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Weekend #3, June 5-7 Info

Thu, 06/04/2009 - 13:16 — The Dark Lord o...
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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.

Comments

Tue, 06/09/2009 - 12:41 — lightningtyme
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Autographs

I have mixed feelings about what people bring in to be signed.


My first feelng is that if someone has waited on line since 4am, they should be allowed to have signed whatever the celebrity allows them to., even though it frustrates me as well. I saw many beautiful collectibles which iI was instantly jealous of.  Perhaps I can shead some light though on some of the more weird objects people want to have signed.


Canvas  - I personally have done this with sports stars. I paint in oils, and its much easier to bring in a blank canvas, then paint the image around the signature rather than spend weeks painting and image then bring the completed image in have have it possibly be damaged. Even if the blank canvas is small or becomes damaged it can be matted to hide the  dmage or in the case of a canvas be restretched. For me to bring in a small peice of Illustration board to have signed, then paint the image on a sperate board I can mat them both to make the two look like one completed image (as if the celebrity signed the painting.


Stamps - People collect stamps. I have 3 sets of the Star Wars stamps, and I'm not a stamp collector. I honestly think that the stamps are a pretty neat idea, especially if thats hwt you collect.


T-shirts- I couldn't agree more. these guys aren't sports stars so its not like you're getting a team to sign something. I feel the same about the standard headshots the give away at the park. It kills me to have these people in front of guys will really old stuff with dozens of signature on it. But, if they're up and in line before me, I guess thats the way it goes.


We should start a blog about the coolest stuff we saw at the weekends!

Tue, 06/09/2009 - 22:42 — lornebcook

I'm just saying...

I was just using those items as examples. I still don't believe in getting stamps signed. It's not practical.

Wed, 06/10/2009 - 00:20 — lightningtyme
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see your point

believe me it does break my heart to see the guys with really old merchandise signed by most of the cast and they just need Prowse's signature to complete the picture and they're sweating it out because the guy in front of them wants the standard b&w signed.

Sun, 06/07/2009 - 22:02 — lornebcook

Star Wars Weekend #3

Hey guys,


This weekend was a blast. It hardly rained. The lines were well maintained. Everyone was cool. I got a total of 3 fastpasses (1 prowse (second session) and 2 bulloch (first and second session), and 2 standbys, 1 prowse and 1 bulloch). Prowse's line was EXTREMELY long (like almost out to the parking lot). Bulloch's was suprisingly shorter then I thought it was going to be. Oh yeah, and I think Jay La'gia was there too? (lol). I ended up giving away my extra standby to a child that had special needs.


PS, I used my Prowse Standby first in the first autograph session, and got in, shockingly. Folks, I was number 74!!!


At 1pm, I went to see Steve Sansweet and get his autograph. That was too sweet because when I got there, there were only 2 people in line and they were just chatting it up. No fastpass needed. Awesome. PS, annoucements for Celebration 5 will be announced in then next few months.. Think about this. Steve was a last minute add, right? Was he scoping out Orlando as the site for CV? Hmmmmm? I say yes. I asked him if he could ask Frank Oz to come, and he said "We have been asking him for years, but he is just too busy. Maybe with this Celebration being so big he might be able to attend to not only sign autographs, but to do Q&A sessions as well."


Is it just me, or does it bother anyone else about the things people bring to have signed? I have seen...


-canvas (yep, just a blank canvas)


-stamps


-a backpack (I hope you see my point...)


It just bothers me. You would be better off getting a headshot signed then bringing nonsense like this stuff. I saw one lady with a boba fett bust about as big as my hand. How is Jeremy Bulloch supposed to sign that???  There should be a castmember at the front of the line checking to see if the things that people bring to get signed pass a 'is it worthy' test. "You want a t-shirt signed? Get out of my line, sir." The other thing is the people that walk by the autograph table and ask if they can get an autograph. Are you serious? I was here at 5am to secure my place and you want to saunter up and get Boba Fett's sig to satisfy your whiny 2 year old, huh?I have a New Hope poster that now has 100+ autographs on it. My pride and joy. I brought that to Prowse and he stopped and looked at the names . "Phil Brown? Dead. Peter Cushing? Dead. Micheal Sheard? Dead." He really said that, and I thought that was hilarious. He asked me how long I have been collecting these autographs and I said about 10 years now. He was impressed as was Sansweet. Sansweet looked at it for about 10 minutes in awe. See, to me, that's impressive. Impressing someone with the world's largest SW collection. If you didnt get a chance to meet Steve, I think you missed out on great conversation.

Tue, 06/09/2009 - 01:18 — The Dark Lord o...
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I think you are spot on about

I think you are spot on about things here.  Weekend #3 was a great time!  Prowse was great.  I actually got to see him twice... partially to correct a mistake of my own in the autograph department (a story for another time).  In both cases I got in to see him in first session with Standby's. 


Sansweet was very cool to talk to.  He is always looking at things, just for something different.  I was wearing a button that I had made up for a lunch we had for a group of people.  The button was Star Wars themed and he immediately asked me about it.  I had brought my Star Wars Poster  Book for him to sign and he started telling me about a rare complete set of original Hungarian posters that had just gone on sale on Ebay.  The great thing is that he gets as excited talking about it as any of us.  I guess that is suprising seeing as he has more than about anyone else.  He was tremendous.


I also checked out Ryder Windham this weekend and had a neat visit with him.  He went out of his way to help me with the signing of my book (again a story for another time) and I'm very appreciative of his efforts.


Again, a GREAT weekend!