For those of you who had never been to Disneyland’s Star Wars events, they have this thing for the kids called the Jedi Academy. The idea is for the little kid go up and pretend they are a Jedi knight that has to fight Darth Vader or Darth Maul to graduate. Usually the guy playing Mace Windu is there to tell the kids to activate their lightsaber and go for a few hits against Vader’s saber. But not this little girl. After Vader says to Windu “If you won’t turn to the Dark Side, perhaps she will.” Mace replies “I don’t think so.” The girl then says that she wants to join the Dark Side and kneels before Vader in the same way Darth knelt before the Emperor, much to the surprise of both of them and the crowd. The guy playing Windu, though, was pretty quick on his feet as far as a reply, but the scene is hilarious.
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The girl, Sariah Gallego, was visiting Disneyland with her family when they took this video a couple months ago, a video that has gone viral with 2 million hits.
The interactive show is actually part of the Star Wars events that go on daily in Tomorrowland at the California Park. It’s also performed at the Disney Hollywood Studios in Florida. The kids are chosen from the audience to wear Jedi robes and be the good guy against the evil foe, much like Sariah and her brother were. We doubt, however, that many of them proclaim allegiance to the Dark Side like she did. We have to wonder if her brother did as well.
While we are on the subject, here are two equally funny clips from the Jedi Academy. The first has Darth Maul fighting until the end.
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And finally one where Darth Vader has a little bit of trouble with his light saber activating…
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