{"id":24976,"date":"2018-03-03T15:45:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T23:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24976"},"modified":"2018-03-03T15:45:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T23:45:35","slug":"fandom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/fandom\/","title":{"rendered":"Fandom Blossomed in California, Now $4 Billion Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/steampunk.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/perris-festival.html\">Iron Horse Family Steampunk Carnivale<\/a> at Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris (pictured) to Ani-Me Con at Big Fresno Fairgrounds, the weekend of March 17-18, 2018 offers great entertainment for fantasy fans.<\/p>\n<p>Fandom was just a baby in 1970 when the San Diego Comic Con launched with around 300 attendees. Now the event sells out each year, exceeding 135,000 fans and more than 725 exhibitors.<\/p>\n<h2>Fandom is Big Biz<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Fandom is $4 billion driver to economy annually<\/li>\n<li>15 largest cons attract close to half a million people<\/li>\n<li>70% come to shop at cons<\/li>\n<li>Average shopper spends $100-500, not including tickets, lodging, food, and parking<\/li>\n<li>Nearly equal split between male &amp; female attendance<\/li>\n<li>63% who spend over $500 buy collectible comic items, toys, figurines, clothing, t-shirts<\/li>\n<li>65% of the respondents attend cons to meet new friends<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-anime-festivals.html\">California Anime and Con Calendar<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>FRESNO: Ani-Me Con March 17-18, 2018<\/li>\n<li>ANAHEIM: WonderCon March 23-25<\/li>\n<li>BURLINGAME: BABSCon March 30-April 1<\/li>\n<li>SAN JOSE: Silicon Valley Comic Con April 6-8<\/li>\n<li>RANCHO PALOS VERDES: Universe Multicultural Festival April 6-8<\/li>\n<li>PASADENA: Monsterpalooza April 13-15<\/li>\n<li>FREMONT: Internexus April 21<\/li>\n<li>ANTIOCH: Asahicon April 28<\/li>\n<li>WEST SACRAMENTO: Intergalactic Expo May 6<\/li>\n<li>SAN MATEO: BayCon May 25-28<\/li>\n<li>MONTEREY: Monterey Comic Con June 29-July 1<\/li>\n<li>LOS ANGELES:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/los-angeles-anime-expo.html\"> Los Angeles Anime Festival<\/a>\u00a0July 4-8<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO: San Diego Comic-Con International July 19-22<\/li>\n<li>SACRAMENTO: SacAnime August 31-September 2<\/li>\n<li>OAKLAND: Kraken Con September 28-30<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH: Long Beach Comic Con September 8-9<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Iron Horse Family Steampunk Carnivale at Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris (pictured) to Ani-Me Con at Big Fresno Fairgrounds, the weekend of March 17-18, 2018 offers great entertainment for fantasy fans. Fandom was just a baby in 1970 when the San Diego Comic Con launched with around 300 attendees. Now the event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/24976"}],"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=24976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24977,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24976\/revisions\/24977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}