Early start on Saturday morning, Mike picked me & R5 up in his van, for the drive up to Birmingham. We arrived in good time, but then had to wait till 8am for our drop off time slot...... not that there was THAT much traffic.
Chris O, our event coordinator, was waiting for us with our wrist bands and where we had to go. We set about unloading Mike's FOUR droids from the van and set them up on our stand area.
We had a good turnout considering that this event is only a week before Celebration Europe! So was glad to attend as the numbers help our case for our own stand area.
As you can see from the photos next, we had a selection of droids, from Star Wars. These included, K-2S0, pit-droid on wheels lol, a Chopper (work in progress), Mike's two static droids, plus his other two mobile ones, one from the Clone Wars & his R3 unit. Steve G attended with his R2, as well as Darren P.
Group picture with almost all the droids, one missing R2 unit, off hiding.
R2-DEWALT & R2-TNG0
We also had Justin with his awesome 3D printed B2EM0
(work in progress) droid.
……and his mini B2EM0
Finally and by no means least, Sarah suited up in her TC-14 suit.
As seen from the Phantom Menace opening scenes.
Myself & Chris were her helpers, guiding her around and ensuring her safety in the crowds,
wanting pictures and there were a lot!! She did 1hr 40mins in total!
After this we toured the area with the droids, chatted with interested new builders, explained things and helped with photos. Myself and Darren also helped a damsel in distress…. her LED wires had broken and asked if we could fix??
After some investigation work we found the problem and managed a temporary fix.
This guy looks familiar….
Yes that is a 1:1’ish ED-209, steampunk droid, built by Chris.
Justin can be seen installing a battery pack for his droid terminal lock.
As with all the events, I had to get some pics of R5 😂
A long day with the event finishing at 6pm!! Then loading the droids into Mike’s van, before heading back home to Bristol.
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