Nairy[Staff] Posted November 7 Author Report Posted November 7 On 11/6/2024 at 3:29 PM, JBar said: Amazing pics! I need to go to that event next year! If you're in Europe by then you should definitely come! Quote
Nairy[Staff] Posted November 9 Author Report Posted November 9 70. 2024-11-01, Comic Con 2024, Stockholm (Hero, with Space Pack, DLT-19) 71. 2024-11-02, Comic Con 2024, Stockholm (Hero) 72. 2024-11-03, Comic Con 2024, Stockholm (Hero) Some additional images by the great @ackehallgren With some editing, this turned out to be my absolute favorite one! 5 Quote
dblcross[TK] Posted November 11 Report Posted November 11 On 11/9/2024 at 4:58 PM, Nairy said: , DLT-19 Makes for a great prop to lean on. Quote
Nairy[Staff] Posted November 11 Author Report Posted November 11 6 hours ago, dblcross said: Makes for a great prop to lean on. Indeed! Maybe I should get the toy blaster (Hot Toy Spacetrooper), that is a big gun! Quote
Nairy[Staff] Posted November 15 Author Report Posted November 15 73. 2024-11-14, Akademiska sjukhuset (Uppsala University Hospital), Uppsala (Hero) Another day another hospital! These troops are the best, to be honest! Just so much happiness in an environment not necessarily associated with that! I taught them a little bit about how to solve a Rubiks cube! (my record is 23 seconds, but I'm working on it to get down to under 10) 8 Quote
Nairy[Staff] Posted December 1 Author Report Posted December 1 74. 2024-11-30, Nördarnas Julmarknad 2024 (The Nerds' Christmas Market), Stockholm (Hero, with Grappling Hook/Comlink) 75. 2024-12-01, Nördarnas Julmarknad 2024 (The Nerds' Christmas Market), Stockholm (Hero, with Grappling Hook/Comlink) Got my 74th and 75th troop this weekend! It is a lovely nerdy market that happens every year! The turnout on the Saturday was great, and a little more relaxed on the Sunday! Absolutely lovely! I received my Grappling Hook/Comlink set from Joseph finally after a 9 month wait (the package had been in transit for 9 months, crossing the atlantic sea about 3 times for some reason ), so I really had to use it for these couple of troops! Such an awesome thing to have! Close up! Me and @Lafleur in the changing room Quite a nice turnout for this event! We're usually 2 or 3 people! We had a large Lucia parade (or "train" as we say in Swedish), it is an old tradition in Sweden! @Lafleur had a funny E-11 blaster toy for the Lucia parade! 75. 2024-12-01, Nördarnas Julmarknad 2024 (The Nerds' Christmas Market), Stockholm (Hero, with Grappling Hook/Comlink) We dropped a Santa hat on the floor, and we realized that we were alone and no one could bend down to pick it up, luckily my handy dandy Grappling Hook could be of assistance!! Finally got it! Christmas vibes brought to you by the grappling hook! December has only just begun and I've already been sent to Whamhalla! 6 Quote
Sithping[TK] Posted December 1 Report Posted December 1 Awesome Jonatan! Congratulations on reaching a new milestone 1 Quote
Nairy[Staff] Posted December 1 Author Report Posted December 1 19 minutes ago, Sithping said: Awesome Jonatan! Congratulations on reaching a new milestone Thank you so much Paul! I love how we (you, me and @Doggydoc) still make the most of it and keep it up! You both are an inspiration for sure to keep it going! Always fun to follow along! 1 Quote
Doggydoc[Staff] Posted December 2 Report Posted December 2 Congrats on 75 Jonatan. You beat me to this milestone this time around. Now let’s race to 100. 1 Quote
Nairy[Staff] Posted December 2 Author Report Posted December 2 1 hour ago, Doggydoc said: Congrats on 75 Jonatan. You beat me to this milestone this time around. Now let’s race to 100. Thanks Gerald! Haha yeah bring it on!! 1 Quote
Nairy[Staff] Posted Sunday at 10:41 PM Author Report Posted Sunday at 10:41 PM 76. 2023-12-12, Musikhjälpen 2024 (The Music Help), Sundsvall (Hero) 77. 2023-12-13, Musikhjälpen 2024 (The Music Help), Sundsvall (Hero) 78. 2023-12-14, Musikhjälpen 2024 (The Music Help), Sundsvall (Hero) 79. 2023-12-15, Musikhjälpen 2024 (The Music Help), Sundsvall (Hero) These four days have been crazy, to say the least. "The Music Help" (lazily translated from Swedish to English) is an annual charity event that is a live TV broadcast! For one week, three presenters are locked inside a "cage" where they only eat soup and take turns in presenting so that there is coverage 24/7 for a week. Swedish national television and radio collaborate to send out the broadcast on both mediums. The way it works, is that people donate X amount of money to get a song of their choice played live. There are multiple Swedish artists that perform inside the cage and people auctioning off items or artworks and the like. This year's charity theme was: "Everyone has the right to survive their pregnancy", and the money that was donated will go towards different projects that will reduce the amount of deaths during a pregnancy and delivery. Every two seconds, someone dies during their pregnancy/delivery - and 70% out of all the deaths happen in Africa, and we know what the solution is, so summed up most of the deaths are because of the lack of money. So, what is our role in this? We are outside the cage, dancing, giving high fives, spreading Star Wars love and we're collecting money for this charity event as we've done now for 12 years in a row. Dare I say we've become "famous" because of it, and are expected by the citizens to show up - and the pure love that we receive outside the cage is incredible and it really shows. We've received so many hugs and donations and my heart is filled with peace and love. 76. 2023-12-12, Musikhjälpen 2024 (The Music Help), Sundsvall (Hero) Someone caught us on TV the first night! We had a late start due to travelling 4 hours north from Stockholm, to Sundsvall. Some of our members had travelled for 6 hours (and they drove south, crazy to realize how big my own country really is). 77. 2023-12-13, Musikhjälpen 2024 (The Music Help), Sundsvall (Hero) 78. 2023-12-14, Musikhjälpen 2024 (The Music Help), Sundsvall (Hero) The day started out... well... I was hyped and ready to go out, or so I thought. I had forgotten a crucial detail! Here you see me as I realize it! This has never happened for 78 troops, but my 79th troop... disaster struck! I had just taken everything on and had to take most of it just to take it on again! So annoying!!! We were invited into the cage for an interview, and to push our initiative (there are multiple initiatives where people send money to, and the Swedish Garrison had one too) - I was not one of the people inside the cage, but we stood outside in the front row to cheer them on! @Coil was the Din Djarin. 79. 2023-12-15, Musikhjälpen 2024 (The Music Help), Sundsvall (Hero) I'm as I said filled with joy, and we've done an amazing job. As you might have seen - we opt for not wearing our TDs, because we are out in public and the cage being situated in a square in the city (a different city for every year of the event), it gets really crowded! I think someone got their TD stolen once and since then we tend to take the safest option and just simply not wear it (although I feel brave sometimes). It is a non-cannon event anyways so it is acceptable. We've been outside in negative celsius for four days, trooping about 5-6 hours every day, and I can tell you - the condensation inside the helmet is insane! We always need to pack our helmets with paper tissues to soak up the water that builds up, especially on the inside of the pertruding edges that goes around the mic tips. I'm sore in every part of my body because of the constant dancing for hours! But I close off this year of trooping with an amazing event on my resume, and this year's total was: 38 troops! Until next time! Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year! 7 Quote
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