“The Force” in OC

Star Wars characters making an appearance at the opening of the Discovery Science Center's blockbuster exhibit Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination

From left, Paul Folino, a member of the Discovery Science Center's Capital Campaign Executive Committee, X-Wing Pilot Tyger-X, Sheila and Jim Peterson. Peterson is CEO of the evening's major sponsor, Microsemi, and is also co-chair of the center's capital campaign.

Michelle and David Horowitz have fun with a Star Wars light saber. Horowitz is co-chair of the Discovery Science Center's capital campaign.

Good Star Wars characters prevent the dark side's Darth Vader and his minions from disrupting the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Discovery Science Center's Star Wars exhibit.

DSC's Capital Campaign Executive Committee board member Kendra Doyel and her seven-year-old daughter, Karsen Doyel, looking at the life-size Star Wars character, Wampa

X-Wing pilot squadron members, from left, Judy Simons, Rob Howes, Matt Muncie, and Matt Masuda

Guests Leslie Sciocchetti, dressed as Princess Leia, Pamela Kashani, DSC President Joe Adams, Bette Aitken, and Storm Trooper TK3425

On exhibit, Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder vehicle

DSC's Capital Campaign Executive Committee member Walkie Ray, right, with his wife, Janet Ray

From left, a Tusken Raider with Orange County Supervisor Janet Nguyen, husband Tom Bonikowski, and their son, 11-month-old Tommy Bonikowksi, and a shadow scout