Club Jade

Bonnie ran a whole collection of photos through the Tilt Shift Maker, transforming the realistic into toy-like miniatures. Not surprisingly, the effect is particularly impressive when used on Stormtroopers!

T-shirts from Celebration Europe are on sale at Star Wars Shop. We don’t need to be jealous anymore!

Behind the Tantive IV corridor at Celebration Europe. Hopefully they can get something like that over here for the next Celebration!

A few things we missed while pursuing (and avoiding!) Harry Potter.

• Hallmark’s new Star Wars ornaments now in stores.

• TOSblog interviews Jon “Blasty” Leopold of the 501st about their team-up with the West Michigan Whitecaps.
• Another look at the CE ‘saber battle.
• Coke landspeeder put to use.
• Movies.com reader poll asks for nominee submissions.
• Toyfare mocks Holiday Special.
• Darth Vader Laptop. Warning: designation as actual ‘laptop’ is questionable.
• 501st’s Celebration Europe roundup.

I’m not sure if it’s a coincidence or what, but all the Celebration Europe press I ran across today is so… sensationalist.

First, Daily Mail reporter Tanya Gold doesn’t even get a paragraph into her CE experience before breaking out the requisite ‘Get a life’ comment. Keeping reading – it’s full of such classy gems. Although I do like the description of Steve Sansweet as George Lucas’ “representative on Earth.”

As for the real stars of the CE experience, we have comments from Anthony Daniels, admonishing Sir Alec Guinness and a trifecta of Mark Hamill comments that the blurb artists are trying their damnedest on: ‘wanting’ to be Vader; the Luke warehouse; and the one with the legs, Portman’s a babe.

Star Wars fans create havoc wherever they go…

• TOSblog: The Force Unleashed. man, if I cared about games and their canonicity I would probably not react very well to this. Luckily, I don’t care.

• TOSblog: Battle of the Bands
• TOSblog: Costume Pageant.
• Brisbane Times: Jeremy Bulloch revels in cult status
• Swindon Advertiser: Luke Skywalker meets Mark Hamill.

• Mark Hamill introduces Ian McDiamid, or rather some clips of McDiarmid; the the Emperor himself introduces A New Hope.

• Fans reenact the Mustafar duel.
• Keep an eye on Youtube for more!

TOSblog has video (warning: it’s only audio for me) of Warwick Davis interviewing Rick McCallum at Celebration Europe. Lots of TV talk, which is summarized at the link as well.

The TOSblog posted this morning with a short video from the Opening Ceremonies.

The Flickr has been updated as well.