ObiHahn
Active Member
The CE II 501st party on Saturday (for Legion members worldwide to have a chance to meet in person, down a couple beers and chat about costumes, nerdy stuff and enjoy togetherness out of costume for a change) is definitely a club-only, exclusive thing, and tickets have basically almost been long sold out AFAIK. So if you're not an active 501st member, this is not for you - just quoting the facts.
There were roundabout 600 tickets if I recall this correctly and there sure as heck aren't a whole lot left as of today.
That's just the big "official" 501st party on Saturday evening, mind you:
There will be, as Markus has pointed out, a whole bunch of Essen bars and pubs along the Rüttenscheider Straße open for costume/prop/merch nerds and geeks like us from around the globe.
That official pub crawl thing might be the best bet to meet people outside of the various, club- and fan-organized exclusive parties that are held at/around CE II.
There is another, smaller 501st Legion meet&greet on Thursday night, without ticket pre-sales and, to the best of my knowledge, also open for a limited amount of close friends of the Legion - I'm pretty sure though that "close friends of the Legion" equals members' families, girl-/boyfriends and people who are partners and/or regulars at each and every local event.
Like you can see in my PM that Chaim quoted from, one or two more guests will not be a problem if a 501st member personally invited you to join, but PLEASE do not take this as an open invitation for half the RPF or everyone attending CE2. It's still first and foremost a 501st thing and there will be corresponding threads and invitations in the international Legion/Garrison boards with more information for all who are invited to join.
German Garrison will surely crucify me if suddenly hundreds of people from the RPF turn up and tell them "This guy ObiHahn invited us, so here we are!".
There were roundabout 600 tickets if I recall this correctly and there sure as heck aren't a whole lot left as of today.
That's just the big "official" 501st party on Saturday evening, mind you:
There will be, as Markus has pointed out, a whole bunch of Essen bars and pubs along the Rüttenscheider Straße open for costume/prop/merch nerds and geeks like us from around the globe.
That official pub crawl thing might be the best bet to meet people outside of the various, club- and fan-organized exclusive parties that are held at/around CE II.
There is another, smaller 501st Legion meet&greet on Thursday night, without ticket pre-sales and, to the best of my knowledge, also open for a limited amount of close friends of the Legion - I'm pretty sure though that "close friends of the Legion" equals members' families, girl-/boyfriends and people who are partners and/or regulars at each and every local event.
Like you can see in my PM that Chaim quoted from, one or two more guests will not be a problem if a 501st member personally invited you to join, but PLEASE do not take this as an open invitation for half the RPF or everyone attending CE2. It's still first and foremost a 501st thing and there will be corresponding threads and invitations in the international Legion/Garrison boards with more information for all who are invited to join.
German Garrison will surely crucify me if suddenly hundreds of people from the RPF turn up and tell them "This guy ObiHahn invited us, so here we are!".
