Event Report: Stars of Time - Swindon 2023

Stars of Time

Date:            Saturday 24th July 2023

Location:      The Steam Museum, Swindon.

Attendees:   Myself, Paul, Jamie

Early start to arrive in plenty of time to set up. Not our first time here supporting this event, check out last years Event Report 2022.

Jamie's new R5-T8, my R5-D4 & Paul's R2-D2

Lined up ready for the day.

Event layout.

Jamie's droid's got a lot of interest.

Paul's also got a lot of attention and photo opportunities..... which resulted in a few finger prints that required R2's dome to need a clean.

Pauls' R2 got sent to the sin bin lol.

It was a HOT day, as the car temp showed on our return to load up the droids, but it was another great time out. Thanks to the Star's of Time team & Swindon Steam Museum. And thanks to everyone who came along.

click this link to my YouTube channel video of the day.

Event Report: Southmead Hospital Charity

 Saturday 29th April 2023

Myself, Mike and Mark had been invited to attended a Charity fundraising day by local friends from Clevedon.

This is the second one we’ve attended helping to raise funds for Southmead Hospital.

Check out their Facebook page.

We were located next to the toy area, Mike couldn’t help himself and borrowed a Grogu toy 😂😂😂

Mike took his R2 off round the floor area, and stopped by the amazing face painting and balloon sculpture. 
There were lots of happy parents and kids 😂. Lots of people asked questions about the droids and building them, and then Mike was telling them to ask me for my autograph ✍️ 😂😂😂

Here are some of the days pictures:

And some more:

Father and son 😂

There were quite a few visitors who were not from Bristol , as became apparent when telling them about our upcoming event at the M-Shed Museum.

Looking forward to this, as well as Swindon’s Stars of Time event next month:

Disclaimer: my R5 is NOT the one used in the Mandalorian series 👍🏽

Event report: Stars of Time @ Swindon steam museum

Short drive up the motorway to Swindon’s steam museum, after a detour due to an overturned lorry blocked a junction to actually get ONTO said motorway.

Parked up and unloaded R5 & helped Mike unload his van of three droids!

Yes…..3!!

One being R2-XL….

Mike also supplied the new table cover…

Joining us was Jamie with his (mini) A-LT droid, Mark T (with his special guest) helping out with XL & Marine.

The……. #Bristolians 😂😂😂

Lunchtime….

Old (well…..young), ex work colleague 😂👍🏽

We weren’t in the best place, cobblestone floor and joints to tarmac, but we were still able to move about and people found the droids they were looking for 😂👍🏽. The rest of the museum had good flooring and the main stall hall was carpeted. Milton Keynes garrison were in attendance with Stormtroopers, Mando from the Mandalorian. Other visuals were Daleks, Wookies, Dinosaurs, as well as Podpad studios ‘bikes display’ and car from Blade Runner 2048.

R2-XL had lots of interest and raised some money for the Motor Neurone Disease association.

It was a very busy day, and Mike’s R2’s had the attention of a local radio presenter as well as a TV camera, to later appear on the local news.

I actually took more video than photos, so to see more…. Here’s a link to my YouTube channel with a short clip of the day.

Event's 2022 .......... These are the Droids your looking for!

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EVENTS 2022

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The UK R2-D2 Builders club’s event

calendar is filling up with some events

already taken place this year!

These are up and down the country from

local charity events to big name ones.

Most are likely to have more than one

Astromech in attendance.

The South West builders contingent

will be attending not just events here

in the South West, but also:

Birmingham, NEC

Milton Keynes, Marshall arena

Scarborough

Bolton arena, Horwich

Liverpool

Weston-Supa-Mare

Swindon, Steam museum

Wales, Newport

With other club members attending other events

covering the whole of the UK, Ireland, Scotland & Wales!

Sunday 6th March

Paul F & his R2-D2, attended our first ‘local’ event,

right here in Bristol @ the Bristol City football stadium,

for UKCGF (UK Comic & Gaming Festival).

He said that the que was long

and he’d run out of trading cards by 1pm!!

I'll post up an event report at a future date.....

😎😎😎2022 is looking good for events! 😎😎😎