Jax: Collective Con (March 27-29, 2026)

March 27-29, 2026
Collective Con
at Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center
collectivecon.com

Billed as the “Northeast Florida’s largest pop culture convention”, Collective Con celebrated their 10-year anniversary in 2025. The comic book/pop culture convention is returning to the Prime F Osborn III Convention Center in Jacksonville on March 27 to March 29, 2026.

To be perfectly honest, I did not immediate recognize any names on the guest list. I am sure for many people that the $50 single day (Saturday) is worth it for them, but personally speaking, if I don’t know any of the guests – I would be hesitant to spend the money.

Of the few names I knew – one of them is the face of Ivanna Sakhno. I am not a Star Wars guy (I prefer the pre-Kelvin Timeline Star Trek) but I know she is the badass hottie villain. I wanted to get her action figure that Hasbro released a few years ago, but never found it in stores. The other two names I recognized were Alan Tudyk (thanks to Firefly and I think he is fulfilling an obligation that he cancelled his appearance last year) and Troy Baker (thanks to all the video game voice work he’s worked on). We saw Baker in person at the Twin Cities Con, Minneapolis (Nov 9, 2024): “At the Hero stage, we saw Troy Baker (famous for playing Joel in The Last of Us video game), and Star Wars writers Timothy Zahn and John Jackson Miller.”

Guests are scheduled to attend the entire convention unless otherwise noted.

Collective Con
Date: March 27-29, 2026
Website: www.collectivecon.com

Billed as the “Northeast Florida’s largest pop culture convention”, Collective Con celebrated their 10-year anniversary earlier this year. They are happy to return to Prime F Osborn III Convention Center in Jacksonville in March 2026.

Prices are about what you would expect with the size of the convention, costing about $30 per ticket, with the option for VIP for Fast Pass cutting in line option.

On their website, they’re already listing early Celebrities: Alan Tudyk, Roger Craig Smith, Matthew Wood, Pattricia Summersett, Kirk Thornton, and Fred Tatasciore. However, based on 2025 cancellations, including Nick Frost and Alan Tudyk, I would say you might want to wait to see solid confirmation.

The celebrities were never the big draw for me at these types of conventions, instead I’m probably more interested in comic book artists and maybe the giant gathering of costumes in one place.