The Star Wars: Episode I Celebration was sponsored by Lucas Film and Pepsi. The exhibit was held in hanger #1 at Denver's Air & Space Museum on Lowery Air Force Base. The exhibit ran from April 30th, 1999 to May 2nd.
The inside hanger presentation consisted of many individual company booths that were set up to promote and sell Star Wars universe merchandise. Lucas Arts also had a large display running various Star Wars arcade style games that will soon be available to play. There were also many tables set up so that people could play the Star Wars role playing game. Hasbro also had a large display containing all of the various play characters and models that will soon be available for purchase from Episode I. There was also video screening and THX rooms, as well as a Star Wars store.
Also on display was the full size hero model of Anakin Skywalker's Podcar as well as a full size mockup of an X-wing fighter. In separate tents outside the main hanger were housed a full size Naboo fighter as well as a small auditorium where many guest speakers including Anthony Daniels gave presentations to various assembled crowds.
The main artifact exhibit consisted of 16 pieces of artwork that were used in Episode I. Included in the exhibit included Anakin Skywalker's C-3PO and his Podcar costume, a 6' Naboo (Pyro) fighter, three lightsabers, Podrace banners, the 30" TESB Millennium Flacon model, a 2' X-wing model, a 30" Y-wing model, a 16" TIE fighter, a 12" AT-ST model, a full size Trade Federation battle droid, and Jedi pouches, comlink and food pellets.
This was a fairly nice exhibit and I was fortunate enough to live just 45 minutes away from it. I was hoping that they would have displayed the Trade Federation Battleship. As always, I am primarily interested in obtaining very detailed close-up shots of the models that I photography, and the below photo exhibition reflects that desire. I ended up taking 44 pictures of the exhibit, with a majority of those pictures appearing on this web site. To photograph the exhibit, I attached my camera to my small tripod and shot the exhibit using either my 28mm or 50mm lenses set at an f-stop of f22 with exposure times of either 2, 4, 8, or 16 seconds.
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