Sunday, June 29, 2008

The next day, I met Yuqi at City Hall Mrt at 10.30, originally 10,but Yuqi being Yuqi has shitty sense of timing and arrived late. We headed over to the same convention hall, hoping to register for the Droid hunt which I missed yesterday. We were greeted by a large mob standing outside the doors waiting for the con to start at 11.
Once the doors opened, the throng rushed in and Yuqi and I hauled ass to the 501 Legion booth to register. we were the first ones there. we got our tags, and walked around for a bit, before revisiting the same 77 Star booth I went to yesterday. Yuqi and I dug around the bargain bin a bit more, and after 10 minuteds of laborious digging, Yuqi uncovered....A die cast model of the Millenium falcon! I snatched it and we paid for our models, Yuqi buying one of the weird Star Destroyer-ish ships you see in the Battle of Coruscant, and I buying a Corellian Corvette in addition to Han Solo's first love. We left for breakfast after, returning at 12 30 to partiipate in the Droid Hunt, which began at 1. The Droid Hunt is basically an activity which required participants to wear this tag with R2 D2 and C 3PO on it, and walk around the hall. Imperial stormtroopers from the 501st legion will also be patrolling the venue. If the Stormtrooper sees someone with the tag, he will then walk up to you, and ask,
"Hoe long have you had these droids?"(which is a line from a New Hope)
You must then surrender your tag for a ticket to the interrogation booth, where you will exchange it for a prize. Yuqi and I correctly predicted the area where the stormtroopers will be emerging from, (In this case, Backstage), and we arrived there just as the first clone was marching out. As Yuqi was wearing the tag, and he was dressed conspicuously in a bright orange shirt, he was easily spotted, and an Imperial officer yelled
"THE BOY IN ORANGE!"
Yuqi then froze in his tracks cause apparently he was intimidated, and one of the troopers came up and towered over him, and asked,
"How long have you had these droids?"
I then spoke up for the petrified ornge dude, who didn't quite know how to respond, and said, "They're up for sale if you want them." (which was what Obi wan Kenobi said). The Stormtrooper looks at me and went "They're up for sale? Alrgiht we'll take them." And he motioned for the officer to give us a ticket, in exchange for the tag, and barked, "Head over the the interrogation booth!"
we happily did so, and received a spring action lightsaber for our trouble. It didn't work btw. Shit.

Da_movie_kid was shot at 8:25 PM