New Star Wars Celebration Europe Blog

New from their Myspace Blog - Celebration Europe was at ExCeL last week for the British Toy Fair with a special guest, … none other than galaxies favourite Mandalorian bounty hunter, Jeremy Bulloch.

Jeremy was on hand to help promote Celebration Europe to the assembled toy trade and was escorted by three of the UK Garrison of the 501st 's finest stormtroopers who ordered crowds to 'move along' as they went. Celebration Europe received some great media attention and Jeremy was swamped for photo-calls and journalists wanting to know more about the man behind the mask and about Celebration Europe. Press coverage of Celebration Europe included an article on the BBC's website declaring it as 'a massive event' for all Star Wars fans in Europe.

We distributed 3 ultra-rare special edition post cards at the Toy Fair, 2 of which were previewed earlier on this blog, the third shows Imperial Guards standing by the gates of Buckingham Palace with Celebration Europe banners dropping from the balcony. We hope some of these cards will filter through to other shows in the next couple of weeks and intend to continue producing new cards over the coming months so keep an eye out for them! Remember we are only producing a very limited number of each card and each card is immediately retired as soon as it is distributed so if you see one grab it!

We were also pleased to welcome Steve Sansweet and Mary Franklin from Lucasfilm who were in town for a site visit to check out the ExCeL venue and make sure that plans were progressing for July. Steve and Mary were very impressed with the venue and we all wore out plenty of shoe leather scouring every inch of the facilities with floor plans in hand trying to visualize how the Galaxy of Star Wars will fit in when it takes over East London next July. A few stunning new ideas were also hatched that are sure to create great excitement… more info on that soon!

Many thanks to Jeremy and all the people we met at Toy Fair and the hugely positive vibe we got from you about our little party!

Thanks also to the UK Garrison and the services of the Empire's finest, the advanced scouting party of 3 stormtroopers looked impressive in the venue, but we could not help but get a warm fuzzy feeling thinking how much more impressive things will be when they are joined by the full invasion force of their brothers and sisters in armour from across Europe in 6 months time!