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Star Wars Rebels premiere Cologne 2014
28 September 2014 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
For the Rebellion!
After an exhausting drive we finally arrived in Cologne on Saturday evening, where, after a drink with our colleagues from Project X1, who had brought Darth Vader's TIE fighter to the event, we went straight to our hotel rooms without further ado. Luckily, the next morning everyone was fresh and lively again, ready to celebrate the premiere of the new series "Star Wars Rebels" together with Disney.
But even though the event was to be over by late afternoon, there was plenty to do.
Before it started, our helpers Lukas and Annika arrived, whom we had already gotten to know at Gamescom. Now complete and with active support, we got down to the first rehearsals of our show, which was to take place later in the theater before the premiere. Even though the stage was quite small, everything went like clockwork, and we were confident that everything would work during our performance.
But that wasn't all. Shortly after the event opened, lots of stormtroopers, other henchmen of the Empire and of course enthusiastic Star Wars fans were already milling around the Cinedom. So we still had a little time for some entertaining conversations, to see old friends again or make new contacts before we started our lightsaber workshop. This time the turnout was particularly big, and we had our hands full training the fans, young and old, into seasoned young Jedi.
Right after that came the highlight of the day. Without a break, we immediately headed into the theater, and after a short introduction we could finally slip back into our roles as Jedi and Sith and deliver a good show.
Glad to have gotten through most of the event, we took off our costumes and packed up as best we could.
To wrap up, we got to enjoy a second, private screening of the new animated series. All in all, this weekend too passed far too quickly, and we headed home. But there wasn't much time to recover, since Jedi-Con was to take place in less than a week.
