As it turns out, an old friend of mine, Nathan (Nedwards), had gotten some free passes to the opening night preview, so I went with him and a couple of his friends.. The exhibit has been open for a few days now, but apparently the big Grand Opening will be Thursday, and tonight was some kind of pre-grand opening celebration. I'm not sure exactly how that works, but either way, it was free, and it was catered (delicious catering, too).
Now, I'll admit that I have a fairly expansive knowledge of Star Wars in general, all locked up with the rest of the trivial knowledge that makes up my brain. So, it was pretty funny that, among other things, we ended up discussing an episode of Star Trek the Next Generation (The one where Moriarty takes over the Enterprise because Geordi LaForge requested a Holodeck Character that was capable of 'beating' Data, which doesn't make sense, because there's no way the computer would have been able to create an artificial intelligence of that scale.)
It was a lot of fun to see. There were a lot of different props and costumes and interactive stations, including a mag-lev lego thing, and interesting 'eye toy' like thing, and some programmable robots. While there were a lot of things, it actually seemed like there should have been more. Maybe it's just the expectations I got from for the level of advertisement and the fact that they've substantially extended their hours seven days a week to accommodate, but I just really thought there would be more too it.
Still, considering that it was free, I really enjoyed it. It was also a lot of fun to get out and hang out with Nedwards, since I hadn't seen him in a very long time. As a matter of fact, he and I figured out that it's been about 2 years since the last time we were actually in the same place at the same time. Hopefully it won't be just a long gap between.
Here are some photos, although I took quite a few more, many them just didn't turn out well.
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