While at celebration V, the creators of the chivecast put together a show during the convention. During the room sales, which ended up being more of a hall sale, they interviewed a few collectors. I happened to be one of the lucky ones. 
A snippet of the show with my interview, and my friend Chris, can be downloaded here.
Here is the one picture I took during the sale, so you can get an idea of the chaos that was going on. Also, next to it, is a picture of the tattoo Chris got at the show. I don’t think the Florida humidity was helping things that night, but it was certainly worth it as he won the tattoo contest the last day.
We are finally back from the trip and had a great time. I was able to find a coin to add to my coin set. This one makes number 60 of 62, so I’m almost there on the set. The coin is for Boba Fett which is fitting with Celebration V honoring The Empire Strikes Back.
This year at each of the collector panels a Star Wars themed mini cereal box was handed out at the end. Each day I attended 3 of the 4 panels, so we almost had a complete set. Just before the last panel began we traded a few of our doubles and got to the point of just needing one box. Luckily Sarah found someone, so we were able to complete the set.
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One event that many collectors look forward too are the room sales. They’ve gotten so big that the haven’t taken place in actual rooms the last two conventions. Basically collectors bring a bunch of stuff to sell at the convention and then a night or two these sales go on at one of the main hotels. This is the only picture I managed to take as I wanted to make sure i didn’t miss anything cool. There was a lot of stuff that I would have liked, but I only picked up one item. It was an Australian Luke Jedi card back to go with my focus. I feel that I got a pretty fair price for a card that doesn’t come up for sale very often.
