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According to Emmett Abels, social and brand strategist for Stern Pinball, the world’s largest manufacturer of pinball machines, a good pinball city is one where people can easily find machines to play. “Having pinball that’s available to anyone who wants to play it. I think having many places like that in one city is probably…

Major League Soccer teamSan Diego FChas announced its first partnership withVIZ Mediafor a special Captain Tsubasacollaboration during its 2026 Baja Cup match against Club Tijuana on September 16, 2026. 

According to media reports, the City of San Diego issued a $160,000 fine to Marvel Studios’ ad agency, Elevue Outdoor, for covering the City’s Gaslamp Quarter sign with advertising for Avengers Doomsday.  Apparently, Elevue posted the advertising during Comic-Con, even though the City had previously had told the company that doing so was prohibited.

A viral marketing stunt at San Diego Comic-Con turned heads and ruffled feathers when Marvel Studios transformed the city’s iconic Gaslamp Quarter arch into a massive promotion for Avengers: Doomsday.

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I know it’s way too late to be writing about SDCC ‘26 but just in case some wide-eyed child someday asks “Dad, what was San Diego Comic-Con 2026 like?” here are a few thoughts. 

It’s objectively a huge, overwhelming room full of sweaty people lined up for brand activations, bad hot dogs and throwing money at overpriced toys with some comic book artists unceremoniously shoved in a corner. A corporate shell of what it once was, a way for companies to fleece the largest niche.

Apple TV’s YouTube channel has shared the full panels for Matchbox The Movie, Widow’s Bay, Dark Matter, Mayday, and Silo, from its first-ever Hall H takeover at San Diego Comic-Con 2026. Watch them below.

Posted in: Comics, Conventions, Events, Image, Pop Culture, san diego comic con | Tagged: Energon Universe, gi joe, mask, rom, sdcc, transformers, Void rivals

At the Nickelodeon Funergy Factory, guests tried to trigger a digital slime waterfall.Photo: Courtesy of Gramercy Tech