On the Evening of Saturday, August 21st, Members of the Manda'galaar clan (Whitecrow1 and Chucko) were given the opportunity to invade the Lake Elsinore Storm Stadium during their "Star Wars Night". This event gave us great public appeal and helped, once again, tie the bond between the Mercs and our fellow costuming clubs.

The event was lead by Linda of the San Diego Star Wars Society, who helped round up not only the Mercs, but various members of the 501st and Rebel Legion. There were storm troopers, jedi, rebel pilots, sith, mandalorians, and we were even fortunate enough to have a Chewbacca and tusken raider join the party. We were given a great location to hang out by the front gate where we had the death star door rigged up for photos.

This event took place on the same night as a Boy Scout get-together and campout at the stadium, which made it even more fun for the lot of us. We were bombarded with high-fives, beaten with noise-maker sticks, and quite constantly mistaken for Boba and Jango. Once again, this invasion was a huge success for us as well as our fellow costuming clubs. We look forward to doing similar invasions in the near future.

Hett'Ciri Clan reports a successful invasion of Shinefest 2010 alongside the Badlands Garrison of the 501st.  Both groups attended the family entertainment event hosted by Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta.  The event boasted a variety of children's entertainment performers, as well as many activities such as bouncy castles, mini-golf, laser tag, and even a climbing wall that just had to be climbed by Ruusaar Cin and Sidewalker.  Event attendees also had the chance to see the 1988 Olympic Venue up close, as Shinefest surrounded both the bobsled track, and the main lodge on the hill.  

Pictures can be seen in the comments below.

August 29th, Blue Moon Squad invades Bardstown Road Zombie Walk in Louisville, Kentucky.

Official Merc members Dar Kyram and Random Mando #19 (Rexdor Kelevra in his alternate Zombie Mando armor) made an impromptu stop when receiving a distress beacon in the Bardstown Road Region of the Louisville Sector.

Upon landing and investigating the area, they were quickly over run by an undead horde of zombies numbering in the thousands. Many had gathered at the site to feast upon the living and unaware civilians in the area. All alone did the Mandalorians stave off the undead until Random Mando #19, who went scouting ahead of Dar, was viciously taken by surprise and bitten by a zombie. He quickly succumbed to the viral infection and became a shuffling member of the undead himself.

In a hasty retreat with several other determined survivors, the Skull King fought off the growling corpses with a distracting dance number and even flirting with victims who had been turned, in order to confuse and disorientate their raving hunger, until reaching his ship and leaving the area. Its been reported that as they left the Bardstown Road Region, Dar Kyram was over heard ordering the other survivors to "nuke the area from orbit" to contain the outbreak behind them.

All in all, the completely impromptu and unexpected event was a total success, with both Mandalorians (living and undead) receiving many compliments, and often being mistaken for Boba and Jango Fett, while also being the target of many photo ops.

More pictures can be found HERE!

  On the morning of August 28 members of Arqet Squad and the 501st Legion converged on Central Texas College to invade Geekfest 2010.  Members No'saj Huune and Kad Teroch rendezvoused with 501st Legion Imperial Naval Officers Don and Tracie Cagle and began the invasion early while awaiting back-up from TK-2521 (Branden S., Central 501st Leader) Asajj Ventress, and Merc in training Jango Nova.  Also present were Bare Col'Mera, No'saj Jr., Scorch (brother to Jango), and Jacon Teroch (brother to Kad).  Bounties were set and all contracts fullfilled save one target who fled in his speeder during a hunt for another target, but we'll get him soon enough.  It was also the first co-invasion between Arqet Squad and the Central Texas 501st and hopefully not the last.


Videos:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=529rmUrpQDs

http://www.youtube.com/user/nosajhuune


Photobucket Album:
http://s788.photobucket.com/albums/yy170/TexasAreaMandalorianMercs/Clan%20Arqet/GeekFest2010%20Killeen%20Aug%2028/

EVENT NAME: McHappy Day for GRAAC
LOCATION: São Paulo/SP
DATE: July 28th, 2010

Once more, Star Wars groups were called to support a good cause: McHappy Day for GRAAC.  GRAAC is a non-profitable group which supports children and teens who have Cancer.  They normally receive the support from McHappy Day and last year, we were there to help them.  This year wouldn't be different. (To see more about GRAAC, click HERE)

One of the employees told us that the clients already knew we would be there and they came to the store to see us too.

We want to thank all staff members who helped us, the day was hot and being under the beskar'gam yesterday was a real 'mission'.  Kleber and Cibele, ori'vor'entye.  And also, our friends and family who always support us in missions.

Click HERE to see the thread for discussion and more pictures.

Dallas, TX- Members of Clan Murraan and the Star Garrison invaded Barnes & Noble book store on Northwest Highway on Friday, August 27th.  The book store provided Star Wars activities, guests, as well as a display of Star Wars literature and merchandise for children and adults alike.  Guests included Mike "Logray" Edmonds from Return of the Jedi, and Cindy "Princess Anne-Droid" Furgatch from Hardware Wars.  The Mercs and Legion members were on hand to take pictures, and talk to patrons about the world of the Star Wars Universe.

On August 22, 2010, members of the Northwest Confederacy Clan successfully invaded historical landmark Fort Columbia. When we were done with that, we drove down the road to invade the annual Kite Festival, down in Long Beach, Washington.

While we caught the tail end of the festival, we did wow the crowd, with our public invasion and hada great time bonding, as a clan. Lots of pictures were taken and in the end the good citizens of Long Beach were blown away, by our appearance.

The staff at Fort Columbia were especially thrilled to see us invade their landmark. One of them mentioned that it was great having us there, as it spiced up the overall experience for the site's visitors. It should be mentioned that there were some visitors from India who were in awe of the Mercs and also took pics with our members.

This was a great day for the NWC clan and the Mercs. Oya!

More pics can be seen HERE.

Mandalorian Mercs invaded Celebration 5, from August 12-15th in Orlando Florida.  Over 60 official Mercs members were present throughout the weekend, making our first Celebration appearance an epic one.

Mercs members participated in several events:  Boba Guard Duty for Jeremy Bulloch and Daniel Logan on Friday and Saturday, Charity Bounty Hunt on Saturday, Slave Leia Security Duty on Saturday, and several other fun events.

Mandalorian Mercs also inducted 4 new Honorary Members:  Steve Sansweet, Dave Filoni, Jamie Snell, and Joe Corony.

For our first Celebration invasion, Mercs knocked it out of the park!  We missed Celebration 4, but came on strong for CV and hopefully will continue to invade Star Wars Celebrations for years to come.  A big thanks to our table coordinations Kantis Nolef and Tal Grayheed, and another big thanks to our jailer ElKabong. 

You can find pictures and read up about the Mercs events at CV in the thread below:

http://mercs.firespray.net/forum/index.php?board=118.0

EVENT NAME: Movie capture for Clone Wars adverts - Gruda Em Mim Agency for Cartoon Network Brasil
LOCATION: São Paulo/SP
DATE: July 31st (Ibirapuera Park) and August 01st 2010 (Market Place Shopping Center)

Star Wars groups were called to an important mission: to record some movies for production of two small adverts for Cartoon Network promotion of Clone Wars season 2. Vode An clan was there in the Park.  Unfortunatelly our vode from Manda Akaan'ade could not join us on this mission.

But the result of this was a lot of fun to all involved and 24 basic food boxes in exchange for our voluntary work that will be donated to an orphanage.  We want to thank everybody for the very good time, to Gruda em mim Agency for the opportunity and the basic food boxes.

The final videos, more pics, and discussion thread are HERE

These patches were created specifically for our appearance at Star Wars Celebration V in Orlando, FL.  They were sold on the spot to Mercs members there.  We now have a surplus of them and are offering them up to everyone else who wasn't able to attend in person!  These patches are LIMTED TIME, so get yours now before they're gone!

The patches can be purchased at the store HERE (must have a forum account to access the store).