Hello! This summer in VOX, since many of you know I am a really big fan of Star Wars, I want to talk about a Star Wars museum I’ve been to.

Name: Outpost One

This magnificent museum is at a town which is located 37 miles northeast of Hamburg and owned by Marc Langrock.

Mark was born in 1970 so he was 8 when he first watched the movie (I was 6 when I watched Star Wars: A New Hope, the first movie). And Marc says everything was changed for him after watching that movie and I felt the same as well. In an interview with Marc, he told a memory laughing that they impersonated Star Wars characters with his friends and he had to be R2-D2 because he was little. He mentioned that he started collecting figures and the first details of this magnificent museum appear back at that time in the story of this little Star Wars fan. Marc said that he had difficulty over buying these figures when he started working and it was usually out of his budget and stated that his tiny apartment was sometimes running out of space. Those who visited my clinic, may have felt the same problem. At the time when there was no online shopping and such special products were not gathered on a single platform yet, Marc had financial difficulties and even thought of selling the figures he collected and even rented a booth in this field-specific areas such as expos (the devotees probably know it, the San Diego Comic-Con). He sold a part of his collection and later, thankfully, his passion flared up and started to make the Star Wars collection again from where he left off. While you are walking around Marc’s Outpost One Museum, the originality of the figures carries you away and at some point, you find yourself in a galaxy far, far away and on the side of the force you feel (I always chose the Light Side of the Force). Later, Marc thought if he can do these figures real-scale and requested a real-scale R2-D2 from his grandpa. Poor man probably did not understand what his grandkid wanted and he made a Go Kart so he can drive it around in his spare time.

Then, years went by and in 2012, the first step taken for the museum which is the main character of my article, with Marc deciding to make himself a real-scale R2-D2. Beginning with his son’s room, then the workroom at his house, then his whole life started to turn into a Star Wars living space.

Later on, Marc found a high-ceilinged storage space from the 1930s and started to build the current museum by renovating it. Marc got help from the fans he met later and created an activity space that ideas, design, and even small details of Star Wars were important in the construction of this space.

There is a digital guide at Outpost One that guides you in English and German and it is called: Manu.

As you watch scenes in the museum, it clearly explains you the protagonists at each scene, objects, and their place in the general scenario of the movie. As a person who knows the whole scenario and even wrote alternative scenarios to the episodes of Star Wars, I preferred getting carried away among the figures than listen to it.

The first scene starts with Darth Vader getting on the ship of the rebels after Princess Leia and in the following scenes, you can see the holographic messages Princess Leia sent to Obi-Wan Kenobi via R2-D2 and you will be about to cry for a moment.

While I was visiting the museum, I expected to see things from the first 6 movies but I got really happy to see the scenarios that involved the last movies of the series and characters. I would wish to contribute to the scenarios of the last movies.

After seeing all the scenes, you walk through the hallway of objects and enter into a space where Star Wars (and even the ones you first saw at The Clone Wars) objects are exhibited. You can guess what I felt when I saw the lightsabers of Ahsoka Tano who left without becoming the Padawan and Jedi Master.

When you get out of a hangar at Outpost One and enter into another one, real-scale models of rebels’ X-Wing and Starfighters welcome you and details are spectacular.

The scenario of Jakku, which was established at a different settlement at the end, the Bazaar place was handled with a sight-worthy detail.

And before that, the planet of Luke and Anakin Skywalker, Tatooine, also took place.

If you pass by, you should pay a visit since it is the biggest Star Wars museum that is located at one area. If you go to the north again, you might also see the fjord and night lights.

May the Force be with you.