Celebration Europe 2023!!!

[lejackal]

DLR is partially closed as well (although I don't think it impacts customs house)

 

[StarWarsFan]

Did you manage to sell them? Lyte were buying back 4 day passes and Sunday passes over the weekend. Unfortunately I feel asleep after work and missed the chance to get some of thr money back.

I doubt people will be looking for tickets now.

Another kick in the pants is that I asked my boss to cancel the days off I had booked. Work is incredibly busy and we are understaffed so I assumed he would be happy to have more people on but I had to remind him yesterday that he hadn't changed it and when he finally did it he didn't give me any shifts for those days.

I don't mind the kids of all this money but I won't even have had the fun that cost all the money,

Sorry to hear that mate

 

[StarWarsFan]

Yay, engineering works on Good Friday means I can't get the train! No idea how I'm going to get there now, driving from South West England to East London isn't that appealing If you are planning on getting the train, you might want to check what's running...

Good luck Edd

 

[StarWarsFan]

Good luck getting there

 

[UKS]

Im Here with my kids. It's far too packed. Can't see anything or doing anything. I've been wondering around and no one has checked any passes anywhere so far. Kids are grumpy and hot and stressed by the huge queues so we are dumping it and going outside to do something else. Echo is a 1000 times the event this is! What a waste of cash!

 

[UKS]

Eaten, sat down. Kids happier so giving it a bit longer

 

[StarWarsFan]

Im Here with my kids. It's far too packed. Can't see anything or doing anything. I've been wondering around and no one has checked any passes anywhere so far. Kids are grumpy and hot and stressed by the huge queues so we are dumping it and going outside to do something else. Echo is a 1000 times the event this is! What a waste of cash!

Sorry to hear that.

 

[UKS]

It improved once the crowds died down. It was too packed for the layout originally. The fan things were fun and the kids liked that - the couple of Lucasfilm things were ok in the end but nothing special. I bet sat and sun with Ewan, Hayden et al will be better. I was surprised how much the OT wasn't as prominent as I'd thought - and how multinational the audience was. Nearly
All the cosplayers were continental European.

 

[BabyAckbar]

Im Here with my kids. It's far too packed. Can't see anything or doing anything. I've been wondering around and no one has checked any passes anywhere so far. Kids are grumpy and hot and stressed by the huge queues so we are dumping it and going outside to do something else. Echo is a 1000 times the event this is! What a waste of cash!

That kind of worry is why I had not taken my nephew before.

 

[lejackal]

Great to finally meet @Clarkspie&chips

 

[BabyAckbar]

I had lost interest in even watching it on YouTube (just from disappointment of being so close to being there, not because I've become bitter or anything ) but I turned the live stream on without thinking and was there was that Anthony Cabimino guy for the Star Wars show.

I had completely forgotten about that group of fake cheer and chippy presenters - they would drive me mad if I was there walking about.

Can they be heard all over the venue?

I'm disappointed by the movie news - although the Mangold film could be great if the costumes, ships and other designs look very different to what we see in the OT and PT eras (the KOTR designs are the same as the the two movie ears) - Filoni's crossover event should be on on Disney+ and be a series, I can't see a movie be able to give any of the characters the screen time they deserve - and a Rey movie ? Dear God, I thought the Sequel Trilogy was behind us. And it being the story that Luke Skywalker should have had is a kick in the head.

None of the characters created for the ST were interesting, let alone be worthy of a film of if their own. The only positive thought I had after reading this news was at least it isn't Poe and Finn. I hope I haven't jinxed that though - hopefully Boyega is still bitter (not suggesting he deserved the racist abuse, hope he is bitter about the arc he got) and hopefully Issac doesn't need a new house.

 

[lejackal]

 

[StarWarsFan]

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Cool

 

[Cazza]

Great pics, thanks for sharing, Carl.

 

[Cazza]

I'm excited by this film news. 3 very different directions to take and a fresh start. Hope they bring Finn and Poe back. Let's see if they actually get made though, as Rogue Squadron hit the buffers quite quickly.

 

[BabyAckbar]

Hopefully the Mangold one makes it all the way.

I wonder if the Disney+ series crossover event was was shifted to a movie because of al the cost cutting streaming services are apparently doing.

I don't like that Rise of the First Order era on the timeline. Really thought Lucasfilm was going to back in time more and not beyond Mandolorian etc

 

[lejackal]

I'm excited by this film news. 3 very different directions to take and a fresh start. Hope they bring Finn and Poe back. Let's see if they actually get made though, as Rogue Squadron hit the buffers quite quickly.

No Rogue Squadron?!

 

[StarWarsFan]

More films oh goodie

 

[lejackal]

More films oh goodie

Are you sure you're a Star Wars fan?

 

[edd_jedi]

I was a bit disappointed today to be honest. It was very different to previous Celebrations for me as I took my son for the first time, so I couldn't watch any of the collecting track panels, chat to other collectors or look for things to buy for myself. I was impressed by how quickly we got in considering the size of the queue (photo below!) which took just under an hour. But I was shocked by how busy it was inside, they should only have let half as many people in. He enjoyed it which is the main thing.

 

[Cazza]

Are you sure you're a Star Wars fan?

No one hates Star Wars more than Star Wars fans!

 

[lejackal]

Not sure why, Picard was great!

No one hates Star Wars more than Star Wars fans!

 

[Cazza]

I was a bit disappointed today to be honest. It was very different to previous Celebrations for me as I took my son for the first time, so I couldn't watch any of the collecting track panels, chat to other collectors or look for things to buy for myself. I was impressed by how quickly we got in considering the size of the queue (photo below!) which took just under an hour. But I was shocked by how busy it was inside, they should only have let half as many people in. He enjoyed it which is the main thing.

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My first one was like this- took my nephew, who was 6 or 7 at the time. Didn't get to do or see a huge amount for myself, but we still had a great time.

 

[lejackal]

I was a bit disappointed today to be honest. It was very different to previous Celebrations for me as I took my son for the first time, so I couldn't watch any of the collecting track panels, chat to other collectors or look for things to buy for myself. I was impressed by how quickly we got in considering the size of the queue (photo below!) which took just under an hour. But I was shocked by how busy it was inside, they should only have let half as many people in. He enjoyed it which is the main thing.

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Glad your lad enjoyed it mate. I might be brave and take mine one day

 

[StarWarsFan]

Are you sure you're a Star Wars fan?

Yer but hated the new films they ruined Luke, Han and Leia IMHO

 

[lejackal]

Yer but hated the new films they ruined Luke, Han and Leia IMHO

Let go of the hate, you'll enjoy everything else that much more

 

[edd_jedi]

To be honest the bar was very high - I went to the previous two CE events. The 2007 one was pre-Disney so it was half as busy, everything was about the OT and prequels, and vintage toys were cheap(er) back then so I picked up loads of stuff for my collection. I went for all 4 days, for free because back then I got a complimentary press pass for running this forum! It was the first time I met any other collectors. It was all round amazing.

Then the 2016 one had a huge buzz about it because of the new films, and I didn't have any kids then so could stay for the evening drinks and room sales etc.

So of course this one was going to be worse in comparison to those. As a stand alone day out, it was fun I just wish it wasn't so busy as we couldn't really get near any of the stalls, and my son was disappointed that we couldn't go in the Lego shop as the queue was just too big.

 

[Cardbackkid]

I was very lucky and able to get in early at 8am so got to have a walk around and see everything before they opened the doors, managed to see a couple of collector tracks which was great Really enjoyed them! I didn't enjoy how packed it got apparently there was 35000 people attended ! I left around 3pm due to being too busy to really see anything, on a whole I had a good day but i agree with what Ed said above I enjoyed the first celebration London way more.

 

[BabyAckbar]

I was very lucky and able to get in early at 8am so got to have a walk around and see everything before they opened the doors, managed to see a couple of collector tracks which was great Really enjoyed them! I didn't enjoy how packed it got apparently there was 35000 people attended ! I left around 3pm due to being too busy to really see anything, on a whole I had a good day but i agree with what Ed said above I enjoyed the first celebration London way more.

35000 and it wasn't even sold out? How many people are expected today and tomorrow?

How were you able to get inside that early?

And what are collector tracks? They've been mentioned a few times in the thread. I've never been into the collecting side of it except for the action figures and those were for playing with.

I didn't know until scanning this thread that ordinary Joe soaps like myself go to Celebration to sell their own stuff. I thought all the stalls were for Hasbro, LEGO, etc

 

[lejackal]

35000 and it wasn't even sold out? How many people are expected today and tomorrow?

How were you able to get inside that early?

And what are collector tracks? They've been mentioned a few times in the thread. I've never been into the collecting side of it except for the action figures and those were for playing with.

I didn't know until scanning this thread that ordinary Joe soaps like myself go to Celebration to sell their own stuff. I thought all the stalls were for Hasbro, LEGO, etc

I mean you can sell your own stuff but at something like a grand a day you'd need a lot to shift.
The collecting track is basically fan led panels talking about different aspects of collecting. Download the celebration app for the schedule, they're one of the best things