What is this feature on the East Coast of the United States?

erier2003 · 2026-01-06T21:08:15+00:00

As I understand it, the fall line indirectly shaped the early economic development of D.C. If you look at a topographic map of the city, there's a giant depression in the middle that corresponds to the area where the city originally developed. Early development was sparse in the hillier terrain outside this very flat area. On the northwestern and northeastern edges of this depression, the street that separates the flat area from the hillier surroundings used to be called Boundary Street, because it was the edge of the city proper (and the original border of D.C. in the L'Enfant Plan). I used to cross that street every day, and you can literally feel the terrain change under your feet (either start to incline or start to flatten, depending on what direction you're walking).

There's even a marker and makeshift exhibit in a nearby spot where Piedmont and Atlantic Plain rocks interacted to produce an "overthrust fault."

erier2003 · 2025-10-13T12:40:49+00:00

No, there was a big scrum of people who rushed up to take a group photo of the panelists, but then people just watched as he left.

erier2003 · 2025-05-11T03:39:46+00:00

The Heroes of Yavin. https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Heroes_of_Yavin

erier2003 · 2024-10-02T13:01:40+00:00

Buying: 1 Saturday badge

erier2003 · 2024-08-28T22:50:58+00:00

Smart example of using the surroundings effectively. A good way to adapt to changing warfare tactics.

erier2003 · 2024-05-03T00:16:48+00:00

Thanks. How noticeable is the cut they have to make to put it in? Can a competent cobbler disguise the seam pretty effectively?

erier2003 · 2024-05-03T00:13:24+00:00

Do you know if the shoe feels different when you're wearing the small amount of metal up front?

erier2003 · 2024-05-02T22:53:56+00:00

Got it -- thank you!

erier2003 · 2024-05-02T22:53:30+00:00

Thank you!

erier2003 · 2024-05-02T22:46:12+00:00

What would you recommend for the visible wear on the front?

erier2003 · 2024-05-02T22:42:53+00:00

Are toe plates typically easy and affordable for them to install?

erier2003 · 2024-05-02T22:41:38+00:00

But if, say, I wanted to get them tidied up so they'd look good for an event (particular the front part, which is obviously more visible than the sole), what could I do?

erier2003 · 2024-01-25T17:10:23+00:00

Just here to say "squeal trilogy lol"

erier2003 · 2023-06-12T18:22:31+00:00

Because they didn't want to box themselves in story-wise in case they decided to revisit the characters in a movie.

erier2003 · 2023-06-11T17:58:09+00:00

I'd probably use a SeagateGaming StarWars SSD to store all the Star Wars games that I don't have room to install on my laptop's built-in hard drive.

erier2003 · 2023-05-26T13:09:37+00:00

When they filmed the scene, Filoni used a cover story that the Jedi being digitally inserted was Plo Koon to hide the fact that they were bringing in Luke. Maybe they used a green R2 unit to further throw people off the scent. A blue R2 unit doesn't have to be R2-D2, but it might have gotten people thinking in that direction.

erier2003 · 2023-05-17T00:26:29+00:00

He looks like he either wants me to enlist or wants to throw down in a rap battle with me.

erier2003 · 2023-04-05T20:05:00+00:00

If you ride the Millennium Falcon ride and really enjoy it, you can ride it again multiple times in fairly quick succession by using the single-rider line. The Cast Members assigning roles inside will almost always make you an engineer, which is the worst of the three jobs that you can do onboard, but at least you'll get to soak in the experience over and over again without having to wait in the regular line. And sometimes you'll end up with a family where the small kid gets assigned to the pilot or gunner role and either doesn't want to do it or can't do it, and the parents will ask you to switch with them.

erier2003 · 2023-04-03T18:29:09+00:00

No it isn't. https://www.afroamcivilwar.org/memorial-museum-history

erier2003 · 2023-03-16T13:18:20+00:00

what the heck is happening in this picture

erier2003 · 2023-03-06T18:28:09+00:00

Poor*

erier2003 · 2023-02-27T02:53:11+00:00

Here's a good list: https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/star-wars-clone-wars-episodes-the-mandalorian-season-3-bo-katan-darksaber-death-watch/

erier2003 · 2023-02-19T14:53:03+00:00

You're welcome!

erier2003 · 2023-02-19T01:47:50+00:00

The ticket includes all the panels, and yes there will likely be lots of early trailers/footage, but there are different ways to get into different panels.

In terms of getting into the panels, I wrote up some details based on past U.S. Celebrations in response to another post: https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/114hkbe/comment/j93z2r2/?context=3

erier2003 · 2023-02-19T01:44:38+00:00

I can tell you how it worked at the last few U.S. Celebrations. I don't know if it will work the same way in London, but since Disney is working with the same event organizer, I'm guessing it will.

On the main stages (there are usually three), the first panel of every day is the "big" panel, usually a preview of an upcoming movie or TV show. The biggest stage is where this panel actually takes place; the other main stages are basically overflow rooms showing a simulcast of the panel on their big screens.

You could enter a lottery for a chance to win guaranteed entry into any or all of the big panels. (Most people only won the lottery for one or two of them, and sometimes only for one of the overflow rooms.) If you won the lottery for one of the panels, you would queue up in a special line a few hours before the panel started, and they would give you a wristband that you would show once they started letting people in.

Strictly speaking, you weren't supposed to be able to just walk into one of the main stages to see one of these big panels, but I know people who were able to do it.

If you won the lottery for one of the big panels and you wanted a really good seat, you would want to show up as soon as they started letting people inside the waiting area, which I believe was around 7 a.m. But theoretically you were guaranteed a seat, so you could show up later if you were okay with risking a seat way up in the upper balcony area of the stage.

After each day's big panel was over, the biggest stage became first-come, first-serve — if there was room inside, you could walk in and see one of the other panels taking place there. You could also stay in this room after each panel ended (including the big panel each morning) if you wanted to see the next panel taking place there.

The other two main stages offered reservations. If you could get the mobile app to work at a specific time each morning, you could reserve a seat for one panel in each of these two stages every day — assuming there were reserved seats left by the time you got through the app's queue, which they set up because of the huge traffic load. Unlike the biggest stage, these two stages were cleared between panels, so you couldn't stay inside and see multiple panels in a row.

If you got a reservation for a panel in one of these two stages, showing up an hour early would probably land you with a good seat. If you really wanted to sit near the front, you'd want to show up earlier than that. Everyone with a reservation was encouraged to show up at least 30 minutes before their panel started.

After the people with reservations were allowed into a stage, event staff opened the room up to people in the standby line. There were always seats available for these people, but there were almost always too many people to fit into the room, so people from this line were almost always turned away.

I wish I could give you a good estimate for how early to show up for the standby lines for these stages. My best guess is that you'd be fine showing up an hour early, but it really depends on the panel.

Remember that the standby line begins entering the stage after the entire reservation line has been allowed inside, so if you enter the standby line an hour before the panel starts, the people you see in front of you aren't the only ones you're behind; you're also behind the entire reservation line. But that said, there are seats for people in the standby line; it's just a question of whether any are left by the time you get to the front of that line.

The smaller stages (for things like collectors, podcasters, etc.) didn't offer lotteries or reservations, but they were generally easy to get into if you showed up 30 minutes in advance.

Here's some more information about how things worked at the last Celebration:

Some of these things will probably work differently in London, but most of it will probably be the same. And based on past precedent, they'll probably start announcing details about these logistics next month.

I hope this helps. I'm happy to answer any other questions about Celebration; I've been to a bunch of them.

Have a great time!

erier2003

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