I've always been a big Star Wars fan, and so has Monica, so we followed the arrows and went in. It's truly an amazing exhibit. Everything on display has been specially chosen from the Lucasfilm archive, so we saw a lot of the actual props, costumes, and models that were used in making the movies.
This is a speeder-bike from my favorite sequence in Return of the Jedi. I really wanted to touch it, but I wasn't allowed.
And here's an Ewok. I love the ewoks, they're so cute!I would have loved to take more pictures, but my camera batteries died just after we entered the museum.
One of my favorite parts of this exhibit was the concept art. Hanging on the walls of every corridor between the exhibition rooms were the original pages used in designing the look of Star Wars. There were paintings by Ralph McQuarrie, who designed the look of Darth Vader and C-3PO. There were sketches from the costume department. There were storyboards of various action sequences, with handwritten notes about what would take place during the scene.
Several times during the day, there's a performance called "Jedi School." The lights go down, the theme music plays, and like the opening of the Star Wars movies, there's a rolling explanation of where we are in the story. The premise of Jedi School is that The Emperor and Darth Vader have wiped out most of the Jedi, and two remaining Jedi have come to train young Padawans in the ways of the Force. Two actors in Jedi robes came out at that point twirling lightsabers, and they chose six little boys to go through Jedi training. They taught the boys some lightsaber moves, and then Darth Vader came in through the back doors. Each little boy got a turn to fight Vader, and then they all worked together to beat him. It was a funny little show, and the little boys were so cute learning how to use their lightsabers.
This was seriously my favorite museum ever, and well worth the price of admission!
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