Pickles

A very cool video of our friendly neighbourhood Dr. Stevil interviewing one of our Boba's at this Toy Con!

It's tough for a shorter stormie to nail Vader with the bunny ears but I managed!

Epic! Than you very much guys!

This pic look soooo badass!

Neat! That is some kind of sci-fi con?

Adorable! Thanks for sharing! Tell us a little bit about the troop!

Non-stop with you! Fantastic!

Congrats on your first troop Jim!

Wow, what an amazing troop! Had a big smile plastered on my face the whole read! I can imagine how excited and giddy the crowd must have been to see you guys trooping along to a store and back - heck I was excited and giddy just from the pictures! Fantastic job guys

Awesome troop! You Fire Team 500 guys look like you have so much fun!

Hmmm.. video link isn't working.

Come have fun with us!

Very cool! You guys look fantastic

Fantastic Ingrid!

Fix is going nowhere at the moment. I've sent emails to both AM makers asking about replacement parts. Waiting to hear back from them. For now I'll have to stick to the white duct tape fix. I won't have much time in the next few weeks to work on it since work is so busy. =/

It was a great armor party despite the short lived troop Oh and that evil lawnmower...

Woo! Congrats Clamps!!

The same one that Dart/Rob M/and a few others have. I'll show you on Saturday. ----------- 4002FB Beige Double Earhook Headset Microphone: A professional headset microphone with low profile and high performance for any wireless belt pack transmitter with 1/8"(3.5mm) input or computer. FEATURES & SPEC: Professional vocal pickup condenser microphone Double earhook with 1/8"(3.5mm) connector and windscreen Polar Pattern : Omnidirectional Frequency : 50 Hz - 18,000 Hz Sensitivity : - 60 dB +/- 3dB Impedance : 1,500 Ohms +/- 30% (at 1 Khz) Color: Beige-color Operating Voltage : 1V - 10V DC

No Keith has not!

I really had to pull in a lot of will power to not post *that* pic. hehehehe

You knot it, Keith! Armor Party and Troop! Saturday is going to be awesome. Sadly, there are so many troops in October it is literally impossible to attend them all due to time and location! Geeze =/

And there's video!

I tried mounting the headset in the bucket with wires, which was terrible having the bucket tethered to me. Tried having the headset on and putting the bucket on after which gave me the same issue - the mic would move or come off completely. I got a new headset that holds tighter so you can put the bucket on without it moving. The issue now is there is more feedback than ever. I have the amp on the strap, hanging from my neck as low as it will go. I may try the wireless headset, this is getting frustrating! lol

An excellent blog from the trooper that organized the walk for us: http://www.deadrobot.com/2012/09/23/thank-you-thank-you-thank-you/ Thank you Thank you Thank you The day came and went without a hitch. I admit I was nervous, this being my first organized event (sort of, ish,) through the 501st and I didn’t want to besmirch their good name. I was fawning over Katherine, manager of the President’s Choice Cooking School at the Loblaws at Carlton and Church, thanking her every 2 seconds for the use of her room/office. Katherine was utterly awesome. She didn’t have to give up her office for our duffel bags, or stick around until 4pm on a Sunday to wait until we were back and changed, but she did. She, ladies and gentlemen, is a TROOPER. Why did I fawn? The YMCA over on Grovesnor, the 519 Community Centre and the support staff at the Toronto District School Board dismissed me with rude indifference when I approached them for loan of a change room for the day – in a couple cases, my emailed rejection responses sounded like the recipients had not bothered to read my initial emails. When Katherine so easily said yes, I was in a bit of shock at how nice she was. I will say that if I ever need use of any of the Y, the 519, or the TDSB, I will think twice. And you should all go enroll in a class at the PC Cooking School (they do Sushi!)!! In the end, it seems I had no worries at all, thanks largely to the seasoned troopers that had signed up for the event. These guys were on time, ready and entertaining, even after the LONG walk they had to endure in their outfits. I did hear one say that “it wasn’t every day he gets to walk up Yonge Street in full gear†so I think they had a good day! In the end, we raised over $2300 for ACT. And I thank all of you readers for putting up with my calls for money over the last month. I felt the day was a bit under-attended in comparison to previous years, but I think it was due to the short rain fall just before the walk. That or people just don’t care much anymore. Global TV was the only news outlet to put the walk on their main, 6pm news while CP24 and CityTV did mention the walk briefly on their mega-everything-gets-largely-ignored-OCD-news-channels. Also, the walk was in direct competition with the Bowel Cancer walk, somewhere else in the city. Still, the message got out there. I did have to explain to someone why Star Wars characters were at the event. “I’m sure someone out there infected with HIV liked Star Wars,†I said, in creepy past-tense. Today, I am sore. Like “old guy†kinda sore. I’m not 21 anymore. Again, to all who helped, my heartfelt thanks. (TD-6595)

I was unable to attend this one but our Garrison had a great showing in support of the AIDS walk and they raised $2,254 for the cause!