November 04, 2021

Event - @'The Galleries', Bristol October 30th 2021


A day in the life of droid builders event.


The Bristol club members set up to raise awareness and funds for #MNDa. We were joined by three other members, Doug (all the way down from Scotland!) with his R2, Chris to help as a spotter & Marine, also as a spotter. The droids rolled around entertaining the public whilst their owners (us) chatted with them, with questions ranging from 'why we were collecting/publicising about Motor Neurone Disease?' to 'how the #droids were constructed?'
Waiting for the lift, in the basement loading area

Event's video up and running

Setting up the area

Mike with his R2-XL & Marine

Mike's brother Marc, also attended and was there to make a video of the day, with interviews of us as well.

Check out his video over on the 

Two of Mike's droids, R3-T2 & R2-XL

R5-D4 & KN-B1

R2-D2, GOUD-4 messenger droid & R5-D4

The flyer time stated 10am till 3pm, but we were all set up and rolling when the shopping centre doors opened at 9am. And as there were still people milling around, we kept going right up until closing time, with people still asking us questions and kindly donating to our cause.

click image to go to my YouTube of the day

This video (& photo link above to YouTube) is just a collection of shorts as to just highlight the day. We all had a great time, as always! I got to use my Trading Card Dispenser which work a treat….except when it ran out of cards lol. And to see Chris operate it with ease was good to see, as it means it is easy to operate.


If you'd like to support us, you can donate online @

#droidbuildersuk #astromech #r2d2 #r5d4 #ukr2d2buildersclub

Thanks to Mike B for arranging the event and The Galleries #bristol for having us.
We raised a total of over £232.00 pounds.
A big thank you to everyone who contributed.


....more event's planned, so stay tuned and follow me on Twitter!

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