I read over on Randomonium, an excellent blog maintained by fellow Marylander, that Baltimore is in consideration for Celebration V, a four-day Star Wars convention. The con would take place in the early spring 2009 or 2010.
I think this would make an awful lot of sense. Baltimore’s Inner Harbor area is a great place to hold a major convention. The Baltimore Convention Center is ideally located in relation to other tourist attractions along with a good many restaurants only a few minutes away.
The only caveat would be to make sure to schedule the event when the Orioles are not in town. Oriole Park at Camden Yards is directly across the street from the Baltimore Convention Center. When the Yankees or Red Sox are in town, hotel rooms in and around Baltimore become rather hard to get. I’m assuming that the powers that be over at Lucasfilm Ltd. would be smart enough to take this into consideration, but the folks that run the Baltimore Comic-Con never seem to. This year the comic book convention is being held the same weekend the Orioles play their final two games of the season. At least the Ravens are playing on the road that weekend.
Travis Seitler
/ July 31, 2008That would be cool!
There’s also the Geppi Entertainment Museum (it’s one the 2nd floor of the Sports Legends place that shares the Orioles’ parking lot). Last time I was there, they had a whole room dedicated to Star Wars collectibles. I’ll bet they’d kick it into overdrive if Celebration V were to come to town. ;)
Dennis O'Brien
/ January 15, 2009If you have information about Star War Celebration V, please let me know. I would like to set up a vendor station for some memorabilia.
Thank you. Keep in touch.
Dennis