Dragon Con 2021 Thursday Cosplay Gallery by Bentpic5

This is the first Dragon Con since the shut down. Wednesday is “Day Zero” for many attending the con but the crowd size was noticeably smaller for both Wednesday and Thursday nights than previous years. The numbers were still a great turn out but compared to several years in the past, this wasn’t even close to normal. If you ever been, you’d understand when I say you could see a lot of the Marriott carpet Thursday night. This year Dragon Con requires either a vaccination card or a negative test result in the past 72 hours. These rules were enough for many to tough it out while a good portion decided to wait until 2022. I am sure it will still be the same con vibe, just with a little less people. Here’s to another year of my photo coverage of the costumes and events.

Below is my first cosplay gallery of Dragon Con 2021, filled with photos from Thursday. There are even more galleries to come. Other days may be split into multiple galleries so be sure to check our site for updates.

Cosplayers in this gallery include Valkyrie Cosfit, Maeden Art, Brandon the Shapeshifter, and many more.

We now use Smugmug to present cosplay photo galleries and will post all photos there, with a link to each gallery in its own gallery article. This will allow us to give you higher resolution images to download — still for free.

To view the entire gallery, just click on the image below. If you are pictured in any of our galleries, feel free to download the images and use them non-commercially on social media, with appropriate credit.

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