Learn Jedi lightsaber dueling from Star Wars fight director Nick Gillard at CombatCon 2011 in Las Vegas.

In celebration of the 2011 Star Wars Day, I have combed through the Convention Fans Blog Flickr account for a sample of our best Star Wars cosplay photographs.

Ramon Fagan gives a detailed recap of All-Con 2011 (which had a steampunk theme this year). The report also includes several photos of cosplayers and the bands that performed during the convention.

This past weekend was Megacon, a long-running Orlando convention. Held in the sprawling Orange County Convention Center, it has an estimated attendance of 20,000. Programing spans many different entertainment genres, with gaming, anime screenings, speed dating, live performances and panels.

This year All-Con, the “everything con” has chosen Steampunk as its theme and has brought in a lot of local talent from that community to provide 17 separate Steampunk panels and/or performances at the event. This is not even counting the wonderful and almost non-stop Steampunk table top role play gaming of “Tephra” provided by the members of Cracked Monocle, Cuthulu Dice Steampunk RPG, or Gurps Steampunk table top gaming.