TDW 1256 - Line For Star Wars BEGINS - The Force Awakens

0:02 welcome everyone Adam the woo here you

0:02 are looking at the

0:04 handprints of the one and only

0:07 C3PO

0:08 R2D2 and Darth Vader as

0:12 documented as documented not by the

0:15 heavy breathing of count stankus who was

0:18 actually joining me here on Hollywood

0:19 Boulevard but documented by the date

0:24 August 3rd

0:26 1977 was when it was the year that Star

0:30 Wars was first released and you were

0:32 telling me that you actually saw Star

0:35 Wars in an actual movie theater as a

0:37 child yes I very jealous of that you

0:40 have fond memories of when that actually

0:42 happened only memory I have is when we

0:44 went to the theater I was only three

0:46 okay I'm not an old man you know three

0:47 years old I was only three

0:50 three we're talking about Star

0:53 Wars this guy saw Star Wars in the movie

0:56 theater in 1977 it's oh w real Star Wars

1:00 I guess so yeah so he's looking forward

1:02 to this man some new episode fin he's

1:04 going he's going to go get in this line

1:05 the people are already waiting at 9 days

1:09 that guy right there I swear he's really

1:11 been here since like I don't know since

1:13 it first started so the guy there with

1:14 his hoodie on just

1:16 chilling he the first one in

1:26 line he's hardcore he's the hardcore guy

1:26 serious though man it's a brand new epis

1:28 and you're actually standing where the

1:31 1977 put their Fe

1:34 R2 that

1:36 is you're C3PO right there

1:40 aut autograph so in nine days the force

1:44 awakens will be rearing its head here

1:47 once again is Anthony Daniels going to

1:50 be in a movie yeah he's actually going

1:52 to be in the new movie in fact he might

1:54 actually be waiting in that line over

1:55 there possibly never know we should

1:57 actually walk over there and see who's

1:58 actually R2D2 R2 that's a good question

2:02 is R2-D2 no spoilers going to be in the

2:04 new movie honestly BR I've never seen

2:08 any Star Wars I don't know what

2:10 I'm please go catch up before you watch

2:12 this one man you have to go watch the if

2:15 if I'm missing out on something good all

2:17 depends it all depends on who you're

2:18 talking

2:20 to space lightsabers PR love that

2:25 I grew up with a

2:28 telescope I love that all right walk

2:30 over to the line nice talking to you

2:31 guys so here you go Harr Darth V oh

2:34 Harrison Ford right here of course he

2:36 was not here in 77 he was here in '92 I

2:39 should do the intro it's my second

2:40 channel daily Vlog channel it's the

2:42 daily profanity included in this Vlog I

2:46 try to keep everything PG and above but

2:48 I cannot be responsible for what other

2:50 people say in the Vlog so basically the

2:53 reason count stankus count stankus is

2:55 here oh yeah finish your story about

2:58 Star Wars so I was three right years 77

3:01 my parents was one of the first M you're

3:02 the same age as I am I was born in 74 as

3:05 well right so um we went I remember is

3:08 sitting in the theater and back at that

3:10 time those of you guys who are old

3:12 enough to remember Star Trek was was big

3:14 on on TV again as reruns the old school

3:17 the old that's when Star Trek became

3:19 popular was from when was real released

3:21 on reruns so I remember the Enterprise

3:24 the big screen on the Enterprise on on

3:25 the bridge so sitting inside a theater I

3:27 thought I was in the Enterprise I

3:29 remember that I'm like I remember like

3:31 thinking like I'm on the Enterprise

3:33 right now it was it was not it was not

3:35 Star Trek it was Star Wars that was

3:37 about to M but but I do remember the

3:40 beginning of the movie when Darth Vader

3:42 bust through you know on the on the ship

3:45 and in you the after that I think I must

3:47 have fell asleep cuz I was only three

3:50 and now Star Wars is one of your

3:52 favorite film franchises you have over

3:54 on the count stankus YouTube channel you

3:57 review all the Star Wars toys I review

3:59 what I can old one new on go over there

4:02 and check out count stanka so here in

4:04 front of the Chinese Theater this

4:06 Majestic piece of Hollywood history we

4:09 are actually witnessing people already

4:11 lining up over here the they're calling

4:13 it The Line awakens and if you go on

4:16 Instagram and actually hashtag or

4:18 Twitter hash theine awakens you can

4:21 actually see photos of people who have

4:22 actually been basically camping out here

4:26 and they still have 9 days to go so Star

4:30 Wars Star Wars is actually in full swing

4:34 once again once again Star Wars is in

4:38 pop culture at the Forefront of fandom

4:42 and people are all camped out you can

4:43 see some people just have their chairs

4:45 so maybe some people have actually gone

4:47 up to get their morning coffee like we

4:49 did maybe like people are actually like

4:51 maybe saving their spots but here it

4:54 says 9 days Star Wars the line awakens 9

4:58 days

5:00 how's it

5:02 going I'm doing a little Vlog for the in

5:04 the interwebs you want to explain

5:06 basically the charity process and what

5:09 the hash thee line awakens

5:11 means uh sure well the the movie is

5:14 called the force awakens and we're in

5:16 line so little play on words there so

5:18 you're waiting in line or are you part

5:19 of the organization uh both um I did the

5:24 the last two lines in 2002 and 2005 so

5:27 this is an ongoing thing that has been

5:28 happening for a while oh certainly

5:30 certainly there was Star video that oh

5:33 so you're part of starway he was telling

5:35 me about the star he saw the movie the

5:37 original Star Wars in the movie theater

5:39 of course he was only 3 years old so he

5:40 did not wait in the line excent I was 13

5:43 years old and I saw it here you saw it

5:45 right here that is excellent so where

5:48 can people go to find out more about the

5:50 Cherry is there a website is there yeah

5:52 absolutely uh

5:54 starlight.com is the name of it um and

5:58 they're a uh a charity that is all about

6:01 uh promoting health and happiness for

6:04 children particularly kids that are in

6:06 the hospital um it can be a long slog to

6:10 uh for a long illness right and they uh

6:13 provide

6:13 services there's a lot that they do okay

6:16 a lot so Starlight starlight.com or just

6:19 Google Starlight the line awakens

6:22 Starlight children The Starlight

6:23 Children's Foundation and you can uh

6:26 text Jedi or Sith to

6:30 80,000 and hopefully there's more Jedi

6:32 than sths let's hope let's hope that

6:34 more people are texting Jedi and uh

6:37 that'll uh oh there we Go's A5 there you

6:40 go here we go here you go here's the

6:41 sign $5 so without actually coming out

6:44 to Hollywood Boulevard and waiting in

6:46 the line you can still actually help a

6:47 charity out by going to this website

6:49 it's all about excellent yeah so from

6:52 what I heard you don't actually have to

6:54 wait in line the nine full days

6:56 basically you can just come out here and

6:58 just for a short period of time if you

6:59 want you how long have you been here for

7:01 uh 5 days four nights 5 days and four

7:04 night are you going to stay the Long

7:05 Haul the the other nine days absolutely

7:08 excellent you excited about the movie I

7:09 know we are to go to work but we keep

7:13 track of our hours right we sign in sign

7:15 out okay so you don't have to be here

7:17 the whole time you can have a job yeah

7:19 and uh and still be able to participate

7:21 excellent so I'm guessing this gentleman

7:23 here is the first person in line that's

7:26 actually my son yeah uh he was uh nine

7:31 really when I came for the first line

7:32 and now he's one of the organizers very

7:34 cool so uh and he I actually had that

7:36 same sleeping bag the zero degree

7:38 sleeping bag which is actually very nice

7:40 on those cold nights very cool so there

7:43 you go the Line This is basically where

7:44 I saw on Instagram the other night I

7:46 thought I have to go down there drove up

7:48 from Orange County to document this for

7:50 my YouTube channel in front of the

7:51 Chinese Theater well very cool thanks

7:53 for sharing the information what was

7:55 your name my name is Larry Ross Larry

7:57 Ross my name is Adam this is count

7:58 stankus as well we both do YouTube

8:01 videos oh thank you the whole I remember

8:04 for Star you had that were had the

8:06 different lightsabers for spoilers uh

8:09 doing different levels here a name

8:11 tag he's blue level okay there's also

8:15 red and green level uh green is is

8:17 complete right is that they don't red is

8:19 you don't want to know anything no

8:21 spoilers at all I don't want to know any

8:23 spoilers uh yeah you don't want to know

8:25 the yeah you don't want to know

8:26 everything that's going to happen is is

8:28 some level but they don't know

8:29 everything and green is like bring it

8:31 on um I know there were some people look

8:34 at guy that got this little smirk on his

8:36 face he would be green level he wants to

8:38 be the green level guy he actually knows

8:39 a few things because of something he

8:42 does for a living so he knows some

8:43 secrets that he's not allowed to say

8:45 well don't I'm red I'm red like for

8:48 example I I see the poster I don't even

8:50 know the names of of those characters

8:53 well well there's that's Han in the

8:54 middle there that's hot in the middle

8:56 there but I know one of them is named uh

8:59 kylo Ren of have no idea which one

9:02 that's the only name I know too that's

9:04 the way to go into it go into it blindly

9:06 that's the way to go into it I didn't

9:07 even notice that the uh the poster is

9:10 there that's very very awesome it's

9:11 amazing from Larry that he's maintained

9:14 that level of oh for the freeness it's

9:16 it's pretty easy for me I'm not as as

9:18 close to to all the fans it kind of is

9:21 amazing cuz I have a shop where I sell

9:23 this stuff and just okay everyone loves

9:25 to talk to him too yeah you just keep

9:27 the blinders on tunnel vision just right

9:29 to right to the opening much as much as

9:31 I can quality of so here you go the Star

9:34 Wars the line

9:36 awakens 9 days until the movie comes

9:40 out that is

9:43 awesome and look somebody has a light

9:45 saber there's a lightsaber right over

9:47 here near Maryland this girl here is

9:50 actually taking a little bit of a nap

9:52 people are sleeping obviously if you're

9:53 out here for that amount of time you

9:55 want to take a little bit of a catnap of

9:57 course this gentleman also sleep so

9:59 there you

10:01 go very cool that's what he was

10:04 referring to the Starlight Foundation

10:06 which is a charity for children a very

10:08 very cool event so in nine days on the

10:13 18th of December we are going to have

10:15 Star Wars the Force

10:17 awakens into our hearts and minds and

10:20 eyes once

10:26 again very cool all right I'm going to

10:26 let you guys go hang out with count

10:27 stankus today check out his channel

10:29 Channel check out the charity that was

10:31 mentioned by the gentleman over there

10:32 and I will see you guys in the next

10:35 video goodbye

TDW 1256 - Line For Star Wars BEGINS - The Force Awakens

Transcript