Convention News

The main hotel sales for this year's Comic-Con International in San Diego open on Tuesday, April 5. "Early Bird" sales at outlying hotels opened some time ago but they now seem to be down to just one hotel that has rooms left. On Tuesday, most of the rooms in the main bloc will be snatched up in a matter of hours, if not minutes. Details are over here.

The same folks who do Comic-Con do WonderCon and they've announced that next year's WonderCon will be back in Anaheim and that the dates are March 31–April 2 at the Anaheim Convention Center. As you may recall, they held this year's at the Los Angeles Convention Center because Anaheim is in the midst of a massive expansion and construction project. They're adding 200,000 square feet of exhibit space and replacing the old parking structure with a newer, larger one.

The expansion plans can be previewed over on this website and if you go there, you may see indications that the expansion will not be completed in time for WonderCon's return. I am told that while everything may not be completed in time, enough will be to allow WonderCon to go forth with everything it requires.

This is good news as far as I'm concerned. Even though I could get to the L.A. Convention Center with an $11 Uber ride, I'd rather WonderCon be in Anaheim…even if it means a 37 mile drive through Disneyland traffic. If that seems illogical to you, you didn't make the 37 mile walk I had to make to get to some of my panels at the L.A. Convention Center. I thought at one point I was going to have to stop off and get my right knee replaced again.