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Star
Wars Spectacular:
KJ’s Experience
Part I: Prelude
By KJ
July 26, 2004
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I read in the Comic-Con
International 2004 program that the Star Wars Spectacular
presentation on Saturday July 24 from noon to 2:00pm was endorsed
by Lucasfilm.
But my knowledge of the presentation stopped there. Most of the
other
Star Wars
presentations I had attended on previous days (ex. Star Wars author/editor
panel, LucasArts panel, Star Wars Hasbro
panel, etc.) were in rooms that could seat, maybe, 400-500 people.
I naively assumed that this “Star
Wars Spectacular” was going to be in the same size room.
Wrong. Actually, the room wasn’t even a room at all. It was
a hall (Hall H to be exact) that could seat about 6000 people.
Big difference.
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People near the back of the room getting settled a few minutes before
noon.
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| I arrived at Hall H maybe five or
ten minutes early, and the hall was packed. I chuckled when a voice
over the loudspeaker asked people
to deactivate their lightsabers during the show so that they would
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I asked several people sitting
in the chairs about halfway from the front, I asked several people
sitting in the chairs
about halfway from the front, “Is this seat taken?” and
each time I got a, “Yes it is, sorry,” in response. Well
scratch that idea.
I hastily decided I better snag a seat a little
more toward the back, before those seats got taken too! This isn’t
too bad, I thought as I found a seat, and there
were a few open seats next to me so I could reserve
one for my brother (he’s also a Star Wars nut), who
arrived a few minutes later.
While we were waiting for the stragglers to
get seated, and for the presentation to begin, I snapped a |
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Front view of the stage before the presentation begins.
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few pictures
of the crowd, as well as a few people in costumes.
Right
on cue, it seemed, the loud speaker boomed that there was to
be no photography during the presentation with the exception
of licensed members of the press.
I turned
off my camera,
satisfied with the pictures I had taken (which are displayed on
the right ), and hoped that the announcement meant that the presentation
was going
to
start
soon. Indeed, the house lights dimmed a few moments later, and Star
Wars Spectacular began.
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Boba Fett, and a sandtrooper on the left in background.
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