San Diego Comedian-Con is again.
Between the Covid-19 pandemic and the writers and actors strikes final 12 months, Comedian-Con is in search of a return to glory in 2024, with a number of TV networks and streaming providers exhibiting as much as present activations for attendees. Although final 12 months’s Comedian-Con noticed some main manufacturers, comparable to Marvel, skip out on presenting panels, this 12 months is extra of a return to regular.
Among the many highlights, Paramount+ is bringing The Lodge again for attendees to expertise its content material and reveals, whereas Hulu is again with its cartoon universe. In the meantime, Max is recreating a seedy Gotham nightclub, full with grownup drinks. (Sorry to the members below the age of 21.)
Listed here are the TV-themed activations you must see for 2024, a lot of which can run by July 28:
The Lodge (Paramount+)
Paramount+ is bringing The Lodge, created in partnership with 15|40 Productions, again to San Diego Comedian-Con for a second 12 months. The interactive expertise is including much more activations based mostly on a few of Paramount’s standard franchises. As an example, friends can create a customized t-shirt on the Star Trek starship, get a tattoo on the Ink Grasp tattoo parlor, go “jelly spotting” in Bikini Backside, seize a drink at Tulsa King’s BRED2BUCK Saloon or cease by for a slice of pizza on the Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-themed pizza parlor.
It can happen at Gaslamp’s Glad Does from July 24 to July 27. This 12 months, guests will obtain a Lodge Ski Cross, which incorporates an unique supply for a 3-month Walmart+ subscription and different shock rewards.
SpongeBob SquarePants Takeover (Nickelodeon and Paramount+)
Together with The Lodge, Paramount+ and Nickelodeon could have a separate activation devoted solely to SpongeBob Squarepants in honor of the present’s twenty fifth anniversary. The immersive expertise will embody a larger-than-life tribute to the unique pilot episode in a 1,800-square-foot sales space, which can permit guests to be transported to replicas of SpongeBob’s pineapple home, The Krusty Krab and the Barg’ N-Mart through augmented actuality. Attendees who cease by the sales space may also take part in actions like job interview prep on the Krusty Krab, cooking burgers at a digital grill and creating customized t-shirts and flip-flops.
