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Spike2002
Title: FF-UK RSA
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Date Posted:
7/17/07 7:16am
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RE: Celebration IV Europe
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Read the, "What happened to D_O_T" thread on the North boards 
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JED1
Title: Former FF-UK: Scotland CR
JC Collecting Advisor
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Date Posted:
7/18/07 2:00pm
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RE: Celebration IV Europe
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I've uploaded some pics of CE!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=7975&id=553672175
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Spike2002
Title: FF-UK RSA
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Date Posted:
7/18/07 2:40pm
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RE: Celebration IV Europe
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Couldn't see them so I added you as a friend, mate 
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JED1
Title: Former FF-UK: Scotland CR
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Date Posted:
7/18/07 4:15pm
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RE: Celebration IV Europe
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Sorry about that!
I'll try again! lol!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=7975&l=9149e&id=553672175
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Lizardmonkey
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Date Posted:
7/19/07 5:30am
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RE: Celebration IV Europe
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Lizardmonkey
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A few mind burps here...I've returned from Celebration Europe too.
I'm glancing in awe at two of those coins gifted from the really interested looking Hasbro reps - along with poster!
Did anyone else jaunt along to the Freemason's Road in Custom House - the area Excel was in - for (far cheaper than ruddy ExCel) fast food/groceries? Shows you how even more fantastical than Mos Eisely Albert Square is BTW.
Anyway, to those who care what my two cents is, there were many highlights - Mark Hamill, Warwick Davis (the only person who could be that enthusiastic and not grating) Steve Sansweet, who made you feel collecting "plastic toot" (Anthony Daniels words, not mine younglings) was a real manly (or womanly) pursuit. The Jedis/Sith battle on the bridge over the Thames was magic (Saturday night) even if you needed a bridging loan to eat and drink at the BBQ - and even if some lightsabre wielding fans insisted on that low-to-the-ground hockey duelling which just ain't right kids! Seeing the bloke and lassie from Glasgow's Forbidden Planet warmed me cockles (their names elude me).
There was Billy Dee Williams... I won't say anything other than that as he is an experience all of himself (in the celeb-talk way not hotel bedroom way - I'd only be non-straight for Ford...) suffice to ask, what becomes of the broken hearted?.. I've also just about re-attached my jaw after the bevvy of Slave Leia's in attendance - thin to plump they were all good, like pizza...
The Dagobah set was good, but there should have been more interactive bits and bobs for adults. You took your life in your hands trying to navigate the stalls, some of whom were really good (I got a couple of mark-downs on stuff) others (swarthy cockney blokey seller) would have cut their mother's throat to obtain over 200 pounds on an ROTJ Anakin.
Lowlights - none really, I was in the company of a great pilot and good friend who sugared the whole experience with lavender loveliness. Anthony Daniels was a bit grating with his one-man look-at-me-a-thon that implied umbrage of Kenny Baker.(you ain't the only actor to appear in all six of the saga sir.) It was like watching John Redwood doing panto in the style of Julian Clary - I bet most non-Brits were mystified. The Clone Wars CGI preview was a bit anti-Cartoon Network (the producers of the new show, under the auspices of Lucas himself, poo-pooing some of the creative decisions of the brilliant Genndy-style toon and reassigning transmission rights to Nickelodeon... an economic thing?)
Cost, as always, is a factor down south, but, as I say, you could eat for a tenner per person all weekend in the Custom House, though I appreciate the stranger in a strange land fears, many might have, precluding such ventures.
Oh, and the 501st were mostly excellent - though I did laugh when parents had their kids pose for pictures with slightly pishier fan-home-versions (bacofoil Jango for example, or the giraffe-necked Vader. And that Grand Admiral Thrawn could have cheered up.)
Nonetheless a blast - hope you can make sense of this overlong blog-esque mess - and I'm sorry I didn't arrange a meet with fellow Caledonian Jedis prior to arrival. Count me in in any future knees-ups in toon (Glasgow) though. Unless this has bored you all Jedi Knightless!
P.S. For those at the auction on Sunday - was that Simon Pegg who won the eggshell blue Vader Helmet replica done by Dan and Dan?
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