{"id":2644,"date":"2012-01-30T13:22:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T21:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotnerdgirl.wordpress.com\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2024-02-28T09:30:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T09:30:38","slug":"the-star-wars-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/30\/the-star-wars-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"The Star Wars Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Dad came to SoCal to visit my brother and I and being the family o’ nerd that we are, we decided to go to the Discovery Science Center’s Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination exhibit in Santa Ana.\u00a0 I’ve always wanted to visit the giant black cube that looks suspiciously Borg-like so this was the perfect opportunity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I honestly don't know which of us is more excited....probably me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The museum itself is\u00a0mostly a kid science wonderland so if you don’t like small children running full speed into your legs all day (that’s gonna leave a bruise) then I would suggest going on a weekday.\u00a0 The Star Wars<\/em> exhibit was a lot like Star Trek: The Experience<\/em> (or Star Trek: The Tour<\/em>….or Star Trek: The Exhibition<\/em>….) in that it was costumes, props and models used in the movies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One cool thing about having it at a science center was the interactive games they brought in, like this Moisture Farm that my sister-in-law (whose name is Troi btw…no really, it is and it’s pretty awesome) and I\u00a0couldn’t figure out…probably because we’re over the age of 10.<\/p>\n

Quick! Get a small child over here to figure this thing out!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My\u00a03-year-old nephew\u00a0is finally getting to the age where he can really appreciate science fiction and if I have anything to say about it he will be savant-like in his knowledge of all things nerdy. This is how my sister-in-law woke him up this morning:<\/p>\n

[youtube:http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xLSGOWJG1TQ]<\/p>\n

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The costumes kind of freaked him out (and cost me what would have been an\u00a0awesome picture of him standing next to a Jawa) but he LOVED anything mechanical.<\/p>\n

I can haz AT-AT?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Apparantly it runs in the family.<\/p>\n

Three generations of machine buffs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here are some close ups of the Millenium Falcon.\u00a0 The detail was unbelievable.\u00a0 Thanks to the lighting I had to take all of these pictures with my phone.\u00a0 They turned out way better than the pics I took with my point and click camera.<\/p>\n

Here’s a few pictures of me with my patented double thumbs up pose.<\/p>\n

Stormtrooper? Double thumbs up!<\/p>\n

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Han and Chewie?\u00a0 Definitely double thumbs up!<\/p>\n

Darth Vader?\u00a0 Worthy of two chicks doing a double thumbs up!<\/p>\n

Speaking of Darth Vader…they had his helmet displayed in three pieces allowing us to see the complex breathing apparatus that serves as the main portion of his life support system.<\/p>\n

Here are some costumes from the prequels. I desperately wanted to put that Anakin costume on my nephew cause he totally looks like a Skywalker.<\/p>\n

And here are some costumes (and puppets) from the three Star Wars movies that didn’t suck.<\/p>\n

Just another day of hanging out with Leia, R2 and Threepio.<\/p>\n

I may have molested a Wookiee or two.\u00a0 Ahem.<\/p>\n

I attempted to ride in the hovercraft but I think I was too heavy for it because it was really<\/em> slow.<\/p>\n

[youtube:http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3U1gQxm4Vyw]<\/p>\n

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The Discovery Science Center has an impressive space\u00a0section but I’ll keep the picture show Star Wars-related and just show you one last video of my sister-in-law and I in a wind tunnel.\u00a0 Mostly because I think it’s really funny.\u00a0 And if you’re wondering what I’m handing her at the end, it’s strategically timed eyedrops.<\/p>\n

[youtube:http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iIBuRfOzqBw]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My Dad came to SoCal to visit my brother and I and being the family o’ nerd that we are, we decided to go to the Discovery Science Center’s Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination exhibit in Santa Ana.\u00a0 I’ve always wanted to visit the giant black cube that looks suspiciously Borg-like so this was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[255,442,896],"class_list":["post-2644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","category-star-wars","tag-discovery-science-center","tag-hot-nerd-girl","tag-star-wars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}