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And at first I was really dominant, but then my son learned how to play it and I can't beat him anymore. When I play Smash Brothers, my kids will tell you, I'm always Bowser. He's the guy you fight at the end of the games. And first of all, Bowser is one of my favorite characters. RASCOE: OK, I want to talk about that because I've seen this Bowser Lego giant. And, yeah, you have a mix of people selling rare comic books and artwork but also a lot of booths promoting different brands - toy lines, you'll see a 15-foot-tall statue of Bowser made of Legos. THOMPSON: Yeah, there's this massive exhibitors hall. Like, is that the way it is at Comic-Con? area - the big part of it is being able to, like, buy all sorts of gear and comics and whatever you're into. And, I mean, the cons I've been to, which are locally around the D.C.
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So you have the mixture of the excitement and enthusiasm of sharing all these pop cultural joys mixed with the low-grade panic attack of being in large crowds full of people. These are the most crowds I've been in in the last 2 1/2 years. So you go into the exhibitors hall and you're wading through crowds of people. But they still, you know, wound up selling out. It was good to see most everybody wearing masks.


RASCOE: And how crowded was it this year? Mostly what they are is just incredibly excited fans of all different kinds of pop culture. THOMPSON: Exactly, and I think that's kind of what you see. RASCOE: Maybe T-shirts with characters on it 'cause I've been to some cons and I just wear, like, the Scooby Doo T-shirt. You know, you walk around and you say that everybody's there in costume - I mean, mostly it's just a bunch of enthusiastic people in T-shirts with. Does that make the Comic-Con convention feel different? But this year, there are mask and vaccine requirements. RASCOE: You know, just to start off, I want everyone to know that I've always wanted to go to Comic-Con, and it seems like it's Disney World for me. He's a host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour and joins us now. Stephen Thompson is at the event that ends today in San Diego. Along with proof of vaccination, masks were mandatory for all the superheroes and everybody else, as coronavirus cases rise across the country. And it wasn't just Spider-Man and Batman who wore masks - and you know everybody was in costumes because that's what everyone does there.

San Diego Comic-Con came back this past week with its first in-person convention since the pandemic began.
