So you couldn't make it to the 12:01am premier of Star Wars Episode 2? Since I just left the theatre (yeah, it's really 3:56am as I write this), let me share just a few moments of the event with you.

I arrived at the Regal 10 at 5:34pm! Yep, I waited in line for over six hours to be guaranteed a good seat. I was the very first person in line. Luckly my best friend Brian arrived about 20 minutes later to keep me company.

We were placed in a "holding area" kind of out of the way. Thankfully, they provided some comfortable benches. (I had lugged a folding stool just in case.)

I was talking with a guy who worked at the theatre who was explaining how the projectors worked and how they had to splice the film together. Since I had been there so long, he invited me up to the projector room. Wow! I got to see the film print of Episode 2 setting on the tray and even got to touch it before it was fed into the camera. I also got to touch two of the Episode 2 trailers which were setting on a trailer shelf. Let me tell you, they had a wall of trailers - each one was on it's own little roll. Too cool. I also got to see the lock boxes that Episode 2 was shipped in. It came on 7 reels, each 20 minutes in length.

Below is a picture of the line at roughly 11:00pm. Everyone was getting excited. At this point there were close to 100 people in line. All total, they had sold nearly 600 tickets for the 12:01am showings.

Here's Brian (on the right) and myself about 15 minutes before they let us enter the theatre.

So what did I think of the movie? Take a look for yourself, I think this picture says it all.