Thousands of fans of \u201cgeek culture\u201d descended upon the Orange County Convention Center over the weekend to celebrate their favorite fandom.<\/p>\n
\u25b6 LISTEN TO ORLANDO\u2019S MORNING NEWS EXPRESS PODCAST ON WDBO<\/a><\/p>\n Whether that was movies, video games, or comic books, Megacon had a little something for everyone.<\/p>\n One con-goer told WDBO reporter Laurel Lee that his favorite part of the big event is seeing all of his friends and taking in all the incredible costumes people work so hard on all year.<\/p>\n Megacon<\/a> is quickly becoming one of the largest fan conventions in North America and boasts many celebrity autograph and photo opportunities. <\/p>\n This year\u2019s list<\/a> was packed with big names like John Cena, Orlando Bloom, Brendan Fraiser, Elijah Wood, Alec Baldwin, William Shatner, Mr. T and many, many more.<\/p>\n Megacon Orlando has already announced the dates for next year\u2019s event: May 20-23rd, 2027<\/a>.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n \u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of fans of \u201cgeek culture\u201d descended upon the Orange County Convention Center over the weekend to celebrate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6029,6030,147,28,8018,27756,139,141,140,5597],"class_list":["post-203284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-580am","tag-am580","tag-central-florida","tag-florida","tag-megacon","tag-orange-county-convention-center","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-wdbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}