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Star Wars Celebration V will be in Orlando on August 12-15, 2010. You can read the announcement here.

http://www.starwars.com/fans/events/c5a ... index.html

I guess we should start making plans for an invasion.

Grrrr Florida its going to be all hot and humid and steamy oh well I've never been to Florida good excuse as any.

*sigh* I like Florida and all... but why couldn't it have been closer?

I'm in. I want to go!!!!

I'm planning on going...the convention is 15 min from my parents house. Maybe we could make a road trip of it...

Marvinrobot wrote:I'm planning on going...the convention is 15 min from my parents house. Maybe we could make a road trip of it...

So how would your parents feel about having about 20 house guests?

Dang it - why couldn't they do it in early July when I'll be there for 2 weeks on "vacation" at my in-law's house ?!?
(and only 16.5 miles from the convention center according to MapQuest)... bad enough I miss Star Wars Weekends there at Disney every year...

This is almost as bad as the year Pater Mayhew called me from the DFW airport to rub it in about how HE was going to Dragon-Con, and then I wrecked my car that afternoon...

TK-1161 Curt wrote:

Marvinrobot wrote:I'm planning on going...the convention is 15 min from my parents house. Maybe we could make a road trip of it...

So how would your parents feel about having about 20 house guests?

They might ask how we feel about living in tents in the backyard

OK, so expedia had a rate listed for a hotel less than a mile from the convention center at $35/night. Too cheap to pass up before they sell out/jack up the rates. So I took it, and we'll cancel later if things fall through.

So... Besides the fact that I don't like to fly, it's also expensive and even more so when you've got big 'ol costume totes to send along with your luggage... so what I'm wondering if we can find a couple people that want to carpool down, because we figure gas should run $300-$400 round trip in our minvan... we can fit four (ourselves and two more) and take out the back-most seat to fit everyone's luggage and costume stuff (if you have costume stuff that's not huge). That'd bring that cost down to substantially less than flying, and yes it's a 20+ hour drive but it can either be split in two stopping for a night or driven in shifts split between everyone...

The other thing is that I'd like to maybe have the return route go through New Orleans, since the day after the con is Sarah's b-day and it'd be a nice treat for her to have dinner for her b-day on the French Quarter... I'd maybe even splurge for night's stay there (especially if we drive straight through on the down trip)...

So, anyone interested?

I would so like to make it to a Celebration event. May have to go ahead and plan a trip and skip out on SDCC, as I can only afford (in vacation time, at least) to go to one or the other.

hmmmm.... celebration, or wizard world? WW is a lot closer (chicago). thats a hard call..... had fun at WW though.....

So who's planning on going to this? We might need to start do some organizing.

I'm going! And have room for 3 people in my room. NO kids this time!!

I am making the plans to go. I have not missed a Celebration yet!

I haven't missed a Star Wars Celebration yet either. My daughter and I are going. I have already reserved our convention tickets and rooms. I just need to book the flights. It should be a lot of fun in Florida. Celebrations are always a great time.