DinoCon 2026, a Giant Event at Hilton Birmingham Metropole

The enormous two-day event that was DinoCon 2026 – the second of our dinosaur-focused comic con-style meetings – is over, and wow. It went so well, the attendance being around twice that of our first event of last year. Caption: a DinoCon 2026 montage, showing our banner, a packed hall during a talk, and vendor stall (Jed Taylor’s) during set-up on Friday. Images: Darren Naish. DinoCon 2026 was held at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole over the weekend of July 25th and 26th and mostly occurred in two giant halls and an additional four or so smaller rooms, all located within a minute’s walk of each other. The venue did us well and the fact that many (albeit not all) attendees were staying on site meant that we had an excellent social atmosphere, people staying late in the hotel’s bars and restaurants. Remember that you are helping us run the event by being in, and spending money in, the hotel. As was the tradition with TetZooCon before it (which ran from 2014 to 2024), DinoCon (which I…