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Tamer:

Life on the road was good! Pat's tom tom (notice the falcon icon) did a great job getting us to the right point and we glided into the motel right off the convention center. We arrrived very early 6:30 AM, but the motel was nice enough to allow us to check in and after a quick bite of breakfast we hit the sack for a few hours of much needed sleep! Needless to say I am too excited to sleep long, but figured it would probably be nice to put down some thoughts about this whole trip while it was fresh in my memory. 

The trip down was thankfully uneventful and I tried the litte 5 hour can of energy for the first time.  That little can hooked me right up and not one time did I even get remotely drowsy while driving the last leg in early this morning.  We didn't get to see much yet, but one thing we can say is that the convention center looks huge. I am thinking there is going to be more than ample space for an event of this magnitude.

The plan today is to check out said convention center, pick up a few passes, perhaps pick up our Last Tour To Endor tickets and try to determine the lay of the land for tomorrow.  Ofcourse we will be running galleries off the front page for what we find.  I will let you know what we find out later today!

Phatty:
well, we're back from our first excursion into the fray, as it were.  We went in to pick up our media badge and take a look around, and are we impressed!  There is more than enough room and rooms for all of the events taking place this weekend.  The staff on hand were exceptionally nice and pointed us in the right directions as we needed them.  As we walked about, we were admitted into the R2 Builder's room to take some advanced photos of the place and props, and it was incredible!  Even more incredible than that, was when we walked by the 501st room, and ran into none other than Steve Sansweet himself!  We shook his hand and said hello, and then realized after it was too late that neither of us thought to take a picture with the man, or even ask him a couple of questions!  I guess we were just too star struck.  Tamer got to view and take some pics with his AT-AT Walker, courtesy of the Belguim 501st.  I narrowly evaded an attack from a Wampa, and we got to cool off a bit as we scoped out the Hoth Ice Bar.  IN all, we're very excited about the coming attraction tomorrow, so stay tuned to more from the ISY Team, both on here and our Twitter account!  For images, coming soon and coming later, check out our Event page at

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Tamer:
It is just about the end of Day 1 of my Celebration V excursion and I am just wiped out. What a great day. Now I will admit it started out a bit rought as Pat and I had to stand in line for over an hour just to get into the event, but once we got in I had a pretty good day. Pat and I started off by looking at a few vendors on the way to Pat looking for his CV Exclusive Artwork while I wanted to get my ACME At-At Sketch Plate. Life looked good as I walked right in, handed ACME my reciept while Pat went around the back to look at all the artwork. It only took moments and my minty fresh Sketch Plate was in my hand and it looks outstanding! I had to admire the huge Falcon Sketch Plate (see picture gallery off the front page)  and if I had 1,500 smackers I didn't know what to do with that would be coming home too. Still, I was drooling.

From there I went to look for Pat around the corner and he was able to find the artwork he wanted. He was given a written on reciept and told he would have to pay and then come back and pick up the art from the various booths he bought art from. We found the end of the pay line and it was wound clear around the entire ACME Gallery which was quite some distance. So, I left Pat for a bit and headed off to check out Hasbro.

Now, I know I am Hoth biased, but that daggone Echo Base diorama was the finest piece of figure building diorama goodness I have ever seen. It had blinky lights everywhere. I could easily spend the rest of my time right there and leave happy. I actually was smart enough to make a video of the whole thing and while the commentary isn't the greatest take a look at the Youtube video we are loading up on it. After that I looked at all the new Hasbro product and was drawn to Target Ultimate Hoth Battlepacks. I am happy to report that the Attack BP has an At-St driver that looks like he could withstand Hoth at this point. I am also happy to report that the Defense BP looks as good as I had hope too. Bring them on.

Tamer:
Next, I was drawn to the vintage boxed ships and that Walker just seems like magic. I can't wait to get my hands on all three of them, but the Walker is magnificent. I think I would buy the box even if there wasn't a Walker in it.  I could write two more pages on Hasbro, but my highlight was talking with Daryl Depriest about Hasbro and he was a very down to earth guy and very willing to talk and interact with fans. While I was there he spent the whole time talking with kids and fans and you could tell he was just a genuine person who really likes what he does. He was also very appreciative of the work folks like us do to promote Hasbro products. Please make sure you take a look at the gallery for all the new Hasbro products and see the video presentation I made of the entire booth. I tried to be thorough, but please remember the Tamer isn't a movie star! I am working on it though. If there is something you Shipyarders wan't me to reshoot or look at more in depth send me a pm or tweet us.

Well, I know I spent hours at Hasbro so I went to look for Pat. Guess what, he was still in line at the ACME Gallery. I won't even get into detail how much time he waited, but Pat took it all in stride as he spent hours in that daggone line. I left him and went on other forays as you will see and finally the gave him a pass to come back later, but Pat got his art at almost the end of the day. I have to admit ACME didn't do a very good job of thier area. One cash register for thousands of fans is probably not a very smart idea.  Pass in hand we headed over to the CV store and picked up a few more goodies with no wait at all. 

Tamer:
We hit a few more vendors booths and made some plans for some further day looks. The amount of SW swag was immense and the only thing I didn't see was an MR Walker, which was probably a good thing. I did pick up a Hasbro Zuckuss and 4-Lom, a Cami and Fixer for Eric, and I just couldn't pass on the remote control flying Falcon after playing with it myself (once again see the videos if we can get them loaded).

Finally Pat got his art and we headed for the Collecting Panel on Prototyopes. Wayne would have loved this one and you wouldn't believe all of them there are. The Panel ended with the ole Tamer getting his Hothy Wampa Flakes. It was getting on towards 7PM and my dogs were tired and I was hungry so we headed out to see more again another day and to work on getting this stuff up for you folks to see. Overall, I loved it once I got into the actual place, but will admit the early waiting in lines was not fun.  Tomorrow is a new day and we have a new game plan.  We plan to hit a few more panels including the "Whats New from Hasbro" so, stay tuned for more! Now, I think I haven't been this tired in a long time, but what a good tired it is.

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