501stCast Episode 63: February 5th, 2011: New Year, Same Dedication to Troopin’!

501stCast

Show Notes: Episode LXIII (February 5th, 2011)

Hosts:Â Joe Stevenson (TK-6064), Nicky Blum (DZ-8397) and Adam Scott (RC-6124)

Content Development: Nicky Blum (DZ-8397) and Dean Plantamura (TK-899)

Post-Production: Andy Fairbanks (ID-8169)

Recent News

• Quimbé, Portuguese Yoda, joins 501st (TX-3788)
  
• Final TK Helmet Project helmet’s donation total (closed auction)
• Steve Sansweet joins Twitterverse (also on Facebook)
• TK-1564 interviewed (article)
• Friend of the Legion Joe Zettelmaier recognized (All Things Childish)
• New Honorary Members
  • Dan Wallace (blog)
  • Nick Gillard
• Romanian Outpost CO interview
• New series of 501st trading cards released
• Stormtroopers on Hawai’i weather forecast (video)
• 501st Shout Out in Joe Schreiber’s Red Harvest
• DK Books & LEGO make donations on behalf of the 501st & Rebel Legions(DK Star Wars)
• Reminder – Legion elections are underway (501st Legion charter)

Mission Reports

• Garrison Titan supports Toys for Tots – in field report from TD-9993
• 501st in Disney’s Very Merry Christmas Parade (parade video, Star Tours video)
• Bloodfin Garrison presents armor to Make-A-Wish teen (video1, video2)
• Great Lakes Garrison troop Muskegon Lumberjacks 4th annual SW night (photos, Facebook photos, Facebook video)
• Hong Kong Outpost visit pediatric ward
• Carolina Garrison at children’s Christmas party
• Dewback Ridge Garrison visits children at Medical Center
• Belgian Garrison at Music for Life
• Empire City Garrison visits Stonybrook hospital (photo)
• Portuguese Lusitanian Outpost visits Lisbon hospital (video, Facebook video)
• Georgia Garrison in New Year’s Chick-Fil-A Parade (photos)
• Hong Kong Shadow Outpost in Time Square for NYE countdown (photo)
• Dune Sea Garrison in New Year’s Fiesta Bowl Parade (video)
• Southern California Garrison helps announce SW LEGO miniland exhibit (photos, News10 video, LEGOland video, article)
• Garrison Titan promotes Where Science Meets Imagination coming to Seattle’s PSC (photos)
• Garrison Excelsior at Binghamton Senators hockey game (photos)
• Dewback Ridge Garrison at 1st annual Albuquerque Comic Con
  
• Star Garrison at Oklahoma University Basketball with Peter Mayhew (photos1, photos2, R2photos, video, SWblog)
• Bast Alpha Garrison runs “Shoot the Trooper” at Wizard World New Orleans (video1, video2)
  
• New England Garrison supports Blood Drive (photos)
  

Upcoming Events

• Great Lakes Garrison supports The One Man Star Wars Show – Feb 24th-26th
• Great Lakes Garrison at Port Huron Fighting Falcons Star Wars Night – March 12th
• Canadian Garrison troops Wizard World Toronto – March 18th-20th
• New England Garrison in St. Patrick’s Day Parade – March 20th
• Star Wars weekend at The Strong’s National Museum of Play – March 26th-27th
• Wondercon 2011 coming to San Francisco April 1st-3rd
• Huge annual LEGOLand Germany event – June 4th-5th

Shout-Out
Redback Garrison and those in Cyclone Yasi’s path

Honorary Member Birthdays

• LFL Artist Randy Martinez – Jan 7th
• Author Terry Brooks – Jan 8th
• Star Wars artist Tommy Lee Edwards – Jan 8th
• Felix Silla Ewokin the Glider – Jan 11th
• James Earl Jones – Jan 17th
• Author Matthew Stover – Jan 29th
• Peter Sumner aka Lt. Pol Treidum – Jan 29th
• Warwick Davis aka Wicket W. Warrick – Feb 3rd
• Robot Chicken Creator Seth Green – Feb 8th
• Composer John Williams – Feb 8th
• Jeremy Bulloch Boba Fett and BH-5211 – Feb 16th
• C-3PO Anthony Daniels – Feb 21st

Unit Anniversaries

• Alpine Garrison – 8th Anniversary in January
  
• Icelandic Outpost – 8th Anniversary in January
• Sith Lord Detachment – 6th Anniversary in January
• Belgian Garrison’s Prospectors Squad – 2nd Anniversary – Jan 8th
• Dune Sea Garrison’s Judland Wastes Squad – 3rd Anniversary – Jan 14th
• Brazilian Division Garrison – 10th Anniversary – Jan 15th
• Terror Australis Garrison – 7th Anniversary – Jan 18th
• Mexican Garrison’s Baja Squad – 1st Anniversary – Jan 21st
• Malaysia-Brunei Outpost – 5th Anniversary – Jan 23rd
• Timberline Garrison – 1st Anniversary – Jan 29th
• Old Line Garrison – 7th Anniversary – this month
• Florida Garrison’s Makaze Squad – 6th Anniversary – this month
• Garrison Carida – 9th Anniversary – Feb 10th
• Bolivian Outpost – 3rd Anniversary – Feb 18th
• Central Garrison’s Minnesota Wolf Pack Squad – 2nd Anniversary – Feb 20th
• Wisconsin Garrison – 1st Anniversary – Feb 20th
• Canadian Garrison’s Imperial Fortress Squad – 1st Anniversary – Feb 23rd

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