Wizard World LA & Long Beach: A Tale of Two Convention Centers

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Wizard World LA & Long Beach: A Tale of Two Convention Centers

September 30th, 2009 by Kelson. Posted in Comics and tagged for cons, LBCC, Los Angeles, WizardWorld

So, a few years back (2004?), Wizard World Los Angeles launched at the Long Beach Convention Center. People liked it. After a couple of years it moved to the Los Angeles Convention Center. Consensus is that it went downhill (I only saw it after the move, in 2007 and 2008), and in fact the 2009 convention was abruptly canceled just two months before its scheduled date.

A group decided to step in and fill the void by launching the Long Beach Comic Con. The first convention is this weekend…at the Long Beach Convention Center.

Tonight I drove past a billboard and found out what’s going on this weekend at the LA Convention Center, where Wizard World would have been:

“Adultcon.”

Given some of the opinions I’ve seen expressed about Wizard, I suspect there will be people wondering, “What’s the difference?”