By the way if anyone is wondering why Marvel wasn't at the Anaheim show this year is that one of the reasons in D23 and the other was because the show remained in Anaheim. Axel Alonso, one of the main big wigs at Marvel, is a native San Franciscan and he was paramount in Marvel being at Wondercon in 2011 after more than 10 years being away. When he heard that the 2012 show was going to be in Anaheim he was PO'd so that's why Marvel had such a small booth and when the 2013 show was going to return to Anaheim he had a big say in Marvel not coming back.
It's pretty safe to say that until Wondercon returns to the Bay Area that you won't be seeing Marvel anytime soon.
If this is true, then good for him. Sounds like he wasn't about to be fooled twice. And unlike most of the fans in NorCal that have lost out, Alonso actually has clout.
Most people already know you shouldn't confuse WonderCon Anaheim with the original WonderCon or SDCC.
I don't agree with this. They had definitely advertised it as WonderCon (i.e. the "dates and location to be announced" tag on their website), not a new thing. This is a major reason why a lot of us weren't happy; I don't think that anyone is opposed to simply starting a new con in Anaheim but they were taking a convention that the Bay Area took 25 years to make, and moving it 400 miles away (to an area that already has the major one, no less.)
This is also why I really hadn't been a fan of the idea of ComicCon moving either. It's been SDCC for over 40 years, not LVCC or ACC. However -- now that 1) WonderCon Anaheim isn't going anywhere so SoCal still has a con, and 2) one of the main reasons Glanzer and everyone else cited as not using the West Wing of Moscone in 2012
which they were offered, or not looking at other sites in NorCal (i.e. San Jose in 2013...but even San Mateo or Sacramento should have been considered) is that it wasn't big enough--in my opinion they should be consistent and move ComicCon to somewhere that's also big enough...and move it back to San Diego once the expansion is completed.
However, everyone knows WonderCon Anaheim is a convention by Comic-Con International. That's the most important thing it can have. Association with the CCI brand.
Yes, this part I agree with. I don't mind them calling the new one "WonderCon Anaheim" because two things WonderCon are known for are 1) being the smaller sister convention of Comic-Con and 2) being the Bay Area's comic convention. Adding "Anaheim" to the name makes it clear that #2 doesn't apply, but #1 can still apply. So while I don't like it being called just "WonderCon," calling it "WonderCon Anaheim" sounds fine.
