STAR WARS DAY 2013 MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU! Super 7 “Best source of old school Star Wars swag”’ –SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco Awards Come celebrate Star Wars day at Super7, located on historic Haight & Ashbury in San Francisco! Saturday May 4, 2013 from 11am~7pm SUPER7 1427 HAIGHT ST SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117 Super7 will be pulling out all the stops to make this the biggest Star Wars event in our history! Our friends in the Star Wars community will join us in providing guests, exclusive merchandise, exhibitions of rare items, prizes, and more! Read on for the details! STEVE SANSWEET’S RANCHO OBI-WAN! We are proud to announce Steve Sansweet as one of our guests for MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU event! Steve will be onhand to meet fans, sign autographs, and exhibit a sampling of vast contents from the legendary Rancho Obi-Wan museum. Steve will be signing copies of his new book Star Wars: The Ultimate Action Figure Collection as well as offering Rancho Obi-Wan memberships. Steve will have other goodies available for fans, including the May The Fourth debut of a brand new Rancho Obi-Wan patch! (Pictured at the left.) Ever want to see the original BOBA FETT blaster in person? Or samples of original EWOK fur? May The Fourth is your chance! More Details on the Racho Obi-Wan offerings! http://super7store.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/steve-sansweet-to-exhibit-on-may-the-4th-be-with-you/ 501st LEGION STORMTROOPERS IN PERSON! Security for Super7′s MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU event will be provided by the GOLDEN GATE GARRISON of the 501st Legion. “Real life” Stormtroopers will be in-person, posing for photos, playing games against fans, and keeping an eye out for a few particular droids. Take a photo with a TK in front of Super7′s famous flocked Star Wars Wallpaper! FOUR NEW SHIRTS DEBUT FOR MAY THE FOURTH! Four brand-new Designer T-Shirts have been added to the Star Wars X Super7 Collection, and will debut available at the MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU event! Each is designed and exclusively retailed by Super7, under authorization from our friends at Lucasfilm. VADER & SABER TARGETING COMPUTER VINTAGE TOY RORSCHACH TAUNTAUN CUTS $35 each Available May The Fourth! IN-STORE and ONLINE ACME ARCHIVES ART SHOW! ACME ARCHIVES is bringing a massive exhibit of original paintings from BRIAN ROOD as well as a wide selection selection of Star Wars prints from a variety of artists. Screen prints, canvas originals, and framed pieces all will be available — the largest authorized Star Wars art show in San Francisco in years! Click to see a sampling of the fantastic pieces ACME will be bringing to Super7! http://www.flickr.com/photos/super7/sets/72157633344510951/ AMY MEBBERSON LEIA’S STORY MAY THE FOURTH DEBUT PRINT! ACME will release “LEIA’S STORY” as a May The Fourth Exclusive print debut, and artist AMY MEBBERSON will be in person to sign and meet fans from 1~3pm. Due to the limited nature of this print, we will begin collecting preorders on Tuesday April 30th at Noon Pacific! $50 each Limited Edition, 200 pieces Brown Border Variant Edition, only 50 pieces Pink Border Available May The Fourth! IN-STORE and ONLINE REBELSCUM OFFICIAL FAN MEET UP and VINTAGE TRADE FEST! Collectors can bring their STAR WARS toys & collectibles to swap with one another. Meet your fellow fans from REBELSCUM.COM and trade some toys! Bring your Kenner treasures and trade all day long, with the official swap meet starting at at 3pm. If you don’t have something to trade, don’t worry. Super7′s selection of Vintage Star Wars toys will be on sale for 20% off the marked price! Now is your chance to get the loose, weaponless Dengar you’ve been dreaming about! LIVE ART INSTALLATION! Hyper-talented Jerome Lu from Hyperactive Monkey will create a wall mural painting live on site throughout the day! Witness a gigantic Star Wars collage as it develops! DIAMOND SELECT TOYS! Calling all collectors! Super7 will be joined on May The Fourth by some the very best manufacturers of Star Wars merchandise. Come see the display of prototypes for future Star Wars releases from Diamond Select Toys – such as a CARBONITE HAN SOLO vinyl bank and more! EFX COLLECTIBLES! eFX Collectibles are the geniuses who create the life-size prop replica lightsabers, helmets, and studio scale vehicles. What do they have coming up next? Visit us on MAY THE FOURTH and see an exhibit of EFX prototypes, including the highly anticipated BIKER SCOUT HELMET! GENTLE GIANT! The digital pioneers from Gentle Giant LTD will provide a selection of Star Wars prototypes as well as brand new merchandise for display. Get the lowdown on what is coming up next in the 12″ Kenner Figure Series, Mini-Bust line, and more! WIN A BLUE SNAGGLETOOTH! If that isn’t enough, we will hold a raffle to win a rare vintage Blue Snaggletooth Kenner action figure! The figure is loose but complete with its blaster, and is waiting to join the other space-freaks at the creature cantina on your toy shelf. Due to the rarity, this sought-after figure is valued at $160~200, but you have a shot at winning the raffle for only One Dollar! Raffle tickets are only $1 each and will be available exclusively in-store starting at 11am. Drawing for the winner will take place at 6pm. Odds of winning is dependent upon number of entries. View the actual prize here http://super7store.wordpress.com/20...letooth-at-our-may-the-4th-be-with-you-event/
Who's going to this? I'll probably be popping in early and maybe again later in the day. Does anyone know what time the toy swap is?
Toy swap details to be announced next week. But in the meantime... RANCHO OBI-WAN EXHIBIT! We are proud to announce Steve Sansweet as one of our guests for MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU event! Steve will be onhand to meet fans, sign autographs, and exhibit a sampling of vast contents from the legendary Rancho Obi-Wan museum. More- http://blog.super7store.com/steve-sansweet-to-exhibit-on-may-the-4th-be-w WIN A BLUE SNAGGLETOOTH! ALL VINTAGE STAR WARS TOYS 20% OFF! Super7 will hold a raffle to win a rare vintage Blue Snaggletooth Kenner action figure! Raffle tickets are only $1 each and will be available exclusively in-store starting at 11am. Drawing for the winner will take place at 6pm. http://blog.super7store.com/176733729
...but wait, there's more... FOUR NEW SHIRTS FOR MAY THE FOURTH! http://blog.super7store.com/four-new-shirts-for-may-the-fourth Four brand-new Designer T-Shirts have been added to the Star Wars X Super7 Collection, and will be available at the MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU event! Each is designed and exclusively retailed by Super7, under authorization from our friends at Lucasfilm. VADER & SABER DARTH VADER 80s skateboard style! A STAR WARS version of this http://i.imgur.com/GItPAEh.jpg iconic image. Athletic Heather Grey Shirt. TARGETING COMPUTER I have you now! Stylish vector rendering of DARTH VADER’s targeting computer, as shown during the trench battle of A NEW HOPE. Black shirt. TAUNTAUN CUTS Inspired by butcher charts, this identifies the sweet meats (and cozy portions) of the Tauntaun. Athletic Heather Grey Shirt. VINTAGE TOY RORSCHACH This shirt features the “original 21” STAR WARS action figures released by Kenner in the 1970s and arranges them in an artistic “rorscach” pattern. Can you name ‘em all? Which ones did you have? Black shirt with silver ink. All four Star Wars x Super7 Designer T-Shirts are hand-screened on high-quality 100% cotton shirts, available in men's sizes Small to 2X-Large. Each Designer T-Shirt retails for $35, and the full section of Ten different SWxS7 shirts can be ordered online at www.super7store.com begining on MAY THE FOURTH!
STAR WARS DAY 2013 MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU! Super 7 “Best source of old school Star Wars swag”’ –SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco Awards Come celebrate Star Wars day at Super7, located on historic Haight & Ashbury in San Francisco! Saturday May 4, 2013 from 11am~7pm SUPER7 1427 HAIGHT ST SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117 Super7 will be pulling out all the stops to make this the biggest Star Wars event in our history! Our friends in the Star Wars community will join us in providing guests, exclusive merchandise, exhibitions of rare items, prizes, and more! Read on for the details! STEVE SANSWEET’S RANCHO OBI-WAN! We are proud to announce Steve Sansweet as one of our guests for MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU event! Steve will be onhand to meet fans, sign autographs, and exhibit a sampling of vast contents from the legendary Rancho Obi-Wan museum. Steve will be signing copies of his new book Star Wars: The Ultimate Action Figure Collection as well as offering Rancho Obi-Wan memberships. Steve will have other goodies available for fans, including the May The Fourth debut of a brand new Rancho Obi-Wan patch! (Pictured at the left.) Ever want to see the original BOBA FETT blaster in person? Or samples of original EWOK fur? May The Fourth is your chance! More Details on the Racho Obi-Wan offerings! http://super7store.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/steve-sansweet-to-exhibit-on-may-the-4th-be-with-you/ 501st LEGION STORMTROOPERS IN PERSON! Security for Super7′s MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU event will be provided by the GOLDEN GATE GARRISON of the 501st Legion. “Real life” Stormtroopers will be in-person, posing for photos, playing games against fans, and keeping an eye out for a few particular droids. Take a photo with a TK in front of Super7′s famous flocked Star Wars Wallpaper! FOUR NEW SHIRTS DEBUT FOR MAY THE FOURTH! Four brand-new Designer T-Shirts have been added to the Star Wars X Super7 Collection, and will debut available at the MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU event! Each is designed and exclusively retailed by Super7, under authorization from our friends at Lucasfilm. VADER & SABER TARGETING COMPUTER VINTAGE TOY RORSCHACH TAUNTAUN CUTS $35 each Available May The Fourth! IN-STORE and ONLINE ACME ARCHIVES ART SHOW! ACME ARCHIVES is bringing a massive exhibit of original paintings from BRIAN ROOD as well as a wide selection selection of Star Wars prints from a variety of artists. Screen prints, canvas originals, and framed pieces all will be available — the largest authorized Star Wars art show in San Francisco in years! Click to see a sampling of the fantastic pieces ACME will be bringing to Super7! http://www.flickr.com/photos/super7/sets/72157633344510951/ AMY MEBBERSON LEIA’S STORY MAY THE FOURTH DEBUT PRINT! ACME will release “LEIA’S STORY” as a May The Fourth Exclusive print debut, and artist AMY MEBBERSON will be in person to sign and meet fans from 1~3pm. Due to the limited nature of this print, we will begin collecting preorders on Tuesday April 30th at Noon Pacific! $50 each Limited Edition, 200 pieces Brown Border Variant Edition, only 50 pieces Pink Border Available May The Fourth! IN-STORE and ONLINE REBELSCUM OFFICIAL FAN MEET UP and VINTAGE TRADE FEST! Collectors can bring their STAR WARS toys & collectibles to swap with one another. Meet your fellow fans from REBELSCUM.COM and trade some toys! Bring your Kenner treasures and trade all day long, with the official swap meet starting at at 3pm. If you don’t have something to trade, don’t worry. Super7′s selection of Vintage Star Wars toys will be on sale for 20% off the marked price! Now is your chance to get the loose, weaponless Dengar you’ve been dreaming about! LIVE ART INSTALLATION! Hyper-talented Jerome Lu from Hyperactive Monkey will create a wall mural painting live on site throughout the day! Witness a gigantic Star Wars collage as it develops! DIAMOND SELECT TOYS! Calling all collectors! Super7 will be joined on May The Fourth by some the very best manufacturers of Star Wars merchandise. Come see the display of prototypes for future Star Wars releases from Diamond Select Toys – such as a CARBONITE HAN SOLO vinyl bank and more! EFX COLLECTIBLES! eFX Collectibles are the geniuses who create the life-size prop replica lightsabers, helmets, and studio scale vehicles. What do they have coming up next? Visit us on MAY THE FOURTH and see an exhibit of EFX prototypes, including the highly anticipated BIKER SCOUT HELMET! GENTLE GIANT! The digital pioneers from Gentle Giant LTD will provide a selection of Star Wars prototypes as well as brand new merchandise for display. Get the lowdown on what is coming up next in the 12″ Kenner Figure Series, Mini-Bust line, and more! WIN A BLUE SNAGGLETOOTH! If that isn’t enough, we will hold a raffle to win a rare vintage Blue Snaggletooth Kenner action figure! The figure is loose but complete with its blaster, and is waiting to join the other space-freaks at the creature cantina on your toy shelf. Due to the rarity, this sought-after figure is valued at $160~200, but you have a shot at winning the raffle for only One Dollar! Raffle tickets are only $1 each and will be available exclusively in-store starting at 11am. Drawing for the winner will take place at 6pm. Odds of winning is dependent upon number of entries. View the actual prize here http://super7store.wordpress.com/20...letooth-at-our-may-the-4th-be-with-you-event/
Wow, massive event this year it seems, bummed to not be able to attend. I would be cool to take part in the vintage swap, and I know I'd be buying so many of those raffle tickets! I hope some people attending can take a few photos to share on here.
AMY MEBBERSON LEIA’S STORY MAY THE FOURTH DEBUT PRINT! ACME will release “LEIA’S STORY” as a May The Fourth Exclusive print debut, and artist AMY MEBBERSON will be in person to sign and meet fans from 1~3pm. $50 each Limited Edition (Copper Green/Brown Border) strictly limited to only 200 pieces, and available Exclusively from Super7! Preorder NOW! http://super7store.com/princess-leia-print.html Prints will begin shipping the week of May 7th. If you would like to pick up your print during the MAY THE 4TH event, please select "HOLD FOR PICK UP" when checking out.
