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THIS WAS ONE OF
THE BEST SHOWS YET! We got the Dewbacks loaded up and headed out for our breakfast with the stars which was a perfect start to the day. My son picked a great table with some great company to share breakfast with. At our table we had Doug Wangler who was the model for the Jedi character Quinlan Vos in Dark Horses Star Wars Republic comic book, issue 77. Also at our table was Lawrence Makoare who played the Witch King, the first Ur-i-kai, and the Orc General in Lord of the Rings Return of the King. My son was flippin’ when I told him who that guy sitting right across from him was. We also had the very pretty Star Wars artist Cynthia Cummens, and of course the infamous dustrho. I’d say that was a pretty cool line up to share breakfast with! Over my left shoulder at the next table sat Jaws from the James Bond movies, and off to the left in front of us at the next table sat Lois Lane from the original Superman TV series back in the day.
In conclusion, it was great to meet up with everybody and to finally meet some new faces from the Forum and like I said before... This was one of the best shows yet, and I was glad to be a part of it. Most of the pictures were taken with my DV camera and because of the poor lighting I shot the footage in infrared just to be able to see anything. So the pictures are in black and white. PHOTO GALLERY
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After
breakfast we proceeded to set up our tables for the show. I enlisted
the help of dustrho to help me get the Outlander Club set up and he
was happy to oblige. It’s always fun to set this beast and to create
with the figures any situations you want. There’s plenty of room
inside and out and plenty of options of what you want to set up, I’m
glad dustrho got to experience that first hand. After we set the
diorama up we set our custom figures up for display. Dustrho brought
a very nice assortment of many different flavored Clones to appeal
to the masses, and appeal they did, he got loads of compliments. My
favorites were the swamp Troopers, outstanding! My boxed sets of
custom Clones fared very well in the compliment department also.
The
comments we heard most were WOW!, are they for sale, and how much do
you want for them. I think we might be on to something here dustrho!
Last thing we had to do was hang the very cool Sandtrooper banner
Spice had made up for the show. By! this time a nice line was
starting to form of people waiting for the show to open with a few
kids even sneaking over to get a look what was happening at the
Sandtrooper table. We were now ready to dazzle some eyes with our
creations and the creations of David Marks (aka Y-WingYager) custom
figures populating the inside of the Outlander Club. Dave I must
have said your name a hundred times when people were asking
questions about the diorama. Everybody loved the diversity in all
your customs a lot, and some people were even trying to guess what
figures you used to make certain customs.
After
dinner is when the real party started! We hung out until 3:30am in
the lobby of the Hotel with Ray Park, Mary Oyaya (Luminara), Doug
Wangler (QuinLan Vos), Lawrence Makoare (LOTR), Daniel Logan, and
Ari Lehman from the original Friday the 13th movie. We partied and
got to know each other and my son got to ask loads of questions of
things he was curious about. I mentioned that my Sons birthday was
Sunday, so at midnight they gave my boy a special birthday tribute
in one of the conference rooms. Ari Lehman played piano and we all
sang giving my son a birthday he’ll never forget. Those were his own
words. It was such a great time!