If you’ve ever wanted to look like your favorite Star Wars character, now’s the time to learn how to do it.
With Halloween just around the corner, Arlington Public Library is hosting a Star Wars costume event this coming weekend. Representatives from the Rebel Legion and the 501st Legion — international costuming enthusiast organizations for the Star Wars good guys and bad guys, respectively — will be on hand at Arlington Central Library (1015 N. Quincy Street) on Saturday to discuss how they make their elaborate Star Wars costumes.
Star Wars geeks and casual fans alike are invited to come take photos with fully-costumed members of the local Rebel Legion and 501st Legion (slogan: “Bringing order to the galaxy since 1997″). For those who want to follow in the footsteps of legion members, be prepared for intricate instructions on how to become an authentic storm trooper, Jedi knight or bounty hunter.
“This program will be very detailed, so it is recommended for upper-elementary school kids, teens and adults,” the library said on its blog.
The event will be held at the Central Library Auditorium from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. on Saturday. For more information, call 703-228-5946.
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Beware of the weirdos!
I am going to stay as far away from the library as possible on Saturday.
I’m dressed up as chewbacca 24/7
Finally, a group of people who get less action than I do.
If you add in a Star Trek convention to this, then I could say that about myself as well.
*Snarf* Diet coke out the nose burns. +1,000,000
NERDS NERDS NERDS
LOL!
No Vader in that picture? I hope someone has his costume handy!
it’s a picture of the Rebellion (scroll over the picture and it tells you), which Vader was not a part of, so he doesn’t belong in that photo (simple mistake, not insulting, just informing)
yes i know he killed the emperor at the end (oops, spoiler) but that one act does not mean he belongs in the Rebellion
on a similar note, a little disappointed that Admiral Ackbar is missing from that photo… where’s the love for Ackbar?
OMG…. I smell pocket protector!
your comment lost all meaning after using “OMG”
plus I already called myself a nerd… way to beat a dead horse
Some of us nerds use mechanical pencils, and therefore have no need for pocket protection.
Outside of the Beltway utopia of endless employment possibilities, the pocket protector crowd is the only one with steady jobs in this economy. And good paying ones at that.
BTW, “nerd” stopped being a derogatory term right around the time this whole Internet fad really took off in the 90s. I don’t think I know anyone who would be terribly put off by being described as such.
/former software engineer who now hires them, and BIG Star Wars nerd
A nerd (engineer) myself, I also no longer use that term except when discussing old movies about science fiction. I loved it as a kid, but there is no way I’d dress up, go to a convention, etc as a nerdy engineer adult.
OK. I may use it if discussing the movie Revenge of The Nerds. Let’s hope I don’t have to do that today.
ah yes, good point. I missed the fact that it was only ‘the rebellion’, I was focusing on “star wars”
hopefully the empire shows up unannounced and uninvited to crash the rebellions party.
It’s a trap!
Ackbar reference FTW.
I’d go as Ackbar.
thats Admiral Ackbar to you!
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Star Nerds being taunted by Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x115u4_triumph-the-insult-comic-dog-star-w_fun
that’s one of my favorite bits of all time…
“which one of these buttons calls your mother for a ride home?”
When my 3 y.o. sees that VW ad he says “Star Wars” thinking that is Vader’s name and refuses to let me correct him.
But these people are cool?
Oh look, how cute; it’s Ron Paul supporters!!
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