First Trolley wraps for San Diego Comic-Con make debut

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — San Diego Com­ic-Con may still be a few weeks away, but the San Diego Met­ro­pol­i­tan Tran­sit Sys­tem is already revving up.

This week, the tran­sit sys­tem began pre­view­ing its Trol­ley wraps for the comics extrav­a­gan­za tak­ing place next month, start­ing with a pair of designs based on new Nin­ten­do Switch 2 games from the Mario fran­chise: “Don­key Kong Banan­za” and “Mario Kart World.”

The wrapped Trol­leys are already out tra­vers­ing the tracks, and more are on the way. By the time the con­ven­tion rolls around, upwards of 45 trains will be cir­cu­lat­ing in style with com­ic-themed wraps, accord­ing to MTS offi­cials.

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San Diego Com­ic-Con returns to the down­town Con­ven­tion Cen­ter from Thurs­day, July 24 to Sun­day, July 27 for its 55th year.

Badge sales have long since passed, but folks who were not able to get a hold of a tick­et will still be able to par­take in the excite­ment the con­ven­tion brings by enjoy­ing acti­va­tions and dec­o­ra­tions — like the Trol­ley and build­ing wraps — scat­tered through­out down­town.

As far as what fans who are head­ed to the con­ven­tion can expect, much has still yet to be revealed. Although some reports are begin­ning to emerge about what heavy-hit­ters may be present at this year’s con­ven­tion — and who is opt­ing out.

Among the big names that reports are indi­cat­ing may have a notice­ably pared-down pres­ence this year is Mar­vel Stu­dios

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As report­ed by the Hol­ly­wood Reporter, the giant of super­hero films is plan­ning to skip this year’s Com­ic-Con after mak­ing a splash­ing return to Hall H last year, when it announced its fifth Avengers install­ment, “Avengers: Dooms­day.”

Star­ring MCU icon Robert Downey Jr. in a new role, Doc­tor Doom, the film was ini­tial­ly slat­ed to hit the­aters in May 2026. That has since been pushed back to Decem­ber of that year, mean­ing there will be anoth­er Com­ic-Con before its release.

The pub­li­ca­tion also reports that DC Stu­dios, which will be enter­ing Com­ic-Con this year off the release of its “Super­man” reboot, is sim­i­lar­ly toy­ing with not host­ing a block­buster pan­el to break down its cin­e­mat­ic future, aside from pre­view­ing its upcom­ing sea­son of “Peace­mak­er.”

A full sched­ule of all pan­els and activ­i­ties host­ed for Com­ic-Con atten­dees will be made avail­able in the weeks lead­ing up to the con­ven­tion.