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Legoland 2013 – Day 3 & 4
1 June 2013 @ 8:00 am – 2 June 2013 @ 5:00 pm
Saturday/Sunday, June 1+2, 2013 * Rain – Parade – Teardown
After the rest of our helpers had also arrived on Friday night, we could finally start the next day as a complete team. Since the park would open at 10:00 as usual and we were there quite early, we still had some time for breakfast and then headed to the booth, where the R2 Builders were already assembling their droids and setting up their habitat.
When everything was cheerfully beeping away and driving around, the first visitors ventured in too. Despite the relentless rain, it filled up quite quickly, and once again we were able to answer all sorts of questions about lightsabers, give valuable tips and make new contacts.
So the morning went by fairly relaxed until it was time for our first stage show of the day. The helpers took over at the booth and we headed to the dressing room as fast as possible, to arrive there somewhat dry and change. While we slipped into our roles as Jedi and Sith once more, the dance troupe Tanztreu performed their spectacular program beforehand. Finally we stepped onto the arena stage with far less stage fright, but still a little nervous. Even though it was now quite cold and also a bit slippery, we fought our way through our choreographies.
The Saberproject Surround System in our sabers worked perfectly and created a fitting soundscape.
After our successful show, Ferenc Husta, the former bass singer of the German a cappella band Wise Guys, was waiting for us outside the backstage area. With his distinctive, unmistakable voice, he had recorded the intro to our new program for us, to get the audience excited right from the start. After lunch together with Ferenc and his family, we were already heading back to the stage, performed our second, no less successful show and afterwards could finally take off our partly rain-soaked costumes for the rest of the day.
Back at the booth, everyone could recover a little from the cold and introduce visitors to the lightsaber, until the park closed its gates and it slowly emptied. But instead of simply returning to our accommodations that evening, we drove with the members of the German Garrison to a nearby inn, to have something delicious to eat in good company, see lots of familiar faces again or go bowling.
On Sunday, the last day, we got up a bit worn out but still in good spirits. At least it had stopped raining, and everyone was confident when they arrived at the booth after a hearty breakfast. Before the park opened, we still had enough time to take a few photos or check the booth one last time. Even as the park slowly filled up, some of us didn't miss the chance to finally take a spin around Legoland and hit a few rides.
At least until it was time for the last two stage shows. Once more we gave it our all in the well-filled arena and forgot the strain of the last few days. Everything went perfectly, and we were glad to have gotten the hardest part done. Otherwise the day went very well, even though it kept drizzling now and then and the German Garrison parade would almost literally have been rained out, had a few brave stormtroopers not marched for the glory of the Empire.
Toward evening we tore down our booth, and it took quite a while until it was finally taken apart into all its pieces and packed. A little wistful that these four days had flown by, we said goodbye to each other, to the R2 Builders, the German Garrison, the helpers and the park staff, who were always working away behind the scenes everywhere to make this event possible at all.
We packed up the booth and our things and set off on the drive home, knowing full well that we wouldn't fall into our beds until very late that night. Despite the tiredness, we looked back on an unforgettable time and look forward to the next Star Wars Days at Legoland Deutschland.
