Your best FF memory?

There was a thread ages ago about this, but it got locked...

What was your best experience with your local FF? Care to share the memory here?

 

my best FF memory was our very first meet (click the link in my sig to get to our chapter, i recommend the pub as we have the friendliest bar-keep on the boards ). here is a pic of the chapter at the meet, (and there is a more up to date pic of us as the banner on our board)

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left to right: myself (Lord-Wiz), Jairen (UK RSA), Chickenteekameeka, Tay-Mar, Lord-Black, Jangofett9, Veritasuk, Happy Ninja (Midlands CR), moogi_wan, and Rebeljediknight88.

we have added quite a few members since that night. it was at a cinema complex in Birmingham and we all turned up to watch ROTS (hey, what else would we watch? ), and before the movie, we all collected outside the front and had a fairly large lightsaber skirmish, in public! that caused a stir, especially with onr of the locals who was fairly drunk, and wanted to "have a go with a lightsaber" . he had to be dragged off by his mate as can be seen here in the background LOL!

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anyway, the time came to watch the movie, and we all walked in with our FX,Parks, and toy sabers lit up, again creating another stir! a great night was had by all.

there have been quite a few meets since then, but this was the first PROPER chapter meet, and as such is one of my best FF memories.

EDIT: speeling

 

Think my best experience was when we did our ROTS campout at our local theatre.
We all hung out, got to meet some really great people and were able to be ourselves with one another.

 

Like everyone else, there's a bunch of great memories. Ranking right up there is when we did a Star Wars day at a local library and quickly went past the fire code's limit of number of people in the building.

 

My favorite is probably Starfest 2004. Kicked butt at the costume contest with the whole FF (we won 1st AND second place) got to party it up with the Klingons, AND Micheal Shanks called me sweetie

 

J.W. Titus Reunion Party

 

At the end of our RotS event, my FanForce gave me a Master Replica lightsaber. We had one to give away at the event, but the contest flopped so we never gave it away. I was wondering how we were going to deal with that. Then one member pulls the group all together and said a few words of thanks for such a great day, then presented me with the saber as thanks for doing so much with getting the event going. I almost cried, it was so sweet and kind. I still look at it and smile fondly, I love them so much.

 

Bloody hell, that's incredible, Dajuan!

Your FF must really love you!

 

It's mutual trust me. I can think of no greator group in the world.

 

That's so very cool.

 

WHOA that's a big haul!

 

For me it has to be C3. It was just so exciting, meeting not only fellow FF-UKer's for the first time, but also meeting members of the other Fan Forces from around the world. Manning the Fan Force table with Dajuan, meeting my friends from the Fandom Alliance of Philadelphia, parting till closing at The Ram. Too many great memories from a single event.

And now, with the upsurge in the UK, I'm getting all new memories as well.

 

There has been so many fun times from day one. I had a couple of large parties where I had over 70 attend and it was a real blast !!! I also had the opportunity
to meet a bunch of FF folks when I was in England, Scotland, and Germany last year. In 2003 I was in Chicago and got to meet up with a huge group of FF folks.
I think the biggest highlight for me was meeting my Fiancee thanks to FanForce.

 

Mine would have to be back in May on the 21st, when we had the Star Wars Day at one of the local theaters. Such a great time. I shall post pictures later if any of you are interested. It was one of the best days of my life. Our hard work paid off.

 

Celebration Day -- May 16th, 2005.

All six films in a theatre in one day, the premiere of ROTS being the highlight as it was introduced in person by George Lucas himself, flanked by Rick McCallum, Ian McDiarmid and Hayden Christensen by his side!

It was great to be surrounded by several FF-UK members to a once-in-a-lifetime-event!