“May the Fourth” The force returns!ANA Star Wars Painter is expected to visit Matsuyama again on 5/4 – Free Military Channel

To celebrate this year’s World Star Wars Day, Taiwan’s Star Wars Association has successfully secured the dispatch of All Nippon Airways’ (ANA) R2-D2 paint plane to a daily flight from Tokyo, Japan, to Songshan, Taipei, on May 4th, and held related role plays. event, and are also planning to facilitate photo opportunities with the painted machines. The picture shows the plane landing at Taipei Songshan Airport in 2016. (File photo)

[Reporter Liu Yujie/Reporting from Taipei]May 4th every year is World Star Wars Day. It comes from the homonym of “May the Fourth”, the famous saying of The Force in the movie “May the Force be with you”. Star Wars fans all over the world regardless of age On this day, Taiwan will also break away from their daily routine and hold various Star Wars activities. This year, Taiwan’s tribute event initiated by the Star Wars fan club invited ANA’s R2-D2 painted aircraft to Songshan Airport and held related role plays. We are planning to facilitate the opportunity to take photos with the painted aircraft on the tarmac to leave a testimony for the World Star Wars Day event.

It is understood that in order to celebrate this year’s World Star Wars Day, Songshan Airport and the Taiwan Star Wars Association have successfully secured the use of All Nippon Airways (ANA)’s R2-D2 paint plane to schedule daily flights to and from Tokyo, Japan, to Songshan, Taipei. That is to say If the weather and aircraft maintenance conditions permit, the R2-D2 paint plane is expected to fly to Taipei Songshan Airport again on May 4th. Both parties have worked very hard in the fight, which is worthy of Star Wars fans and aviation.nullFans are looking forward to it!

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Arthur, a senior member of the Star Wars fan group, said that this year’s World Star Wars Day hopes to be held as grandly as in previous years, referring to the activities of overseas celebrations, combining various Star Wars character costumes, traveling to various places or taking photos with related theme items; of course , since it is rare to successfully invite the Star Wars paint machine to come to Taiwan this year, he also hopes that the team can hold a photo event to create opportunities for Star Wars characters to take photos with the paint machine, making the event more “interactive” and promoting this international event. Activity.

Breaking daily routines and integrating into life has been a common way to celebrate World Star Wars Day in previous years. In the United States and Japan, Star Wars characters have participated in the White House press conference on this day, or have the characters board a plane to take photos with the painted machine. Taiwan has also We have successfully held many character visit activities, including Star Wars characters “landing” at the Presidential Palace and Building 101. We hope to move the event to Songshan this yearairport, held a series of celebration activities with ANA’s R2-D2 painting machine!At the same time, an invitation was also extended to President Tsai Ing-wen, who is known as the “Taiwanese Yoda” and has been willing to participate in activities in the past years. Star Wars fanshopeBy then the event can be held in a lively and exciting manner.

In addition, people familiar with the matter pointed out that the painting authorization for ANA’s R2-D2 painting machine has expired 10 years after the contract period started in 2015. Therefore, in theory, the uninstallation will end by the end of this year, and ANA should not extend it anymore. Authorized, this time is likely to be the last “make-up exam” opportunity for fans. Civil aviation-related units, Star Wars fans, and airplane fans should seize the opportunity and create opportunities to take photos together.

Breaking daily routines and integrating into life has been a common way to celebrate World Star Wars Day in previous years. This year, we also extended an invitation to President Tsai Ing-wen, who is known as the “Taiwanese Yoda” and has been willing to participate in events in the past. Star Wars fans hope that the event will be organized by then It was done brilliantly. The picture shows President Tsai Ing-wen participating in World Star Wars Day activities in 2019. (File photo)

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