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San Diego Comic-Con to Do a ‘Home’ Version This July

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San Diego Comic-Con could have been canceled this yr due to the COVID-19 pandemic, however organizers of the annual pop-culture bonanza are planning on holding a house model of the occasion to assist exhibitors who arrange store amongst hundreds of comedian e-book followers and cosplayers yearly.

The SDCC Twitter web page introduced “Comic-Con at Home” with a playful video launched this weekend promising “personalized snacks, free parking and no lines” amongst different lockdown-friendly perks. While particulars weren’t launched, the web occasion is more likely to be much like “WonderCon@Home,” a program arrange for SDCC’s sister occasion in Anaheim after it was canceled again in March.

See you this summer time! #ComicConAtHome pic.twitter.com/Sf5UbJkXtE

— San Diego Comic-Con (@Comic_Con) May 8, 2020

Held over videoconferencing and considered on SDCC’s web site and YouTube web page, “WonderCon@Home” provided free variations of the panels that might have taken place on the Anaheim Convention Center in April. SDCC additionally posted hyperlinks to web sites of exhibitors who had been going to attend the conference, together with comedian e-book publishers who had created convention-exclusive gadgets. It’s possible that SDCC will plan comparable choices for its flagship occasion.

San Diego Comic-Con is about to return with a dwell model on July 22, 2021.

19 Stars Who Went to Comic-Con in Disguise, From Ben Affleck to Lupita Nyong’o (Photos)

Since Comic-Con is a hotbed of superfans, stars like to enter stealth mode so as to expertise the enjoyable. See the celebrities who’ve walked in disguise on the annual fan fete in San Diego, California.
In 2011, Esquire journal author Chris Jones accompanied Justin Timberlake at Comic-Con dressed as beloved “Sesame Street” duo Bert and Ernie, respectively.

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While attending 2011’s Comic-Con to advertise “The Amazing Spider-Man,” Andrew Garfield pulled a double-fake by dressing as… Spider-Man.

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Former “Doctor Who” star Matt Smith placed on a Bart Simpson masks to stroll the ground on the 2013 occasion.

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Bryan Cranston shocked his co-stars at a “Breaking Bad” panel in 2013 with a creepily practical Walter White masks.

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Former Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe left his invisibility cloak at dwelling and donned a Spider-Man costume to attend the 2014 Comic-Con.
In 2014, “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson posted pics of himself on Facebook strolling by way of San Diego as an evil jester.

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Jack Black walked the ground of the 2014 occasion sporting a Stormtrooper masks however admitted that he did not idiot many individuals. “Everybody’s just like, ‘Jack Black, you in there?'” he informed MTV News. “And I’m like ‘No, it’s not me. I don’t know what you’re talking about.'”

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Samuel L. Jackson mysteriously tweeted this bemasked shot of himself together with his castmates from “Kingsman: The Secret Service” in 2014.

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Former “Hills” star Audrina Patridge went blue because the X-Men character Mystique on the 2014 conference.

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