BABSCon

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BABSCon
BABSCon logo.png
StatusDefunct
Genre My Little Pony fan convention
Venue Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport
Location(s) Burlingame, California
Country United States
Inaugurated18–20 April 2014
Most recent18–20 April 2025
Attendance2,084 in 2025 [1]
Website https://babscon.com/

BABSCon (short for Bay Area Brony Spectacular, a reference to the character Babs Seed from "One Bad Apple" [2] ) was an annual brony convention held in the San Francisco Bay Area, California organized for the fandom of the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, whose adult fans are commonly referred to as bronies. In 2019, BABSCon was the third-largest brony convention in the United States. [3]

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BABSCon operated from April 2014 until its cessation in April 2025. [4] [5]

Overview

John de Lancie, the voice actor for Discord, at a Q&A panel at BABSCon 2018 De Lancie BABScon 2018.jpg
John de Lancie, the voice actor for Discord, at a Q&A panel at BABSCon 2018

BABSCon is an annual convention primarily dedicated to fans of the animated television show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic , particularly the adult fans known as bronies . The convention was founded in 2013 [4] by Sonya Hipper and co-founded by Sophianna Ardinger. [6] The event features a rainbow-maned, yellow pony mascot named Golden Gates. [3]

BABSCon was the first brony convention in the San Francisco Bay Area [7] and was described by its founders as the "fandom version of Burning Man." [6] In 2019, the convention was the third-largest brony convention in the United States (after BronyCon and Everfree Northwest) and attracted approximately 2,000 attendees. [3]

In 2015, Samuel Miller presented his doctoral research on the brony fandom at a BABSCon panel and subsequently published it in The Journal of Men's Studies . [8]

The final BABSCon was held April 18–20, 2025 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport [5] and had 2,084 attendees. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 @BABSCon (April 21, 2025). "2,084 attendees. $35,708 for our charity, Frameline. Thank you for coming to our Slumber Party, and our final BABSCon event. Let's keep those memories alive 🥳🎉" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ↑ Connelly, Sherilyn (2017). Ponyville Confidential: The History and Culture of My Little Pony, 1981–2016. McFarland. p. 59. ISBN   9781476662091.
  3. 1 2 3 Bartlett, Amanda (2019-08-18). "Local bronies mourn the loss of BronyCon, the nation's largest 'My Little Pony' convention". SFGate . Retrieved 2025-07-31.
  4. 1 2 "BABSCon". BABSCon.
  5. 1 2 BABSCon 2025 (PDF). 2025.
  6. 1 2 Idelson, Karen (2017-10-05). "The Mane Event: My Little Pony: The Movie Gallops to Theaters". Animation Magazine . Retrieved 2025-07-31.
  7. ↑ Stewart, Kris (2014-11-20). "My Little Brony: Friendship is magic". The Pioneer. Retrieved 2025-07-31.
  8. ↑ Miller, Samuel (2018). "Rebooting Ponies and Men: Discordant Masculinity and the Brony Fandom". The Journal of Men's Studies . 26 (3): 328–345. doi:10.1177/1060826518773468.
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