Star Wars Exhibit: Where Science Fiction Meets Reality

[wyncatastrophe]

So last night Mr. Catastrophe and I trekked on up to Huntsville, Alabama, where the Space and Rocket Center's Museum is showing a traveling exhibit of Star Wars props, etc. tied into real-world science. You could built a mini-droid and stuff, and even ride a hoverlift, but I wasn't really all that interested in the "hard science" stuff. As a kid

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[vaders_ghost]

This looks great. I'm so jealous!

[wyncatastrophe]

It was pretty cool. It's a traveling exhibit, so depending on where you are, maybe it'll come somewhere within driving distance? Huntsville is the first place in the Southeast to get it, but I think it's already made some other stops elsewhere in the U.S. I'm not sure whether the exhibit tours internationally.

Thanks for posting --- there's a Star TREK display about 100 miles away from here ---

[pronker]

It's a trip seeing all these things --- and the Vader suit, frozen inside carbonite plasticine, just like my Japanese doll on the display table ---

From the very beginning, that suit gave me the samurai impression effortlessly, then there was that insectoid look to the bottom part of the face that chilled ...

Re: Thanks for posting --- there's a Star TREK display about 100 miles away from here ---

[wyncatastrophe]

Hmm, that's interesting, I hadn't thought of the samurai thing (perhaps because I don't know that much about samurai in general, or generic conventions regarding them?). But yes, certainly there is a "chill fact" with Vader's mask. The middle part (with the eyes) is genuinely creepy and scary, even detached and sitting behind glass. I was spooked. They used the Christensen version (symmetrical) for RotS, rather than the OT versions.

[ansketil_rose]

Is that you with the speeder. I just want to say I love your 20s style dress and hair!

I'd love to have seen all that stuff but hardly anything like that ever comes to NZ. *sigh*

[wyncatastrophe]

Yeah, it's me. Thank you! I feel like the dress looked better in person than in the pics, but that's kind of the way it goes with anything kind of slinky: curve-hugging if you're moving around, kind of lumpy in a still shot. Anyway, the hair was a hilarious misfire that had my sister laughing so hard she almost fell off her bed. Have you ever seen Robot Chicken Star Wars: Episode II, when Palpatine visits the barber? It was like that.

NZ = New Zealand, right? The exhibit may not come, but you still have bragging rights because LOTR was filmed there. Also I hear there's a fantastic university down there? So keep up that good ol' Kiwi spirit ...