- [Announcer] Previously on the Real Fans of the Saga.
- It's colder than Hoth out there.
- When are you leaving again?
- I told you like five times, I'm goin April 15th, tax day.
You sure you don't wanna come?
- Yeah, I'm pretty sure I don't want to go sit around
with a bunch of drunk Star Wars fans
talking about Star Wars.
- Is that what you think we do when we go to celebration,
is just drink all the time?
- Yeah, you buy Star Wars stuff,
you look at Star Wars stuff, and you drink.
- My old buddy Cris helped us decide to do this.
He was getting a house near the convention center
so we are looking forward to a little adult time,
party time, good times.
- Yes we are.
- [Sean] Unfortunately, I got let go from my job
- It sucks that Sean lost his job,
but I got a plane to catch to Anaheim.
My love for Star Wars is big and so is my collection.
- Some people lean towards the light side,
others the dark side, I'm somewhere in the middle.
- I know kung fu, and the force is strong in my family.
- Star Wars is everywhere and so am I.
- The first transport is away!
I had forgotten how much I hate space travel.
Another happy landing.
Now I gotta go pick up some friends from the UK,
I gotta drive all the way to Hollywood,
sit in traffic, sit in more traffic,
Jesus Christ I drove like five hours to get here!
(laughing)
And then drive all the way to Anaheim.
Good to see you man, good to see you, all right all right.
- Good?
- There is nothing better than being
in a house with all my Star Wars friends
talking about Star Wars.
It's really the highlight of the week,
highlight of the weekend,
highlight of the convention.
The convention, it's not what it used to be, ya know?
And this is my seventh one.
There's a lot of standing in line.
The house is awesome, the house is amazing,
it's got a pool, several spacious rooms,
this is gonna be a really really good weekend.
Hey!
- Hi! - Cris.
(laughing)
What's up man?
- What's happening?
- Since it's your honeymoon,
I figured we need to give you guys
the nicest spot in the house,
so, there it is.
- Ya know, at first I was a little apprehensive
about spending what's supposed to be our honeymoon,
in a house full of strangers.
- All right!
- Oh my god this is awesome!
But Cris was great,
he gave us like what I would consider the honeymoon suite
with our own bathroom and this beautiful huge room
and beautiful bed and, ya know, I'm excited.
It wasn't like what I envisioned
as a traditional honeymoon obviously,
but I think were gonna have a really good time.
I'm so excited.
(murmurs)
Yeah.
(laughing)
- Hey what's up man!
- I assume this is the place.
- This is the place.
- I assume it is.
- How ya doin' man?
- How are you doin'?
- Good to see you, I'm good.
- What celebration means to me ya know, over the years,
it's what I remember the most from previous celebrations,
is all about the time I've spent with friends.
- I figure we could take the thing off
and throw it around in the pool.
(laughing)
- So my expectations for this celebration
is to really just chill and relax with some friends.
And drink a lot.
So this is what you're bringing to the party?
- Well they're in the gift bags.
- Okay.
- For June and Maxine.
- Ya know what's gonna happen?
You're gonna see these on eBay.
(laughing)
- Oh yeah?
- So I'm stoked about the party tonight.
There's celebrities there.
I was even signing autographs
and taking photos with the fans.
- Kodak moment?
- Yeah, absolutely, absolutely man.
- Thanks man.
- One Sam Adams please.
- Jimmy always has a great party.
It's always good to see him.
It's a great way to start off the weekend.
- Being a kid in 1977,
I was seven, my mom kept all the stuff,
I had all of it ya know, all the toys,
my mom kept it all, we had a baby three years ago
and when she was pregnant, I was like,
boy, girl, I don't care, where's all my Star Wars stuff?
- And it's become like a family thing, ya know?
One of my daughter's first words was Yoda.
- My son is about to be five.
And I thought about giving him all of my old Star Wars toys
from when I was a kid.
- The 70's style?
- Yeah, and it's something I really wanted to do.
But I know he's going to break them.
- Find a local flea market and you can get him
plenty of stuff for a buck a piece to destroy.
- Yeah maybe that's the way to do it,
but then I feel like I'm not passing on my old toys.
- So when are you coming out to London?
- We're coming out to London next year.
- Fantastic.
- Our daughter was just born
so we don't want to leave her behind.
It's really the birthplace of Star Wars isn't it?
- Well kinda, I mean it kinda feels like it's
yeah it came from both places, right?
- It's kinda like Jimi Hendrix
never made it big in the States, he went to England first.
- Yeah.
- And then he came back and he was big,
it's kinda, Star Wars was really born in England man,
they filmed everything over there in their studios.
Ya know, I mean it was big in the States,
but I mean, there's a lot of history over there.
We want to come out, we want to film the documentary
about the locations ya know.
There's a lot of cool places that you could take us to.
- Yes there are quite a few places,
if you come over, we will figure something out.
- [Cris] Cool man.
- We'll get some friends down, we'll do a road trip.
- Cheers, man.
- Cheers.
- I had become a good friend to Paul Bateman
just through, ya know, being a fan of Ralph McQuarrie
and being a Star Wars fan
and he's a really really cool guy.
I really need to get to London
and pick him up on his invite and stay at his house.
What's your plan for tomorrow man,
you camping out tonight for JJ?
- I'm not gonna camp out tonight,
probably gonna get up tomorrow morning,
because I'm still on Chicago time.
I'm probably gonna go early in the morning
and just get in line.
My 20s, we could camp out, I camped out,
I can't do that anymore.
- Getting too old for that sorta thing.
- I can't do that anymore.
- Getting too old for that sort of thing.
- It just doesn't ya know, paying for a bed,
I'd rather sleep in a bed.
- When you sleep out overnight like that
it ruins like two days, ya know.
- Dragging the rest of the time
- Totally dragging.
- All right I gotta call Duffy.
Hey man, did you guys land?
Don't go to Hollywood to pick up Lee,
I picked him up earlier
and there is beer in the fridge per your request.
It's getting late, I gotta leave the party.
Last time I saw Duffy, he was sleeping
on my floor in a hotel room in London.
- So where's this beer we keep talking about?
- It's over here man.
We went to celebration London together.
You couldn't take any Xanax.
- No.
- And you haven't had anything to drink?
- Yeah.
- You have?
- Oh yeah.
- It's good to see Duffy and I'm excited
to hang out with him this weekend.
- What do you guys feel about Lucas?
How do you feel that he is not really part of it anymore?
- Every spoiler that you read says
that it was already being filmed,
he already wrote it, and that he is behind it.
- I don't believe that Episode Seven though
is as hyped as Episode One was.
Episode One was like the second coming of Christ
for God's sake.
- If there's ever a movie made
where they don't have to hype it, this is it.
- I literally saw Episode One in the theater thirty times.
When I first saw Episode Two I was like,
"Oh my God that was the best movie I've ever seen."
I really really did.
- Artistically brilliant.
- Really?
- The artistry, and the backgrounds, and the homages,
and the cities were the best in that one.
I love that one artistically.
And Duffy, he still thinks its the best movie artistically,
what do you think?
- That's hard to debate, that's hard to debate.
- Its only eight o'clock in the morning,
I gotta pace myself.
- I know people think I'm crazy, but whatever.
The Force was a script clever way of defining Paganism.
- I think every Star Wars fan
thinks about Star Wars differently.
- Star Wars has definitely gone beyond
being just a movie to almost like a religious experience
and a study of how religions are formed.
- [Cris] I guess I can kinda see that
- It's like Mother Nature.
- Right, right.
- He came up with a super clever way
to describe what's in the universe.
- The convention is fun but it's really all about
bonding and geeking out over Star Wars.
- [Cris] I'm looking for booth number 964.
- Parking has been crazy,
you're parking all the way down to Angels Stadium
that you can't even come close to seeing from there.
So we are going to use Lyft.
And now we're gonna get right to the door service.
- That's right.
- We're gonna go to Hollywood after this, right?
- Yep.
- Hey I'm looking for booth number 964.
- That way.
- It's that way.
- I definitely think the lines will be long
and I would rather wander around
and look at art and look at people than stand in line,
but I know you want to see stuff,
so we will do a little of both.
The force is not with us.
This line is terrible.
- Hey man I'm looking for booth number 964.
Hey is this your booth?
Booth 964, who thought this would be so hard.
- [Beau] Food truck lines are just as bad
as the ones to see J.J. Abrams.
And I think he's in line for something to eat too.
- Excuse me guys I'm looking for booth number 964.
I think 1138 might have been easier to find.
I'm looking for the McQuarrie print,
- Yeah.
- Do you have the one for today?
This one here?
- You can take--
- Oh okay.
Finally, I made it.
So after looking for the booth,
now I gotta look for Beau, where could he be?
- So that's a painting?
- Yeah, there's so many amazing arts there.
Something about the Chinese lettering
with the Star Wars stuff that I always liked.
(phone ringing)
- Hey
- [Cris] Hey man, what are you doing right now?
- Nothing, I'm drinking another beer.
- I guess that makes sense why you can't pick me up.
- Get a cab dude, they cost like five bucks.
- You don't just hop into a cab at Celebration.
You want me to take a cab?
- I'm not trying to be a dick,
you understand that right?
- There's a lot of people that are trying to leave.
Okay, okay, well I probably will see you
in an hour and a half then.
- All right cool, I'll buy you a beer when you get here.
Either he hung up on me or my reception cut out.
- I asked Duffy for one favor and he can't help me out?
We've been friends since 1999.
No, we've been friends longer than that.
I guess that's what happens when you start drinking at noon.
- We better figure out some food
before we get some angry cooks around here.
- Yeah this is bullshit,
I could imagine that everybody wants me
to fricken go to the grocery store next, ya know,
I spent, hey thanks again, man, if it wasn't for you,
I'd be still standing on the corner
of Katella and wherever I was.
- Sorry we couldn't figure out
where the actual (beep) shuttles were.
- Ya know I can't believe, ya know
I had beer in the fridge for Duffy,
I picked up Lee for Duffy,
I ask him for a ride and he tells me no.
It's still bull (beep) though,
because you ask somebody for a favor, a friend,
ya know, like you, you gave me a ride back.
Everybody's cracking beers ya know,
I'm standing on the fricken corner
of Katella and something or other.
So everyone's lit, everyone's drinking, having a good time,
I'm pretty pissed, ya know,
there's some people in this house that owe me a favor
and it would've been nice, ya know,
to have that favor accessible.
I need to catch up with you guys, 10 beers.
- If I had my car, that was my car
and I was used to driving when I had one or two,
I would have came and got ya.
- [Cris] Ya but how many have you had?
- [Beau] Well I've had like 10 or nine.
- Where the hell have you been?
- I have been waiting for a fricken ride
at the convention center.
- Seriously?
- Yeah, seriously, I've been waiting for people,
I've been standing in line for people.
- Welcome to Celebration.
- Ya, but how many Celebration's have you been to?
I've been to eight.
- I've been to none and I didn't know
it was only standing in lines all day.
- We all sound like a bunch of old men
complaining about back in my day
we didn't have to wait in line at Celebration.
- Was there something going on today
or were we just standing in lines?
It was some sort of water torture.
- I should be telling you, welcome to Celebration.
- I saw like some pea plants,
some like Lego action figures, and then I was in line again.
- Disney is the Roman Empire.
- Lucas is kinda God at this point.
So, J.J. Abrams would be--
- J.J. Abrams is the Vatican council of 1200,
that rewrote the bible.
- Ya but who's the--
- Saint Peter.
- No, I know it's Saint Peter,
but who's the fake religious figure,
biblically speaking, is it--
- Fake religious speaker.
- Yeah, its like, it's in Revelations, man.
- Santa Claus?
- Santa, no.
- The Antichrist?
- No not the Antichrist, it's come on,
don't you guys know the Bible?
No?
- The Antichrist is the fake religious--
- Like the fake Disciple, ya know,
like the false, the false prophet!
- The false prophet.
- So J.J. Abrams is a false prophet, man.
- No absolutely not, the Unholy Trinity
is the Antichrist, the false prophet, and the dragon.
- There has been lots of drinking and philosophizing.
And religion.
- You don't think J.J. is the false prophet?
- Absolutely not, absolutely not.
- I feel like it's Easter Sunday
with all this religious talk.
Who's grilling, me or you?
- You.
- Okay.
- Me and you are.
- Me and you are gonna.
- I will.
- The advantage to renting a house
is that you can go back, you can leave the convention,
you can relax, grill up some food, eat right,
have a good time with friends,
that's what Celebration's all about.
- I'm not sure if I would say this before
but my buddy who's a mixologist,
he has a mixologist degree, he works here in LA,
has invented a drink called the Boba Fizz
that he's gonna come down.
It's a gin based drink.
My buddy Josh lives here,
we've been in a bunch of crazy bands together
and I cannot wait to hang out with him
and maybe do some jams.
- The funny thing is that this guy,
he's paying for a photo with Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher.
- He's doing it old school.
- No, he's doing it new school.
- New school, yeah, we're old school.
- You remember that, man,
when we took that trip up to Milwaukee?
- I totally remember it, it was awkward,
but it paid out so damn well.
- Do you remember the awkward comment that you made?
- We went to Milwaukee, Cris and his sister,
and me and my sister, shared a room,
and I may have been kinda hungover the next day,
and when we got to meet Mark Hamill,
I was all freaked out and hungover
and attempted to be intelligent
and said "Ya know, me and my sister,
"and him and his sister stayed in the same hotel last night,
"and it kinda made me think about you and Princess Leia."
(laughing)
And then I realized how stupid I sounded.
- Only Duffy would think of something like that.
Mark signed for free and took photos with us for free
and you're paying my friend.
(laughing)
- 'cause you're doing it new school
- I actually met Harrison Ford though,
- You did?
Now we have not met him.
- [Announcer] Next time, on The Real Fans of the Saga.
- This is the shortest line, hopefully
the food's not crappy.
- It's really good.
Can I have a name for the order?
- Yeah name's Skywalker.
- What are we gonna do next,
I say we go wait in line.
- Oh my god I had that shirt
- And as you know, because you're responsible,
for Celebration One, you can't have Celebration
without being burnt out and tired ya know.
- That's right.
(knocking on door)
- Come on in!
- It's Rob.
- I don't know you.
- Cheers.
- Obi-Wan Kenobi eight ball,
will we be messed up from this drink?
It says, it's a little risky,
the magic Obi-Wan Kenobi eight ball has spoken.
(laughing)