Daetrin[Admin] Posted May 25, 2007 Report Posted May 25, 2007 Thursday report: - Not very crowed so great day for kids and - hyperspace members to avoid crowds (friday for ex.) - hot store items, mcquarrie poster (sold out before noon) and civ pins, only 1000 made - store process is awesome, 15-30 minutes in and out - fan hall top item Boba feet from hasbroshop, they stopped taking orders after a couple hours - 501st mixer, almost 500 members, what a party! - hasbro noted last night to expect another something special for the 501st to be announced on Friday Friday report: - lines went around the building but everyone was inside in 20 minutes, amazing compared to Ciiii - I spent the morning trooping lots of pics with children of all ages Quote
Butah Fett Posted May 25, 2007 Report Posted May 25, 2007 Huh... I didn't think you were going. Quote
Daetrin[Admin] Posted May 25, 2007 Author Report Posted May 25, 2007 I'm not - am at working thinking about how nice it would be to be at CIV. This is Ed's report - he's down there with Wyatt & Scott M. Quote
Exodus[TK] Posted May 26, 2007 Report Posted May 26, 2007 Yeah, my report via b-berry. Had some issues yesterday viewing the forum. Friday evening report: - celebration kick off with Steve Sansweet - USC marching band and 24 tk's recreated the flag march from the rosa parade. This was very special for me personally as I was able to march last night (didn't make the rose bowl cut). 6k people going bananas, it was really cool. I was smiling ear to ear in my bucket - tribute to star wars actors who are no longer with us, very touching - recreation of the 1 year star wars cake 77-78 that was shared with EVERYONE! - a flying boat fett, yes that's right - unveiling of the yoda stamp - previews for the week - oh and a belling dancing slave leia Saturday (so far) - trooper olympics, team GGG brought home the gold (great effort by all teams on a tough course) - trooping, panels and lots of pics. Even ran into three cyclon centerrions - oh and Star Wars family guy episode preview, one hour in length More tomorrow Quote
TK8280 Posted May 27, 2007 Report Posted May 27, 2007 Yeah! i wanna see picks, especially of "the belling dancing slave leia" Quote
Scott M.[TK] Posted May 28, 2007 Report Posted May 28, 2007 Here are my 2 cents from C IV. Lots of fun and a great time is had by fans and volunteers alike. Not near as many 501st volunteers as expected, and volunteer schedules were somewhat of a mess, but overall GenCon is making things right. Crew badges were TK's (only way to go), and GenCon gave us our 4-day Vader badges back when we were done. Hasbro asked the 501st to help them annouce the ComicCon figure, so I met up with a few others and we escorted R2-KT from the droid room to the Hasbro panel. Dargas was on the way and we picked him up, and met about a dozen more 501st at the room. We were lined up, and 18 of us (lots of 501st, all mixed costumes) escorted R2-KT into the room. I got to march lead with Dean P, and the cameras were blazing. R2-KT will be the exclusive ComicCon figure in San Diego this fall, in case you did not pick up on that already. Hasbro was great to all the 501st who were there, and gave us all an exclusive C IV Luke for doing it, and promised to send us an R2-KT figure this fall. Legion photo shoot was chaos. Seemed like no one knew what was going on, so the photo should be interesting. However........ Our TK photo is awesome!!!! We marched over from the photo shoot to the laser tag hall, and we had 50-60 TK's all marching in line. What a sight to see. Ed and I carried the FISD flag, and everyone was snapping photos of us as we walked by. The actual photo looked great on the camera, and we should have something to upload shortly. I spent about 20+ hours in armor from Thursday to Sunday (could have done much more). Taking tomorrow off to visit Disneyland with the family. I am out for now, but I had to jump in for a few and see what was going on in the forums. Later, Quote
Exodus[TK] Posted May 29, 2007 Report Posted May 29, 2007 (edited) Here's a couple of pics to share for now. our CIV flag: --------- My little one with a great looking deployed TK (first day I met Scott in armor no less) ------------ Edited June 25, 2021 by gmrhodes13 link not working, removed gmrhodes13 2021 Quote
Daetrin[Admin] Posted May 29, 2007 Author Report Posted May 29, 2007 That's a precious pix! Can't wait for my daughter to start trooping with me Oh! The flag is rocking too - outstanding job - simply outstanding! Quote
Trooperdad Posted May 29, 2007 Report Posted May 29, 2007 (edited) This was my first major con and it was spectacular for me and my sons. It was tiring and exhilirating at the same time. We usually retired around midnight every day. Long days volunteering and I didn't get to see some things I wanted to. Most of all I met a lot of fantastic people on this site and around the world including (Steve Carter, Scott M, the Costa Ricans, French troopers) I hope I didn't forget anyone. I'm sorry if I didn't see you there. Some of the highlights were the skits we did as troopers including the escort Leia skit 3 times (my son the rebel fleet trooper got choked by Vader too!), the Han chases troopers skit (TK's are not meant to run long distances since we had several items fall off, but we had my 11 year old as handler picking up the pieces). The laser tag was a LOT of fun doing it non-stop with the kids we looked great and had a lot of comments from kids and adults who thought this was the coolest thing EVER (Steve Carter was there almost everyday it seemed!). Here's a couple photos from our camera of our visit (note: most of these pics taken by one of my kids so appologies ): --------------- We look forward to doing it again next time too! Edited June 25, 2021 by gmrhodes13 link not working, removed gmrhodes13 2021 Quote
TK-2126_MD[TK] Posted May 30, 2007 Report Posted May 30, 2007 Great Pics guys!!!! Sounds like you guys had a blast. Quote
TK4205 Posted May 30, 2007 Report Posted May 30, 2007 Sorry I missed out on the fisd photo. I was as done as done could be. I was in armor for each of the five days, no less than 10 hours a day. I loved it to say the very least:) I volunteered every day from door check to lazer tag. Lazer tag was a blast. Quote
RBJ[501st] Posted May 30, 2007 Report Posted May 30, 2007 Sorry I missed out on the fisd photo. I was as done as done could be. ..same here..I was there saturday almost ALL day! Quote
TK4205 Posted May 30, 2007 Report Posted May 30, 2007 (edited) I was in the slave Liea mob and got a tri-pod up my bucket. Not much other than a bloody nose and a broken mic. Edited June 25, 2021 by gmrhodes13 photos updated gmrhodes13 2021 Quote
Tech151[TK] Posted May 30, 2007 Report Posted May 30, 2007 (edited) TK4205 said: I was in the slave Liea mob and got a tri-pod up my bucket. Not much other than a bloody nose and a broken mic. Battle wounds... every good trooper needs one or two of those, so im told...... Edited June 25, 2021 by gmrhodes13 link not working, removed gmrhodes13 2021 Quote
RBJ[501st] Posted May 30, 2007 Report Posted May 30, 2007 OUCH!!! that aplies to both your nose and helmet!!! Quote
Exodus[TK] Posted May 30, 2007 Report Posted May 30, 2007 Dude, that entire situation sucks an impolite person. And that helmet was so awesome :angry: Quote
Jumpin Jax Posted May 30, 2007 Report Posted May 30, 2007 You made the cardinal error of every trooper; when trouble starts, DUCK Sorry about your helmet and all the BS. Quote
TK4999[TK] Posted June 4, 2007 Report Posted June 4, 2007 This was my first major con and it was spectacular for me and my sons. It was tiring and exhilirating at the same time. We usually retired around midnight every day. Long days volunteering and I didn't get to see some things I wanted to. Most of all I met a lot of fantastic people on this site and around the world including (Steve Carter, Scott M, the Costa Ricans, French troopers) I hope I didn't forget anyone. I'm sorry if I didn't see you there. Some of the highlights were the skits we did as troopers including the escort Leia skit 3 times (my son the rebel fleet trooper got choked by Vader too!), the Han chases troopers skit (TK's are not meant to run long distances since we had several items fall off, but we had my 11 year old as handler picking up the pieces). The laser tag was a LOT of fun doing it non-stop with the kids we looked great and had a lot of comments from kids and adults who thought this was the coolest thing EVER (Steve Carter was there almost everyday it seemed!). Hey, Don, they don't call me "Commando" for nothing! Yeah, I had a blast everywhere I went. Fun and good times seemed to be all around. And I really enjoyed meeting you and your sons. I am envious that your kids are involved with you. Mine are, shall we say, somewhat amused... And, Ed, since this is "your" thread, I also want to say that it was a pleasure meeting you as well. You guys were awesome in the Trooper Olympics. Send me a pic of that framed scoresheet. I should have autographed it for you!!!! Also thanks for drafting me into being one of the "models" for the costume panel. I was really quite honored by that, especially since my roomie was the Sandy model in his way-to-cool AP armor! Quote
Exodus[TK] Posted June 4, 2007 Report Posted June 4, 2007 Steve, Pleasure to meet you as well and thank you for the assistance in the armor panel. I'm sure the attendees appreciated a live visual example especially, someone everyone in the room could see. I'll ask Cap Jones about the scoresheet and post once I have it. Quote
Exodus[TK] Posted June 4, 2007 Report Posted June 4, 2007 Steve, Not framed yet, but here is a copy of the score-sheet. Quote
TK4999[TK] Posted June 4, 2007 Report Posted June 4, 2007 Steve, Not framed yet, but here is a copy of the score-sheet. You mean you really want my autograph? At least the scoresheet hasn't been tampered with... Quote
Exodus[TK] Posted June 6, 2007 Report Posted June 6, 2007 (edited) Another video of the 501st Legion in action, at the trooper olympics. ----------------- Edited June 25, 2021 by gmrhodes13 link not working, removed gmrhodes13 2021 Quote
TK4999[TK] Posted June 6, 2007 Report Posted June 6, 2007 Another video of the 501st Legion in action, at the trooper olympics.The video features Commando Carter very well.. Yup... missing armor and without the offical t-shirt... rats... i hope all the troopers out there will forgive me... where was my handler when i needed her? Quote
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