Club Jade

…Well, until tomorrow. The Rose Parade starts at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST, and will be broadcast nationally on ABC, NBC, HGTV, the Travel Channel (?) and Discovery HD. (HDTV, at least, starts their coverage an hour early, and may offer some peeks at the Spectacular.) A TFN reader has guesstimated that the Star Wars contingent will appear 50 minutes to an hour into the broadcast. George, as Grand Marshall, will be about 20 floats after that.

Bonnie will be liveblogging from the site at her starwars.com blog. She also has pictures from rehearsals, and hear about dress rehearsal from Kelsey McCalla.

Sci-Fi Wire covers the parade, and there’s a video report up on Yahoo News. I can’t watch the thing, even on Yahoo’s ‘recommended browsers,’ but TFN claims they misspell Steve’s name. Okay!

George addresses the troops, for those who didn’t (or couldn’t… Damn WMVs) catch it on the 501st site. Marching practice also made some local news stations: NBC 4 and CBS 2.

Oh, thank George: Bonnie will be live-blogging the Rose Bowl stuff, and she’s dug up some more media links as well.

Apparently the troops made it onto that bastion of journalism, Entertainment Tonight. Nothing on Youtube so far, but I did find a dancing Stormtrooper, and that’s good enough for me.

They’re drilling in Pasadena.

George Lucas made a surprise appearance last night, thanking the 501st and Grambling ‘troops.’ The 501st has video.

Is Pasadena ready for Darth Vader? Even E! has got in on the hype.

There are also plenty of costumed fans in the press this week:

• New York: Darren Blum. (Twice!)

• Hawaii: Tory Laitila and John Williams.
• Connecticut: Charles Corrente and Robert Morgan.
• North Carolina: Cheralyn Lambeth, 501st founder Albin Johnson. (Added 12/28)
• Calgary, Canda: Michelle Novak and Shane Reynolds.
• California: Michael Senna (Added 12/28)

Behind the scenes as LFL preps for Rose Bowl parade. There are disembodied Ewok heads and everything!

No one is surprised that there are Rose Bowl Parade pins.

Mikey Post will be one of four in costume on the Endor Rose Bowl float.