About four days ago, in a museum that is like two and a half hours drive from my house...
A vast sea of stars serves as the backdrop for the main title. War drums echo through the heavens as a rollup slowly crawls into infinity.
It is a period of time during the school holidays, when the amount of kids visiting Stars Wars related exhibitions is at a minimum. A small car, striking from my house, have travelled to a museum to view, among other things, models of ships from an evil Galactic Empire.
It is freaking hard to alter the script of A New Hope to fit with my trip to a star wars exhibition so I am going to stop now.
Ha! A wookie. The first floor the exhibition had all sorts of costumes and models from the Star Wars movie series. It was mostly stuff from the first three movies (i.e. the good ones) as the later movies had all the cool junk done by computers. The exhibition generally presented something from the movies, then tried to teach or show related stuff from real life. For example, here are some real life space ships.
Because real life is boring, I won't show you anything else from it. Seriously, just look outside. Until real life has star ships and lightsabers it is going to be boring. Here is some of the models they had there.
Either you know what they are, or you don't care so I won't bother naming them. I quite like models in general, for some reason "things that are smaller than the thing they are meant to be" is something I find amusing. These were no exception. The models were all behind glass so I didn't get to run around with them making pew-pew noises, which was really a great disappointment. Chipping the paintwork wouldn't bother me, as they are not even mine.
Now this things was awesome, it's the landspeeder used in the first movie, that is number four. It was made from some three wheeled English car, probably the type that followed Mr Bean around in the TV show 'Mr Bean'. They should have let me drive it around, that would have great. I would have done some shopping then complained about the lack of boot space. Even X-wings had space for your R2 unit.
Well isn't that rude... Luke has no pants and Obi Wan and C3PO have no legs. This was used to take distance shots, were apparently everyone had decided to rid themselves of pants or legs. I don't remember that part.
Here are some costumes:
Han and Chewie
Wampa ice creature and Snowtrooper (I went to check the internets to make sure I had the name correct and it seems someone has written 7500 words about Wampas)
Polar Explorer Steve
Mr and Mrs Tusken Raider
Jawa! I don't know wether this guy or Chewie were the best costumes on the first floor.
Darth Vader and Obi Wan
Sorry if I just spoilt the movie for you then...
Non-chewie Wookies, I don't know what their names are. Face it Wookies, if you ain't Chewie you ain't nothing!
Yoda! In puppet form I guess.
I had a picture of Mace Windu, but when I clicked rotate the picture disappeared so you miss out. Actually, all the Star Wars-ness has put me in a good mood.
How cool are purple light sabers? They are like blue and red combined!
There was some other junk on the first floor, but it is not as good as the stuff above. We were pretty unimpressed at the conclusion of the first floor as we didn't realise that there was a whole other floor beneath our very feet.
I have no idea when I first watched Star Wars, I wasn't born when the originals came out at the movies (or maybe I was for the last one). I assume it was when they were on TV sometime in the early 90's. The first time I can remember was on a rainy day at primary school, but I had seen them sometime before that. My something-th birthday party (7th? 8th?) was Star Wars themed and I came as Boba Fett. My mum helped me make a helmet, but I probably complained that it wasn't authentic to the movie. The movie one wasn't made from a tube of cardboard and Papier-mâché. Yes I looked up the pretentious spelling.
