CJ25 Star Wars Celebration (social thread)

Plus Mando season 3 will be just about wrapping up and Ahsoka about to start! What a time to love Star Wars!

They just have to do an ROTJ "From A Certain Point of View". Hopefully they will announce that at SDCC or NYCC and have it released around Celebration like you say!

 

Got my one and only signature from the show back yesterday! Ewan was such a cool dude!

 

Official socials just updated to London profiles. Hopefully ticket news coming soon.

 

In some ways it's crazy to think it's almost been a month since Celebration

 

It always seems like yesterday after you've had a really good time there! That's the way the 40th Anni. Cele. felt- for the rest of the year!

 

With the 40th anniversary of ROTJ, I need to finish my Endor trooper.

 

Thanks @Obi Anne

 

Went to STLV (Star Trek Las Vegas) last week. I bought two Photo Ops in advance but held off on buying others until I could find out if they were going to use those plastic separators or not. They announce a couple of days before the event that most of the invited guests were going to use them so that stopped me from buying 4 additional photo ops. I was happily surprised when I was in line for the main photo I wanted that the actor that did not use the shield.

From what I saw online it seems about 10-15% showed positive Covid tests after the event. The event had a mandatory mask policy while in the event and everyone that I saw was following the rules.

 

Post show infections next year are likely going to be high if covid is still as prevalent. UK has pretty much no measures in place anymore. Some guests may chose to use plexi but beyond that there likely won't be anything in place.

 

Can't speak for Europe, but here in the UK they are only offering the last 2 boosters (4 and soon 5) to those classed as extremely vulnerable. Most people here only got the original 2 and then 1 booster, so their last vaccination will have been end of 2021 (maybe start of 2022).

 

There is a Celebration segment at the end of the Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return documentary on Disney+ today.

 

Just a little convention talk. I think D23 just overtook SDCC as the premiere pop culture event.

There seemed to be way more hype about D23 over the weekend than there was during SDCC. With Star Wars, Marvel, and Fox Animation being so front and center during D23, it honestly felt more like SDCC was going on than a Disney convention. Even the show floor looked more like SDCC than anything I've seen at past D23's. In the past, it's been wall to wall DISNEY. Disney parks, Disney movies, Disney characters. But this year they had all the vendors you typically see at SDCC and other big conventions.

I didn't go, but I was looking at a lot of the coverage, and became fascinated to see how much it looked like a typical convention and didn't appear to be overly Disney-fied.

I think they purposely designed their con this year to look more like a typical nerd convention. Like they wanted to give their fanbase that kind of convention. Rather than being relegated to specifically a Disney convention. And they own so many things now, they can honestly do that, just given what they can offer now at their convention. There's no way Star Wars, Marvel, and Fox Animation go back to SDCC in the capacity that they used to. All the big announcements and reveals will come from Disney events directly.

And then with SDCC facing its own woes, with companies steadily leaving, I don't think SDCC goes back to being what it was. I don't know, I just feel like there's been a changing of the guard in terms of who will put on the main pop culture event going forward.

 

I agree, I would love to attend SDCC again.

 

I would love to do D23 one day. Definitely my kinda place and right next to the parks, heaven!

 

What if they held D23 in Wal-Mart?

 

Congratulations!

 

You might want to check if you need to do anything Celebration-wise because of the name change.

 

Congratulations @Obi Anne!!