WonderCon Anaheim 2027

“Three days in Anaheim in March — panels, artist alley,…”

Everyone has a friend who has spent a decade losing the badge lottery down in San Diego. This is where you take them.

Same organization runs it, same programming instincts, and a floor you can actually cross without a strategy meeting. Sixty thousand people rather than six figures, which is the difference between a convention and an evacuation drill. Publisher booths, artist alley, preview screenings, exclusive merch, and the Saturday-night masquerade, which is the flagship — costumes built over months, walked in front of a crowd that knows exactly how hard the seams were.

Because the badges are gettable and the halls are navigable, it has quietly become the best first convention a person can have. Families bring kids. First-timers stop being first-timers. The panel access is still real.

Anaheim Convention Center, three days in March, badges on sale months ahead with the good tiers moving fast.

Take the person who has been saying next year about the other one for a decade. End the streak.