Celebration VI Store Merchandise at ThinkGeek

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Published on: September 27, 2012

If you missed out on some of the offerings from the Celebration VI store, you may be in luck; ThinkGeek now has several items available on their website.

Included are the talking Admiral Ackbar plush, Gamorrean Guard Piggy Bank, Tauntaun Hobby Horse, Jar Jar Whoopee Cushion, Salt & Pepper shakers and the Death Star paper lantern.

The prices are the same as they were in the store but now you’ll have to pay shipping.  Not sure how limited these may be so if you’re interested, we’d advise heading over and putting in your order and not waiting too long.

Celebration VI Diorama Workshop: Return to Tatooine

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Published on: September 3, 2012

Return to Tatooine Diorama WorkshopFrank Diorio has been creating awesome dioramas at Celebration since 2002 and this year’s was the most ambitious: Return to Tatooine.

Over the weekend we took over 80 photos of the diorama and wrapped it up with a half hour long video of the final layout before it was dismantled.

All of the photos and the video, in two parts, can be seen on our Celebration VI, Return to Tatooine Diorama page.

Celebration VI The Ultimate Action Figure Collection w/ Steve Sansweet

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Published on: September 2, 2012

Star Wars: The Ultimate Action Figure CollectionOn Thursday afternoon at Celebration, Steve Sansweet hosted a panel on his upcoming book, “Star Wars: The Ultimate Action Figure Collection.”  With input from Dan Curto and Paul Harrison of Jedi Temple Archives, the book looks to track all the Kenner and Hasbro action figures from the Star Wars toy lines.

The 350 page book, which is due out November 1st, is arranged by character and includes all the major releases and variants that have come out over the years.  When setting out to put together the book, Steve worked with Dan and Paul to come up with an accurate count of how many figures have been released and they came up with approximately 2,300.  They discounted changes in accessories and unintentional paint variations and only counted intentional changes to previous releases and newly sculpted or kitbashed figures to arrive at that number.  They also discounted card releases as all of the figures in the book are loose.

Originally, Jabba the Hutt was not included in the book as he was thought of as a creature rather than a character.  Since he has a speaking role, Steve fought for his inclusion so he’s now in the book.  During the writing, they also discovered that Luke Skywalker has had the most unique releases of figures over the years.

The book covers the line of action figures from the original Kenner releases in 1978 through approximately June of this year.  Single carded releases, pack-in figures, multipacks, comic packs, basically every figural release were counted to make the book as comprehensive as possible.

Steve and his team talked about how compressed the timeline was for production of the book.  They started in the summer of 2010 and received the go ahead in December of 2011, but were only given 10 days to turn in a sample.  After that, their deadline was February 24, 2012 to have the draft turned in.  The amount of work in cataloging the figures, photographing them and writing the text is hard to get your head around.

Several sample pages were shown during the panel along with a look at some of the setups for the cover and photos that turned out to be used as filler inside the book.

If you are a fan of the Kenner and Hasbro lines of action figures, “Star Wars: The Ultimate Action Figure Collection” will be a must for your reference library.  The book is available for pre-order now from Amazon.com for only $25 (as of this writing) while the MSRP is $40.

Celebration VI Around the Floor

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Published on: September 2, 2012

There were a lot of companies and sights to see at Celebration VI but not all of them need their own post so this is kind of a catchall for various booths and attractions.

Celebration VI Banner Death Star AT-AT Rancor Rancor

Between the official Celebration banner, 501st Rancor and the Belgium dioramas, there were a lot of photo opportunities for everyone, whether they were in costume or not.

Acme Archives The Art of Ralph McQuarrie Dave Dorman Jason Palmer Studios

Acme Archives ran not only the Art Show but also had a booth selling their exclusive art. Several artists, including Dave Dorman and Jason Palmer, had their own booths and were in good company near The Art of Ralph McQuarrie.

Cartamundi Booth Cartamundi Royal Flush Cartamundi Ace of Spades

Cartamundi gave away a set of Royal Flush cards and also sold framed sets along with “The Ace of Spaces Collection” which featured all the Ace of Spades cards from their playing card sets.

Camp Planner International Camp Planner International R2-D2 Chair Camp Planner International Death Star Beanbag Chair booth at Celebration VI

New to the Star Wars game, Camp Planner International had several styles of folding chairs along with an excellent Death Star bean bag chair in their booth.

Comic Images Super Deformed Plush Comic Images Backpacks

Fans of plush collectibles didn’t have to limit themselves to the store for a basket of baby Ewoks, Comic Images brought a huge selection of their deformed characters along with several styles of their backpacks.

Galerie Booth Galerie Booth Galerie Booth

Galerie, who makes novelty candy collectibles, had a large booth where they showed off all types of mugs and candy dispensers that you should be able to find around the holidays at stores such as Target, Walmart and Toys R Us.

Mimoco USB Flash Drives Super 7 Nerdist News

Mimoco brought a large selection of their USB flash drives while Super 7 showed off their Star Wars wallpaper and Nerdist Industries advertised their online video channel.

Schoolastic, Inc Booth Schoolastic, Inc Darth Vader Pop-up Schoolastic, Inc Millennium Falcon Pop-up Schoolastic, Inc Young Reader Books

Schoolastic, Inc was just one of the publishers in attendance and at their booth you could see their innovative 3D pop-up books along with early reader books and guides to Lego sets and minifigures.

The Prop Store Museum Replicas

The Prop Store had a large display of pre-production artwork, costume pieces and props on display and for sale while Museum Replicas touted their line of high end costumes and accessories.

Disney Carbon Freeze Me Experience Disney Store

Disney brought the Carbon Freeze Me chamber to Celebration and there were long lines all weekend of fans looking to be “frozen” in Carbonite.  They also had a store section to their booth where they debuted a new series of action figures, sold an exclusive Vinylmation Princess Leia and offered other park exclusives.

Autograph Hall Autograph Hall at Celebration VI Tattoo Show

Finally, the Tattoo Show was busy all weekend with the buzz of ink going on fans and the Autograph Hall attracted fans of all ages with the opportunity to meet their favorite actors and actresses from the Star Wars saga.

Celebration VI Greater Florida Lego Users Group Dioramas

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Published on: September 2, 2012

Yesterday we posted photos of GFLUGs custom Lego builds and today we have video for you.  Several large diorama pieces were shown off along with the smaller builds and some included moving parts and features that needed video to capture it all.

Celebration VI Cosplay

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Published on: September 1, 2012

Cosplay is huge at all types of conventions these days and Celebration is no exception.  From armored members of the 501st to Jedi to Bounty Hunters to random cute girls in skimpy Chewbacca outfits, you can’t walk more than a few feet without seeing someone in costume.

Costumes range from the simple to full body painted Darth Talon to 7′ tall Chewbacca to a pair of AT-STs with drivers.  These are just a few of the people in costume during the weekend.

Celebration VI Vegetable Carving

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Published on: September 1, 2012

In the Fan Club area of the floor was a booth by Japanese artist showing off his carving skills with vegetables.  Some of the incredible things he created over the weekend included an X-Wing Fighter, busts and an entire Jabba the Hutt on his dais.

Celebration VI Greater Florida LEGO Users Group

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Published on: September 1, 2012

The Greater Florida LEGO Users Group (GFLUG) showed off some excellent custom Lego ships, buildings and dioramas at Celebration.  Some included moving parts and animated vehicles and their custom Star Destroyer was a show stopper.

The photos don’t do the creativity justice, you need to see these creations in person to really see the creativity that went into some of the builds.  The photos below are presented in higher resolution than some of the other galleries in order to show off the work.

We’ll have a video later showing some of the bigger dioramas that featured animated characters and vehicles.

Celebration VI R2 Droid Builders

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Published on: September 1, 2012

R2-D2The R2 Droid Builders Club has become nearly as popular as the 501st when it comes to displays at Celebration.  Once again, the Droid Builders room was full of fully automated astromech droids as well as displays for photo ops and plenty of behind the scenes looks at how the droids are created.

Celebration VI Think Geek

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Published on: September 1, 2012

Think Geek has become a fan favorite over the last couple of years so it was nice to see them with a booth at Celebration VI.  The creators of the Tauntaun Sleeping Bag had an assortment of items ranging from the family car window stickers to their new Death Star tea infuser.

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