- [Narrator] Previously on The Real Fans of the Saga.
- [Sean] Unfortunately, I got let go from my job.
- {Cris Voiceover] It sucks that Sean lost his job
but I gotta plane to catch to Anaheim.
- Hey hon what are you working on now?
- I'm just working on my
costume for Celebration.
- When is this house getting back to normal?
- Company did some downsizing
and I got let go.
- Hey when I'm gone
I don't want you guys watching the prequels okay?
- [Kid] 'Kay
- [Alphie] Okay?
Going to Celebration I actually look forward to this.
Hey this is why I'm not taking you guys to Celebration.
Stop!
- [Kid] Nah.
- Stop.
Stop.
Stop!
- Everybody's cracking beers you know,
I'm standnig on the frickin corner of Katella
and something or another.
- So everyone's lit.
Everyone's drinking having a good time.
I'm pretty pissed.
J.J. Abrams is a false prophet man (laughs).
- Absolutely not.
- There has been lots of drinking and philosophizing.
And religion.
(upbeat dramatic music)
- [Cris Voiceover] My love for Star Wars is big
and so is my collection.
(upbeat dramatic music)
- [Beau Voiceover] Some people lean towards the light side
others the dark side.
I'm somewhere in the middle.
(upbeat dramatic music)
- [ Alphie Voiceover] I know Kung Fu
and the force is strong in my family.
(oriental dramatic music)
- [ Sean Voiceover] Star Wars is everywhere
and so am I.
(upbeat dramatic music)
(upbeat intense music)
(playing guitar)
- This isn't my coffee maker.
(speaking foreign language)
- Originally when we booked the holiday
to come over to Anaheim there's gonna be four of us.
There's gonna be myself, my wife, Lee, and his partner.
We've been trying for like four years.
My wife got pregnant and she's now 30 weeks.
So obviously she's not allowed to fly.
- You buying a lot of stuff for--
- [Ian] Yeah.
Loads of like vests,
Star War vests.
- Yeah.
- Yeah with the Imperial Cog on and little princess
'cause we're having a girl.
- We finally had our first kid too,
a girl.
- Yeah?
- My wife and I did have a really hard time trying
to conceive.
It's really cool to talk to Ian about his soon to be
daughter and all the stuff that he's buying for her
'cause I bought some stuff for my daughter as well.
We just got four Princess Leia onesies.
- Yeah.
- It says I'm the princess (laughs).
- [Ian] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- And it's funny 'cause everybody sent me
these onesies as gifts and thank God
they're all different sizes you know.
So she's growing out of 'em.
But she's still wearing 'em. - Real quick.
- Yeah real quick.
- [Ian] Real quick, yeah.
(jazzy guitar music)
- [Cris] Man I'm hungry.
- [Waitress] How are you doing today?
- I'm good, I'm hungry.
This is the shortest line.
Hopefully the food's not crappy.
- It's really good.
And can I have a name for the order?
- Yeah name's Skywalker.
- Skywalker.
- [Sean] Yeah you stepped in it all right.
- [Lisa] I can't.
- We stepped in it by getting into this line.
So thankfully, in the eleventh hour,
I get a job.
And Celebration is gonna be my celebration
of the new job.
Obviously this is way more than we're gonna be able to pack
and take home with us.
Plus there's still quite a few exclusives that
I wanna get yet.
(upbeat pensive music)
- If we don't get the Lego exclusives,
I'll be okay with that.
- Okay, what about Gentle Giant.
- I wanna get Gentle Giant
and I wanna get the Shogun Boba Fett.
I wouldn't say that my Star Wars habit effects my marriage
in a negative way.
At least 85% of the time.
- I do not know how much he spends on Star Wars.
It's probably safe that I don't know.
- This put a pretty big hole in our day
but I think if we go try to get our costumers on now,
we might be able to get some good walk around time in 'em.
- What are we gonna do next?
I say we go wait in a line.
- Yeah.
- What do you say?
- Over here?
- Nah, a cheap line.
- What with the small ones?
- No cheaper line.
- [Both] Cheaper?
- Cheaper.
- Here let's put the box down.
Nice.
- So who are you?
- Do you have a name?
- Do you have a name for your version?
- I do kind of wonder about some of these women
you're recruited with their Mallorean mashups.
- What?
- Yeah I do.
- I actually run a costume group called
Mandalorian Mash-ups.
- Oh yeah?
- And I take the, you know, Mandal armor
and I do all kinds of mix-ups with them.
We're actually getting ready to put our costumes on now.
- I wonder if because they like Star Wars more than I do,
that they might cause a little bit of a problem.
(Sean laughs)
- Geez.
I really like this costume so I wanted to give ya
one of these from our group.
It was sort of a show exclusive.
- Oh awesome, thank you so much!
- No problem, thanks.
Great job on the costume.
- Thanks (giggles)
- Hey you got nothing to fear.
The force is strong in you.
- Okay.
(Sean laughs)
Just making sure.
- The force to keep me in the marriage (laughs).
- I'm Sean by the way.
This is my wife Lisa.
- Mary nice to meet you guys. - Nice to meet you, Mary.
- How about we outside for a smoke first?
- Yeah.
- Hey (laughs)
- What's up man?
- Hey man.
- How are you holding up man?
- It was really cool that I ran into Jimmy Mac on the floor.
- Oh my God, I had that shirt when I was--
I bought that the day after I saw Empire.
It was opening day.
This was in Northbrook at Willow and Pfingsten.
They had a t-shirt shop. - Yeah, yeah.
- And you go get the iron-ons and I had that
on a baseball jersey.
- Really?
- Boba Fett.
- I'm glad he likes my t-shirts.
He gets the iron-on thing.
- The kids in my neighborhood were like
that's his name?
'Cause they just called him the bounty hunter
because that's all he's called throughout the movie.
The kids were like "It's Boba Fett"?
I'm like yeah man.
- So you were the first one on the block
- I was there and all?
- That introduced the name.
- I've always been the first one on the block.
- You remember Pete Nadal?
- Pete Nadal.
- Yeah Pete hey (laughs) (beep) man.
How are you?
You used to be his partner. - Yeah that's right.
- I remember you from way back.
- [Jason] When we came out to Chicago.
- The good thing about all these friends
is you don't need lines to see them.
You don't need to wait in any lines.
- Take it easy Jimmy!
- We'll see you around buddy.
- All right, come on.
- I wanted to check this
and I needed to get some stuff from our crate.
- Do you have your other ticket?
- Oh yeah wait did I take it or--
- Did you take it?
I think he gave it to you.
(suspenseful music)
- Oh wait, wait, wait, wait, no that's not it.
I saw the yellow and I thought maybe that was something.
I'm starting to get a little nervous.
Lisa and I are ready to get into our costumes
and I can't find the claim check to get our costumes
out of storage.
(suspenseful music)
All right where did I--
(suspenseful music)
(Sean sighs)
- This is embarrassing. - Receipts.
(suspenseful music)
- Why didn't you just check your wallet.
- Yeah.
- You kept your name on the tool?
- Did you find it? - Boo yah!
- Oh thank God!
Woo. - There it is!
- You found the tag.
(both laughs)
- It was hidden behind my Toys "R" Us rewards card.
(upbeat suspenseful music)
(Lisa laughs)
- If I don't go wee wee now I'm gonna be--
- Yeah I'm gonna have to use the restroom.
- It's gonna be trouble later.
These costumes aren't wee wee friendly.
- Hey I ran into Sean and Lisa,
just like I don't know about an hour ago.
- Yeah, yeah.
- What's this about a house,
everybody's living there.
- There's about 12 of us staying in a house
- Yeah.
- And I thought, it's cool to experience Celebration
in that group setting.
- You have like a dark side and a light side
so people can--
- No (laughs).
- Live on the dark side,
you're living a little more edgier.
- We should, I think by the time the weekend is over,
you know, we will.
I missed you at the last Celebration.
- I know.
- How come you're coming out for this one
and you missed the other one?
- I'm here with--
you know well I work for Her Universe.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Which is Ashley Eckstein's company.
Fan girl apparel company.
- Well you introduced me to Ashley.
- That's right yeah.
And so I'm out here helping do PR and Marketing
and setting up interviews for Ashley
and just helping to spread the word about Her Universe.
And that's you know that's what I'm doing here
and I'm just here for like a couple of days.
So I'm glad we were able to bump into each other.
- Yeah we tried to--
- I was afraid that I wouldn't get to see you
while you were here.
- Yeah we try to meet up on Friday.
- Yeah.
- And I know you never made it to the party.
- No I was too tired.
I was burnt out.
- And as you know because you're responsible
for Celebration one,
you can't have Celebration without being burnt out
and tired you know.
- (laughs) That's right.
My wife thinks I'm on vacation but everybody
and anybody that's been to Celebration
knows you need sleep when you get back.
It's exhausting.
- I'm telling you, you know one of the coolest things
as I walk around these halls
is to know that it all kind of like,
if it goes back to one spot it goes back to Denver.
To the very, very first one we did.
- We met up at Celebration in 2007.
- Right.
- And I had asked you if coming to Celebration
was a little bittersweet because--
- It was.
- Do you still feel like it?
- Yeah, yeah it was bittersweet.
- I mean do you feel like that being here now?
- I still do.
- You do yeah. - Yeah I still do
because you know,
it was my baby when it first began.
- Yeah.
- And I put every effort into it.
- It's always good to see Dan Madsen.
I truly believe there wouldn't be Celebration
if it wasn't for him.
He's really the one that started it all .
It's good seeing you man.
- Adios, man.
- Good seeing you man. - Good seeing you.
(upbeat futuristic music)
(imitating guitar sounds)
(upbeat futuristic music)
- What can I say?
I do love the attention.
(electric guitar)
- I'd like to know something.
(electric guitar)
- I was kind of a shy kid but this,
I love the attention and it makes me a lot more outgoing
so maybe that's why I do it.
Let's try to make it to the show floor
as fast as we can.
I love seeing the smiles and all the fans.
(upbeat intense music)
(knocking on door)
- Come on in.
- It's Rob.
(door closes)
- I don't know you.
- Hey.
- Hey what's up man?
- Not much, Rob Schneider.
- How you doing, I'm Beau.
- Nice to meet you Beau.
Where's Cris?
- He went to get some banda burgers and some Jawa Juice.
- Again?
I thought he had his fill.
- No man we were putting them down.
(Rob laughs)
We're putting them down.
That grill has been grilling bandas all--
- [Rob] All weekend?
- Cris.
- What are you doing here man?
Good to see ya.
- Good to see you too.
I came all the way to California
and you invite me to your place.
But then you leave me hanging like
Luke in the Wampa Cave.
(Cris laughs)
- When I got to the house,
I was surprised that Rob was there.
Rob's been a friend of mine for a long time.
We went to Norway together.
It's always good to see him.
You got a beer?
- I have a beer.
- You made yourself at home? (laughs)
- Well, I don't know about that kind of home but--
(Cris laughs)
(chill electronic music)
(electric guitar)
- We have a mash-up of--
A Mandalorian mash-up photo op tomorrow at noon
at the Rankor.
So I'm getting kind of nervous about the photo op.
I'm actually kind of stressing out about it.
Sort of been doing some in the field recruiting
for this too.
We've been spotting mash-ups walking around
and been trying to tell them about it.
- There he is!
What's happening buddy?
How's it going? - How's it going?
Good to finally meet you officially.
It's too bad,
I wish I could wear multiple costumes at once.
- Me too, we'll meet you guys here.
- Yeah, yeah.
Like I said we may try to get a little before noon
so we can get coordinated with the guys.
We're hoping for us a real good turnout
but I'm like really excited and nervous at the same time.
I just ran into
I think it was Game of Thrones one.
- Oh yeah, yeah.
- Oh no Lord of the Rings.
- Okay.
- And she said she might come out too.
(upbeat futuristic music)
- What's up?
Oh what's going on?
- Hey Mike. - Hey, hey.
My buddy Josh used to be in a band with me in Chicago.
He lives out in L.A. now.
He is coming by tonight to mix us
a very special Star Wars drink.
He's calling it a Boba Fizz.
- Entre, welcome to the Star Wars growing house.
- Yay, I like it a lot.
- [Cris] How are you doing?
- He's a mixologist here in the city.
- I'm an inebriation specialist by the way.
- I think we're all gonna be a little drunk
by the end of the night.
(chill electronic music)
(cocktail shaker shaking)
- Cheers.
- Obi-Wan Kenobi eight ball.
Will we be messed up from this drink?
It says "It's a little risky".
Magic Obi-Wan Kenobi eight ball has spoken.
(laughter)
I've got a bad feeling about this.
This drink could be a little risky to our health.
- I'm strangely confused right now.
- Hey where you at man?
- [Sean] It's a (beep) nightmare getting out of that place.
- [Cris] Are you coming to the house?
- [Sean] Well that's what I was gonna ask you, I mean.
'Cause we're starving, we have not eaten anything
but a granola bar all day.
- We got food, we got food here on the grill man.
We've been waiting for you half a damn day.
So get over here.
We got drinks and we got food.
- [Sean] Okay.
- All right I'll see you in a bit.
- [Sean] All right bye.
- All right later.
- I'm gonna walk you guys out.
I (beep) love you.
- Come on you're coming with us Maggie.
- Come on Maggie.
- Come on (whistles).
You're part of this family too.
- He's coming at least little while.
- [Josh] But I gotta see them beforehand.
- You have to figure that out because
I'll leave the guitar here.
I can't take the guitar.
- No it's gonna happen.
It's gonna happen.
- Well you, okay.
- Well we're here all weekend and now you know
where we are.
- Yeah.
- And Sunday, we're here all day.
All day and all night.
- Right.
- Whether we go to the Magic Castle
to understand the beauties of the universe
and make magic together. - The castle ville.
- I think we can make it. - We'll make it happen man.
- [Beau] We're at least gonna get our jam on.
- Respect knuckles.
- [Beau] All right I love you guys.
- See ya man. I'll talk to you soon.
- [Beau] All right bye.
(siren wailing in distance)
Man this is just one giant Star Wars party.
(guitar playing)
♪ Stormtroopers shoot at you ♪
♪ But they never hit you ♪
♪ You get away and you're not even a Jedi ♪
♪ But the blasts go by ♪
♪ They never hit you ♪
♪ You never die ♪
♪ But they're Stormtroopers ♪
♪ And they're still scary with their frowny face ♪
♪ That's now smiley in Episode Seven ♪
♪ If you haven't noticed ♪
♪ It's like an evil clown ♪
(laughs)
- You guys are gonna make me gag on my own pretzels (laughs)
Oh (beep).
- [Beau] What's scarier now that (murmurs)
- Seriously who puts a thorn bush right next
to the sidewalk.
So we finally get to the house.
It was a little hard to find
but when we get there
and they're already in the middle of this party.
I thought we were gonna walk in to Caligula here.
It was a bit of a crazies going on.
The kitchen table was just loaded with beer bottles
of all kinds.
And like they had been drinking for a week straight
and it had only been a day.
Okay almost there.
Almost there with this, here we go.
Alright this will be our nice home crap home
for the next couple of days.
You know as fun as Celebrations are,
at the end of it
you're kind of ready to go home.
You get pretty wiped.
I mean costuming is a lot of fun
but it does take a lot out of you.
It can be a bit of an endurance test
to be honest with you.
- We have a few more pieces to go.
- Few more?
More like three more suitcases and a tote.
- I know.
- Who's idea was it to bring all this crap.
- I think you were.
I think it's you and your costumes.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Don't remind me.
♪ Execute all the 66 ♪
- [Sean] Here we go with the rhymes.
♪ (mumbles) all say you got a cantina ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Execute all the 66 on some of those space chicks ♪
(laughs)
- We're learning a little bit about American music
right here.
- Proper, that's proper
classical.
- No this is the place.
- Oh yeah.
- (murmurs) nice.
(suspicious music)
- Where the hell have you been?
- Two hours on the tarmac in Dallas.
- Two hours?
- Two hours man,
I was about to have some air rage (laughs).
- The trip into Celebration sucked.
I had to fly through Dallas
and they had a nasty storm
on my connected flight so I actually almost missed
my flight into Anaheim.
Okay I'm in Dallas,
we're delayed over an hour and a half.
And I may not make the Celebration in time.
This is gonna suck.
But hopefully, we'll be leaving soon.
I was pissed.
Had I missed the flight,
I wouldn't have gone to Celebration.
I would just stayed in Texas
I had to come back the next day so.
- Welcome to Anaheim.
- Thank you.
Is everybody already in bed right now?
But I am glad I'm here now.
I need to go to bed too man.
- Yeah I'm about ready to fall flat on my face here.
- I'm only gonna be there for 36 hours you know.
We're gonna you know be in costume
but one thing I can't stand are the lines.
Holy bejesus, look at the line for the figure stand-in
holy cow.
- [Sean] Not quite as short as you thought it was
is it?
- No the lines,
the lines.
The lines!
- I have to say we had a pretty successful day today.
- One thing that Sean does that just really pisses me off
and he does it at every Celebration
is that he wants me to stand in line for him
to get exclusives so he can stand in other lines
to get exclusives and I fricking' hate doing that
because I just wanna enjoy the convention.
- [Narrator] Next time on The Real Fans of the Saga.
- I remember mentioning like if I were first
we love what they do in the rules and regulation had a--
- We politely butted heads against that.
- Absolutely.
- This is not a typical celebration for me.
'Cause I always stay at the convention center
and take it all in.
I feel a little guilty.
This is more of a typical celebration for Duffy.
Whoever's in that bathroom, you have my beer.
- [Alphie] It's important to do this shoot
because it solidifies us as an organization
on a national level.
Yeah we have our local (air horn drowns out sound)
but to get everyone national
that we've picked up and recruited online
to be at the same spot
will solidify us as a costuming group.
- No matter where you go,
when there's a large crowd of people at something,
there's gonna be the Jesus freaks who go out
and they have to have their own spin
on why Jesus is better than what you're doing right now.
- I've never seen that before.
- Right.
- And I've never seen so many scantily clad ladies.