A little short to be a Stormtrooper

"Ar'nt you a little short to be a Stormtrooper" that line drives me round the bend.I am a little shy of 5'8" tall and know for a fact i am not a little short.Myself and some hight challenging troopers met up with some ANH originals last year.

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Im a little red faced as i do not know there names.What a fantastic day and boy did they have some stories to tell.

care share thier stories?, even just vignette's would be interesting.

It's such a shame I missed that event - I bet it was great to meet the guys in white

The guy on the far right said it was strange to see Stormtroopers with gloves on [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

He then asked the one sitting next to him,"Did we ware gloves " yes hes mate stated.One of the guys also acked if the chest plate choked us as hes was hell.Now we know the way the originals were strapped,this is very common.I know with my TM 1mm the chest chokes the hell out of me.A small price to pay in my book.

I remember that, in the end they checked on the pics in front of them before they were sure about the gloves [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
When we first approached them Pete and I looked at eachother and didn't need to say anything as we both knew what the other was thinking, VINDICATION!!!!!!!

Another trooper who doesn't quite register 5'8'' here. No problems wearing armour TM; I do trim a good deal of material from the neck though.

SWEET I had to go with AM for the price for my first suit and have had to do alot of trimming and mods to wear it but I am 5'9" and am stoked to hear the accurate suits will fit me too.

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"Ar'nt you a little short to be a Stormtrooper" that line drives me round the bend.I am a little shy of 5'8" tall and know for a fact i am not a little short.Myself and some hight challenging troopers met up with some ANH originals last year.

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Im a little red faced as i do not know there names.What a fantastic day and boy did they have some stories to tell.

What a cool pic, and day i´m sure.
Hope to meet some of them one day as well.
Cool to see they still got the trooper look in them, the one to the right are still in the armor as far as i can see

It's great to know that I'm about as tall as the original actors are!

The last couple of times I've heard this comment I've done the "boring" thing and told them something like "No, I'm actually just about the right size for this. The original actors were around my height."

It shuts them up pretty quick!

Yeah me too, i´m 182cm and 72kilos.
I guess most of them was the same size, and hight

I'm 191 and wish I could take a few cms off!

That's me out at 6 foot!

You can be the tall dude Joe

i get that all the time standing next to my usual 6ft troop mates. if only everyone knew what screen accurate height and weight was!

A couple girls have said this to me. I'm 6 feet tall. And I usually say "you can be my princess leia anytime" and they just smile.

I'm 6ft at 88 kilos. Not your perfect skinny 70's trooper, but still pulling off the look I guess.

5'9" and 5'11" - 6' in armour depending on boots and helmet padding. LOL!

Pete, that photo is awesome! Brought a little tear to my eye.

That was an amazing day, one i will remember for a long time to come, i'm the shortest of the 3 of us, the one on the left in the first pic, here's some more from that day:

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This original TK took every oportunity he had to get snapped with us

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The guy on the right on the floor is a GOOD FRIEND OF OURS, hate to think what we'd do to those we don't like

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Great pictures,

Looks like you guys had a real blast!

Indeed, great pictures!