Okay, so the term "flash mob" is a bit of an exaggeration. This early-morning 501st event in uptown Charlotte, NC, was a planned p...

Rain or shine, the trooping must go on. Trooped in armor for the first time in more than a year and was glad that that suit still fits, albe...

Dragon*Con 2008 was a blast, as expected. Of all the cons that the 501st is known to attend regularly, D*C is the most laid-back in terms o...

YouTube is interesting. Since it's user-created content, things will appear at seemingly random times without any regard for when they a...

Star Wars: The Clone Wars premiered on Friday, August 15th, so many theaters around the world contributed to the hype by hosting midnight s...

Every so often, Toys R Us stores will host midnight toy premieres on the eve of their official release date. The closest thing I can think o...

Star Wars Weekends is upon us again and this year DZ-4009 and myself loaded up the family and made a trip to that wretched hive of sun and...

Stormtroopers all across America have been working with their local U.S. Marines to help promote the Toys For Tots toy drive this time of y...

A picture is worth a thousand words, and never more so than with an event like Dragon*Con in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. With a rumored 60,00...

Although Dragon*Con is often regarded as the annual "homecoming" for the 501st Legion (having been the site of the 501st's fi...

It's been one year since troopers around the globe were asked by Lucasfilm to submit videos of themselves marching in military-style fo...

The community of Tega Cay , South Carolina, loves the 501st Legion! In 2006, the Carolina Garrison marched in this city's 4th of July p...

I've just added a list of all my Stormtrooper-related events (right column), and so far I've come up with roughly 46 occassions dati...

Today I trooped a Mid-Summer Festival at the Schiele Museum of Natural History in Gastonia, NC. Some of the local 501st members have famil...