Hawaii Pop Con

Hawaii Pop Con is Hawaii's biggest card show of the year — an annual pop-culture and trading card convention at the Neal S. Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, organized by the team behind Aloha Card Shop. It pairs a serious card-vendor floor — sports cards, Pokemon, and TCG — with the wider world of pop culture: comics, toys, and anime, all under one roof. The scale is what sets it apart: it pulls vendors flying in from all over the country, not just the islands, which makes it one of the rare chances for Hawaii collectors to hit a mainland-caliber show without leaving home. For card collectors it's the marquee buying-and-trading weekend of the year; for everyone else it's a full pop-culture day out — the kind of crossover event that pulls in people who don't normally do card shows and sends a few of them home hooked. Organizer @hawaiipopcon by Aloha Card Shop