So what's going on with Celebration V?

[lazypadawan]

Steve Sansweet dropped a few things during tonight's The Forcecast show:

1. All six movies will be shown digitally during the con, two per night.

2. The Opening Ceremonies, or whatever they'll call it, is scheduled for Thursday afternoon and will have some "surprises."

Given how the opening ceremonies went at Celebration IV, I'll be 'surprised' if it's worth going to.

3. The Daily Show Live, er, Lucas's appearance is a one-off thing. There will be "plenty of seats" for attendees and an overflow room.

lazypadawan falls over laughing...yeah, I'll believe 'plenty of seats' when I see it.

4. Saturday is the last day to buy your passes and have them mailed to you.

5. Besides the Faux Wedding Chapel there will be...speed dating.

Oh NO. God, NO!!! Why are they so desperate to try and fix people up? To ensure there will be more generations of Star Wars customers?

6. The U.S. Postal Service will offer exclusive "Celebration Station" cancelled stamps.

So that's why they're jacking up stamps another two effin' cents?

7. The collectors' cereal boxes that will be given away at collecting panels are limited to 500 apiece.

But do they actually have cereal in them??

Comments

[ladyaeryn.livejournal.com]

Well, the film showing schedule certainly sounds like a step up from C4. (All six films on one night and one night ONLY, before anyone even shows up? Whatever.)

The speed dating... *facepalm* I can't say anything else, really.

[darth-pipes.livejournal.com]

"Oh NO. God, NO!!! Why are they so desperate to try and fix people up? To ensure there will be more generations of Star Wars customers?"

Well, how do you think LFL has managed to make billions off of Star Wars these past 33 years? ;)

[may-child.livejournal.com]

Wow, Lucas is even more devilishly clever than I thought. He's actually trying to create more SW customers by playing matchmaker for SW geeks!

[sreya.livejournal.com]

Wow... I'm wondering how many people will go to the speed dating to find someone to take to the "wedding chapel"...

Movie showings, woohoo! I was actually thinking the other day I should bring my DVDs along, but this is better. (I'm also going to load up my iPod with all my SW soundtracks, spoof music, and any fun vids I can find... hey, better to be prepared, right?)