MartinSivertsen[501st] Posted May 20, 2012 Report Share Posted May 20, 2012 This year, as the past few years, the Nordic Garrison made their presence felt at the parade in Trondheim, during the national day 17th of may. This was my first time attending the parade, and it was a really fun experience. We used the downstairs club at my work as a changing area and hangout before and after the parade, and we ended up being 23 troopers walking the streets of Trondheim. We tried to spread out and walk in formation to really take up space and make an impact in the parade. Which I really think worked out good, we got a lot of exposure, and thousands of people had showed up to view the parade even though the weather was really bad. One of the troopers arranged a pole-cam to be on top of the banner and film the entire parade, the movie will have to be edited but I think it turned out good! Here I am being an exemplary posterboy for Norway and the 501st Legion, this picture showed up on imgur and had over 170.000 views 24 hours after the parade: And there were a few videos that surfaced on youtube that same evening and the days after, here's one where I saw my girlfriend and ran over to give her a hug: And here's another one I got sent by a nice girl: After the parade, we walked up to the westfront of the Nidaros Cathedral and took a picture of all attending troopers and support, quite fitting, as we are planning to design a patch for the troopers in Nidaros using the westfront of the Cathedral as an iconic image with TIE-fighters flying over it. As we came back to our changingarea we already started to plan towards next years parade, shooting for 50 attending troopers, where many of them hopefully will be troppers travelling from other cities (and hopefully neighbouring countries), and many of them troopers based in Trondheim. We are growing at a rapid pace, with 16 confirmed members of The 501st Legion and at least 8 people at different stages of building their first costume! We might have our own C3PO and R2D2 even, and with 2013 marking 30 years since the release of Return of The Jedi, we might have to find a way to mark that in some way too. See you around! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCTrooper[TK] Posted May 20, 2012 Report Share Posted May 20, 2012 You guys look great! Cool to see all those troopers out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickles[TK] Posted May 20, 2012 Report Share Posted May 20, 2012 Spectacular! You guys look brilliant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigironvault Posted May 20, 2012 Report Share Posted May 20, 2012 That is awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK-7186[TK] Posted May 21, 2012 Report Share Posted May 21, 2012 You guys look awesome. The picture in front of the Cathedral would make a great poster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt black Posted May 21, 2012 Report Share Posted May 21, 2012 Outstanding! You all look fantastic and that cathedral....WOW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkrestonva[TK] Posted May 21, 2012 Report Share Posted May 21, 2012 Very cool! Kudos for sticking it out despite the rain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardiac[TK] Posted May 21, 2012 Report Share Posted May 21, 2012 Amazing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locitus[Admin] Posted May 21, 2012 Report Share Posted May 21, 2012 Very nice! Maybe I'll come and join you next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinSivertsen[501st] Posted May 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2012 That's what we're hoping for, that you swedes will come over and spend the weekend with us! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnnfr72[TK] Posted May 21, 2012 Report Share Posted May 21, 2012 Martin, your garrison did an awesome job! I love all the videos, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubVADER[501st] Posted May 21, 2012 Report Share Posted May 21, 2012 wow, you guys look great! well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinSivertsen[501st] Posted May 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2012 Thanks you guys and girls! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steinandre[501st] Posted May 22, 2012 Report Share Posted May 22, 2012 Ah, great of you to post this here Martin, when thinking about it I should post it on the ioc and jrs too. Rivera Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyInWhite[TK] Posted May 23, 2012 Report Share Posted May 23, 2012 Absolutely gorgeous! And you really are a poster child for TK-Norway! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobojuice Posted May 23, 2012 Report Share Posted May 23, 2012 Yeah someone posted that picture you mentioned to Reddit and it got pretty popular. Nice going, guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinSivertsen[501st] Posted May 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2012 Thanks Ingrid and Luis. Next year will be even more awesome! :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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