To celebrate the launch of It’s A Stampede!, every day for the next year I will be presenting a totally informative, yet totally useless fact under the banner heading: ‘On this day in geekdom’.

Yep, that’s 365 facts!

Here’s today’s slice of geekdom…

May 5th – On this day in 2000, Disney launches its Star Wars-themed weekends at the Disney-MGM Studios theme park in Orlando, Florida. Celebrity guests attending the event include Carrie Fisher, Peter Mayhew and Boba Fett star, Jeremy Bulloch.

More tomorrow…