DAY 3:

THE BALLS OFF A POLAR BEAR...
I slept through my alarm again.  Damn it.  And once again, I scrambled and high-tailed my ass to the line.  I was expecting to be at the back of the line... in Wisconsin, if I was lucky.  But they had set up a special line for this morning's special event: the George Lucas interviews.  With everyone queueing up in that line, the main admission line was relatively light, and I got in line about a block from the door.  After the line compressed a couple times I was within only a few minutes of the entrance.  It would have been perfect except for one thing: the weather had gotten worse since yesterday.

There was something falling from the sky, but it wasn't rain.  It was snow, and the wind chill could have flash frozen the balls off a polar bear.  So, even with my new jacket, hat and multiple layers, I was shivering just as much as yesterday morning.  The images that will stick in my mind are the idiots who wore t-shirts and shorts to stand in line in weather like this, and what I dubbed the "umbrella graveyard."  As we were walking toward the door (while being let in) we noticed that the queue was littered with the shattered corpses of umbrellas and folding chairs, all broken by the wind and cast aside by their owners.  These poor wasted remnants of some fans' long, cold wait lay scattered like the dead on a battlefield.

Isn't that pleasant?


CHIT CHAT
I wasn't expecting to have the slightest chance at getting into the Lucas interviews.  Oddly, though, shortly after getting in I found out that they were still trying to fill seats in the auditorium, so I jumped in line.  It was mildly interesting, even though I couldn't see the stage.  I could see the enormous screens, though.

The informational high points:
1.  He confirmed that he has a script for a new Indiana Jones movie, but hasn't read it yet, and hasn't made a final decision whether it will happen or not.
2.  He confirmed that they're working on a live-action Star Wars TV series, that will cover events between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, and be centered around new characters, with the occasional familiar name being dropped, and possibly a few familiar characters appearing form time to time.  Personally, I'm hoping for a "birth of the Rebellion" type of storyline.  That would be cool.
3.  He said that IF he were to do another Star Wars movie (and that would truly be a long shot), it would cover the early days of the Republic, or some other time frame long before the time period of the Star Wars Saga, and would not be directly related to the characters we already know.  He told us that this possibility largely depends on the success of any TV series they do.


WALKABOUT
That one event basically started and ended my day, as far as specific events are concerned.  I spent the remainder of the day between kicking back in my hotel room and walking around the convention center looking for interesting photo ops.  I did find a few, and snapped some interesting pictures.  Here are a couple (more will come later):
Proof of the existence of the elusive Indomitus (a rare photo indeed), seen posing here with Darth Tater, Dark Spud of the Sith.  (But wait, is that a COOL, REFRESHING COCA COLA in his hand?)


Darth Tater lords his starchy Dark Side powers over the Hasbro toy display.
 This little Sith was just so adorable I had to snap a photo.

The rest of my day will consist of taking it easy, taking in some local attractions, and gearing up for tomorrow, when I'm actually going to try to see some of the major convention events, so not much else to talk about until then.  I will have to find entertainment by myself, because my friends have already gone home.  I'll find something, though.  I'm pretty easy to amuse...