As we announced earlier today, Star Wars Celebration V will take place in Orlando, Florida on August 12-15, 2010; Registration goes live Thursday, Dec. 10.
Our friends over at TheForce.Net chatted with Lucasfilm Director of Fan Relations (and Collecting Guru & Author) Steve Sansweet about the news and what fans can expect.
Steve said first that the new partnership with show producer Reed Exhibitions gives them exclusive rights to do celebration events, and with his experience doing seven celebrations, and their massive experience producing shows, it took a long time to get everything about this partnership perfect. But along the way, Lucasfilm and Reed were working on venues, and that in itself is a big project, starting with 10 – 12 possible cities.
With Steve’s desire to continue to move the Celebrations around the country geographically, the west was pretty quickly ruled out, while cities like Baltimore, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Chicago and others were considered, some dropped out because they just didn’t have appropriate facilities or dates that worked. The long period spent finalizing a producing contract did affect the final date because Steve and Reed want this to be the best celebration yet and we all know that does take time to plan for them and for fans.
And as for if the Maker himself will show…
I had to ask whether Steve thought George Lucas would attend to which he couldn’t give a commitment, but that George always gets an invite, in fact, many people that fans would want to see get invites, but schedules and commitments often get in the way. My guess is if enough fans make it known they want to see George at the show, that will do more to get him there than anything. We’ll help, stay tuned.
More info here:
Official Star Wars Celebration V site
Tags: Celebration V, Steve Sansweet
If those jerks from G4 are back again from this past summers’ star wars panel – I WILL NEVER WATCH OR BUY ANYTHING STAR WARS AGAIN!
BOYCOTT G4! Those fools from the panel DISGRACED star wars!
I’m disappointed. This will make the 5th Celebration I’ll have to miss because of the physical distance. If they’d come back to Indy, I’m close enough for that, but of course, they have to go about as far away as possible from me…
I am very disappointed, already, in the Celebration V ticket sales. VIP tickets were sold to family and friends that knew about the sale, alot of folks did not receive the email notifying the tickets would go on sale (only SOME people received it), and nothing was changed on the website to notify FANS.
What a mess this is, and not a good sign for future events for thi Celebration. There are several of us talking about not going at all if this is the way it is going to be.
I AM SO DISAPPOINTED. All fans should be given the same opportunity, no favorites, and the people responsible should be in a lot of trouble over this.