Star Wars exhibit

My wife and I went to the Star Wars exhibit at the St Paul science museum Saturday morning. Was actually our second time seeing it. The first time was a couple years ago when we were in Michigan and they had the exhibit down in Columbus Ohio. We unfortunately went on the last day in the late afternoon and the lines for seeing the cool stuff prohibited us from really enjoying it.

This time we got into the very first showing at 8:30 in the morning. While we were waiting for them to open, they sent out some people in costume. Overall I give them a big meh. Not a one of them was really in character and was mostly fodder for getting pictures with the kids. For some reason a guy in a stormtrooper outfit advising children to "have fun" and a couple of chubby jedi just didn't do it for me.

We got in and the robot movie/ride thing was down for maintenance, and it wasn't looking good for us. After looking around a bit, we decided we could do without it and moved on to the millenium falcon experience. Cost us an additional $3 each, and we had to wait in line for a while due to only 4 people being able to get in at a time. While we were waiting, we were treated to a few more people in costume coming by and generally ruining the atmosphere for us. The girl playing Leia didn't sound like she had ever seen any of the movies at all. When we did get in, we had to share the ride with another couple... luckily my wife was nice enough to let me sit up front, meaning she didn't really get to see most of it, as i'm a good foot taller than her. It was kinda cool... but nothing I couldn't have seen in a  planetarium. It was a pretty nice recreation of the cockpit of the falcon, though.

All in all, it was fun... seeing all the original costumes from the movies and getting to hang out with fellow star wars geeks for a few hours brought back fond memories. I do wish they would get rid of all the stuff from the crappy trilogy, but whatever...

In other news, my Xbox has been officially received by Microsoft and is awaiting repairs. Meaning at some point they should stuff a refurb in a box and ship it back to me. I'm just glad I have a decent pc, otherwise I'd be going nuts. Hoping to be back in Bad Company by this weekend.