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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
MomoCon breaks attendance record, donates $12,500 to Johnson STEM Activity Center
After breaking their attendance record for the 2025 convention, MomoCon says it'll expand in 2026. Now that the con 'is a wrap,' officials said final guest totals reached 59,222 attendees for the Memorial Day weekend in Atlanta. Each year the convention picks a charity to help and announced that it was donating $12,500 to the Johnson STEM Activity Center in Atlanta. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] RELATED STORIES: Anime, gaming, comics, music, and more: Momocon 2025 happening in downtown Atlanta PHOTOS: Top costumes at Momocon Atlanta comic, gaming convention bringing in 10,000 'Mo' attendees than 2024 Going forward, MomoCon said it will continue to grow, now expected to use both Hall A and Hall B at the Georgia World Congress Center. The organization said its staff are already planning out next year's convention, including guests and activities. In addition to their charitable donation, MomoCon provided free tickets to 11 nonprofits, allowing them to "bring more than 900 kids in need to the cosplay, animation, gaming, and music convention" over the weekend. While the exact dollar amount hasn't been confirmed yet, the economic impact forecast for MomoCon was estimated to be $42.4 million, according to the Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau. [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Atlanta comic, gaming convention bringing in 10,000 ‘Mo' attendees than 2024
Atlanta comic and gaming convention MomoCon is continuing its growth trend with more than 10,000 extra attendees expected to hit the Downtown for Memorial Day Weekend. In 2024, MomoCon had about 50,000 people come through the city for costume contests, gaming tournaments, artist alleys and a variety of different celebrity guests. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] This year, MomoCon said it expects even more people, with an estimated 60,000 attendees coming to Atlanta. On top of the big turnout, MomoCon said it expects the event to have a $42.2 million impact on the metro Atlanta area over the weekend, or at least the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau does. TRENDING STORIES: DeKalb County Schools internet offline for 2nd day in a row Driver pleads guilty to hitting, killing 8-year-old at school bus stop Gwinnett Co. elementary school bus comes across ICE enforcement operation at mobile home park Officially, the multi-genre convention will ring in its 20th year starting Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Georgia World Congress Center, the Omni Hotel and the Hotel Signia Downtown. Two decades ago, MomoCon started as a 700-person event on Georgia Tech's campus. This year, some of the guests are metro Atlanta natives, including: Shadia Amin - A Colombian cartoonist from Atlanta (SCAD grad) currently working on graphic novels. Greg Burnham (Norcross) is a comic book writer who's created indie comic hits Tuskegee Heirs,The Search For Sadiqah, Little Rock Files and The Story of Solace. His most recent is called 'Bridges,' where four super-powered girls band together to save Oakland from a group of evil bio-terrorists. Brian Stelfreeze - Comic book artist and an original member of Atlanta's Gaijin Studios. Stelfreeze has worked with Marvel, DC and 12 Gauge comics on characters including Batman, The Black Panther, and Catwoman. For a full list of who and what will be at MomoCon this weekend, as well as an event schedule, head online here. [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
