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How to Join the 501st Legion - Star Wars Cosplay for Charity
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I'm putting this video together to give
you a brief rundown of how to join the
500 first legion the 500 first is an
all-volunteer costuming group that was
found in 1997 in south carolina since
then it has expanded to all 50 states
and over 50 countries worldwide while
the follow first is not a part of Lucas
Films or Disney they are the go-to group
for screen accurate appearances if
you've ever seen a Star Wars villain on
TV the news a sporting event for example
they're almost always guaranteed to be
members the 500 first legion the mission
of the 500 first is to promote interest
in Star Wars facilitate the use of
costumes and to contribute to charities
and assist with fundraising to join the
500 first the first resource is to go to
the 500 first comm website read the news
look around the site and look at all the
great things that the group does next
you can browse to the costuming tab on
the costuming tab you can pick the
costume reference library also referred
to as the CRL here you'll find what is
called attachments this is a way of
organizing the characters in the
costumes
alright so let's assume you've chosen a
costume you can now look over the
costumes appearance look at the general
requirements scroll down to the bottom
scroll around just look at all the
requirements for the costume this gives
you kind of a general idea of what's
required as you scroll down towards the
bottom you could look at the optional
items for the costume next I recommend
that you find the online form for the
detachment you have chosen if you go
back to the costuming tab and go down to
resources it'll pull up all the
detachments for the stormtrooper
costumes for example you can go to WWE
armor net or you can do that by clicking
here
register to use the website and you can
now scroll through the various threads
such as build threads where to buy
pieces and parts where to get help and
get a better and extending of time
effort and what the cost will be for
your costume many 500 first members
assemble their own costumes the build
threads will help you see what's
involved with the build also it's
important to note that not only must the
costume be screen accurate and follow
the CRL but it must also fit you
properly ok so you've picked a costume
looked over a few threads and now you
know what you're in for
so let's find your local garrison the
500 first is broken up into Garrison's
on the main page of the 500 first
website as a map let's pick our country
and pick our state I'm just going to
pick Alabama because it's the first one
in the list here you'll see the officers
of the 500 first for your area it also
lists all the members and their costumes
the first person you want to contact is
the GML this stands for the garrison
member liaison this is the person can
help you with more information let you
know about upcoming events and maybe
refer you to other members who may be
able to help you assemble your costume
at times members will have what's called
an armored party where several 500 first
members get together to help others with
costume assembly tips tricks and things
like that so let's assume you found your
garrison you've assembled your costume
and you think you're ready to join the
Empire the GML will point you to an
online application form that will get
the ball rolling on the 500 first
website after that your GML is going to
request numerous photos of the costume
various poses showing all the details of
the costume all of these are examined
and the GML will eventually send you
back comments and possibly some of the
photos will have markups showing items
that need to be corrected once this is
done and you have satisfied the
costuming requirements they'll issue you
an approval and you'll be assigned your
unique member ID number during your
application process you're going to
provide five ID numbers for your
operating number and the one that's
available is the one that they'll grant
you and then after that you can start
trooping with the 500 first making
people happy and raising money for
charity
