Annual Lexington comic con re-schedules again due to COVID-19 pandemic
The Lexington Comic and Toy Convention remains down, but not out.
Con organizer Jarrod Greer announced Monday that the annual convention at Central Bank Center has been re-scheduled again. The new dates are June 18-21, a month out from the original re-scheduled dates in May and nearly three months away from its original dates the last week of March.
In a Facebook post, Greer wrote that organizers were becoming concerned that the May dates were “too pre-mature.” The convention dates were moved as a result of efforts to combat the spread of COVID-19, and were announced soon after Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton encouraged the postponement of all public events in the city, an order that remains in place.
“To maintain 100% transparency with you, none of us know what June will look like either,” Greer wrote in the Facebook post. “We all know that we want to throw this thing for you as soon as we are allowed and that it is responsible to do so but your health and safety are much more important to us than what the eventual timeline looks like. If we need to, we may have to further edit the plan to best play the hand we are dealt.”
In addition to the new date, LexCon announced that $10 of every ticket sold during April will be donated to the KY Covid-19 Fund. All tickets that have been sold and will be sold are valid for this year’s convention — regardless of the date it’s held — or for next year’s show, in the event that visitors aren’t able to travel to this year’s show or if a show isn’t held this year.
LCTC began in 2012 and drew upwards of 33,000 people before updates to the downtown arena’s exhibition space began last year. Those renovations will ultimately cost about $275 million and aren’t expected to be completed until 2022.
