Have you met or seen someone from the Star Wars universe, and props?

Just wondering how many fans here have actually met people from the franchise. 

I have personally met Anthony Daniels, and went to see John Williams in concert back in December.

Also, several times I have seen actual props and costumes (at Star Wars in Concert, and in museums, etc.).  Luke's lightsaber was particularly cool to see. A lot of that stuff is just normal stuff thrown together with logos from different companies on the parts, etc.  I also saw the chess table from the Millenium Falcon.

Two pictures I took in a nice little museum at Lyon (France):

I work for an audio visual company & I was doing a conference in the Europa Hotel in Belfast for 'Equity' which is an actors union in the UK, the room was filled with familiar faces mainly from UK TV, but Oliver Ford Davies who played Sio Bibble in the FANTASTIC prequel films was there.....funny thing was ROTS was on it's first week of release in UK & I had seen it the night before.

I got his autograph and joked with him that I'd recently seen him on the big screen, he said he wasn't sure he'd made the cut & was in the film!

I've also met Dave Prowse, Jeremy Bulloch & Richard LeParmentier, but they were at a Star Wars thing.

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I met Peter Cushing at a book signing when I was a little boy. I couldn't afford his book but he gave me a signed photograph and asked me where my nearest library was.

I met Peter Mayhew a few years ago at SDCC & got his autograph. Met Dave Prowse this past summer at a comic con in Dallas. Got his autograph & chatted for a bit. He was really nice and fun to talk to.

As for props, Disneys MGM (now "Hollywood") Studios park in Disneyworld Florida has had the Falcon chess table, a Darth Vader costume, a Tie Fighter, and bits of the Death Star surface on display in various places different times I've been there. There's also various vehicles from the Indiana Jones films rotting outside in the elements on the backlot tour.

But the best time I had seeing props was when the Where Science Meets Imagination exhibit came to Saint Paul, MN while I was living there. Went twice it was so good. They had a ton of screen used OT props costumes and models on display. Major highlights included the full scale landspeeder and the show-stopping five foot Millennium Falcon. That was one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

TMBTM said:

 

 

 

It's sort of disconcerting to see real-world prequel stuff, given how much was CG.  And I know there were a lot of models in TPM, but still.

To be honest that wacky racer might as well have been CGI.

What was George smoking back in the late nineties?

I can answer in one sentence: I have been trooping in costume at the opening of a Star Wars The Exhibition, with Anthony Daniels.

I got a few days access to the exhibit, which was nice. Building prop replicas is one of my hobbies. Unfortunately, there weren't too many props from the OT, but I still filled the small memory card on the camera.

You can sometimes meet some actor or some unknown extra at sci-fi conventions, and get his/her autograph for a fee... I have seen David Prowse (who wore the Darth Vader suit) more times than I can count -- signing autographs seems to be the only thing he does for a living. So far, I have got nineteen autographs from actors in the OT on a couple of posters, but I am still missing a few that I really want: "the three", Kenneth Colley (Piett) and Denis Lawson. Harrison Ford and Denis Lawson are known to wanting to distance themselves from Star Wars and they almost never write autographs.

I got to meet Dave Prowse, Jeremy Bulloch, Richard Le Parmentier, Kenny Baker, Tim Rose and Anthony Forrest at an annual event in Belfast.Theres no official movie props but the Emerald Garrison who help host this event make incredible replicas. 

The title of this thread makes it sound like thorr's asking if anyone's met actual Star Wars characters rather than people involved with the production of the films themselves. XD

On that note, I sleep in the same bed as Ric Olie every night.

Of course...he's me!

SilverWook said:

Someday I'll get my Chewie on Hoth photo signed!

This bar my buddies and I frequent totally has a signed picture of Chewie wearing the oxygen mask inside the space slug's belly. Only celebrity signed pic they have in the place. That always made me happy.

When I lived in Edinburgh our local had loads of Kenner stuff up and the guys running the place were big Trekkers/B5fans so they had autographs from the various cast members who wandered in.

I got a few autographs in there but nothing Star Wars (got a John Hurt's autograph there).

Sadly they didn't like Doctor Who so unless they were one of the rare group of crossover actors they weren't given as many incentives as the Trek/B5 guys and gals.

I can't remember any Star Wars autographs up there the Kenner toys were the first thing I noticed.

I went to the aforementioned "Where Science Meets Imagination" exhibit while it was at the Museum of Science in Boston, which, I'm learning (or possibly relearning) right now as I look it up), originated there.

I've also seen a number of props/costumes at various Planet Hollywood restaurants (New York, Walt Disney World, probably D.C).