It’s the world’s largest Star Wars fan costuming club (according to Guinness World Records), and it started around 1997 by a fan named Albin Johnson. They found them, and through some conventions and a website, Albin began to collect other people who had stormtrooper costumes-and other imperial characters as well. He’d been in a car accident and lost his leg, and to cheer him up, a co-worker suggested that with the Special Editions coming up, avengers costume they should find and acquire Stormtrooper costumes and go to the movies in them.