Invasion and the Emerald Garrison are returning to Dublin for an even bigger and better show, taking place Easter weekend 23rd, 24th and 25th of April. Taking place in Hall1 from 10am – 6pm each day.
Fans will be able to meet their favourite characters and have photo’s taken with them with full-size recreations of the movie sets in the background. This fun filled family day is ideal from Kids from 9 months to 99 years. And ofcourse to really get into the spirit of the event why not show up in costume from one of our huge range of Licensed Starwars Costumes such as some of the below:
Princess Leia Costume
Darth Vader Costume
Clone Trooper Rex Costume
For more information checkout Invasion.ie and don’t forget if you get photo’s of yourselves in our costumes, post them up on our facebook page. Here’s some of the fun from recent events to give you an idea of what to expect.
I know we’ve been going on and on about Starwars far too much on this blog lately, but the last few weeks and coming week are like a Starwars fans dream come true. However the Invasion Starwars Convention is coming to Dublin and it has us all very excited.
Invasion, the Starwars convention is coming to Dublin this Easter Holiday Weekend 2010 (April 3rd, 4th, 5th) Doors open 10.00am and close 7.00pm. It all takes place at the New Citywest Convention & Exhibition Center, Dublin. At the show the Emerald Garrison, the Elite Irish division of Troopers and Starwars devotees will be present in full costume and ofcourse if you have a starwars costume make sure you put it on to go to the show.
Emerald Garrison have a big surprise instore as they unveil for the first time ever, a life-size recreation of the Y-wing fighter along with other fan based movie replica props.
We’re hoping to see some of our troop from the Starwars March earlier this month their with the costumes they were wearing.
Don’t forget this is a family day out, kids absolutely adored the concert and this opportunity to meet their favorite characters and the actors that played them is for the little ones as well as us big kids. And as always don’t forget your costume!
Tickets from 10 Euro / 30 for a family. Available through the Invasion.ie website.
“This week, Star Wars: In Concert kicked off the European leg of its world tour in Dublin. As we got ready to start the first show in Dublin and the video crew was scrambling to make some last minute tweaks, I suddenly noticed something — the 501st helping us today were talking funny. We had Irish stormtroopers! The 501st’s Emerald Garrison reminded me once more that Star Wars is truly global.”
This afternoon 50 Storm troopers took over O’Connell street and we marched down to the O2 where the 2010 Starwars concert took place. During the week Steven Cooper (aka Darth Vader) had been giving away tickets to the concert and amassing our army of storm troopers. We met up in the Gresham hotel this morning.
We walked down O’Connell Street, getting lots of reactions from surprised onlookers and plenty of Starwars fans taking pictures.
Then we made our way down into the concert. On the way in, there was an awesome museum of movie memorabilia. Then we took our seats and while the concert was waiting to start invent the stormtrooper wave, like the Mexican wave, but more stormtrooper like. It took a while to catch on but eventually we had everyone in the 02 joining in.
But the highlight of the day had to be meeting Anthony Daniels, the host of the show and original movie actor who played C3P0. His PA came out during the interval, asked us to stay behind for a chat and some photo’s.
Such a nice guy and it was a real treat meeting one of the actors that helped define a generation. Big thanks to all the troops who showed and thanks for being such great sports.
So we’ve had a really cool idea, ok technically it was Coopers idea but its a great one. We’ve teamed up with MCD and Dublins98Fm to organize Irelands first ever storm trooper march. You see MCD has arranged a Matine show Starwars the Musical in the 02 Dublin on the 7th of March, Stephen Cooper (aka Darth Vader) will be giving away 25 double pass live on air on Dublins 98Fm and we’ll be supplying the outfits for his army of Storm Troopers.
Participants, we’ll be meeting at the Gresham Hotel O’Connell Street Sunday morning March 7th. Those who win tickets on the radio will be given tickets to the show and costumes also. If your not so lucky to win tickets and have costumes come anyway, tickets available through ticket master for the show which promises to be great.
It’ll be really funny to see the faces as strangers realize the streets of Dublin have been taken over by an army of storm troopers.
Videos and pics of the event to follow. Hope to meet you there!
Without doubt the most insane costume we have on our site at the moment is the Supreme Edition Storm Trooper Costume. At 669.99 Euro it is by far the most expensive costume we stock – but never under estimate the will of a Star Wars Fan.
Supreme Edition Storm Trooper Costume
The Supreme Storm Trooper is a replica of the Outfits used when filming the original movies – and for a collector is a must have item. Don’t believe us? Well did you know that in recent census’ “Jedi” has become a popular choice of religion? In fact in New Zealand more people listed chose Jedi as their religion Hindu or Buddhism! Clearly some folks did it for a laugh, but others were deadly serious.
Here’s some crazy facts about how serious Star Wars Fans are:
* In April 2009 it emerged that eight police officers serving with Scotland’s largest police force in Strathclyde listed their official religion as Jedi in voluntary diversity forms.
* In England and Wales 390,127 people in 2001 census listed their religion as Jedi.
* On November 16 2006, 2 self-proclaimed Jedi delivered a protest letter to UN officials in recognition of the International Day for Tolerance. They requested that it be renamed the “UN Interstellar Day of Tolerance” and cited the 2001 Census showing 390,000 Jedi in England and Wales.
But if your just looking for a fun Storm Trooper costume – We’d recommend going with the deluxe Storm Trooper witch is about 1/10th of the price!
In a recent customer query a customer wanted to know how restrictive our Storm Trooper Costume is, basically they were going to a fancy dress party, they wanted to go as a Storm Trooper and they were concerned that it might interfere with them dancing the night away. Since none of the sales team fancied dancing around the office at the time to make sure our responce was accurate i turned to u-tube to see if it had any answers and found this little Jem:
Hmm… Maybe we should start putting up videos of the messing we get up to in the office…
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Please note the latest Deluxe Costume available in our store varies slightly from the model shown in the video
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