The 9th of June, a small group of Imperials were present at a live performance of various pieces of music by John Williams, performed by Musikkforeningen Nidarholm at Rosenborg Skole.
We stood at the entrance welcoming guests and taking photos, for 25
minutes before the concert, which we managed to attend the most of
afterwards. A cozy troop where they played music from Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Schindlers List, E.T. and more.
It's been a looong time since I updated this blog, this being due to my laptop shutting down.
It is now repaired and I can start catching up on things related to Star Wars, and it is A LOT!
First up is a childs 6th birthdayparty we did in early June for a friend of ours.
We were two tk's and a tie that came around the corner and delivered a present, a
diploma, and goodiebags for the kids. Raging success.
More troopreports, costume modifications and other major and minor projects coming up!
Today we troopers in Nidaros helped fellow trooper TK-3444 move back to Trondheim with his family.
We showed up to an empty house and soon after a movingtruck came with all their belongings and we proceeded to work like a little antfarm and carried everything inside the charming abode.
TK-3444 is also one of the lucky few to own a Han In Carbonite glass table, an awesome piece indeed!
"He's worth a lot to me..."
After everything was transported inside, we ate pizza and watched through the photos from a recent photoshoot we did in a studio, awesome photos soon to surface and spread the awesomeness of the Nidaros crew. A very nice friday evening!
A few weeks ago fellow trooper TK-8505 and me were asked to transport a coming groom from his home to his bachelorparty.
It was to be a short and effective troop, where we showed up on his doorstep in full costume, commanded him to come along (his soon-to-be wife was in on it, so she had everything ready), and we transported him on the bus into town.
We showed up early and changed into our gear on a kindergarten-parkinglot in chilling winds and drizzling rain, walking briskly to his house.
He was forced to put on somekind of a monk/priest outfit and was put in cuffs for the busride into town, which must have been one of the longest busrides I have ever been on in my own town. We got a lot of looks and smiles and comments on the way, and arrived safely at the destination where we were greeted by the rest of the party which probably had a lot of shenanigans in store for the bachelor! All in all it was a pleasant little troop.
We sometimes meet up at my work to play a game of Star Wars Trivial Pursuit Original Trilogy Edition.
Me, my boss, a politician and a comic book writer comprise the core group of players, but there are always others that join in, so much that we're thinking about buying a second game and have two games going at the same time. Making kind of a tournament out of it.
The comic book writer, Mads, drew a really cool picture of Garindan (The spy with the trunk-nose in Mos Eisley) as a prize/diploma, that hangs in the bar and everytime a person wins, their name gets added under the picture.
It's been a while since we've played now, so it's time to meet up and find out who's the biggest geek.
Here in the Nordic countries we have a past-time for those sunshine days (that are increasingly few and far between..) called "kubb" (the swedish equivalent of "log").
I won't go into the specifics of the rules. but can mention as much that there are two teams (1 to 6 people on each) behind each line of logs that have to toss sticks over to the other side to knock down the other teams logs, just google it...
Anyways, you can buy a set of "kubb" pretty cheap, and they are basically pieces of hard wood cut to size, plain and simple. But I got the idea to paint one side with the rebel alliance logo and the other side with the imperial cog. Fun!
This year, as the past few years, the Nordic Garrison made their presence felt at the parade in Trondheim, during the national day 17th of may.
This was my first time attending the parade, and it was a really fun experience.
We used the downstairs club at my work as a changing area and hangout before and after the parade, and we ended up being 23 troopers walking the streets of Trondheim.
We tried to spread out and walk in formation to really take up space and make an impact in the parade.
Which I really think worked out good, we got a lot of exposure, and thousands of people had showed up to view the parade even though the weather was really bad.
One of the troopers arranged a pole-cam to be on top of the banner and film the entire parade, the movie will have to be edited but I think it turned out good!
Here I am being an exemplary posterboy for Norway and the 501st Legion, this picture showed up on imgur and had over 170.000 views 24 hours after the parade:
And there were a few videos that surfaced on youtube that same evening and the days after, here's one where I saw my girlfriend and ran over to give her a hug:
And here's another one I got sent by a nice girl:
After the parade, we walked up to the westfront of the Nidaros Cathedral and took a picture of all attending troopers and support, quite fitting, as we are planning to design a patch for the troopers in Nidaros using the westfront of the Cathedral as an iconic image with TIE-fighters flying over it.
As we came back to our changingarea we already started to plan towards next years parade, shooting for 50 attending troopers, where many of them hopefully will be troppers travelling from other cities (and hopefully neighbouring countries), and many of them troopers based in Trondheim. We are growing at a rapid pace, with 16 confirmed members of The 501st Legion and at least 8 people at different stages of building their first costume! We might have our own C3PO and R2D2 even, and with 2013 marking 30 years since the release of Return of The Jedi, we might have to find a way to mark that in some way too.
See you around!
