Hero Ice Cream!At the Cloak and Dagger activation, this nice lady seemed about ready to dazzle me with a sermon.People who line up at Ghostbusters World can have their photo taken next to the original ECTO-1 from the movies.Hopefully Hulk doesn’t become too angry when you get your group hug at the Marvel Avengers activation.The Impractical Jokers had a food truck serving Scoopski Potatoes.I believe people could get free samples of Shin Black Noodle Soup, but I didn’t check it out.Project Blue Book had a Top Secret tent. With my sketchy background, I don’t have clearance, so I averted my eyes.A huge cool sculpture at the Guild Wars 2 activation.Discovery Channel celebrates Shark Week with an enormous life-size mechanical Megalodon named Sharkzilla.I arrived in time for a Sharkzilla feeding. The huge hungry shark is going to chomp on a wooden pallet!Personally, I find pallets to be unpalatable.Maybe a surfboard tastes better.I remember having something like this done when I was a kid and got my braces.Some tasty bloody zombies that will be fed to Sharkzilla later in the day.
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I got some more photographs of fun, very creative cosplay outside of San Diego Comic-Con today!
Here they are! Enjoy!
Sora cosplay from Kingdom Hearts.A steampunk cosplay.Loki and Thor cosplay. That weapon looks like the one Thor used on Sakaar fighting Hulk.Cosplay of Demon Worker from Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell.Batman grins. I’m not sure about the cosplay next to him.The Avengers’ quinjet must be out of action. Here come Spiderman, Captain America and Black Widow on scooters!Cosplay of Haru from The Cat Returns.A disco Darth Vader with flashy clothes and an Afro.I was told this is Super Fan!Cosplay of Kevin from Up!Harley Quinn got off her scooter for a photo!Halo cosplay by a happy family at Comic-Con!Halo family poses with a Star Wars stormtrooper.I hope Bane realizes the Grim Reaper is nearby. I don’t believe the drug Venom makes him immortal.Here’s another Harley!Cosplay of Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish from Game of Thrones.Captain America and Wolverine cosplay.These might be garden gnomes, but I really don’t know. UPDATE! I learned they are, indeed, garden gnomes!Captain Jean-Luc Picard cosplay. Ready to take the photo? Make it so.It’s another Harley! I think this one is teasing me! I hope Joker doesn’t find out.Cosplay of Negan of The Walking Dead.I don’t recognize this cosplay. UPDATE! It finally occurred to me. It’s a Harry Potter Death Eater! I believe that’s the mask of Lucius Malfoy.Cosplays of Gamzee Makara and Nepeta Leijon from Homestuck.Umbrella Corporation cosplay from Resident Evil.Boba Fett cosplay.Yikes! Looks like these guys were caught in another Sharknado.Judge Dredd and Judge Death cosplay.
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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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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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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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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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