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Comic-Con 2018: Check out the booths on the show floor

San Diego Comic-Con 2018 is in full swing. Here's a peek at the goings-on.

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San Diego Convention Center

From Wednesday to Sunday, more than 135,000 fans are flocking to the San Diego Convention Center for this year's Comic-Con. We'll keep updating this gallery with more booth photos as we take them.

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Going up the stairs

The iconic view as you head upstairs to enter the convention center.

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Thanos in Lego

The Lego booth is always fascinating because of the massive figures. This year the company is featuring an enormous Thanos, with an Infinity Gauntlet that lights up.

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The Lego Movie

With the next Lego Movie around the corner, the company decided to include one of the characters we'll meet next February.

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The fans' wall

Lego also has a wall that lets fans contribute.

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The Millennium Falcon cockpit

You can take a selfie in the cockpit of the most famous piece of junk in the galaxy.

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Mattel

The Mattel booth welcomes you with incredible Hot Wheels inspired by superheroes. 

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Pokemon

Lego's mesmerizing display for Pokemon fans.

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Jurassic World

Get your dino on.

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Andre the Giant

A life-size statue of Andre the Giant -- all 7 feet, 4 inches and 525 pounds of him.

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Aquaman

Insert "something's fishy" joke here. Or don't.

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Star Wars

That guy oughtta be more careful with that lightsaber.

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Inside the Star Wars booth

Wandering around in a galaxy far, far away.

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Sideshow Collectibles

Sideshow Collectibles is displaying all kinds of high-end movie statues. Here's a roundup of Marvel heroes from Avengers: Infinity War.

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A closer look

Figurine dreams.

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Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon is returning to Comic-Con with plans to appeal to kids of the '90s and current kids.

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Original Double Dare wheel

The original Double Dare hamster wheel will be on display for fans to take photos, but the Nickelodeon representative let us know that the wheel is not safe to run inside, pointing out that it truly is the one used in the 1990s.

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TMNT inspired

The TMNT version of Times Square makes up one of the sides of the Nickelodeon booth.

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10 foot Reptar

Rugrats in the house.

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Nickelodeon T-shirt station

Nickelodeon's booth will let fans make custom T-shirts outfitted with as many cartoon logos as they can fit onto the shirt, which prints out in 3 minutes.

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In action

Shirt's so good.

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Nickelodeon signings

Nickelodeon will be doing its signings against a backdrop of illustrations of several characters.

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Reptar

Nickelodeon was in the process of assembling a 10-foot Reptar during our visit but had this concept art to show in the meantime. Reptar will be celebrating the Rugrats revival announced this week. A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles area was also in the works during our visit.

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The Loud House

Nickelodeon's booth also features a re-creation of the living room from The Loud House, which will let fans pose characters from the show into their shots.

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The Loud House in action

Jus' chillin'.

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DC

It's a bird... It's a plane... Etc.

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The collectibles

No joke.

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The Incredible Funko Hulk

Don't make him angry, you wouldn't like him when he's angry. He'll take all of your money and buy up even more Funko figures than you've already bought at Comic-Con.

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Shazam

We got a first look at the costumes for Shazam.

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Marvel

During the press tour while the show was still under construction, we got to see the Marvel booth and this display celebrating the 10th anniversary of the launch of Iron Man. 

Here we see the first version of the suit, from the original movie.

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The Iron Man helmet

This display will change every day.

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Dark Horse

Dark Horse is representing both its comic books and its toy lines at Comic-Con. In particular, The Umbrella Academy, soon to be a Netflix series starring Ellen Page, is getting a big push.

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IDW's Batman game

IDW is showing off its board game based on Batman: The Animated Series.

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Hasbro

Alp, I need somebody. Alp, not just anybody... (Sorry.)

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The White Ranger

Spandex never looked so good.

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Bumblebee

Beep-beep, beep-beep, yeah!

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Transformers

The morph, the merrier.

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The Millennium Falcon

Take a seat and rest your weary Comic-Con feet while we take you gently into hyperspace.

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Weta Workshop

Collectibles company Weta Workshop.

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Live sculpting

A Weta worker spruces up a smile.

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ABC

Hey, it ain't CBS, but what the heck. (Disclosure: You knew this, but CNET is owned by CBS.)

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Konami

Dueling hairdos.

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Playing Yu-Gi-Oh!

A live match of the trading card game.

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Dance party!

A Deadpool version of the Chuck E. Cheese show.

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AMC

"Walking Dead" is not, we promise, a reference to the dazed and exhausted attendees.

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Roger gets attacked by a walker

CNET's Roger Cheng, about to get his brain eaten. It's been fun, Roger. Can we have the Clash of Clans figurine on your desk?

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The Walking Dead

His hygiene's not so great. Cool shirt though.

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Jurassic World

A fan bones up on the dino park.

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Viz

The Viz booth tries its best to lure attendees.

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Funimation

Dueling Hairdos, Part II.

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Warner Bros.

A pair of browsing attendees thinks, "WB or not WB? That is the question."

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Comic-Con Museum

Comic-Con Museum is on a mission to build a year-round way to represent San Diego Comic-Con. The museum hopes to come to Balboa Park in the next few years, giving Comic-Con fans a chance to get the experience whether or not the convention's in town.

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Netflix

Drink up! says the crew from Disenchantment, the new series from Simpson's creator Matt Groening (rhymes with "complaining").

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BBC

Who's there.

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Doctor Who

Jodie Whittaker plays the first female Doctor Who.

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Doctor Who

And here she is again.

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Piles of bags for the attendees

Swag bags.

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After registration

Checkin' in.

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Picking up badges

Step right up.

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Under construction

R2 takes a break.

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