{"id":14348,"date":"2013-11-12T02:54:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T10:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=14348"},"modified":"2013-11-12T02:54:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T10:54:54","slug":"toy-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/toy-time\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Holiday Toy Shows and Conventions in California &#8211; Shopping Is Fun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/toytime.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shopping doesn&#8217;t have to be a drag this holiday season&#8230;not when there are so many toy conventions, fairs and markets where people go to have fun while getting some shopping done. Here are a few fun shopping concepts where you can take the kids along!<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOLIDAY TOY SHOPPING EVENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ALAMEDA: Alameda Toy, Comics, Cards, Sports &amp; Collectible Outdoor Show at College of Alameda \u00a0November 23, 2013<\/li>\n<li>COSTA MESA: Repticon &#8211; A Reptile &amp; Exotic Animal Expo at OC Fairgrounds Nov 23-24, 2013<\/li>\n<li>FRESNO: SantaCon at Fresno Convention Center December 7, 2013<\/li>\n<li>INDUSTRY: Nuke the Fridge Con Toys Collectible Show Nov.16-17, 2013 (frankandsonshow.net). Toy shows most weekends.<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/long-beach-comic-horror-con.html\">ComicCon<\/a> at Long Beach Convention Center Nov. 23-24, 2013<\/li>\n<li>PASADENA: Robo Toy &amp; Brick Boutique at Pasadena Convention Center December 15, 2013<\/li>\n<li>POMONA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/dinosaurs-return-to-california\/\">Wonder of Dinosaurs<\/a>, Fairplex November 22 -December 1, 2013<\/li>\n<li>SACRAMENTO: Sac-Con Toy, Comic and Anime Show at Scottish Rite Center December 8, 2013 (sac-con.com)<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO: Christmas Collective\u00a0\u00a0Socially Conscientious Gifts\u00a0at San Diego Convention Center, December 8, 2013<\/li>\n<li>SAN JOSE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/california-doll-shows.html\">Crossroads Doll &amp; Teddy Bear Show<\/a>,\u00a0Santa Clara Fairground November 23, 2013<\/li>\n<li>SAN JOSE: Ski &amp; Board Festival at San Jose Convetion Center November 23-24, 2013<\/li>\n<li>SAN JOSE: Super Toy, Comic and Collectible Show at Santa Clara County Fairground December 7, 2013<\/li>\n<li>SANTA ROSA ToyCon Holiday Toy Show November 3o, 2013 at Veterans Memorial Building Nov. 30, 2013 (santarosatoycon.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shopping doesn&#8217;t have to be a drag this holiday season&#8230;not when there are so many toy conventions, fairs and markets where people go to have fun while getting some shopping done. Here are a few fun shopping concepts where you can take the kids along! HOLIDAY TOY SHOPPING EVENTS ALAMEDA: Alameda Toy, Comics, Cards, Sports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14348"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}