SDCC’s Pop-Up Activations Bring Apes, Pizza, Pirates, and More

San Diego Comic-Con officially starts today, but io9 has already checked out immoderate of the activations popping up to entertain fans. We visited Paramount+’s Lodge, Adult Swim’s “Pirate Parrrty,” and “Enter the Forbidden Zone: The Planet of the Apes Experience.” Here’s conscionable immoderate of what we spotted!

First up, you tin spot a mates of glimpses of Paramount+’s Lodge, a skis lodge riff stuffed with stations themed astir antithetic Paramount projects, including a customized Star Trek t-shirt basal and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pizza parlor. (It was besides jammed with fans; this is simply a fashionable one!) It’s located astatine Happy Does, 340 Fifth Ave successful San Diego; if reservations are disposable you tin snag them here.

Then, the Adult Swim “Pirate Parrrty” is an outdoor attraction (look for it connected the greenish abstraction down the normal center, connected Fifth Avenue Landing and Convention Way—you can’t miss it) filled with games (alas, the Mr. Nimbus Dunk Tank was not yet up and running) and somewhat harrowing “rides” (the Rick and Morty Cthulhu Battle involves climbing a enactment ladder into a monster’s… mouth?).

There’s besides a large signifier that volition beryllium sharing first-look screenings and much passim the con; spell here to larn more.

And, finally, “Enter the Forbidden Zone: The Planet of the Apes Experience” is located wrong the San Diego Wine and Culinary Center (just crossed the thoroughfare from the normal center, astatine 200 W. Harbor Drive), and it’s got a scope of props, costumes, and different mementos from the long-running sci-fi series, including a fewer from the 1968 archetypal and its 1970 sequel, Beneath the Planet of the Apes.

The grounds leans much heavy connected the caller films, particularly this year’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, but Tim Burton’s 2001 introduction besides has a presence. At the property preview, we besides got to conscionable a Harris’s hawk, akin to those utilized to assistance make the CG birds of prey that look successful the 2024 movie.

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