Darth Christmas
This past weekend I took my kids to the Santa Claus parade in my town. I walked away wondering where the heck Christmas went. During the parade I saw a whole troop of Star Wars cosplayers (stormtroopers, Luke, Vader, sand people, even some Death Star beam operators), Gene Simmons “The Demon” (yeah, the whole KISS costume), Ecto-1, The Blues Brothers, goth chicks doing fire tricks and some heavy metal band playing rock tunes on a float. o_O
These are the parade memories my kids are going to have. Where are the elves? Where’s the reindeer? Geez!
At least there was a Santa Claus at the end.
Play Asia
November 17th, 2010 at 4:10 am
Oh man that rocks!! I was in the band during High school, so I always had to march in those parades. It sucked.
I would have traded all of the goofy elves for a squad of stormtroopers in a heartbeat!
November 19th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
Pop culture has always been present in parades. Just look at the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade every year for the past 50 years. They’ve had giant balloons of Garfield, Pikachu, Spongebob, Underdog, etc. Its something we just have to live with.