Last Saturday, DR and I got up early, had breakfast, took our vitamins, grabbed tea for him and coffee for me and then made our way to the Sci-Fi Fan Expo at the Convention Centre downtown. We really needed a strong kick of geeky-freaky-sci-fi-y-horrory-gamy to make up for the last 3 weeks. See, 7 years ago DR took me for the first time to the Fan Expo and I immediately loved it… The content was nothing like it is now, it was a lot more intimate in its setting and space and the crowd was decent, not over-crammed with selfish freeloaders who’ll step on your feet, push you out of the way with their fat bums, cut lines, grab any freebies regardless of what they are like it’s a fucking fortune hunt, complain about everything, LOUDLY complain about everything, without any consideration for anyone else.


This picture was taken at 10:15, these many people in front of us to buy tickets (same amount behind us)

This said, I still had an amazing fucking good time again this year. It is our favourite “end of Summer” outting. It was busy. It was crowded. But it was full of fun costumes, great displays, tons of merchandise I wanted to take home. But most importantly: Stormtroopers of all kind: Imperial Stormtroopers, Snowtroopers, Scout Troopers, Sand Troopers and Clone Troopers. Even a Shadow Stormtrooper… YEH.

I owe this sudden love of everything Stormtrooper to DR and to Disney as I love both and both seem to have an awful lot of love for everything Star Wars. On our last trip to Disney together, we were lucky to have timed it again with Disney Star Wars weekends and I really loved watching all those Stormtroopers. They are fearless and disciplined and shiny and gorgeous… So it was my greatest pleasure to hang around some of them during this last Sci Fi Fan Expo…


Here I am with my boys


A friend


Two friends


How can you not love this face?


A fan carrying a friend


The infamous Shadow Stormtrooper


I found Waldo, now can you find the Stormtrooper?


I want all these toys.

In fact, I might even seriously want to get outfitted to join Vader’s First 501st Legion… Yeah, I’m that crazy right now.

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