They’re here, and they’re only going to grow in numbers. Yes, 13 days before the release of the final installment of the “Star Wars” prequel trilogy, rabid fans are lining up in Cleveland Park outside the Uptown Theatre to claim prime spots for the May 19 premiere at the cherished movie palace. The W.Times interviewed a man who didn’t want to be identified, so the paper calls him Obi-Wan Doe:

Next to Obi-Wan Doe is a bust of Darth Maul, a creature of pure evil forged by the hateful energies of the Dark Side to exact vengeance upon the Jedi for the decimation of the Sith ranks.

The bust looks as if it may have held cookies at one time.

Across from Obi-Wan Doe’s chair is a mattress and a “Star Wars” sleeping bag.

We’ve never camped out on Connecticut Avenue before, so we ask, is the sidewalk at all comfortable? Since this DCist lives nearby, perhaps we’ll swing by and gawk at the queue and check out the pre-hoopla waiting. If there are any photogs out there in the area, be sure to snap some photos and post them in DCist Photos.

Does the Cleveland Park Men’s Club have any plans to do a drive-by egging or are the Ordway Street comrades more sedate and perhaps closeted “Star Wars” fans?

And what does Cleveland Park’s Ariel think of the “Revenge of the Sith” devotion? When we posed a Star Wars-related question to the info-fembot, Ariel replied: “What did you like about the robots in that movie?”

Ariel, we think R2-D2 is pretty cool … A hell of a lot more tolerable than Jar Jar Binks (who isn’t a robot, just to be clear).