Droid Builders UK - Christmas Party

😀 Not quite a 'party' but our annual club members get together.

This year we were at a new location, Gloucester.

Mike was kind enough to give me a lift up in his van, along with WED-15. He had a few of his droids and a WIP droid he's been working on last few months.

The luck-dip found a few winners.

Congrats to Ian, .......Doug wasn't very happy 😂😂😂

Droid line-up.

B2EMO & R2-KT

Here are the winners of the quiz also arranged by John & Andrew.

It was great catching up with everyone, it's great to be able to chat about the droids, questions answered etc that aren't always obvious when online and not with the problem in front of you lol. We also raised a bit for our chosen charity for 2025.

💥💥💥 Big THANKS goes to John and Andy for organising today! 💥💥💥

A bonus note......

Here's a short of Treadwell driving on his newly fitted tracks.

To watch the days event, click here for the Clubs YouTube channel.

This like will take you to the same video over on my YouTube channel.

Droids @ Mshed YouTube videos

Event round-up & the event video:

Thankyou to the five people who responded to this link. Like a certain shop says '.....every little helps!'

Thanks again everyone who came along to Sundays event.

An Event Report of the day is being typed up and will be posted soon.

Here is Mike's round-up and final total raised:

YouTube video of event round-up

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And here's the link to the day's video.

YouTube video of Droids' @Mshed 2025

DROIDS @Mshed Bristol 2025

 DROID's @Mshed Bristol, are back!

Yes, all your favourite droids are back again, and a few new special attending ones as well!!

💥💥 'FREE ENTRY EVENT' 💥💥

Droids built by Droid Builders UK / UK R2-D2 Builders Club, we're a group of builders who make/build/3D print droids from TV & movies for enjoyment. From Star Wars to Dr Who. With members attending from ALL over the UK!

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👉 Check out this event on FaceBook's events,

please add yourself and share.

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We also have members from the MK Garrison - Vader and co.

Mike Berry of Vinyldesign's has been busy arranging & organising this event,

I'm just helping as his side kick/advertising/promotions guy 😄

Link to 2024's Event report over on the Droid Builders UK website.

Or over on their YouTube channel: Droid's @Mshed 2024.

We hope to see you there!

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This is a non profit event, all money donated goes to the groups chosen charity for 2025: 'Supporting Alzheimer's Society'

If you wish to make a donation, please click this link to our JustGiving page, Thank you!

#droidbuildersuk #SWDB25 #astromech #droids #Bristol #Mshed25

News Flash……. 2025 event returns!!!

 News flash……..

Yes, next year’s event is confirmed!

Droids @Mshed Bristol - Thank you YouTube short

 

What a day!!!

Full event report coming soon, but the day was a successful one. Loads of droids, loads of people, and then the sun came out to shine and dry everything up lol.

Thanks to everyone who came, and also donated to our chosen charity,

MAKE A WISH UK, via our Justgiving page.

Droids @ Mshed , Bristol : #SWDB24 ……….Sunday July 7th 2024

At the beginning of the year, Mike enquired about the possibility of the M-shed museum’s availability for hosting our South West Droid Builders Day 2024.

Unfortunately they were unable to due to planned work. A few months later he gets a message saying that the work had been postponed till later in the year.

So, Sunday 7th July, we will be hosting a bigger event, due to the shed being cleared so more space inside.

The usual Bristol crew will be in attendance along with loads of Droid Builder’s from all over the country! Who will be bringing their droids from a Galaxy far far away & other SCI-FI universes!

Droid Builders UK - 2024

 An event just for Droid Builders....... coming in 2024!

Droid Builders UK

#SWDB23 - Sunday 2nd July 2023 - THANKS ALL

What a DAY!!!

Sunday's event held at the Mshed, Bristol harbourside,

was blessed with good weather

& a fantastic attendance from the public.

We were collecting for our chosen charity: Make a Wish (UK)

clicking on the above image will take you to our Justgiving page.

Oliver will be collating the donation buckets and will update us when finished. But I can say that yesterdays donations online (not including gift aid), came to £216.00!!

The total raised comes to......

A BIG thank you to all who came along and supported us, we hope you enjoyed the day as much as we did sharing it with you all. Plenty of smiles from everyone.

If you would like to make a donation, of any amount,

please feel free to use the above links, every little helps.

There will be an Event Report soon, and also a Video up on my YouTube channel.

So click the likes, share and subscribe to my channel for future event updates, and check out last years event whilst you wait for this years to be uploaded lol.

Thanks again Bristol (and outside are visitors)

your support was/is much appreciated.

Celebration Europe 2023 - Jabba's Gate Door Build - Part 3

February 2023:

And Mike has almost finished the main sections of the door.

Tuesday 7th I popped up to help him test fit the upper section onto the base part. It all held together and is going to look great!

The rear view, showing a better structure than I had drawn up lol. With the wall section added, this will give additional structural support to the upper section.

We discussed the side wall part, which will be the section next to Mike, on the right (in above picture). A few ideas for simplifying it were discussed to keep weight, work and cost down. Making it easier for Mike to build.

Progress has seen the base coat of emulsion paint applied. The rough texture is required.

Before I knew it, Mike had started on painting the walls.

Progress of the colours.

He’d also made a start on the end wall structure:

Mike wasn’t the only one busy. I had been spray painting the eye components.

Next up was the arm links with the spikes on.

More in the next post….

Droid Builders South West - coming this July

 

Stay tuned for more updates……

#bristol #ukr2d2builders #droidbuildersuk #r2d2 #r5d4 #badmotivator #freeevent #localevents

#southwestdroidbuilders #happydays #2023

Celebration Europe 2023: Droid Builder’s assemble

This year Star Wars Celebration is coming BACK to the UK. Representing Europe, all droid builders will be attending……

Well, that is still what we hope will happen. As many of you will know, the ticket situation was an absolute nightmare for being organised. Myself and others, signed up to purchase four day passes, but the small print, meant that even though you were in a queue, it was still a random selection…….well that’s NOT a queue, and us Brits know how to queue 😂👍🏽

Then on Thursday 5th January I got an email from the Ibis hotel, cancelling my reservation!!

Double checked it wasn’t a hoax 😳, nope!

With no reply to my emails, I phoned them to ask…..there’s been a block booking! And it automatically sends out a cancellation notice! They were no help at all and even gave me the same email direct to the hotel I had already used.

Soooooo…… Saturday was spent searching for hotel rooms for the required dates.

The good news, was I was able to find a room with twin beds (not a double 😂).

The bad news, is that it was further out and more money 😒. I didn’t book it though, as after not hearing back from the hotel, I Tweeted about the situation, and ‘@‘ the hotel directly!

Within a matter of hours I had a response AND a DM saying someone would be in contact. After a few days I received another DM & an email confirming that my cancellation had been an error and that my booking was now reinstated.

This was a relief, but still the ticket issue was still outstanding. This matter was eventually resolved between the organisers and the R2 group organisers.

Droid Builders UK - MCM Comic-Con Birmingham NEC

 

Check out the Event Report now posted up on the Droid Builders UK website.

Click on the link above or follow the link below:

www.droidbuilders.uk/2022/11/16/mcm-birmingham

#droidbuildersuk @droidbuildersuk

Upcoming Event: Stars of Time @ Weston-Super-Mare

Stars of Time

return’s to Weston-Super-Mare!

The SOUTHWEST DROID BUILDERS

(representing Droid Builders UK),

will be attending so come along

and see R2-D2 and friends.

Why not make a weekend of it,

check out the official website,

clicking on the picture link below.

Link: https://www.visit-westonsupermare.com/

Link to more event details:

https://www.visit-westonsupermare.com/whats-on/stars-of-time-film-and-comic-con-p3119893

Droid Builders UK Christmas meet 2022 coming soon!!

 

Calling all UK Droid Builder’s, (& fellow world wide builders who may be in the UK at the time) the annual Christmas builders meet is coming!

Are you Signed up on the portal???

Checkout www.droidbuilders.uk

* non UK builders who maybe visiting the UK, wishing to attend, but not on the portal, get in contact for further details about how to attend *

# Get to meet fellow builders,

# chat and ask questions,

# find out ‘how too’,

# there will be all types of droids,

# finished and work in progress,

from 3D printed, aluminium, wood and styrene and everything in between.

There are time trials around the droid course, testing your (droids) agility lol. (TBC)

Lots of laughs guaranteed. Web linked for non attendees to view on the DBUK YouTube channel (see link below)

So checkout the website link above for full event details.

And the: Droid Builders YouTube channel (click link)

Blog views hits 180k plus

 It’s always nice to see that people do actually use/see/read my Blog lol.

And today it tripped over the 180k hits!

Monthly figures have been down since Google+ ended 🙁 and I’ve not been on social media much since the beginning of 2020 (no instagram or Facebook), though I have been back on FB recently. Twitter is my only other outlet for letting the outside world know about updates, that and the few astromech forums I’m on.

I do write articles/event reports that as well as my Blog, get uploaded to www.droidbuilders.uk though there’s no link back to my Blog.

Well, there’s more Blog posts to come, future events, 3D printing, droid building etc. so stay up-to date by ‘following’.

So a big thanks to everyone.

Event Report: Newport Comic-Con

Another great time had by us all and from the video and photo's, the general public as well.

Link to my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/JamesR5D4

The sun was out and it was going to be a hot day outside at least. Inside was well temperature maintained.

 

The droids lined up.
 

This event and others around the country, was run by Monopoly Events.

Early entry doors opened at 8:30am, hence why we had to be there early lol. The queue was massive [see video]! Our location was just off the main entrance foyer on tiled floor. The main area's have carpet and for the heavier droids this wasn't good for performance 😖

 

The display table.

 

Pauls R2 & my R5

 

Oliver brought R2KT

 

Mike’s droid no1……

 

Awesome 3D printed Buzz costume

Mr Terry Cooper arrived as MARVIN, from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

 

As per, I had been following Terry’s progress over the months of hard work, and the results speak for themselves.

MARVIN won first place in the cosplay competition!!

Checkout ‘Terry on Tuesday’ video of his day on stage with

THE John Cena.

There were three entrance time slots, and as can be seen in the video of the day, the venue was busy but not crowded. Plenty of space for people to mingle without getting in peoples way for photos etc.

We got to chat with lots of people interested in the droids, asking how they were built etc. and entertained kids big and small. Had a few run-ins with Dalek’s lol but nothing we couldn’t handle. I took a few photo's but mostly video, so check it out below link

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/JamesR5D4

I will in future pack food lol as although there are a few cafes, come lunchtime/afternoon they had queues as long as the entrance ones and the others had sold out of food. We all had a great time though and look forward to the next one, hopefully with more droids.

Event Video: M-shed Bristol: 3rd July 2022

 

click link below....

YOUTUBE VIDEO

of the day's event

🎥 Produced by Marc Danbury 😎

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