This Qui-Gon doll has been all over the world... meeting people on behalf of The Jedi Assembly. This weekend he spent having fun at Norwescon
http://www.thejediassembly.com/

Now found here: http://redharp.smugmug.com/StarWars/2013-0128-ALA-Troop/29186534_zhtQqS

Garrison Titan and Alpha Base were invited to appear with authors at the American Library Association winter meeting in Seattle. Bob also brought his R2D2.

Garrison Titan and Alpha Base supported a food drive held at Bobakahn Toy Store in Everett.

Photos from the local area in the Insider.

Barnes & Noble Northgate Mall Charity troop. Product purchased during the bookfair benefited a school. We were there to have our photos taken with the guests and sign autographs.

Garrison Titan and Alpha Base join forces for good.

Garrison Titan (501st) and Alpha Base (Rebel Legion) appeared in support of author book signings for DK. Authors were Ryder Windham and Jason Fry.

Emerald City Comicon http://www.emeraldcitycomicon.com/

The three local Star Wars costuming groups worked together for a charity fundraising photo booth and had info tables.

Emerald City Comicon http://www.emeraldcitycomicon.com/

The three local Star Wars costuming groups worked together for a charity fundraising photo booth and had info tables.

Emerald City Comicon http://www.emeraldcitycomicon.com/

The three local Star Wars costuming groups worked together for a charity fundraising photo booth and had info tables.

Alpha Base and Garrison Titan are back to support the appearance of a working R2D2 at the NW Modeler's weekend at the Museum of Flight. R2D2 build by Master Modeler Bob Jacobsen

Alpha Base and Garrison Titan supported the appearance of a working R2D2 at the NW Modeler's weekend at the Museum of Flight. R2D2 build by Master Modeler Bob Jacobsen

Garrison Titan, Alpha Base and the Mercs helped promote a food drive on Mercer Island. The manager is a Star Wars fan and used the occasion of the 3D release of EP I this weekend to run a Star Wars themed food drive. We've worked with him before.

Make-A-Wish put together a surprise flash mob as a part of Alex's MISSION POSSIBLE: ROBOT PROTOCOL wish. Alex wants to bring peace to others and he believes robots will help us accomplish this. Part of his robot mission will take place in the BioRobitcs lab at UW. We met him to escort him to the center of UW's Red Square where the mob danced a robot dance. There were several people in home made robot costumes. Garrison Titan and Alpha Base were asked to be there as Alex is also a big Star Wars fan.

Found today at JoAnn's, where they are 40% off!

I used both the new flannel Star Wars prints and some others I've had for years to make 9 pillowcases for the Mary Bridge Childrens Hospital. They are collected at Sew Expo
http://www.sewexpo.com/pillowcase-patrol.htm
http://www.multicare.org/foundations/pages/sewing--stitchery-expo

Found today at JoAnn's. These are 100% cotton flannel, found in the "licensed fabrics" area.

Garrison Titan, Cer'kurshi Clan and Alpha Base join forces to help promote a book drive.

The three sister groups, 501st, Rebel Legion and Mando Mercs, assisted a local charity with a photo booth fund raiser.

Our collective Star Wars groups were asked to entertain the participants of the Buddy Walk. Garrision Titan, Alpha Base (me) and the Mercs came to support the fund raising efforts of the Downs Syndrome organization. My photos are mostly us horsing around.

Garrison Titan, Alpha Base and Mandolorian Mercs, Seattle's three Star Wars Costuming groups, participated in the "Star Wars - Where Science meets imagination" Science With a Twist party at the Pacific Science Center.

Garrison Titan, Alpha Base and Mandolorian Mercs, Seattle's three Star Wars Costuming groups, participated in the "Star Wars - Where Science meets imagination" members-only preview and party at the Pacific Science Center on Friday and then the Grand Opening on Saturday morning

Garrison Titan and Alpha Base were there with information tables and the charity photo booth. The first photos are the Star Wars groups and the rest are around the Con

Garrison Titan and Alpha Base were there with information tables and the charity photo booth. The first photos are the Star Wars groups and the rest are around the Con

This is the first year that Comicon opened on Friday. Garrison Titan and Alpha Base were there with information tables and the charity photo booth. The first photos are the Star Wars groups and the rest are around the Con

Ultrasabers had the Prophecy model on sale for $75 and immediate delivery. Given that my Parks is dead, I impulsively order it. I am very happy I did. The blade is extremely bright. The saber is lighter than the Parks and doesn't drag my belt down. I modded it a little with o-rings to break up the look of the metal.

We were invited to the Pacific Science Center to promote the upcoming Star Wars exhibit.
http://www.pacsci.org/starwars/

Though 10-10-10 (42 in binary) is the meaning of life, helping others gives meaning to live. Garrision Titan and Alpha Base members staffed a food drive at a local store. We filled 5 grocery carts.

This is a new special-edition book and accessories put out by Lucas. I've focused (so to speak!) on the comments in the margins written by Qui-Gon Jinn.

http://www.amazon.com/Jedi-Path-Manual-Students-Force/dp/1603800964/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285911589&sr=1-1

Garrison Titan and Alpha Base supported the KCTS (public TV) pledge drive during the broadcast of "The Making of Star Wars in Concert".

Once again, Garrison Titan off the 501st and Alpha Base of Rebel Legion had a booth at the con. Titan ran a photo booth to raise money for a children's clinic. AB helped.

Alpha Base and Garrison Titan accepted Lucas Film's invitation to support the one night Seattle stop on this event's Tour.

Garrison Titan and Alpha Base supported Star Wars at three venues. In the morning was the Pottery Barn Kids promotion of the Star Wars bedding products. The afternoon had us at two separate places to support the release of the Star Wars Lego Encyclopedia

Emerald City ComiCon held at the Seattle Convention Center. Garrison Titan of the 501st and Alpha Base of the Rebel Legion had information tables. Garrison Titan ran a photo booth with the proceeds donated to charity.

Garrison Titan and Alpha Base provided excitement for a child's birthday party at the Museum of Flight. Parents are benefactors of the museum and made a donation to our charity.

made by "machinedFx"
http://machinedfx.blogspot.com/

This event was at the request of Lucas film. The request was for only 4 costumers: 1 from Rebel Legion (LadySonnet in Battle Padme), 1 from The Jedi Assembly (JediKai) and 2 from the 501st (ID 1098 - Officer and TK 8151 - Stormtrooper). It promoted the release of the new Star Wars bedding.

The line for photos with us was around the block! All but the Hiro photos here by Badger.

The animated feature opened this weekend.

Alpha Base and Garrison Titan attended Seattle ComiCon. GT ran a photo booth which earned a lot of money for a children's charity.

http://www.emeraldcitycomicon.com/

This is a new style as discussed by Dave ("saberbelt") on Rebel Legion and The Jedi Assembly forums. The wide belt slides through a keeper riveted to the back. The accent belt is functional and is pulled through the keeper at the back and then tightened in front. Included is a description of how I made the belt. Click on each thumbnail for the larger image and a description of the process.

Only spent one day at the convention.

used some licensed Vader fabric to make up the small bag pattern I purchased at Sew Expo.

made of heavy brown cotton, lined with vinyl. It's the second bag I've made of this design and it still needs some work. The vinyl is white because I'm tired of not being able to see items in the bag because of a dark lining.

made a lined messanger bag our of licensed fabrics.

Took some posed images with props.

Once again Garrison Titan staff organized a toy drive and which Alpha Base supported. This one benefited Toys for Tots.

This year's theme was Star Wars, in honor of the 30th anniversary.

It arrived today, after 3 months of waiting.

We supported King Co. Library at Crossroads Bellevue mall by handing out free books for The Big Read event. http://www.kcls.org/thebigread/

This was my second time. First photos are Star Wars costumes. Next group is other costumes. Lastly there are some photos from the hotel, etc.

Author Terry Brooks signed his Episode I novelization as well as his other books. Walden Books at Southcenter celebrated 30 years of Star Wars. Garrison Titan and Alpha Base supported the event.

Alpha Base & Garrison Titan had fan tables again this year. Alpha Base members were also "pros" and were presenters. Other members entered and won in the Masquarade.

Interesting Hall costumes in the last half of the album

R2D2 Mailbox is in Southcenter Mall. Garrison Titan and Alpha Base met up in costume for a photo shoot.

Scoped it out today. Photoshoot planned for the weekend.

My second character costume is finally (almost) finished. Badger made the helmet. I finished the costume last night. The Hasbro RFT blaster arrived today but needs to be repainted.

The ALA held their meeting in Seattle. We came out to support a reception at the Science Fiction Museum. Timothy Zahn & R.A. Salvatore were there.

Garrison Titan and Alpha Base added Star Wars fun to the event at the store
http://www.comicbookcafe.net/

Exhibit comes to OMSI, Portland from 10/11/06 through 1/1/07. The 501st Legion, Rebel Legion and The Jedi Assembly are providing costumed volunteers to enhance the visitors' experience.

Exhibit comes to OMSI, Portland from 10/11/06 through 1/1/07. These are photos of the exhibit on opening weekend.

Exhibit comes to OMSI, Portland from 10/11/06 through 1/1/07. The 501st Legion, Rebel Legion and The Jedi Assembly are providing costumed volunteers to enhance the visitors' experience.

The first images are from the day of the volunteer orientation.

This was my first Dragon*Con www.dragoncon.org
Please add a comment on the photo (comments are private--only I can see them) if you have something to add to a caption, if you'd like a copy of the hi-res "original", or if you would prefer I remove the image.

It was a case of "mad dogs and Englishmen". It was about 85 degrees and Badger had his oven on to vacuform plastic. It was worth it...4 of us came away with nearly complete RFT helmets.

George Lucas was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. Rob Coleman (animation director for Lucasfilm) accepted on George's behalf.

We were invited to assist with Free Comic Book Day at Comic Book Ink in Tacoma. They made a donation to Make-A-Wish in our name in return.

Album starts with Alpha Base & Garrison Titan images. At the end are images of other costumes.

Badger competed in the Masquerade

Alpha Base & Garrison Titan shared a lobby table. I also put up tables for Jedi Assembly and LJ hp_seattle.

Alpha Base is a Star Wars Rebel costuming group. www.alpha-base.org

These are photos of the members in their costumes. There are more members, but I do not have photos yet. Some of those pictured here are also not yet official members of Rebel legion. They are labeled by their screen names (if they have one) in our message boards. At the end are some of the padawans and younglings affiliated. They cannot be members but they sometimes attend with their parents. At the very end are those members no longer active or who moved away.

We are the Washington State chapter of the Rebel Legion www.rebellegion.com

Alpha Base, Garrison Titan and Cloud City Garrison members met up for an afternoon of fun. Couldn't walk 2 feet but we were stopped to have our photos taken. This was the first event for Starska and RanHundai

Garrison Titan and Alpha Base support Mr. Zahn's booksigning at the University of Washington bookstore. He signed his latest Star Wars novel, Outbound flight.

A few members of Alpha Base got together to work on costumes.

Garrison Titan and Alpha Base team up for a second Toy Drive at the Northgate TRU. This one benefits Childs Play
http://www.childsplaycharity.org

Garrison Titan and Alpha Base joined forces for a toy drive to benefit Treehouse, which serves foster children. http://www.treehouse4kids.org

Here are almost 300 images. I've set the permissions to allow download of the full resolution image. However, as of August 2012, fotki is not longer keeping these available. So if you want the full resolution image, please comment on it with your email address (I'm the only one who sees comments). I'll email it to you.

These are a few images as I opened the limited edition book for the first time. I had #781, signed by Trish Bigger. I decided it was a disappointment and sold it to another dedicated costumer who is more interested in Padme costumes.... I bought it in hopes of getting lots of detail on the Jedi costumes. While there are fabric swatches, there are only 2 sentences in the entire book with any information on the actual fabrics used. The only details on construction are what can be guessed at from the, admittedly, excellent photos. Most of my major questions went unanswered as the photos don't show enough. For the money, I would have thought there would be more details, since it is mostly serious costumers who will spend $350 on this book. I decided it made more sense for me just to have the $50 version

I've edited the settings to allow anyone to download the full sized images (shot at 6.2 mp so 2-3 mb)

Alpha Base and Garrison Titan team up again to support a worthy cause.

Garrison Titan's Dishnu organized our joint (Garrison Titan & Alpha Base) participation in the Seattle SeaFair Torchlight parade.
Darth Vader is Grand Marshall!

We combined the crash commercial promotion of the 3day Blind Star Wars line with a food drive for NW Harvest.

Garrison Titan and Alpha Base arranged to attend the digital showing of Ep III. We came early to entertain the customers at Monroe's new Gallaxy 12 theater. We also demonstrated the Master Replica's lightsabers.

Nate, the manager at Newcastle QFC is a huge Star Wars fan. He organized a food drive for Northwest Hunger and asked us to come.

Garrison Titan and Alpha Base again teamed up to volunteer to help with the charity premier.

Garrison Titan and Alpha Base came out to support the Bellevue Toys-R-Us for the Midnight Madness release of the EP III Star Wars toys.

Bellevue TRU is the store that so generously supports our December toy drives.

Norwescon occurs every year at SeaTac, near Seattle. It is a Science Fiction convention. Alpha Base had an information table again this year. However the Star Wars presence wasn't as large as other years. I've placed the Star Wars photos all on the first page. The remaining pages have photos of other interesting costumes.

We had the largest turn out ever with 12 people.

Once again, Garrison Titan organized a toy drive and Alpha Base came to help out.

They total donation of toys was just over $3000. They will be given to Treehouse for foster children.

Garrison Titan organized a toy drive to benefit Child's Play ( http://www.childsplaycharity.org ) which gives toys to children in hospital.

Alpha Base Rebels helped out.

Alpha Base and Garrison Titan came out to support an event at the new Science Fiction Museum.

Once again Alpha Base visited Seattle Children's Hospital. We played with the children and talked Star Wars with those interested.

Despite getting to bed so late, I awoke at 0800. Once PadmeAmanda was dressed in her handmaiden costume, I took formally posed photos of it for her records. Then we got to the Con about 1100. I was scheduled for 1200-1600 in the Lucas booth. I worked my shift and nearly went down with heat problems. Drank a lot of water once I got off and then some gatorade. Took a cool shower and felt much better. A friend came down from Orange County and we went out to dinner.

The highlight of Saturday was Steve Sansweet's "Star Wars Extravaganza". It was in a hall that held 6700 people. As people were filing in an announcer kept reminding them to turn off cell phones, that photos weren't allowed, etc. My favorite "Con Moment" was when he added, "Please turn off your lightsabers during the video presentation". Ha! Lots of people had the electro-luminescent lightsaber blades that glow very brightly in the dark. Hence the request. But only at a Star Wars convention...!

They showed lots of great footage from the filming of Ep III. We saw long scenes of the fierce lightsaber battle between Obi-Wan and Anakin.

The VP for Marketing told us that the new DVD's of Ep IV-VI will have a 4th disc with content from the archives that "nobody has". It will have some featurettes, one of which will be the history of the lightsaber. It will have more character development and reveal some "secrets" about the characters.

Carrie Fischer was a guest. She answered questions about some of the extra content added for the DVD.

The 1st 20 Clone Wars cartoon series will come out on DVD but instead of being 5 minutes each they will have extra content making them 12 minutes each. This will take the story line right up to the beginning of Ep III. These will be released about Easter time 2005.

Celebration III will be 21-24 April, 2005 in Indianapolis.

The producer, Rick McCallum, came in from London to speak to this con. The surprise guest was Hayden Christianson. They showed film of him putting on the Vader costume. It actually gave me chills!

And during the Q&A session, a Rebel Legion member ("Danakin") who has made an Ep III Anakin costume and whose appearance is very similar to Hayden's, was the first to step up to the mike to ask a questions. Hayden did a bit of a doubletake and quipped, "That's a good look". He was asked how long it took to get into and whether it was hot. He said it took 4.5 hours, which amazed us as we have friends who wear Vader costume and it only takes them about a half hour. And, duh, it IS a very HOT costume.

Trailors for Ep III will be in theaters about November 2004.

Rick was asked about whether Mace Windu will have a role in EP III (well, Samuel L. has already said in interviews that he has a satisfyingly spectacular death). Rick McCallum said....and this was a huge plot twist for me!....."Mace is the pivotal point that starts to turn this lad" (meaning the point that starts to turn Anakin to the Dark Side). Hmmm......

And at the end of the presentation was what we all expected would happen.... Steve Sansweet revealed the title of Ep III to be Revenge of the Sith. The Tshirts went on sale immediately after the presenation.

Another highlight of Saturday was the Masquarade. LadySonnet entered her spectacular hand embroidered Amidala gown from Ep I. Julie and PadmeAmanda made wonderful hand stamped velvet handmaiden costumes. The Maquarade is actually a formal costume contest. As I said above, the crowd was really tough. They didn't actually "boo" but they did an equivalent thing. Our friends did win "Most Beautiful". I didn't get a photo, but someone else did:

http://images.cosplay.com/showphoto.php?photo=174752&sort=1&size=medium&cat=9033&page=11

Friday was rather a blur. It was Star Wars Day. I attended only one Panel which was an update on Fan Club activities. I took some photos of others in costume. I hung about the Rebel Legion booth. There are about 80,000 people in attendance and the air conditioning on the convention floor was not up to the job. So it was uncomfortably hot.

On Friday night I attended the 501st-Rebel Legion-FanForce dinner. There were about 60 people. Some of the actors attended along with some Lucas staff.

DarthNoll, PadmeAmanda and I shared a very nice room at the Omni. This was a brand new hotel right across the street from the Convention center. Since DarthNoll had to get up on Thursday at 0400 to be at the Center by 0500, PadmeAmanda and I decided to go, too. This was an in-costume activity to provide interest for the TV stations filming at the Con prior to it's opening. No photos of that but others in our group saw us on the am news.

We worked there until about 0900. We went back to to the room to change into street clothes and meet the rest of the group for breakfast.

Than back to the hotel to change into our Harry Potter costumes. Got back to the Con about 1300. We never actually had everyone together but there were usually about 4-5 of us at any one time. We could hardly walk 10 feet but someone wanted to take a photo. However, I didn't get any.

Along with those in our group who are entered, I attended the panel on the Masquarade. My favorite quote from an experienced costumer about why she no longer enters: "The nausea [from nerves] isn't worth the crowd response". It's a very tough crowd, as we discovered later. It's actually a VERY RUDE crowd. They were rude even at the panel....at least some of the apparent "friends of" the panelist were so.

I had a good deal of fun attending the Lucas Fan Film Awards. My fav one the Audience Appreciation Award. That would be "Pink Five Stikes Back"