Granite State Comic Con 2025 Saturday Gallery Part 2

After spending about three hours interviewing cosplayers, comic creators and others at Granite State Comicon 2025 Saturday, our extensive video team decided to take a lunch break and brought me back a pretty tasty burger and fries from JD’s Tavern, the pub located in the connector space between the Doubletree Hotel and the attached Center of New Hampshire event space. I was barely finished with lunch when Matt from the video team came running back into the Cosplace Room and asked if we were OK.

Turns out, a pipe in the overhead sprinkler system burst in the ceiling of the elevator bay in the connector section right next to the tavern, and stagnant, foul-smelling water started pouring onto the floor. The entire Center of New Hampshire, including all the panel rooms, convention office room and, most importantly, the entire Exhibit Hall with its vendors and celebrity tables was evacuated. Not sure where the flooding had reached, Matt rushed back to save the video equipment not currently being used and stored under our table.

As it turned out, the hotel space, and the Armory exhibit space (connected to the hotel on the other side from the Center of New Hampshire) wasn’t affected, and the first I heard of the water flooding was from Matt himself.

Since that elevator bay is right at the point where stairs go down to the lower levels of the attached parking garage, most of the water rushed down the stairs, and never reached the Center of New Hampshire. But the floor in that connector was soaked, and it was closed off for the rest of the day. It only took a couple of hours to get the vendors and celebrities back into the exhibit hall, and anyone going into that space had to leave the hotel lobby via the front doors and enter the Center through doors much closer to the exhibit hall, bypassing the connector entirely.

That was just the cap on what was a particularly challenging year for Granitecon. I was speaking to one of the owners of Double Midnight Comics — the store that launched the convention in 2003 — and he said that one of the other issues was a wave of guest cancellations. According to him, in the 22 years of the convention they’ve had only about four cancellations total. This year alone they had nine.

Many of you may think, “Gee, that pipe thing sounds familiar.” That would be because a similar thing happened at Katsucon this February. In that case though, the pipe burst right in the Artists Alley room and damaged the merchandise of a handful of vendors. Also, since the water was even more fetid than what poured out at Granitecon, social media reports quickly and incorrectly called it a burst sewage pipe, and it took a day to get that corrected over much of social media. However, you can still find Facebook and other posts stating it was sewage.

Huge kudos for the always professional and excellent staff and volunteers for handling this year’s problems with grace and patience.

Cosplayers in this gallery include disastrousgoosehobbies, touganloo, forgotten.planet.cos, ashe_does_cosplay, itsbethpierce, riddleyleenick, ashesdaphoenix, mrs.ditomaso, jditomaso.jd, nerdcredcosplay, rarew1z, natbat686, spwat_animations, kateharmonsiberine, peachie_medicine, kingofthecon, trailchaserofficial, _zephyrphotos, foxiimoxii, minkthesatyr, arma2236, meshae1602, homebrewed_cosplay, michaelhanlon12, vorpalbunnycosplay, ravens_devil08, queenofcoatscosplay, sisucosplayandcraft, genericcosplaygirl, and many more.

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