Celebration 3… so far

Apparently Star Wars fans love trivia, standing in line, the 501st, and talking action figures. Who knew?

C3 is fabulous but insane, and the lines for said action figure are longer than anything I ever saw at Disney World. There’s a rumor going around that someone actually spent $25,000 dollars on C3 merchandise.

I’ve only been able to get to two things so far – an taped Ian McDiarmid interview and the Opening Ceremonies. Guess what – Sidious and Palpatine are the SAME PERSON. Is your world shattered?

Also, Rick McCallum is doing not the two shows he’s scheduled for today, but they announced he’ll be showing the new ROTS footage all day long — seven minutes that we haven’t seen in the trailers or anything else.

But Thursday’s major announcement – that DVD that’s coming with the soundtrack? It’s a retrospective of the music across the saga, chosen by John Williams, and yeah, it’s cut with footage. They showed us the video for ‘Battle of the Hero’s’, which mostly had footage we’ve seen in the trailer with extra bits of duel. And there are 16 of them in total.

And George isn’t even here yet. There was hinting that something big will be coming on Saturday… What the hell is left? Are they actually going to show the movie? ‘Cause I honestly don’t know what they have left to announce. (Well… TV show. Eliz and I had visions of Kevin Smith showing up. Which he may anyway, I suppose.)

And can you imagine people lining up to watch A New Hope in the year 2005? Deet can. She had to work it. Muhahaha!