Star Wars in Concert : Wookiee Concept Art

There were many pieces of concept art, and despite taking pictures of all of them I'm sad to say that the glare off of the plexiglass resulted in many of the photos being less than clearly understandable. These, however, are pretty good. All three are concept art drawings of the Wookies and Wookiee Homeworld drawn for SW3.

Star Wars in Concert : Helmets

Star Wars in Concert : Ewoks

Now look at the Ewok costumes and tell me- what's weird about this picture?
Why yes, these Ewoks are as tall as I am (shut Up- I'm 5'-6") which is funny because Ewoks are supposed to be about 3 ft. tall and a lot of the Ewoks were played by dwarves or children. I'm curious about how this discrepancy in size was masked in the film.

Star Wars in Concert : C-3PO

The scrim of the Ewok village on Endor is probably not original because people could touch it, but the C-3PO costume is supposed to be original. It was indescribably awesome to be, like, 2 or 3 feet away from these legendary props.

Did I mention that Anthony Daniels narrated the show? Live? He obviously didn't wear the costume, but he did have some quotes in there.
Why isn't this titled "Droids," you ask? Will R2-D2 have his own entry? No. Because they didn't bring R2-D2. >.<

... I am not bitter.

Star Wars in Concert

Several weeks ago we had recorded an episode of New Yankee Workshop, but when we went to watch it last Saturday there was just a PBS telethon. This telethon just happened to be showing the making of Star Wars in Concert as they attempted to bribe supporters with tickets. To put it mildly, I was intrigued. We were looking at the website immediately after, and I got tickets on Tuesday.

We went yesterday. It was pretty epic.

I'm sorry to say I was so excited that I forgot to take pictures at the beginning when they had Star Wars up on the screen. If I had, it would have looked something like this but from the right a little more and without the borders. Did I mention that they have a really awesome website? They do.


I got my act together at the beginning of the second half, but I didn't really want to be distracted by taking pictures during the show.


The other awesome thing- besides the show itself- was the touring exhibit of costumes and props. We took a couple hundred pictures, so expect them to start turning up in the near future.

there's never enough R2-D2

This morning Banik sent me a link for commercial by Nikko. If I had absurd amounts of money to burn I could now have an R2-D2 projector and/or webcam of my very very own. Actually one set for me to play with and one set to keep in the original packaging. Banik would have to get his own.



Prices for this awesomeness?

the R2-D2 Projector + Millenium Falcon remote is $2900
the R2-D2 Webcam + Lightsaber remote and IP phone is $400

more Star Wars!

I found out about these Lego Stormtroopers in December. I've been very good and not bought any despite having a weakness for SW stuff. But I figure that if I'm going to collect anything it has to be really neat- you know, like SW stuff. >.> Now if only people would get the hint and get me stuff like that instead of things a-la-girly-bath-and-body-products.

maybe it's just a phase... again

I'm having another stage of Star Wars obsession- they do tend to come and go- and it's not really helping me get things done for real life.

There are 3D puzzles. Over break I built the Imperial Star Destroyer, and I'm still working on the Millennium Falcon at home. Now I find that there's an R2D2 and a model an Anakin's Jedi Fighter that I'd never even seen before I found them online tonight. You know, while I should have been working.

Banik went and got me playing the SW Pocket Model TCG (trading card game, for those like me who had no reason to know that). First it was a pack so that I could build the little ships in it; they are SW after all. Then it was another pack because the ships were neat. Then it was 4 more because when he talked me into trying to play with only 2 packs we really didn't have enough ships and cards to do much. Now he's hoping that this is the gateway drug into me actually taking up miniature gaming, and I'm hoping that I don't just keep buying and building these neat little starships. Oh, and they have a ground assault version. Guess how many packs you have to buy to get yourself an AT-AT model.

Banik also has this book that I've been reading about the behind-the-scenes stuff. Because what I really need is even more esoteric SW trivia knowledge. And he's been mentioning all the SW novels; since I read a few years ago it's rather piqued my interest in them again.

I've watched all the movies in the last week or so, and if I'd had time I probably would've watched all the extras as well. I've also been poking around on a few of my more preferred SW webpages, but I shouldn't talk about that now. I think I'm in enough trouble as it is. Maybe I'll go photoshop something.