6 Ways Comic-Con Is Disneyland for Adults (and Kids Too)

Everything’s beautiful, expensive, and you have to wait hours in line

We came back to Comic-Con this year and decided to give our coverage of it a bit of a twist, by focusing on other event aspects, and what are the results of being caught up outside and inside this amazing convention. We decided to compare it with a day at Disneyland, as it's basically the same physical and emotional wear. However, the reward is still great (at least for adult geeks).

[p]1.- HEAT

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Yes, Disneyland is open every season, but they always have more visitors in the Summer, almost everybody is on vacation, and Anaheim has the perfect warm weather to enjoy all the water rides. San Diego is not the exception.

There are a lot of themed attractions (movies, series, TV, videogames) near San Diego Convention Center, most of them in hotels, and you have to be under the burning sun to visit them, just like Disneyland.

The line for Hall H is nothing more than feeling 30 Celsius degrees on your body almost the whole day.

[p]2.- You walk, and walk… and walk

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Just as in the happiest place on Earth, you walk till you break among waves of people, at least in Disneyland you have places to sit, but here there are none, only the food courts inside Exhibit Hall full with people in costumes.

The halls of the San Diego Convention Center have lots of people sitting anywhere just to rest for a few seconds, this only before the building's staff tells them to get up because they're blocking the way.

[p]3.- Long lines for EVERYTHING. [/p]

If you want to see your favorite directors or celebrities in a press conference, you will have to fight (maybe for days) in the outdoors of SDCC just to get a wristband to enter the famous Hall H. Such a tedious and tiring experience (but worth it)

Also, if you want to enter to the Conan O’Brien show, you need to get in line since 6:00 a.m.. to get a ticket, and then come back until 5:00 p.m., when recordings start.

Inside the Exhibit Hall is the same story, like Disneyland, you can see recreations of scenes from movies, TV, video games, etc. and if you want to enter ONE of them ... (exactly), you have to wait in line, and that's A LOT of waiting. It is torture to wait that long to see something that lasts 20 seconds. Anyway, some of these recreations give you gifts, like T-shirts (you decide if it’s worth it).

[p]4.- All so beautiful, all so expensive

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If your mission is to get all the awesome stuff Comic- Con has for you, you better carry your whole life savings because nothing is cheap. You can find a lot of plastic figures in their boxes, or level up to very detailed merchandise.

You would not believe the huge variety of products, and every one of them can be yours. You just need to be ready to say goodbye to at least $300.00 dlls for just one action figure, plus, there is always merchandise that costs above a thousand bucks (like the Xenomorph head in the picture).

[p]5.- You can find celebrities

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Bumping into celebrities at Disneyland is almost impossible and, believe it or not, also in Comic-Con. It is true that famous people go to a lot of panels and some events, but seeing them walking around the halls like a normal person is very unlikely. In fact, I think you can get more lucky at Disney Parks.

On the other hand, right here at Comic- Con you can see a lot of artists constantly and from a pretty close angle, no matter if you don't get the chance of entering Hall H. Celebrities tend to go directly to the Exhibit Hall booth of the movie or series they're working on and sign autographs, making fans go more than crazy. The chaos rises and you can’t do anything about it.

[p]6.- An incredible experience

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Unless you get robbed, lose your phone or faint because of the heat, just as in Disneyland, all that walking, the sweat, all of it, is more than worth it. A once in a year experience that never feels the same and to which every lover of pop culture should go.

Even if you decide to cosplay, the character is what matters less, or how good is your costume, no one will judge you; if you want to be Wolverine you’ll be Wolverine, nobody will tell you otherwise.

May the force be with you.

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Translated by: cristina.mora@sandiegored.com

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