Five Clubs, Five Patches for Celebration V

If you happened to check the main page of StarWars.com a few days ago you may have seen an article about our patch project with The Washington DC Area Star Wars Collecting Club (DCSWCC), The Kentucky Star Wars Collectors Club (KSWCC), The Ohio Star Wars Collectors Club (OSWCC), and The Pennsylvania Star Wars Collecting Society (PSWCS). Even now, their Collecting page features it prominently.

Crack reporter, and SWGFA co-founder, Chris posted it on Rebelscum and it soon made it's way to the Official Star Wars Blog, and collecting sites like Galactic Hunter, Jedi Defender, and Yodas News.

It was a long process to get these patches made and we're really proud that the group is moving ahead. Looking forward we hope to develop further exclusives which may include charity patches, pins, and coins. This past year we've been recognized by Lucasfilm who approved not only this project but all of the logos that you see sporting trademarks.

To the veterans and to those of you just coming on board, the Star Wars Grand Florida Alliance is on the move fulfilling our mission to bring together Florida fans in all quarters.

Today's TeeFury: MASTER TODA

The shirt of the day at TeeFury.com available till midnight (EST) tonight is a visual pun: Master Toda by artist Joao Lauro Fonte.

For $9 and a couple of bucks shipping it can be yours.

A Rather Angular Circular

If we're going to have a booth, we need to have an exclusive, right? Ramping up to Celebration V we've been developing a sharp-looking handbill to give out at our booth. With ideas contributed by the Alliance Council and realized by ForceCastTV producer Mark Minckiewicz this flyer will be our first professionally printed giveaway. We wanted it to convey who we are, but we also wanted to make it desirable as a collectible, one of those things you pull out of your convention swag bag to keep.

One side has most of the information about who we are, how to be part of the group, and some exclusive artwork by Celebration V Art Show artist Kevin Graham. I'm going to show that art very soon, but today you get to see The Dark Side.

We're all familiar with the classic Kenner action figure packaging of the Original Trilogy whether you know it or not. Maybe you saw these hanging on the pegs like I did in the 70s and 80s or bought variations on them in the last decade, Star Wars fans generally like the vintage metallic "racetrack" border, the black background, and classic logos. It's with this in mind that The SWGFA now brings you:    

Look for the 4x6" flyer to be handed out from booth #1520 at Celebration V all four days.

Celebration V: SWGFA Booth #1520

The Alliance Council and Justin (whendroidsfly) are working on some pretty neat ideas for our booth which include some very nice flyers (to distribute), t-shirts (to wear, not to distribute), our banner, a slideshow of past activities, the AT-AT, and our Patch wedge.

However, we can always use more input. Do you have any ideas that you think might make this a particularly interesting booth? Can you think of a game or method of giving out our patches creatively? Got a large display or collectible you'd like to show off? Let us know! This is everyone's club. We'd love help volunteering, but even if you aren't able to do that, you can help with the creation of this booth. We've got only 13 more days till we set this thing up and it's getting pretty exciting!

TeeFury.com's Shirt of the Day

For the past year or two I've been acquiring t-shirts from a handful of websites that often feature a single design. Due to parody rights they are able to use what we'd normally think of as intellectual property and use it without licensing fees. This makes the shirts very inexpensive. Perhaps not to overstay their welcome, many of these sites only sell most of their designs for a single day.

The one that most frequently posts Star Wars designs is called TeeFury.com. Their t-shirts are $9 each plus $2 shipping to Florida.

Today's design exemplifies their bizarre mash-ups and mixtures of Star Wars culture. Some are hits, some swing and miss. Choose for yourself. I give you, Love Child, by artist Jon Plante. It's available till midnight.

To check on several other shirt-a-day sites in one stop, check out Teemagnet.com. 

Cartoon Network is offering one heck of a prize for their Ultimate Fan Getaway:

In addition to $10,000 cash, the grand prize winner gets 4 VIP tix to Celebration V, a 2-story Presidential Suite at the Peabody, and $15,000 worth of Star Wars merchandise.

Signin' mesa up! But hurry- the contest ends on Friday night (9 July) at midnight PST. The winner will be announced on or about 12 July.

ESB Telephone promos

In the months leading up the to the May 21st release of The Empire Strikes Back a telephone number was set up for eager fans to get a preview of the movie from the main actors themselves. These were performed in character by Harrison Ford, James Earl Jones, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, and Carrie Fisher.

StarWars.com revisits those halcyon days with a really cool feature where you can read about the promotion, listen to the clips, and even download the audio files.

An enterprising fan has gone one step further and created a telephone line that reproduces the original experience, save for the rotary phone dial. Call (714) 643-2997 and get ready to (re-)experience a new chapter in the Star Wars Saga.