Lou, KY Celebration VII

Agreed. However, the reason why remains elusive to me. Perhaps it was the venue, which was way too small for sixty thousand star warriors. Maybe it was the feeling that the fan groups didn't bring their a game (or a-props) perhaps due to Mary Franklin leaving Lucasfilm.

Still, I had a great time and went to some neat panels and shows. It was way better than C2 or C3. But something was off and I'm interested to read the Boss's post as to why.

Jammies
\everyone saw the trailer but us, and we were there. Weird. They didn't rerun it, and none of us waited four days in line to see it on Wednesday morning.

 

Interested here as well.

 

I did learn that Hutt's are no longer hermaphrodites, maybe that is what has Mika underwhelmed.

 

Lol! I wonder why they changed that.

 

I guess this one just lacked a "wow factor" for me. Sure we got a great Force Awakens trailer but you can watch that online. The facility was way too small for the crowd and the show floor and the booths seemed very basic and underwhelming. The Celebration Store looked like it was the same size and had the same number of check outs as Orlando but there was a 2hour wait to even get in the store and another 2 to check out. Everything was very inefficient. Long lines for whatever you wanted to do. The facility had a nice connecting plaza outside where con goers could hang out and take pictures and visit and food trucks could park, but if all the people hanging outside would have tried to come in all at once with the people already in there there's no way the Convention Center would have held everyone. The 501st Bash was very basic, large undecorated ballroom with a band playing wedding reception type music. The Rebel Legion Charity Dinner was nice and raised over $8000 for Variety Children's Charity. The autograph area had pretty much the same guests we're used to, would have liked more Clone Wars voice actors, don't need Jabba's left arm or every Ewok to put on a costume. Liked having all the Star Wars authors in one place. If we're lucky we have an author come through the area about once a year so it was nice to have access to so many at once. The costumes were good but as Jammies said to me I'm done with all the Star Wars Mash Up costumes. So yeah the word for CVII was "Underwhelming".

Went to Disneyland after the Con and was underwhelmed by that as well. Very cheezy and dated. I guess I'm just a Universal Orlando guy.

 

Ugh, can't get my photos downloaded, really cheezing me off.

Kudos to Appo and Zannah for loaning me their exhibitor badges so I could shop the Celebration Store before the con opened.

This time I went just as a fan and didn't sign up for any commitments with the fan groups and that really worked out well for my mental health, didn't miss trooping at all.

Apparently there were quite a bit of line screw ups in the evenings as well, glad I didn't try to go to the evening panels/events.
http://boards.theforce.net/threads/the-official-celebration-anaheim-feedback-thread.50029118/page-2

 

One of the highlights for me from Celebration was seeing the Smuggler's Bounty audio drama live. The video is up on the Star Wars YouTube channel. Close your eyes and you'd swear David Collins is Harrison Ford and Tom Kane does a really good C3PO as well.

 

Wow. We're a year out and Celebration Europe (London) has sold out of 3 day passes. I wonder if sales are that brisk or the venue just isn't as big as what we have in Orlando/Anaheim.
http://theforce.net/story/front/Sta...Day_Passes_Are_Officially_Sold_Out_165104.asp