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Which is your favorite?

  • Episode IV: A New Hope

  • Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

  • Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

  • Episode I: The Phantom Menace

  • Episode II: Attack of the Clones

  • Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

  • Clone Wars Animated

  • Episode VII: The Force Awakens

  • Episode VIII: The Last Jedi

  • Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker

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Aravis Kenobi said:
I'm still spending the weekend at home moping that I can't be at Celebration (never have gone, but hoping to someday!), but this helped ease my sadness a bit. December hurry up!
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Don't feel bad. I live blocks away and all I could do is drive around it as I did not want to park in Convention Center Parking Lot. It was $15. I wanted to go but I only found out on Thursday, the day the event got underway and I already had a full work schedule Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and a family event on Sunday. I did see plenty of people dressed though. Jedi Knights a plenty, some Storm Troopers, and bunches of Mandalorians. I could not snatch a picture of any cause I was driving around and t here were too many police checking the traffic.

If you want to come next year, let me know. I will be your guide, and if you're up to it, we can plan it well and you'll have a place to stay within walking distance (about a mile or less). What do you say?
 
BarbarianKing said:
Don't feel bad. I live blocks away and all I could do is drive around it as I did not want to park in Convention Center Parking Lot. It was $15. I wanted to go but I only found out on Thursday, the day the event got underway and I already had a full work schedule Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and a family event on Sunday. I did see plenty of people dressed though. Jedi Knights a plenty, some Storm Troopers, and bunches of Mandalorians. I could not snatch a picture of any cause I was driving around and t here were too many police checking the traffic.

If you want to come next year, let me know. I will be your guide, and if you're up to it, we can plan it well and you'll have a place to stay within walking distance (about a mile or less). What do you say?
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Now I don't feel too bad about missing out. Only next year's is in London. :( Maybe year after? LOL. I may start saving now so I'm ready to go! :D I'm crossing my fingers to go to Weekends next spring/early summer; my sister and brother-in-law just *might* swing it so we get free passes into Disneyland (Florida), which is where Weekends are held! It's a long shot but I've still got my fingers crossed. ;)
 
Aravis Kenobi said:
Now I don't feel too bad about missing out. Only next year's is in London. :( Maybe year after? LOL. I may start saving now so I'm ready to go! :D I'm crossing my fingers to go to Weekends next spring/early summer; my sister and brother-in-law just *might* swing it so we get free passes into Disneyland (Florida), which is where Weekends are held! It's a long shot but I've still got my fingers crossed. ;)
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The next one is in London? Let's go there, or to Florida. Your choice. :)
 
I haven't. I saw part of an episode and wasn't all that interested...until I learned that a character from Clone Wars made an appearance at the end of Rebels. I also watched the trailer for season 2, and am now curious to watch Rebels. If you have the dvd service, I'm sure you can see it that way.
 
Hey. I hear that a Star Wars museum is going to open in Chicago, Illinois. I, uh, don't have an internet source. I heard it from a relative who lives in the area.
 
George Lucas said Friday that complications in his plan to build his Lucas Museum of Narrative Art on the Chicago lakefront may put Los Angeles back in the running.

Last summer, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti made a vigorous push to get the "Star Wars" creator to choose L.A., but the city lost out to Chicago.

"We still have to get through some lawsuits and things in Chicago," Lucas said during a recent phone call while promoting his upcoming animated feature, "Strange Magic."

"Once we make it through, we'll be on our way. But it's still a possibility that Chicago will be unable to do it," Lucas said.

The proposed Chicago site is adjacent to Shedd Aquarium and Field Museum on Lake Michigan, and, if all goes well, was expected to open in 2018.

In November, an environmental group, Friends of the Parks, filed suit against the museum in federal court, saying it would disrupt the ecosystem of the lakefront area.

If Lucas' Chicago plans fall through, he says he has his eye on other locations, including Los Angeles.

"The advantage Los Angeles has is that it's on the USC campus and I don't have to go through all the rigmarole of years and years of trying to get past everything," Lucas said. "That's an advantage because I do want to get it done in my lifetime."

Lucas turned 70 in May. But he hasn't given up on Chicago yet.

"I have faith in Chicago and [Mayor] Rahm [Emanuel], who is dedicated to making it happen," Lucas said. "But he's also coming up for election next month."

Eric Garcetti
Last summer, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti made a vigorous push to get the "Star Wars" creator to choose L.A., but the city lost out to Chicago.
That sound you hear is millions of Angeleno voices crying out for the museum, which would feature items from Lucas' personal collection, including "Star Wars" props and costumes.

Lucas has been known to pull the plug on plans in the face of concerted resistance. He tried to build a fully functioning studio up in Marin County's Lucas Valley for years.

"I'd been trying to build it for 25 years," Lucas said of the third expansion. The first, known as Skywalker Ranch, was built in the late 1970s. It later expanded to the adjoining Big Rock Ranch. But in 2012, Lucas faced local opposition to a third expansion.


"We were ready to go, everything was passed, we'd been approved and then at the last minute we had to bring it before the county board of supervisors and they said they wanted to study it for a couple more years. I said 'I'm starting the next "Star Wars" [movie] and I want to do it here. I have one year and I can't delay at all. They said they had to wait, so I said to hell with it."

"Now they're in England, where we were originally," Lucas said of the Disney-produced "Star Wars" sequel. "But since I sold the company [to Disney], it doesn't make that much difference to me anymore."

[Copied and pasted from Latimes.com]
 
I would love to see the museum there in Chicago; we get up that way now and then to visit the kids in Milwaukee. And I love the Shedd Aquarium and Field Museum. How great to have a Lucas museum right next door! But I wouldn't blame George at all for just giving up and moving the project to Los Angeles. Sounds like they want it more than Chicago does, anyway.

On a related note: we went to see Avengers over the weekend and saw the Star Wars Trailer! So exciting!
 
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