Collect-A-Con Los Angeles 2026

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Collect-A-Con Los Angeles 2026

Name: Collect-A-Con Los Angeles 2026
Start: 2026-08-01T10:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-08-02T18:00:00-07:00
Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015

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In 7 days · Sat, Aug 1 – Sun, Aug 2, 2026

Sat 10:00 AM PDT – Sun 6:00 PM PDT

Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015

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Somewhere in that hall is a holographic Charizard, and the only way to know if today is the day you find it is to walk the walls of long boxes yourself. With over 900 dealer tables across West Hall A, this is the trading card, anime, and pop culture floor experience that turns casual fans into lifelong collectors: Pokemon, Magic: The Gathering, One Piece, and sports cards alongside anime merchandise, Funko POPs, vintage toys, comics, and rare video games. Whether you're hunting that Charizard, completing a One Piece set, or just browsing walls of nostalgia, the day is built for the hunt - live box break events, trading sessions, celebrity guest appearances, and convention-only merchandise drops. The Los Angeles Convention Center West Hall A offers easy parking and sits centrally for collectors from across Southern California - LA, Orange County, the Inland Empire, and San Diego all have strong collector communities that converge here. Collect-A-Con Los Angeles 2026, August 1-2, doors at 10am both days. Two-day passes and general admission via Ticketmaster, with VIP early entry options. Come ready to trade, hunt, and discover.

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IchigoCon 2026 — Gaming + Anime Oxnard

Aug 15, 2026 Oxnard Performing Arts Center, 800…

Ventura County has spent years being the place you leave to find your people — an hour to San Diego, an hour to LA, a drive and a crowd on the other end. IchigoCon is the answer the community built for itself: proof that you don't need to be in a major metro to have a real fandom gathering, just people who care enough to make one. It's run by the nonprofit behind the Oxnard Performing Arts Center, which gives it a genuine arts-and-culture weight most hotel-hall cons never get — a single, packed day of gaming tournaments, anime screenings, voice-actor guests, a vendor hall, and a cosplay competition, all tightly run. For fans from Ventura, Santa Barbara, and the western Valley, this is the home con, the place local fandom actually forms instead of just briefly gathering in someone else's crowd. Oxnard Performing Arts Center, August 15 — a single-day pass, details and cosplay-contest registration at IchigoCon's page as the date nears. The show that deserves more attention than it gets, which is exactly the kind that grows.

ONE PIECE Fest 2026 — Los Angeles (COSM LA)

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ONE PIECE Fest 2026 — Los Angeles (COSM LA)

Aug 25 – Aug 26, 2026 COSM Los Angeles, Inglewood, CA

If you have been watching One Piece long enough to know what Elbaph means, this event was built for you. ONE PIECE Fest 2026 is the first official Toei Animation production of its kind in North America — two days inside COSM Los Angeles, an 87-foot LED dome in Inglewood that wraps the entire room in continuous animated One Piece visuals. Floor. Ceiling. Walls. All of it moving. The experience is themed around the Elbaph arc — the land of giants at the center of the current manga storyline — which means attending this in 2026 puts you inside the story as it is happening, not in a museum of what already ended. Attendees from the Tokyo edition describe it as the closest thing to actually stepping onto the Grand Line. That is not marketing copy. That is fans trying to explain something a photo cannot capture. The festival runs August 25–26, 2026 at COSM LA (777 Prairie Ave, Inglewood, CA 90301). Doors open at 10:00 AM each day. Day one is the high-demand session — exclusive merchandise goes fast, often before noon on the first day. Day two typically has more breathing room for the dome immersion and interactive installations. If you have access to both days, prioritize merch on the morning of day one and save the dome experience for day two when crowds thin. Capacity is approximately 7,000 across both days and access is lottery-based. Fan communities on Discord have been organizing group registrations since the announcement. The lottery is not a suggestion — register before it closes. After lottery notification, tickets move through Ticketmaster for official purchase. COSM LA is in Inglewood adjacent to SoFi Stadium. Transit: Metro K Line (Crenshaw/LAX line) to Inglewood Station, approximately a 10-minute walk. Parking: SoFi Stadium campus lots are the closest option. Arrive before doors — entry is timed and lines form early. Merch is exclusive to the event and does not ship. Cosplay is strongly encouraged. The crowd spans all ages and all factions of One Piece fandom. One Piece has been running for 27 years. The Elbaph arc is the payoff fans have waited a decade for. ONE PIECE Fest 2026 is where you experience that payoff inside a room engineered specifically for it. Events like this do not happen twice in the same city. This is the one. What to know before you go: tickets are sold in timed entry windows — selecting your session matters more than most events. The dome experience runs approximately 45-60 minutes and is designed for repeat entry across both days if you purchase a weekend pass. COSM is located in Inglewood near SoFi Stadium with parking available on-site and rideshare reliable from the Inglewood transit hub. The event runs August 25 through September 7, giving two full weeks of evening and weekend sessions. Plan around your preferred arc moments — the Elbaph-themed visual sequences hit differently when the dome runs at full darkness. The cultural moment: ONE PIECE Fest at COSM is not a convention and not a screening. It is the first time Toei Animation has built a complete immersive environment around an active manga storyline in the United States. If you have followed the Elbaph arc in real time, this event is a live entry in a story you are already inside. Tickets are sold in pairs at $109 per pair and are non-transferrable — the name on the order stays with the ticket. Sessions run 10am–2pm or 4pm–8pm; book the session that works for your crew before the other fills. If you discovered One Piece through the Netflix live-action adaptation, this is where you understand why 500 million people have followed Luffy across 25 years. Either way, the dome is the room where it becomes three-dimensional.

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San Diego Comic-Con 2026 — Sunday

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Four days of maximum input produce a loose, generous, overstimulated crowd that is genuinely fun to be inside - and Sunday is the day the cosplay hits full intensity because it is the last chance. This is the version of Comic-Con that keeps people coming back year after year, once the floor has been walked and the big Hall H panels have already fired. The Exhibit Hall has deals that did not exist Thursday - publishers moving stock, creators selling what is left of their limited prints. The announcements have already happened; what remains is the experience. The Convention Center floor in late July, harbor visible through the glass, fifty thousand people who flew in from everywhere - nothing replicates it. Badges at this level do not linger. If Sunday is your entry point into SDCC, take it - it is a real day. San Diego Convention Center, July 26th. From $50 for a badge on the final day.

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Padres vs. SF Giants

In 5 days · Jul 30 – Aug 3 From $20 Petco Park, 100 Park Blvd, San Die…

There is a Bay Area transplant living three doors down from you in San Diego, and when the Giants come to town he wears the colors to Petco without apology - the right-field bleachers take on a whole different character during this series. This is the oldest rivalry in the NL West, thirty-plus years of two California clubs fighting over the same playoff real estate, playing each other more than any out-of-division opponent. Late July at Petco is the stadium in full summer mode: weeknight sold-outs, the NL West standings close enough that three games directly move the pennant picture. The Giants travel with one of the most geographically concentrated and loyal away fan bases in baseball, which gives the whole series an edge a divisional midweek set usually lacks. This one matters. Show up for it. The San Francisco Giants visit Petco Park on July 30.

Metrocon 2026 — Florida Anime Convention, Tampa

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Metrocon 2026 — Florida Anime Convention, Tampa

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Florida's anime community has been meeting at Metrocon every summer since 2002. Three days at the Tampa Convention Center — the event that built anime fandom in this state. What it feels like: Metrocon runs hot on cosplay. Florida's anime community has produced some of the country's most technically impressive costume builds, and the convention center floor is a working gallery of that craft. The programming is community-forward — panels run by fans who actually know the material, not PR-approved talking points. The Artist Alley features Southeast creators who rarely appear at national conventions, making Metrocon a genuine discovery venue for independent anime art and merchandise. Worth it? Who it is for: Metrocon is for the Florida anime fan who has been told that the real conventions are all in California. They are not. Metrocon draws 20,000 attendees to Tampa every summer and has been doing so for over 20 years. It is also worth the flight for East Coast fans looking for a convention that combines quality programming with the natural draw of Tampa in late July — the city has invested heavily in its Riverwalk and Ybor City nightlife, making the convention weekend an actual trip. What to know before you go: Badge pickup moves quickly for pre-registered attendees. The Artist Alley opens a half-hour before the main floor — use this window if you want first access to independent vendors. The cosplay contest runs Saturday evening and draws the highest-production builds; arrive early for seating. Tampa in late July is genuinely hot — plan accordingly if you are wearing anything elaborate. The cultural moment: Metrocon has been running for over two decades, which means it has watched the anime fandom transform from a niche community to the mainstream cultural force it is today. It carries that history without being precious about it — the convention feels alive in a way that older events sometimes lose. Florida has an anime community that rivals California's at the neighborhood level. Metrocon is the annual proof.

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Otakon 2026 — Washington, DC

In 6 days · Jul 31 – Aug 2 Walter E. Washington Convention Ce…

It started as 300 fans in a Baltimore hotel in 1994, and it has been running the whole time since, without interruption - which is why the 30th anniversary in 2024, drawing 46,000 to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, felt less like a convention and more like a reunion. Otakon has a character that separates it from every other major anime convention. The DC location pulls a concentrated East Coast fan base - people who follow seasonal anime, collect physical media, and can place any character in their franchise context - and the programming reflects that, getting into the craft of animation, voice acting, and manga creation at a level that assumes real expertise from the room. The Friday night concert is the kind of thing attendees plan their whole weekend around, and the cosplay photography in the convention center's glass architecture, with DC landmarks nearby, produces an aesthetic that exists nowhere else on the circuit. This is a convention for anime fans who want more than a dealers hall and autograph lines - who want to understand how the work they love gets made, in a room with tens of thousands of people who love it as specifically as they do. The programming depth rewards multiple days; single-day is worthwhile for a specific guest or the concert, but the experience compounds over the full weekend. A few things worth knowing: Washington DC hotels near the convention center fill quickly after the con is announced, so book early or look at Metro-accessible neighborhoods like Shaw or Mount Vernon Triangle. The Walter E. Washington Convention Center is enormous - the map is essential - and it photographs extremely well, which matters when many attendees arrive in cosplay. Badge pickup lines move fastest early Friday morning. This year's theme is Swords and Sorcery, so programming skews toward fantasy-genre anime and epic storytelling, timed well with current momentum around Dungeon Meshi, Frieren, and Witch Hat Atelier. Otakon is operated by Otakorp Inc., a registered non-profit - 'By Fans, For Fans' is legally true, not marketing copy - and weekend badges run about 110 dollars with concerts included, where a convention like Anime Expo upcharges those separately. What Otakon really measures is longevity: a community that self-organized, refused to be dismissed as niche, and built institutions that outlasted the people who started them. That's what cultural endurance looks like from the inside. Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC. 2026.

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Otakon 2026

In 6 days · Jul 31 – Aug 2 Walter E. Washington Convention Ct…

Some of the people in this hall have not missed a summer since 1994 — since before the shows they came for were streaming, before anyone called it content, when a fan-run convention in a hotel was the only place the community existed in the flesh. Three decades later, the first-timer and the person who's been coming since the Clinton administration walk the same corridors, and that unbroken thread is the whole thing. It's one of the oldest fan-run cons in the country, and it still runs on devotion: cosplay built to museum detail, English-language premieres you can't see anywhere else, and evening concerts by Japanese musicians who play Otakon and nowhere else on the American tour. Twenty-five, thirty thousand people make the trip from every state — big enough to feel monumental, still small enough that the community recognizes its own face in the crowd. Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington DC — July 31 through August 2, 2026. Come for the premieres and the concerts; stay for the strange comfort of a room that has quietly kept itself together for thirty years.

Crunchyroll The Loop — Immersive Anime Pop-Up at Westfield Topanga

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Crunchyroll The Loop — Immersive Anime Pop-Up at Westfield Topanga

In 7 days · Aug 1 ✨ New Westfield Topanga, 6600 Topanga Ca…

You've watched the fight scenes on your phone in bed. You've paused on the frame where the animation budget clearly tripled. Now imagine walking into that frame — not a poster of it, not a gift shop version, but the room itself, rebuilt at full scale, waiting for you to stand where the character stood. Crunchyroll's The Loop is a free immersive pop-up experience at Westfield Topanga in Canoga Park, and it's built for the people who don't just watch anime — they live inside it. The current rotation features Solo Leveling, Sentenced to Be a Hero, and Bananya, each with its own themed room complete with photo opportunities, audio and visual installations, and replica props that exist specifically so you can hold them. General admission is free, with a standby line when the space reaches capacity. A fifteen-dollar limited-edition pin pack buys fast-pass access to skip the wait. The space rotates its featured series, so the rooms you visit this month won't be the same ones that open next. Follow @discovertheloop for schedule updates. Open now through late August 2026. Westfield Topanga, first floor near The Village food court, below the AMC. Canoga Park, CA.

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