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April 20th, 2012
We (mostly) finished our new full scale, replica movie set and it made its debut at Starfest, which is a local Sci-Fi convention in Denver, Colorado.
As members of the 501st costuming organization, we were excited to put the set on display in order to help raise funds for Noah Warden, a little boy who is in need of a service dog.
See Noah's page here:
www.noahsmiracle.blogspot.com/
To see the creation of the prop and the movie set,
go to our Projects Page by clicking here
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June 24th, 2011
We attended the Albuquerque Comic Expo and it was one of the best convention experiences we have had. The organizers of the convention were amazing hosts and treated us very well. We are very thankful for their hospitality and their invite to return every year!
We were extremely surprised when Stan Lee wanted to see our booth and came to meet us one morning before the convention opened. He took photos on our Hoth set and asked us how we built the set and our other props.
Stan took one of our brochures and mentioned to his assistant that they should keep the brochure and keep us in mind because "they are just starting out and they will be cheap" :) You are right Stan. We are hoping to get some work so please keep us in mind!... even if it's something small and simple.
Thank you Mr. Lee for coming to meet us. It was a real pleasure and an experience my wife and I will never forget!
Jermey Bulloch (who played Boba Fett) was also very nice and willing to talk with us and take some pictures with us on both sets.
Mr. Bulloch was caught in a candid moment in this photo.
Thank you Mr. Bulloch for coming to talk with us. It was truly a pleasure!
Richard Hatch (Apollo from the original Battlestar Galactica) also took time to talk with us for quite a while and offer us a lot of helpful advice.
Thank you very much Mr. Hatch for sitting and talking with us at the after party and for coming to speak with Kathy and me at our display area!
May 9th, 2011
We bring light to a Star Wars character that has, to our knowledge, never been recognized by the fans or a toy manufacturer!
Here is a picture of the helmet we created for the costume. Scroll down for more info.
Most of the team here at F.A.C. are active members of a Star Wars costuming organization (and an amazing one at that) called the 501st legion.
We recently added a character to the library of movie accurate costumes accepted by the 501st and in doing so are bringing to light a character from Return of the Jedi that most people have never noticed after all these years.
We are calling it the "Mechanical Crewman".
Quoted from the Mountain Garrison Liason and the Legion Membership Liason of the 501st:
Cal Pierce "and Gang" have done it again! From the shadows and background of ROTJ, these guys have created the long lost character of Mechanical Crew. The Legion CO and Membership Officer both talked this one over... and they LOVE IT! Why do I feel like we've discovered the Missing Link or Bigfoot? :)
From the LMO himself...
Next up, mechanical crew costume...
We both love this costume. I fully endorse it and look forward to seeing it as a legion costume. The simple fact that it was not discovered until now or at least thought to be done I find amazing. It astounds me that in near 15 years no one has brought this up till now and I am excited to say I can be apart of ushering in a NEW Original Trilogy costume.
So Status - Costume Granted to the Legion
Congrats guys!
Original screen capture from Return of the Jedi:
Friend of F.A.C. and artist who urged us to complete the project, Mr. Aaron Garber. This photo is borrowed from the Legion CRL:
The red shirt in the background didn't escape Cal's eye...
We have begun looking for contacts at Hasbro... who knows... maybe there will be a "MC" action figure one of these days with all of us in the photo on the card.  According to Steve Sansweet, formerly with Lucasfilm, this character has never been recognized and he was pretty ecstatic to see our discovery.
My favorite version of the costume has typical imperial accessories (although not technically accurate to the original character in the film) including code cylinders, belt, gloves. belt boxes, cog patches.
March 19, 2011
We saw ourselves in the movie "Paul" today!!
www.whatispaul.com/
Our article here on our site: Click Here
My wife Kathy and I (Cal Pierce) are both in the movie for a second or two as are a few good 501st friends as well. (The "501st" is a world wide Star Wars costuming organization: www.501st.com).
I saw my blurry mug in the beginning of the movie during the shot where they are playing the Virtual Reality game. There is a good shot of the back of me in my Stormtrooper armor without my helmet on, during the scene with Jeffrey Tambor.
Kathy almost gets run over by Simon Pegg in the shot when he runs over to join Nick at the sword vendor booth. She is wearing her Biker Scout armor without her helmet. Pause the move immediately as the scene changes and you will see Kathy plain as day right in front of the camera.
There is a gal (I forget her name dangit!) who is wearing a Jawa costume. She has one of our Jawa masks!
This part is strange...when Simon and Nick go to Area 51 to see the mail box. Notice... there is a "City of Loveland" sticker on the mail box. Bizarre... since we live in Loveland and all. I swear we had nothing to do with that!
Our Boushh bandolier has some screen time as well at the end of the movie as part of the costume worn by Kristen Wiig. Originally we were in the scene for the end of the movie but that was cut and re-shot. It was a bummer for a second and then I saw our bandolier prop so that kinda made up for it.
Here is a blog by the girl who owns the Boushh costume: Click Here
The parts for this costume have illuded costume builders for 25 years. I spent many years researching model kits and finding the original model parts that were "kitbashed" to create this costume. Here is our bandolier, which is exactly the same as the one in the movie "Paul" ..not to mention pretty dead on to the original prop in Return of the Jedi :
Here are some more pictures of our bandolier in our Gallery: Click Here
This movie fits well with our sort of "geekdome". There are a lot of great one liners and references to all of our favorite movies plus it is a fun story!
It's amazing that with two - 16 hour days of shooting and they may have kept 2 minutes of footage for the scenes we were there for. We were hoping we would have been in there more but that's o.k. It was a fun time.
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