BABSCon to end after the 2025 con

Video by Herbie Hopps

 

 Some big news out of California: BABSCon, one of the giants of the My Little Pony convention scene and a stalwart of the calendar for ten years now, is nearing the end of its run. The decision to end after the 2025 convention was made public on stage, as you can see in the video above. No reason was given, but there are some suggestions as to possible factors in the description text of that video: Covid fallout, attendance drops, financial worries.

Of course, running a convention is a massive amount of work. I hope I've made that clear over my decade and more of writing about cons on here and elsewhere. Please don't assume I don't think about such things, as that just isn't true. It may simply be that as well as the issues already mentioned above, too many of the staff are getting burned out and/or want to do something else with their lives. You can't really blame them if that's the case.

Whatever the reason(s), and regardless of the fact that I've never been to BabsCon and won't be doing so next year either, two points to end on. One, it absolutely will be sad to see such a long-running and popular event cease to exist other than in people's memories. Two, it absolutely will not be the end of the fandom or of Pony conventions, any more than it was when BronyCon ended five years ago now. I wish BabsCon well for a successful finale next year!