Star Wars: 10 Things I Learnt At My First Celebration

9. Nobody Knows What A Media Pass Does

Because I'm a member of the press, I managed to get a Media pass for the event. What does a Media pass do, I hear you ask? That's a question I was asking across the weekend to a wide range of responses. Most would give incredibly non-committal answers with the caveat they didn't really know.

In reality, it's like a half/half between a regular fan ticket and a VIP ticket; you can get into the event early, skip some of the bigger start-of-day queues, but unless you've organised things with outside press contacts, on the floor and regarding panels it's no different to the standard pass; you have to queue like everyone else for wristbands and the like.

Celebration is a fan event, first-and-foremost, and everything in there is geared towards a fan perspective; this isn't a film festival where the press feel like the MVPs. Which is totally fine by me - it gives you a chance to really immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the whole event. After all, if you're covering a Star Wars convention for work, odds are you kinda like the damn thing in the first place.