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WonderCon 2024- Anaheim, CA [T67]

WonderCon 2024

Anaheim Convention Center

Anaheim, CA

March 29-31, 2024

Droid Builders Booth

Scum Muster (SATURDAY)

  • RD-QD

  • R0-X1 with new Mecanum drive

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LA Comic Con 2023 [T66]

Droid Builders at the L.A. Comic Con

LA Comic Con 2023

DECEMBER 1-3, 2023

LOS ANGELES CONVENTION CENTER



Droid Builders Booth # 1365

Just right of the Main Stage South Hall

Over 30 builders and droids will be representing this year! !



SCUM MUSTER

DJ R0-X1

R2-2D

RD-2D

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Heroes & Villains Pop-Up Shop Factory Xtreme Anaheim, CA September 23, 2023 [T65]

Factory Xtreme - Anaheim GardenWalk

Heroes & Villains Pop Up Shop

September 23, 2023

Event Summary

Some So Cal Droid Builders showed up to entertain flesh walkers during the Heroes & Villian’s Pop Up shop event. See the CLUBS page for links to resources on building droids & props !

Muster

T4-NK & Billy “Jigsaw” - Matt

R2-D2 Steven & Brian

RX-24 Sean

R2-2D Craig

R0-X1 Ashly Jo

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Long Beach Comic Con 2023 [T64]

Long Beach Comic Con

https://longbeachcomiccon.com/

September 2 & 3, 2023

Droid Builders as part of the Columbia Memorial Space Center Space Expo!

Although this Con has shrunk year by year since before COVID, still a great Con location, and with the Columbia Space Center ! This year it was sharing walls with a fitness … thing. So it was interesting to have comic nerd with fitness nerds in the lobby. The Droid Builders had some new faces to the line up so that was great to have new builders in the mix.

As far as Scum droids went, out of 4 , 3 had some minor issues including a bunk headset for R3XI, R0X1s lights were on the fritz, and 2Ds audio was in and out. MSE Vision camera bit the big one as well

Droid Builders

  • Gear McT

  • Revvek

  • Jr.Bell

  • Max

  • RSaggio

  • Walter

  • JessZ

Scum Muster:

DJ R0-X1 , R3-XI, SU-DZ, R2-2D

  • Krank

  • Ardy Jo

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Bakersfield Collector Con 2023 [T63]

Bakersfield Collector Con 2023

https://www.instagram.com/bakersfield_collector_con/

August 12 & 13, 2023

Scum Muster:

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Mechanical Magic Magic Castle Hollywood [T62]

Droid appearance at the Magic Castle Hollywood.

Behind the magic on droid building and props.

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LA Comic Con 2022 [T61]

LA Comic Con 2022 Droid Builders

LA Comic Con

https://comicconla.com

December 2-4, 2022

  • Droid Builders at booth 1457

  • How to Build a Droid 101 Panel

    • December 4 12-1pm in Panel Room 405

There are going to be a lot of droids this year! stop by and say hi and learn about building your own droid!

Event Summary:

Scum Muster

Saturday & Sunday only

  • Ashly Jo-

  • Krank-

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LONG BEACH COMIC CON 2022 [T59]

Long Beach Comic Con and Columbia Memorial Space Center Space Expo

LONG BEACH COMIC CON 2022

Droid Builders Booth

LONG BEACH CONVENTION CENTER

LONG BEACH CALIFORNIA, USA

https://longbeachcomiccon.com

Southern California Droid Builders will have a booth as part of the Columbia Space Expo- Long Beach Comic Con.

Event Summary

Saturday & Sunday droid builders had a booth up front with the Columbia Space Memorial City of Downey Space Expo area. Downey continues to advance the motto of "Future Unlimited" with the Columbia Memorial Space Center and its mission to inspire the future of space exploration.

https://www.columbiaspacescience.org/

It was great being up front to great guests when they enter the convention. Sunday seemed a bit busier than Saturday, maybe because it was cheaper. Con was pretty small and not a whole lot of signings or activities for guests other than the incredible space expo area. All in all a great weekend and a good group of droids.

If you are interested in building a droid or even a costume, see the Clubs page for links to valuable resources.

Astromechanic Muster

Star Wars droids at the Long Beach Comic Con Saturday Sept. 3. Photo by Fernando Haro.




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STAR WARS CELEBRATION 2022 ANAHEIM, CA [T58]

Star Wars Celebration Anaheim 2022

Anaheim Convention Center

Anaheim, CA

May 26-29, 2022

https://www.starwarscelebration.com

From the Host: Since its inception in 1999, Star Wars Celebration has focused on bringing fans together to celebrate our shared love of all things Star Wars.

7 YEAR HYPE

7 years ago a girl and a boy wandered into the Anaheim Convention Center for Star Wars Celebration Anaheim 2015. They only attended 1 day, and it was their very first convention of any kind to date. They didn’t even know what the heck was going on. Lines everywhere. Lines going into secret doors containing who knows what. All they went home with was a Darth Vader toaster, a Lego Snowspeeder and inspiration to build a custom astromech droid ! Little did they know that day would change just about everything for the next 7 years. Looking back 2020s further postponement gave us a chance to do further droid. prep and ended up getting a better hotel.

All in all we did what we set out to do ! We are ecstatic to have been able to be part of the Droid Builders at SWCA22. We got to volunteer, have a slot in the famous droid rooms, and met cyber friends that came from afar. I never had 4 days go by so fast! Celebration is like no other con. Star Wars all day and all night. Great people sharing their love and passion for the Wars.

THURSDAY MAY 26

R3-XI was posted in his lil spot in the droid builders room in the morning.

R2-2D and RD-QD were on fan relations/puppeteering duty AM in the AM.

QD was put up to charge and swapped out for Monster MSE and the creature cage in the afternoon. We romped around the main level booths and bumped into Mr. Baddeley and his wife and our buddy Wall-E.

We swapped R3-XI for the MSE and took him out for a spin until closing. R3-XI puppeteered, by Krank, was a huge hit with the crowds. His humor and interactions with guests was so on-point. It is really amazing and fun to interact with Star Wars fans.

The Droid Builder dinner was held at Buca de Beppo… we are still full from that one!

FRIDAY MAY 27

KRANKS B-Day ! Droid Races ! Star Tours 35th Anniversary Panel !

Ardyjo was fortunate to get to the Ink Fusion booths early and artist (Cale Turpen) was so kind to agree to give Krank a birthday tattoo of R2-2D !

Krank was on puppeteering duty with 2D while Ardy Jo participated in her first Running of the Hoods in late morning. The run was intense up and down the escalator throughout the main level and onto the stage. The hoods even ran into a familiar astromech on a short break :)

QD went on duty in the afternoon and we happen to wander over to the Galma Regional Circuit in the main exhibit hall where the droid races had been happening. After analyzing the raceway… QD and Ardy Jo decided to enter and give a whril. The track was setup obstacle coarse style with 2 droids competing for the best time on the 2 separate tracks. Which is nice, because if you crashed its your own fault and not another droids. QD had a slow start on race 1 , having issue with the stupid little Porg in a basket task. Somehow, she made it to semi finals and faced off with the speed demon Chopper and her good buddy from Bakersfield Brian. Chopper was so fast he did a flip back on the start and bumped his head on the ground. .. ardyjo was too busy laughing to take advantage of the head start but still somehow was able to sqeak a win heading to the finals against another Bakersfield builder and buddy Will! It was a close race but QD ended up getting the 1st Place trophy ! lol a really, really fun experience !

Scumballs ended up back in the builders rooms and brought R3-XI out to meet his new little brother Gil ! Jointly made by the Pilot RX-24 Builders Group guru Patrick Gray with support from Chris, Tevor, Tim, Seth, Hammer and Matt. Incredible build. Something we love about the building community is being able to share ideas, and get inspiration from each other. As Kranks incredible work getting R3-XI to roll and talk may have inspired parts of Gil, he in turn has inspired us to upgrade R3-XI or even make him a little sister :)

While R3-XI was playing around with Gil we bumped into Chris Runco and Sonny Nguyen. Chris was a concept designer and Walt Disney Imagineer and designed our beloved Captain Rex ! Sonny is also a imagineer and designed DJ R3X ! Chris was so kind and signed R3-XIs head. Turns out there was a 35th Anniversary Star Tours panel kicking off down the hall, so R3-XI rolled down there to see what was going on. He actually ended up on stage back next to Mr. Runco, also with Dennis Muren (Senior VFX Supervisor and creative director at Industrial Light & Magic) and Tony Baxter! (former Senior VP of Creative Development Walt Disney Imagineering), and … Ashley Eckstein !

It was amazing birthday at celebration. Thank you to everyone involved in making it what it was :) <3

SATURDAY May 28

So being mostly on volunteer duty, we aren’t so savvy on what is going on everywhere. We saw the Mandalorian Experience pop up on our buddy Dans feed and we were like where is that !!!?

First thing Saturday morning we droided over to check it out. It was an incredible display of props from the show. The droids fit right in :) After that Ardy Jo had to head off for the 501st Legion and Jolly Roger Squadron group photos up on level 2. Photo shoots always take forever. Jolly Roger squadron then took a fly by thru the exibit hall for a group photo at the awesome Tie Fighter ! After that she bumped into a familiar astromech to harass :)

After that we headed to the droid races and krank took a try with 2D. Races were close but due to some technicalities with the Episode I Pod Racing countdown (false starting) :P After that we had a break , got to control Gil and check out his awesome operation before gathering for the Droid photo shoot. It was always Kranks goal to have his droid stand out in the sea of droids ! The swag trading party was saturday night, so ardy jo was able to unload her patches for some awesome ones from around the world! fun time! 2D even traded some :)

SUNDAY

Sunday came and went so fast its crazy. 2D and QD romped around all day before we loaded them up and went back for R3-XI and the Monster MSEy. R3-XI went out with a bang again and we made it home.

Droid Builder Room Walkthrough Video https://youtu.be/48gb9trWUcI

Scum Muster:

  • R2-2D

  • RD-QD

  • MONSTER MSE & CREATURE CAGE

  • WILLROW HOOD

  • COMMANDER IDEN VERSIO

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Ontario Reign VS San Diego Gulls [T57]

Ontario Reign VS San Diego Gulls

January 8, 2022

Toyota Arena

Ontario , CA

Star Wars fan groups will be in action for Star Wars Night !

Saber Guild Temple Prime, Rebel Legion Sunrider Base, 501st Legion Southern California Garrison, Droid Builders

Visit the Build It webpage for information on joining the various clubs by building a droid or character !

Scum Muster:

Krank R2-2D

Ardy Jo RD-QD

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Comic Con Revolution 2021 [T56]

COMIC CON REVOLUTION

December 18, 2021

2000 E Convention Center Way
Ontario, CA 91764

https://www.comicconrevolution.com/ontario/

#CCR2021 #CCR #CCR21

Scum n’ droids will be at CCR Saturday Dec. 18 rolling solo.

Event Summary:

Always fun to romp CCR !

Scum Muster:

R2-2D Krankmeister

Monster MSE Ardy Jo

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Star Wars Night: Anaheim Ducks VS Arizona Coyotes [T55]

Star Wars Night

Anaheim Ducks vs Arizona Coyotes

Honda Center, Anaheim, CA

December 17, 2021

Star Wars Night with costumer appearances by the 501st Legion, Rebel Legion, Mandalorian Mercs, Saber Guild and Droid Builders.

Droid Builders:

  • R2-D2 V. Franco

  • R5-D4 M. Hobbs

Scum Muster:

Krank R2-2D

Ardy Jo RD-QD

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L.A. Comic Con 2021 [T54]

L.A. COMIC CON

https://www.comicconla.com

DECEMBER 3-5 (ScumDec.4-5)

LA Comic Con 2021 R2 Builders & Wall-E Builders

Event Summary

Droid builders attended the 1st California Con since the pandemic and boy did Los Angeles throw on a great con! It was positively fabulous to be able to mingle with con go-ers again! The droids and builders made a superb display for guests. Builders had a Wall-e , BD-1 , Grogu !

Check out the build groups for more info. on building your own droid! see the Build It page .

Muster

  • BB-8 Naila B.

  • BB-8 Cary C.

  • Wall-e, R2-D2, Pit Droid Bike, Scrubber, Matt H.

  • R2-D2 Ed P.

  • Darren M. BD-1

  • C1-10P & Grogu Will M.

  • MSEZilla Tom P.

  • R2-LB Walter M.

Wranglers:

  • Brian & Steven D. w/ R2-D2 WIP

  • Tina B.

  • Seth K.

Scum Muster

Ardy Jo & Krank with…

  • RD-QD

  • R2-2D

  • BB-9E

  • R3-XI

  • Monster MSE

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