Bay Area Brony Spectacular
A My Little Pony Fan-run Convention
April 7 - April 9, 2023
Hyatt Regency SFO
Bay Area Brony Spectacular (aka BABSCon) is the San Francisco Bay Area's My Little Pony (MLP) fan convention. It was founded in 2013 and had its first event in April of 2014 with record-setting attendance. That first con was the largest ever for a first-year MLP convention and immediately made BABSCon one of the largest MLP cons in the world.
Every year we offer three (3) days of pony filled fun for families, Bronies, and fans of all ages inside the SFO Hyatt Regency in Burlingame, CA. BABSCon brings together actors, writers, artists, and staff from the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic cartoon & IDW comic series; as well as community podcasters, YouTubers, artists & writers. Talented musicians from around the fandom perform for our NEIGHhem concert; and MLP fans like you come to host panels, workshops & events, video & table top gaming and competitions, and so much more! In addition to all of the above, BABSCon has programming dedicated exclusively to the youngest attendees! BABSCon celebrates not only a wonderful world of pastel ponies but the friendship and community that inspires us all.
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Ready to combine nostalgia for G4 with love of G5 and onward? BABSCon 2023 has you covered with our final Guest of Honor. Back from a nearly 4-year absence from the con circuit, it’s writer, story editor, and show developer extraordinaire Gillian “GM” Berrow! Gillian got her MLP start writing the vast majority of G4’s chapter books before...Click to Read More.
Nostalgic for those earlier days of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic? How about we bring back an amazing writer from the first half of the series for you. To that end, BABSCon is thrilled to announce that we have the purveyor of Power Ponies herself, Charlotte Fullerton, joining us this year! Charlotte wrote some truly beloved episodes of...Click to Read More.
We don’t know about you, but we’re already feeling nostalgic for the hay-day (heh) of the G4 My Little Pony comics from IDW. And to feel that nostalgia, we’re bringing back one of the very best of that stable: Tony Fleecs! In addition to My Little Pony, though, Tony’s a prolific and critically-acclaimed writer whose work has sold hundreds...Click to Read More.
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Every year BABSCon invites Voice Actors, Directors, Artists, Writers and others from the staff of the Friendship is Magic cartoon and comic series!
Each year, BABSCon brings you three (3) packed days of panels, workshops, meet and greets, fan projects, and some stuff we can’t even begin to spoil!
Come see the Brony Fandom’s all around #horsefamous gather at BABSCon to show off their projects, teach, and party like they’re at a Pony Party!
Friday and Saturday nights will have the house full of bass-pumping sounds as some of the Brony Fandom’s best musicians rock out in our annual NEIGHhem Concert!
Golden Gates and company come to life and walk among us to uphold friendship, fend off Queen Quake, and continue to write the Legends of BABSCon!
So big it spans two (2) halls, our vendor area is a massive, carefully curated selection of the fandom's finest wares, art, plushies, clothing and more!
Without these generous individuals, BABSCon would not be what it is today!
Zarmogger Grimoire (Thomas Markes) , OneBrokePony , Taylor Bowe-Mcardle (KyleBusch51Fan2) , Limonene , Ferrous Equus (Peter Savoy) , IronCaptain19 , Toaste , @derp_code (Andy Ridgwell) , Mic Check (Nye Thurmond) , Trinary , Chris Chan Sonichu , Toaste , Chit Chat (Brighid Wise) , Blood Moon (Leah Schofield) , Hunter (Zac Wister) , Aquarist Adam (Adam Atlas) , LunaLover77 (Athena Miller) , Ithry Skylark (Joshua Van Laningham) , Ruston Davis , Rockon , Shouka , Red Card , Snow Frost , Colty (Brian Rivera) , Narrator007 , Midnight Violet (Kate Weinstein) , Ben , Fireking , moody mercury , Albrecht Salazar (Delfynx) , FableCharm (Andy Reyes) , Rasmus Tomsen , Starfury (Carson Buckley) , CommissarDerpy (Joshua Chavez) , Lady Foxtrot , Cotton , Peach Hack (Katharine Berry) , Midnight Aegis (Kyle Worthington) , ThehomieDouggie (Douglas Bernal) , Rainbow Scyzon (Manuel Bernal) , Spyro7heDragon (Mat Reynolds) , HypnoHooves , Jouva , Lightning Rider (Brian Lapira) , DerpyGaming456 (Estevan Padron) , night glider 97 , Jurassicdl3 (David Lewis) , Lemielan (Travis Gomez) , Genesis Raptus , Midnight Melody , RedX_100 , O'Hare-ah , Operetta Fermata (Lindsay Windel) , BronyOtakuHuntsman96 (Gordon King) , Allyson Taylor (IvoryMemory) , Andrey Overenko (DYX) , John Barron , Chip Unicorn (Brent Edwards) , Algalon , Swift Crescendo , DJ B-ray (Josh Bray) , Christopher Nihells (x3racer) , Rarapony , Middy , Matthew Riley (AshCat Pony) , Ivory , Ember Seed (Amy Russo) , Shadowrose2k , Kitty Kalika , Dusty Sprinkles , ScrimmyPone