Metrocon a Sight to Behold at Tampa Convention Center

Downtown is being overtaken this weekend by Jedi knights, Pokemon and comic book characters. The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, Santa Claus and the Mario Brothers are here, too. Metrocon, a three-day convention celebrating anime, movies and comic books, is back at the Tampa Convention Center. In its 11th year, Metrocon is the largest anime convention in Florida. […] “It’s a place where you can be nerdy without people looking down at you,” said Blackburn, 20, a student at New College of Florida in Sarasota. “Everyone is just so nice and you can meet people who like the same things that are weird and sort of hard to find.”