Comic Con is a blast, but boy are some of the things they sell there expensive. Nonetheless, even if you don’t bring home an anime figure to plop on your bookshelf and forget about it, at least there’s a bunch of cool stuff to take pictures of on your phone. Here’s the top 100 things we saw at New York Comic Con this year!
- The same five One Piece and My Hero Academia figures at every single booth
- A bunch of foam sword replicas that are too small to actually look the like original
- One Kill la Kill replica sword that is perfectly sized and too similar to the original
- Absurdly high-priced $300 dollar Funko Pops
- Still fairly High-priced $40 dollar Funko Pops
- Reasonably-priced $10 dollar Funko Pops
- No explanation for what determines Funko Pop pricing
- Frank Miller…banner at artist’s alley because he is out to lunch
- The missed opportunity to ask Frank Miller what the fuck was Holy Terror
- Merch that crosses the Golden Girls with pretty much any franchise you could imagine
- The longest line for empanadas in human history
- One cosplayer who is too into being the Kingpin
- At least one celebrity who no one’s really sure why they’re there — this year’s were Ice T and Coco
- A grown man who is certain his 5 week old baby is pumped to be in a building with constant noise dressed as Baby Yoda
- Neon Genesis Evangelion merch
- Neon Genesis Evangelion merch that sexualizes teenage girls [before you start to argue about this one in the comments really think on what you’re about to defend]
- Mystery boxes
- People who are somehow cool with buying mystery boxes
- A cool figure that you can find online for $30 less
- Cosplayer struggling to eat, such as was Galactus shoving a hot dog down his mask
- One guy who was really bummed when we said we didn’t like his Kingpin cosplay
- That car from that show
- That car from that movie
- Women’s booty shorts that have little puns about cumming on them, i.e. “just call me Winter” and then the Game of Thrones logo
- Exactly zero people buying women’s booty shorts that have little puns about cumming on them
- An extremely intricately made furry cosplay
- A guy dressed as Spider-Man
- 50,000 other guys dressed as Spider-Man
- Danny Trejo insisting he’s allowed to cut in the food lines
- People in the least comfortable clothing you’ve ever seen somehow not sweating even a little bit
- A rapidly aging Sgt. Slaughter
- People taking a good hard look at a Power Rangers toy before they buy it
- Rob Liefeld autographing people’s cargo pockets
- Horrifyingly accurate Darkwing Duck cosplay that haunts you at night
- NFTs
- Oh god, even more NFTs
- Multiple people claiming to be the official voice of Goku and signing drawings for $100 a pop
- A real life Harley Quinn/Joker break up
- The reunited cast of Scream demanding you leave their private catering area
- Framed animation cels from ’90s cartoons that look really expensive and could absolutely not be something you could carry around for hours
- One asshole trying to walk in the opposite direction of everybody else on the main floor
- An extremely long line of people waiting to get into a panel where they just play an episode of a TV show that already came out last week on streaming
- A $35 slice of microwaved pizza
- C3P0 using a urinal
- Someone whose cosplay, for some reason, involves blasting music out of a speaker
- An enormous display for an upcoming movie that you have never heard of and will never hear of again
- People waiting 30 minutes in line to take a photo in front of a piece of cardboard
- Vin Diesel cospl—oh wait, nevermind that’s just a bald guy
- A poster where Deadpool sits on the Iron Throne
- A poster where Batman sits on the Iron Throne
- A poster where John Wick sits on the Iron Throne
- No cool A Song of Ice and Fire posters
- The Predator. Not a costume, not a trailer, but the actual Predator
- A sexual predator signing autographs for some cartoon character he voiced
- Disgusting Marvel executives giving people first glimpses in the alley outside
- Pornographic anime body pillows
- Wholesome anime body pillows
- A very short line for the more disgusting looking food truck
- Ah wait, nevermind, the line is just wrapped around the building there
- Ultra rare, one-of-a-kind, one-sided die
- A man trying to figure out the logistics of getting the life sized Elvira sculpture he just bought home on the train
- Multiple drawings of your favorite characters shitting on a toilet for some reason
- A disturbingly accurately flesh statue of Stan Lee
- Promotional cosplay of a guy dressed as superhero whose head is a shaving razor
- A disgruntled weeb who remembers when these cons USED to sell real swords
- Least funny person alive dressed as Deadpool
- Second least funny person alive dressed as Rick Sanchez
- Third least funny person alive: Seth McFarlane doing a panel
- Darth Vader arriving in a Honda Civic
- A disgraced Joe Camel trying to make a few bucks signing autographs
- Cosplayers dramatically posing and looking cool right next to a food truck for just mac n’ cheese
- Scores of professional cosplayers waiting to be interviewed about where they bought their foam
- Elvis Presley (pretty sure it was really him)
- Gundam figurines that are more expensive because you have to make them yourself
- Businessman who wrote a fantasy novel
- Apparently an extremely famous comic book artist who you have never heard of, surrounded by a crowd of excited fans
- Bojack Horseman cosplayer holding horse mask in hands because it has no eye holes
- Respected thespian feigning interest in nerd shit he’s roped up in
- People selling passes for more than the cost of the normal passes even though the passes are not sold out
- Guy who spent hundreds of dollars to go to Comic Con just to see a new movie trailer that IGN will post an hour later
- Extremely tempting stack of d20s
- YouTube prankster trying to get cosplayers to say stupid shit on camera
- Dan Harmon
- Oh wait, actually that’s Dan Harmon over there
- Those nuts they sell in Central Park that no one would ever buy, but now they’re lookin pretty good cause you’re so damn hungry
- An enormous area where you can play Smash Bros or Halo: Infinite even though you can literally do that at home whenever you want
- Someone filming a documentary where they try to run for president as a gamer
- The sobering realization that all the cool panels were on the days you couldn’t go
- Someone saying “this is the last year we’re going to this shit” who you definitely saw say that last year
- The guy that played the dog in Air Bud
- A makeshift village composed entirely of novelty t-shirts
- That one guy from high school you really didn’t care for but suddenly think is neat because “what’re the odds we run into him here, right?”
- Surprising amount of high stakes pickup dice games
- Cosplayers waiting for twenty minutes of foot traffic to pass because someone wants a photo
- Not really being sure what Svengoolie is
- Finding out that a relative you don’t like went to the con specifically for Svengoolie
- A man instantly regretting the amount he spent on a rare Eragon poster
- Fury Road cosplayers huffing spray paint in parking lot
- An energy sword that does not resemble energy at all
- Curmudgeon listing things he doesn’t like about Comic Con despite attending every single year
