Late evening Troop, they rock because the heatwave of he day is on its way out. This Troop was fun and allowed us to goof of a bit. the kids really had a good time and the cause made the evening worth the effort.
Posts Tagged ‘starwars’
Intracoastal Relay for Life
Posted in Trooping, tagged 501st, breaking news, Intracoastal Relay for Life, Jacksonville, starwars, Stormtroopers, TK Klroy on May 17, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Art Walk 04-06-2016
Posted in Trooping, tagged 501st, Art Walk, breaking news, Jacksonville, Squad 7, Star Wars, starwars, Stormtroopers on May 17, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Blast for the Past, yep another great troop at the Jacksonville Art Walk. This is one of my favorite troops to do. it is also the hardest one to work into the schedule. But the pay off is a lot of people excited to see us and we really get to make memories with all who stop and get a picture with us.
Celtic Parade St Augustine Florida 2016
Posted in Trooping, tagged 501st, 501st Legion, Celtic Parade, Celtic Parade St Augustine Florida, Jacksonville, Squad 7, starwars on May 17, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Sun, fun and kilts. that will always makes for a great troop. The 501st for another year help make this event fun and exciting for all who watched and cheered us on.
Support the Troops – Star Wars themed event for Veterans
Posted in Trooping, tagged 501st, breaking news, Jacksonville, Squad 7, starwars, Stormtroopers on November 8, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Support the Troops
Star Wars themed event for Veterans Weekend
It is going to support Combat2College which is a local veterans fundraiser that helps veterans, service members, and their families to resources in order to facilitate their success in post secondary education.
BlackFinn’s hosted this event for our military troops. we walked the room and took photo ops and shook hands as they celebrated the evening. After we completed out mission with the Military troops we stormed the rest of the location and mingled with the patrons that were also celebrating Star Wars Themed evening. The was plenty of Music and fun to be had. the patrons enjoyed the evening just as much as Squad 7 did. the was a fun troop.
Ancient City Con – 2015
Posted in Trooping, tagged 501st, ACC, Ancient city con, breaking news, Jacksonville, Squad 7, Star Wars, starwars on July 19, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Troop Dates July 18-19 2015
Today warps up a two day troop at the Ancient City Con. It also was the first time back in my armor since late October 2014. It felt wonderful walking around the convention floor all suited up. There really is nothing like it. Even with my limited vision, watching the peoples faces both grown adults and young kids just put a smile on your face which no one will ever see.
There was a good turn out and the fan came all dressed up in their favorite cos-play costumes. The range of cos-play spanned so many things it would be hard to list. so I wont try but just to say there were a lot of costumes that people put a lot of work into.
I look forward to next years convention, I like the new location (Prime Osborne Convention Center) it has enough space for everybody and give us room to breath lol.. So keep an eye open for next years dates and see you there.
Enjoy the photos of a very small portion of what went on there.
Show your colors run @ JU
Posted in Trooping, tagged 501st, breaking news, Jacksonville, show your colors run @ JU, Squad 7, Star Wars, starwars, stormtrooper on July 18, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Show your Colors Run @ JU 5K
Troop Date 10-25-2014
After a 9 month absents from the 501st, I am back trooping, however this post is the last one that I did before my absents. So there is not much to say other than this was a fun and successful troop, here are a bunch of photos from the color run.
Freedom Festival 2014
Posted in Trooping, tagged 501st, breaking news, Freedom Festival, Jacksonville, Squad 7, Star Wars, starwars, Stormtroopers on June 30, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Sweating it out in armor with new troopers and handlers this past weekend (06-28-2014) at the Orange park mall in Jacksonville, FL.
Freedom Festival was set to honor and support Military personal both retired and enlisted I believe. This was a fun troop with live music, fire trucks and many other booths loaded with information and food.
Squad 7 troopers and handlers met up in front of Dicks sporting store and it was a collection of regulars and new comers. If I have all their names correct we were introduced to Greg, Kevin and Aaron. Greg trooped as Vader and did a fantastic job at that. it was nice to see a Vader representing Squad 7 again. Kevin and Aaron both working on their armor help handle and it was needed. Thanks to the new comers for coming and trooping with us.
The weather was HOT, the blazing sun beating down forced us to taking breaks every thirty to forty five minutes to ensure no trooper suffered heat exhaustion. we were able to troop on until the end of the event.
Squad 7 marched out to the crowed as we like to do and with no hesitation we were engulfed by the crowed to take pictures. we found a slightly shady spot and let the pictures take control as family after family walked and posed with us. it was great and the crowed was good, no problems at all. We walked the perimeter of the event so everybody could get up close and take pictures. we marched about with some good music playing on the main stage. people were dancing and enjoying the music even in the heat.
we wrapped up by taking a quick break and marching in side the mall around the food court and back to our dressing room. The mall crowed felt like the Paparazzi running ahead of us clicking away on their phones. It was fun and a great way to end this troop. the crowed surly enjoyed seeing us troop around like we owned the place lol…
This was a Hot but fun troop. I really enjoyed meeting and hanging a bit with some new squad7 members. of course I always enjoy the company of the regular troopers and they did a great job as well.
Squad7 you rock on!!!! Great Troop.
Photographer: Morgan Franklin
Breaking News!!! Stormtrooper and Tie Pilot exposed (Buckets Off!!)
Posted in Trooping, tagged 501st, 501st Legion, breaking news, Exclusive photos, Galactic Academe, Jacksonville, Murray Hill Library, Star Wars, starwars, Stormtroopers on June 25, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Breaking News!!! Stormtrooper and Tie Pilot exposed (Buckets Off!!)
As reported two imperial staff members one Stormtrooper and One Tie Pilot were seen in these exclusive photos with their buckets off (helmets). It appears from the photo that they were engaged in 501st propaganda. The room filled with young potential recruits that were exposed to the ways of the 501st and how they can start at a young age by joining the Galactic Academe and working their way up to join the empire. But what is the real story here.
The Real story….
Today the 501st trooped the Murray Hill Branch Jacksonville Public
Exclusive Photo
Library for the “Travel to a Galaxy Far, Far Away” event. Two Troopers Me and Gina were invited to mingle with the kids taking photos and giving high fives. We also were able to do a question and answer session and talk a bit about the 501st to both the kids and the parents, well this required us to take off our buckets. It’s the first time that I have done this out in the public. Felt kind of weird but the cause was worth it. It was a limited crowed so not to bad.
Gina and I both spoke for a few min about the great thing we do for charity and people around the city. Also how they can start at their very young age to become a member of a club (Galactic Academe) and start down the road to becoming a 501st member when they hit 18.
The Kids asked question and took photos and then settled in for a movie. Sadly the Library could not do a showing of Star Wars, so they settled on Star fighter if I remember correctly.
This was a fun small troop and gave us a little different way of trooping. Well at least for me it was.
So in all a good troop, check out some more Exclusive Photos
Handler and Photographer: Morgan Franklin
501st Legion Charity Total for 2013
Posted in Event Stories, News Flash, tagged 501st, breaking news, charity, Jacksonville, Star Wars, starwars, Stormtroopers on March 14, 2014| Leave a Comment »
I wanted to share with everybody the totals that the 501st , Florida Garrison and Squad 7 rose during 2013 for all the charities we have trooped for.
I try to document each troop I take part in but there are so many more troops that happen which raises money for so many charitable organizations That I am not a part of.
We are lucky enough as a group to do troops that are both fun like parades and then some that really raise money for people that are in desperate need of help.
This year the 501st , Florida Garrison and Squad 7 did a bang up job helping out where we could and here are the numbers.
501st Legion Charity Total for 2013
Direct donations: $262,328.00
Indirect donations: $32,823,907.00
Florida Garrison Charity Totals for 2013
Direct Donations: $12,270.62
Indirect Donations: $4,409,498.50
Squad 7 Charity Totals for 2013
Direct Donations: $2,780.62
Indirect Donations: $470,858.92
The 501st Legion shows up on Mythbusters
Posted in News Flash, tagged 501st, 501st Legion, Adam savage, breaking news, discovery channel, Jamie Hyneman, myth busters, mythbusters, News Flash, Star Wars, starwars, stormtrooper, Stormtroopers on January 2, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Join the 501st on the Mythbusters as they show up on the show this season.
January 4th on Discovery
The 501st Legion will gain more national attention from the up coming season of the Mythbusters as some of the 501st members will appear on the hit TV show.
Mythbusters will be putting to the test some of the things we see in the star wars movies and to help them Star Wars up the place some very lucky 501st members will join in the fun.
Honorary member to the 501st Legion, Adam Savage and his co-host Jamie Hyneman looks into a galaxy far, far away to see if some of what we see in the movies can be busted as Myth’s. This episode is shaping up to be fun and educational for us all.
As for the 501st Legion, what great exposure to the global TV watching community. As a member it gives me great pride to see our brothers and sisters in armor on the TV representing the 501st legion with style and class.
The work that the 501st Legion does to help raise money for a long list of charities is sometime over shadowed by people who want to point only to the costuming part of who and what we are.
It’s true that our members has a love for Star Wars and costuming, but they also have the same passion to bring a little joy and entertainment to children and parents alike, by showing up in costume and allowing the families to excape from their daily troubles and smile for a change, if only for a short time its still means a lot to them.
It great when TV shows like the Mythbusters will allow groups like the 501st Legion to join in on the fun and help spread the message of the work that the 501st legion does each year. I truly believe the exposure that is gained when represented correctly will only help these charities in the long run. It also helps with recruitment to the 501st Legion as there are fans out there that are not aware that there is a club that embraces the movies as the 501st does and allows them to build a costume and become more then a fan, it allows them to live in that world and at the same time help raise money for people in need.
So buckets off to the Mythbusters and Adam Savage for this episode that’s coming. I know I thank you, I am sure the Legion thanks you and I hope the fans of your show will thank you for bringing something so awesome to your show.
Watch some video clips of the upcoming episode by following the links below.
Watch a small promo from Mythbuster website here: 501st and the Mythbusters
The 501st Legion website: here
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