Jedipedia Exclusive #1
Young Obi-Wan and Jocasta in BMS? Who would have thought it?
As part of our teaming with Jedipedia.net, Leanne and I put together three exclusive Blue Milk Special strips. One will debut for each day of Star Wars Celebration Europe II, starting today, and continuing into Saturday and Sunday. Yep, that means we’ll be updating Saturday and Sunday this week as well! Which is why Shadows of the Empire has been temporarily interrupted to bring you these important messages…
If you’re discovering Blue Milk Special for the first time thanks to Celebration Europe, then please check out our About page for info on what we do. And start reading the parody webcomic from the beginning, here.
Celebration is the official convention for Star Wars, endorsed and supported by LucasFilm with special events and star guests such as Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Kenny Baker, Warwick Davis and Ian McDiarmid round off the weekend. props, sets, actors, crew, writers, producers, cosplayers, exclusive news, the lot! It’s the ultimate 100% Star Wars convention. The events are held in the USA, Japan, UK and Europe on alternating years and are a mecca for Star Wars fans. In 2013, Celebration Europe II, or CEII for short, kicks off today in Germany, at the Grugahalle, Grugapark in Essen. From the 26-28 July there will be three days of Star Wars entertainment and news and thousands of fans from all over the world. Blue Milk Special WILL have a presence there with some exclusive new Blue Milk Special pinup art (featuring some of the Clone Wars characters) made for our German BMS hosts, Jedipedia.net!
While myself and Leanne had to pull out of our plans to attend this year, I encourage all Blue Milk Special readers who will be at CEII to seek out the Jedipedia booth FAN4 in Hall 5. Be sure to introduce yourselves to Michael Stipp, our German translator and ask to take a look at this cool BMS Jedipedia pinup! Michael is a part of the Blue Milk Special team and would love to talk to you. Jedipedia will also be running a quiz with great prizes including books and comics! You will be able to browse their wiki on iPads at the table to see Jedipedia.net for yourselves. While you’re there, pick up some free flyers and stickers!
Jedipedia.net is a huge online Star Wars fan community in Germany centered around their Star Wars encylcopedia, hosted on a private server as opposed to the Wikia-based Wookieepedia. Jedipedia was founded in October 2006 and now has over 31k articles and over 16k images. They cooperate closely with the German offical fanclub. They have an active community with about 20 regulars, who mainly communicate via IRC. They encourage people to help out in anyway, maintaining the server, wiki and convention appearances, or simply correcting spelling mistakes. They’re big Knights of the Old Republic gamers as well!
Star Wars Celebration Europe II website.
Notice the pinups in the background? 🙂
Love that you’re joining in on the CE fun too! Madame Nu BMSified and younger Sassy-Wan are excellent.
Does Luke need to have a chat to Leia re: lightsabers and texting?
Is the hall in that map intentionally shaped like a Jawa Sandcrawler?
Oh my god! You’re right. It does look like a Jawa Sandcrawler.
Quick! Rename all the areas/booths to the appropriate area on a SandCrawler!
And make all the staff dress as Jawas.
Doh, busy this weekend and this is the first I hear of it. Essen is like 150 km from where I live. Had I known I would have re-scheduled.
Still, it would have been worse if you had been attending yourselves, because then I would have missed the chance to meet you and maybe talk about BMS as well.
Still, I have met a lot of Star Wars actors over the years, luckily a lot of them are British, so reasonably close and frequent guests at the few local conventions we do have.
Wow! I was wondering how young Ben was going to tie into Shadows. Thanks for the heads up on Jedipedia.net. I’ll be visiting it next. 😉
Yes, Shadows is on Hiatus over the weekend. We’ll return to the Shadows parody on Monday.
OHHH I would die to be there… I been a “little bit” far away.. I miss celebration in Miami last year… I will plan for 2014… where would it be?
Leia’s looking good with her lightsaber and iphone. Everyone else is more or less ready for some fighting, especially Mace and the brown-haired fellow, and she’s busy texting. Or perhaps Mace is giving her a disapproving look for her lack of attention!
I have a good friend who happens to be a librarian. She takes *major* issue with this scene. She said a *good* librarian would research other sources for the information. She said the librarian’s line in this scene was incredibly arrogant. Having been a librarian briefly in grad school, I would have to agree.
I’m so confused!
I don’t have action figures for any of these people, they must be from the Accursed “Other Trilogy”!
Oh well, I’ll just re-read some of Biggs Strips, and wait for Xizor to die horribly…
BTW In all seriousness, BMS could probably make even the PT’s interesting, and that is about as good a complement as I can come up with! 🙂