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Legoland 2011 – Day 3
4 June 2011 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday, June 4, 2011 * 501st – Miniland – Performances
When we arrived at Legoland at around 9:00 on Saturday morning after a rather short night, we first greeted our friends from the German Garrison and the R2 Builders, who had already pitched their tents and booths the evening before and were to provide the right Star Wars atmosphere together with us that weekend. On this occasion we also got to know Daniel Logan, the actor who played young Boba Fett in Episode II, as he sat on a turntable belting out the Indiana Jones theme song.
After getting our booth ready for the visitors, we had just enough time to check out the new Star Wars theme in Miniland. So we placed our own Lego figures in the most famous scenes of the six films and took lots of photos. A little later we all stood together with the German Garrison at the entrance to welcome the first visitors.
Even though, compared to last year, the enormous rush at our booth didn't materialize, we had our hands full until we finally went to the changing rooms at around 12:30 to get ready for the first show of the day. When we entered the stage at 13:00 after Tim's announcement, we found, as on the previous days, that the arena was filled to the last seat and that we would be performing in front of an audience of almost 2,000 people. Full of energy, over the next quarter of an hour we presented our stage program „Spinning Lights“, which had premiered on Thursday.
Glad that we only had two performances per day at the weekend, we returned to the booth, told interested visitors about our hobby and lent sabers to excited kids for photos. When afternoon finally came and our second performance approached, we went back to the arena and left our booth with our helpers. But before we could entertain the crowd spinning and fighting in costume, the obligatory group photo of the 501st Legion together with Daniel Logan and Team Saberproject was on the program.
Shortly afterwards we hurried to our cabins, since there wasn't much time left until the performance. Despite the time pressure, everyone was in place when it started, and we delivered an almost flawless show. Exhausted but satisfied, we spent the last hours until the park closed at our booth, but also allowed ourselves to explore the park in small groups.
After the last visitors had left the park, we went back to the arena to rehearse. Since Max had to leave that evening, we had come up with a backup program for Sunday, so that we wouldn't have to cancel our performances despite the smaller lineup. Tired and a bit annoyed, we did a few quite successful run-throughs until we were confident we could deliver a good show the next day, even with a spontaneous program.
