Note the land-line service adjacent to the Zone was little use to these two members of the Legion and 501 st. We three Fetts sat together in the Zone and were swamped by fans and innumerable Star Wars cosplayers. This year, he had worked with the 501 st to create a Star Wars Zone complete with a Dewback. The following year, Satterfield moved it to the Duke Center. His first Expo took place in the concourse of the Cintas Center at Xavier University. Lifelong Cincinnatian and comics collector Andrew Satterfield founded the con in 2010 and is its director. Outside the Duke Center, Downtown Cincinnati was in the midst of its Oktoberfest, and the nearby Fountain Square hosted a lot of Old World cosplay with Bavarian schuhplattler (slap dancing) and polka bands leading sing-a-longs of “Schnitzelbank.” Ja, a frothy gemütlichkeit was flowing through the Force. A welcoming spirit permeated the exhibit hall throughout the weekend.
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The highpoint was a rollicking Reunion Panel before a full house on day three of the con, captured by an Expo video that the organizers have just posted on YouTube.įollowers of Jedi News may have read Dak’s report of the panel highlight: Dickey Beer’s reveal that Princess Leia literally saved his life during shooting of Return of the Jedi’s Sarlacc Pit battle scene.Īttendees - and his fellow panelists - were stunned to hear that Slave Leia laid on him the kiss of life…for real.įeaturing a host of Star Wars fans, the Cincinnati event was one of the most hospitable we’ve encountered. This September’s three-Fett reunion was during the 2014 Cincinnati Comic Expo at the Duke Energy Convention Center. Fans will recall the Fett tradition started at Celebration Europe II in Essen, Germany, that was capped by five Fett’s performing a Maori haka onstage with Warwick Davis before 7,000 ecstatic fans. Dak) most recently joined two other Fetts, Daniel Logan and Dickey Beer, for another billed Boba Fett Reunion.
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