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Toowoomba Christmas Wonderland (Day #1) - Bolt_2112 - Saturday 12-Dec-2015 Date: 11/12/15 Venue: Toowoomba Botanical Gardens, Queens Park Time: 7:00 to 10:00 Pm Mission: As "Costumers" our mission was to roam around the park and interact with the public and take lots of photo's! Trooper Attendance: CT:33827 Bolt, TK:90579 Scotty33, DZ:4056 Stormraven, ID:20552 Mykill and Beccyd Wrangling. Mission Status: Success! Details: All shuttles touched down at the drop zone at or before 6:30 Pm despite lurking thunderstorms on the horizon. We had plenty of time to suit up before we marched into the park and then signed in. The Christmas Wonderland really did look great this year with the Lions Club putting on a great light show as always. I lead the troops on a scouting mission to determine a suitable command post (or just somewhere where it wasn't as dark so the troopers could see!) and the masses of civilians soon began to fill the park. Soon we were arresting people, checking ID and getting attacked by lightsabers as everyone (young and old) jumped in for a photo with us. This year most of the crowds recognized us as Star Wars characters, with only a few calling my Shock Trooper iron man or Stormraven's Garindan Darth Vader. Scotty got a balloon in the shape of a flower, or a dog? from the balloon tent and I got a candy cane from a little girl. The sausage sizzle crew wouldn't let us near the food as they said the empire causes too much trouble, clearly they don't know the peace that the empire brings to the galaxy! We also encountered 2 ninja turtles that seemed like they had a harder time seeing than we do and we found Wally (just have to find those droids next). Mykill and Beccyd did a fantastic job wrangling as for this troop they are essential, there are people everywhere! We stopped for a group photo before we evacuated ..erm... tactically retreated... to the landing craft and returned home (after swinging by McDonald's) as the thunderstorms came back and drenched the city. Looks like we timed it pretty well! A big thanks to all involved, I am looking forward to next week. - Bolt RE: Toowoomba Christmas Wonderland (Day #1) - Scotty33 - Saturday 12-Dec-2015 Great report Bolt, was a lot of fun. See you next week! RE: Toowoomba Christmas Wonderland (Day #1) - Teiwaz - Saturday 12-Dec-2015 Good job team, see you next week. RE: Toowoomba Christmas Wonderland (Day #1) - MyKill - Saturday 12-Dec-2015 I had a blast, well worth the drive home on a wet 10% gradient down the range Can't wait for next week! RE: Toowoomba Christmas Wonderland (Day #1) - Phantom - Saturday 12-Dec-2015 Great work troops! Toowoomba Christmas Wonderland (Day #1) - Sly - Saturday 12-Dec-2015 Fantastic job all. Toowoomba Christmas Wonderland (Day #1) - Altair - Saturday 12-Dec-2015 Looked like a lot of fun, top work team RE: Toowoomba Christmas Wonderland (Day #1) - Rebelrach - Saturday 12-Dec-2015 Go Team Tbar!!! Well done folks! Garradin as Darth Vader that's a new one! RE: Toowoomba Christmas Wonderland (Day #1) - stormraven - Sunday 13-Dec-2015 This was a great night out, I won't be along next week but I'll look forward to coming back again sometime RE: Toowoomba Christmas Wonderland (Day #1) - Cyclops - Sunday 13-Dec-2015 Good job , well done to you all especially those who travelled up the range . RE: Toowoomba Christmas Wonderland (Day #1) - 3phase - Sunday 13-Dec-2015 Cool. I should be there for the next one with my 2 Jawa,s and might get my tk out of retirement if I can RE: Toowoomba Christmas Wonderland (Day #1) - Agent Smith - Sunday 13-Dec-2015 Well done, working on being there next weekend myself..will contact you later in the week to confirm. RE: Toowoomba Christmas Wonderland (Day #1) - Sennight - Sunday 13-Dec-2015 Awesome job! Sure looked and sounded like fun. Maybe next week you will have more luck finding those droids you are looking for.