Star Wars Weekends

Well, Star Wars Weekends 2009 is officially in the books.  I won't go into  my thoughts about the quality of this year's event here, as we have others way more qualified than I am on staff to wrap things up for the SWW website.  But I did want to say that I enjoyed frequenting this site for SWW info, and it was a pleasure to contribute when I had little tidbits to share.  I hope I'll have the opportunity to do so again next year as well.Read more

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Temuera Morrison (Jango Fett) will not be appearing. In his place will be Ashley Eckstein (the voice of Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars: The Clone Wars), who will join the Stars of the Saga motorcade and participate in autograph sessions at the following times:

9:45-10:45 a.m.
2:25-3:15 p.m.
4:15-5:15 p.m. (Friday and Saturday only)

Back from Star Wars Weekends? If you haven't already, send in your report! Let us know how Star Wars Weekend was for you this year and share any tips, stories, things to avoid, surprises and anything else of importance with everyone else.  If you have photos you'd like to send, you can email them to quickgold@studioscentral.com.

Don't forget you can read others' reports in our Weekend Reports section.

Just a quick shot to point out that starwars.com continues to hand out helpful information with this weeks planning guide.  You can check it out here:

http://sww.studioscentral.com/main/files/StarWarsWeekendsJune5-7LR.pdf

Steve Sansweet is not listed, but will be there.  Check the times we listed earlier this week.

As promised, here are the group shots from the Star Wars Weekend dinner from weekend 1.  Each photo is quite large in size (about 3.5 megabytes each).  Enjoy!

Photo 1

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Photo 3

Disney Public Relations has put out a fun teaser video all about Star Wars Weekends. Enjoy!

Steve Sansweet, head of Fan Relations of Lucasfilm, will be attending Friday, Saturday and Sunday of Weekend 3 (June 5-7).  Sansweet attended last year and was a big hit. Steve will be at Wicket's Warehouse where he'll be signing copies of his last two books, The Star Wars Vault and The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia. The books will be available for sale at the store, and Steve will be bringing along some cool give-aways.

Steve's schedule is:
Friday, June 5: 12:30 to 2:30 PM
Saturday, June 6: 1:30 to 3:30 PM
Sunday, June 7: 12:30 to 2:30 PM

The news today that Steve Sansweet, head of Lucasfilm fan relations, curator of Rancho Obi-wan and Author of both The Star Wars Vault and the Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia would be joining the celebrities attending Star Wars Weekends #3 has only solidified this as one of the better weekends for this year.  While weekend #1 is still tough to top for me, this falls as a very close second with Prowse, Bulloch, Sansweet, Matt Lanter, Jay Laga'aia  and Ashley Eckstein. Read more

With Star Wars Weekends 2009 in full swing, we have reached the mid way point of the event.  So far so good.  While the weather appears to have improved as of the 2nd weekend, weekend #1 still stands out as the early winner with Ray Park's Trip to the Maul being one of the best "extras".  Couple that with Studios Centrals 2nd Dinner Event, which included suprise guest Warwick Davis and even the Monsoon rains we experienced were no problem to deal with.  As a matter of fact, there was only one event that I missed due to the weather.  Due to my scheduling and the incredible rainfall (aliens were pairing off in twos and seeking out a space ship/ark for safety) I missed this years Hoopla.Read more