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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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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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UNICON 2021- Las Vegas [T52]

Unicon - Fans United !

UNICON

OCTOBER 1-3, 2021

The Expo at World Market Center

475 S GRAND CENTRAL PKWY

LAS VEGAS, NV

Event Webpage

Star Wars Booth Supporting the Nevada Cure 4 the Kids Foundation

https://cure4thekids.org/

Event Summary:

What a great event! Star Wars clubs had a killer booth/setup thanks to Dan with @TikiFab and the amazing space walls !!! They were back lit and even had some awesome disco color changing action during the intermittent Deathsar Disco! The Star Wars area was shared by Droid Builders (Southern California, Nevada, Sacramento Astromech Builders) 501st Neon City Garrison, Saber Guild NarShadda Temple and Rebel Legion Coruscant base ! The booth had a donation helmet supporting the Nevada Cure 4 the Kids Foundation. https://cure4thekids.org

Scum and droids had a fabulous time hanging out with our sister club members representing our love of the Wars and promoting droid building/costuming etc. It has been over 1 1/2 years since we have been to a big event like this and couldn’t be more thrilled to be able to get out again and share the droids with everyone.

We had the pleasure of meeting and mingling with Special Guests from a variety of hit movies and TV shows. Always fun sharing our love of droid building across different universes!

The Mandalorian Season 1-3

  • Leilani & Ariel Shui (Jawas)

  • Emily Swallows (The Armorer)

  • Barry Lowin (The Mandalorian)

  • Chris Bartlett (Q9-0, RA-7, Ferryman, Protocol Droid Teacher)

  • Misty Rosas (Frog Lady and Kuiil)

  • Alan Fernandez (Tusken Raider)

  • Michael Biehn (Lang) aka Kyle Reese

Back to the Future

  • Claudia Wells (Jennifer Parker)

  • Harry Walters Jr. (Marvin Berry)

More:

Jim Cummings (Voice Actor)

Sam Jones (The Flash)

Timothy Zahn (Thrawn Trillogies Author)

Ashley Eickstein (Ahsoka Tano)

Group Links:

Scum Muster October 2 & 3 only:

  • R2-2D [T3] Krankmeister

  • RD-QD [T4] Ardy Jo

  • El Raton (Monster MSE) Ardy Jo [T]

  • R3-XI Krank n Ardy Jo [T2]

Droid Builder Muster October 1-3:

  • R2-D2 Namgorf - Vegas

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Star Pawz & Dogobah Park- Factory Xtreme- Anaheim GardenWalk- [T51]

Star Pawz & Dogobah Park

EVENT WEBPAGE HERE

Star Pawz at Dogobah Park !

Star Pawz at Dogobah Park !

Supporting Life Companions Foundation

FACTORY XTREME

Anaheim GardenWalk

Saturday April 17, 2021

4:00 p.m. - 9 p.m.

400 Disney Way, Anaheim, California 92802

Doggie/pet Star Wars dress up (since the Anaheim Walk and most stores are pet friendly) and photo ops with droids and costumers. A special Dogobah Park will be setup for the pups to explore and have fun. A DJ will be at the event in the evening to support the boogie.

All proceeds support the Life Companions Foundation.

The Life Companions Foundation supports awareness of the need for pet adoptions over purchasing them. Please consider showing your support by making a donation, volunteering or Sharing your personal stories! Get Involved.

All county social distancing guidelines will be followed.

Having many adopted pets ourselves, Desert Scum is so happy to be able to support such a noble cause. Ahsoka Tano was adopted (she may have adopted us) around 5 years ago and is stoked to be able to show up with her droid brother 2D and raise awareness and encourage pet adoptions!

Event Summary:

Event was a blast! We had dogs, droids , troopers sith and mandos invading the Anaheim Garden Walk! This was the first time out doggie, Ahsoka, was able to troop with the droid! She got to see where we go when we usually leave her behind to go to events. She was such a good dog! She thought all the toys were just for her in the Dogobah Park and got lots of attention from visitors and the lovely volunteers with the Life Companions Foundation ! What a great cause and event! Keep your eyes peeled on Anaheim Garden Walk/Factory Xtreme social media for additional events!

Get involved by volunteering, donating or sending your pet adoption story to Life Companions Foundation !

https://www.lifecompanions.org/get-involved

Droid Builders:

SCUM MUSTER:

  • Ahsoka Tano as herself

  • R2-2D [T2]

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Droid Builder, Inc. Holocron App

Droid Builder, Inc. launched their Holocron app. for Android and iOS Account not required to explore the app.

App. Info

Droid Builder, Inc. launched their Holocron app. for Android and iOS. Droid Builder account not required to explore the app. but is required if you are a builder and want a profile.

App Links:

Excerpt:

“Learn more about the DroidBuilder’s and interact with us. You can check out builders personal droids, get resources on learning to build your own replica droid, and find a local group near you to help with your droid building journey.”

Create a Droid Builder Profile

If you are a droid builder with at least 1 complete full-sized droid, see the link below on requesting a builder profile:

Requesting a Builder Profile

Support

Please see the Droid Builder’s Support Webpage & application details via the Android iOS store for information & support with this application as Desert Scum is not affiliated with the app. or developers.

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Long Beach Comic Expo 2020 [T48]

Long Beach Comic Expo

January 10 & 11, 2020

www.longbeachcomicexpo.com

check out also the Long Beach Comic Con !

The droid builders always have a great showing as part of the Columbia Memorial Space Centers Space Expo Exhibit! Stop by and chat about building droids!

Sunday January 11, 2020 was a Lady Droid Builder Panel with members of the Droid Builders clubs and Stardust Builders Initiative!

Visit our BUILD IT page for links to the various build groups and resources !

Event Summary

Substantially smaller than the Long Beach Comic Con in the fall, the Expo contained a variety of vendor & artist booths including comic/movie/tv actors & staffers offering their signatures and pictures. We bumped into the Red Power Ranger, Craig Miller, @indiespeeder and the Salamaca twins from Breaking Bad Daniel & Luis Moncada as well as many of the usual amazingly awesome cos players!

Droid builders had an awesome display of WIP R2s and amazing electronics including a few amazing R2-D2s, a super awesome R2-Q2, newborn RD-QD and Monster Inferno MSE ! Thank you to everyone who stopped by to chat with us about droids, building and Star Wars! We hope that you were inspired to start a droid build of your own !

Also a BIG thank you to everyone who stopped by our lady builder panel on Sunday! It was much appreciated to get such a big show of support from everyone! If anyone happens to have footage from it please email us at contact@desertscum.org

Sunday

Complementing various women themed cosplay panels occurring at the Expo, local Droid Builder ladies represented the clubs in the Engineering START WARS: Build Your Own R2! It was an awesomely informative panel put on by the ladies which generated quite a large audience! There was a nice variety of droids and build methods to share with the audience. Keri had her R2, Naila had her BB-8, Tina had her WIP R2-RE, and Ashly Jo had her RD-QD and Monster MSE representing the Stardust Builders Initiative !

Room: 103A
Time: 2:30p-3:30p
Name of Panel: Engineering STAR WARS: Build Your Own R2
Description: Can’t get enough droids? Want R2 or BB-8 on all your adventures? There’s a whole club of people dedicated to building R2-D2 and the other droids of Star Wars! Come learn the basics and see what it takes to build your own Astromech droid from several women that build their own!
Panelists: Keri Bean, Naila Browne, Tina Bosse and Ashly Jo Dishmon

Scum Muster

  • RD-QD and Krank Troop 2

  • Monster MSE and Ardy Jo

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Los Angeles Empire Con [T47]

Empire Con, the ultimate event for Star Wars fans and collectors is coming to LA on 6-8 Dec 2019!. Join us for this 3 day convention at the Marriott LAX to celebrate all that is Star Wars. Meet the stars, see props, costumes and much much more!


Los Angeles Empire Con

December 6-8, 2019

Los Angeles Airport Marriott,

5855 West Century Boulevard

Los Angeles, CA 90045

TICKETS & INFO WWW.EMPIRECONLA.COM

EMPIRE CON WILL BE BACK IN 2020 !

From The Host:

Empire Con, the ultimate event for Star Wars fans and collectors is coming to LA on 6-8 Dec 2019!. Join us for this 3 day convention at the Marriott LAX to celebrate all that is Star Wars. Meet the stars, see props, costumes and much much more!

Local Southern California Droid Builders will be attending help celebrate the awesomeness of Star Wars ! Scum droids are super excited to be part of the event and hang out with their droid buddies!

All proceeds from the con went to the Peter Mayhew Foundation

http://petermayhewfoundation.org

Troop Log:

3 days of Star Wars ! This was Scums 1st big Star Wars focused event and it was super amazing! It is always an extreme pleasure to hang out with the Droid Builders and our Sister clubs Mandalorian Mercs, Saber Guild, 501st Legion and Rebel Legion members. Please check out the Build It page for information on joining one or more of these amazing clubs!

It is a really pleasant experience to hang around genuine Star Wars fans, we all have something in common so we are automatically best-ies. It is different than the regular cons in that the is that unified genuine love and interest the droids. It is always our hope to inspire others to look into building their own and always a pleasure to discuss it with those that have or have started. A common issue is actually finding time to finish one. If anyone is like Ardy Jo, she desires that creativity and excitement aspect of building things, which is kind of a sweet spot that is hard to explain and even harder to fabricate, it just is there when its there and isn’t when it isn’t.

Day 1

We had 2 R2-D2s , RD-QD and Monster Inferno MSE. The booth was a nice roomy area and we had some awesome photo back drops for guests. We also had a nice display of a work in progress R2 for guests. Friday wasn’t so busy crowd wise. Ardy Jo chatted with Mr. Craig Miller who was promoting his new book “Star Wars Memories: My Time In The (Death Star) Trenches” (which can be found on Amazon).

The after party was the being George Lucas party with plaid projectors and the holiday special playing while the DJ blasted some beats. The Monster Inferno MSE had fun dancing with the balloons!

Day 2

Chopper from the Bakersfield Droid Builders joined us! The builders held a build panel in the afternoon with a very small group in attendance. Those that did attend enjoyed talking to the builders after and taking that exclusive peak inside R2. The Scarif Tiki After Party was poppin and Monster MSE had a blast dancing with the palm trees :)

Whilst Ardyjo was romping through the Dealers Hall again she picked up Mr. Craig Millers book again he very nicely signed it for her. Later Frazer Diamond popped out from behind his booth and asked for a picture of the Monster Inferno MSE which striked up a conversation that he was there as he played one of the Jawas in A New Hope when he was 7 years old. He indicated he was the one with the droid caller on the sand crawler scene. Ardy Jo had luckily enough brought her replica with her and was able to get him to sign it! Too bad it wasn’t a legitimate replica but all the same an awesome piece to add to the collection :)

Day 3

Day 3 we were down to 3 Astromechs & the MSE. We were able to make the group photo with the Rebel Legion/501, Mandalorian and Saber Guild. While we were out there we got to mingle Angie Mayhew, Jim Cummings and Christopher Sean.

Scum Muster:

  • Krank RD-QD debut and troop 1

  • Ardy Jo Monster Inferno MSE and ID-XO

#LAEC #EMPIRECON2019 #LOSANGELESEMPIRECON #EMPIRECON #droidbuilders #astromech


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87th Annual Barstow Mardi Gras Parade [T46]

87th Annual Barstow Mardi Gras Parade

Facebook Event

October 26, 2019

6PM

Main Street Barstow, CA 92311

Event Host: Kiwanis Club

Club Host: 501st Legion

Parade Theme: The Wonders of Barstow

501st Legions, Rebel Legion, Mandalorian Mercs, Saber Guild and Droid Builders supporting the parade.

Troop Summary:

It was awesome having the troops out again for a local event.. Other than waiting around forever for it to start… Unfortunately the droids under performed. BB8E kept rolling off his transport with the rickity road incline and the Monster MSE smashing into it was the last straw… So Jawas and droids barely made it a 1/4 way down the route :( we will fix it !

Crowd loved the troopers. This was ArdyJos first troop as Commander Versio and everything worked out, some minor fixes and adjustments.

Scum Muster:

  • Krank Droid Monster Inferno MSE & BB-8E [T1]

  • Ardy Jo Commander Iden Versio [T1]

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Long Beach Comic Con 2018 [T24 & T25]

Scum report from LBCC2018 with the Space Expo

Long Beach Comic Con

September 8 & 9 2018

Droid Builders booth & panel as part of the Columbia Memorial Space Center's Space Expo

Pictures below the summary! 

Scum Muster

  • RD-2D, BB-8E & Krank

  • Monster Inferno MSE, Wampa MSE & Ardy Jo

Tags:

Hey Johnny , perello23, http://www.astromech.twinlitworlds.com/ , Jackie, Tina, ther2joe , aclane56, miyamotoextreme , Keith & Diana,

Summary

Really look forward to the Long Beach Con & Expos! Get to volunteer as part of the Space Expo with the droid builders group. We get a nice lil group of droids and parts to display at the booth and panel on Sunday. Scum did Sat & Sun this year. Really awesome to spend the night in Long Beach and not have to drive in the morning. The Long Beach Con/Expo is a nice medium size con and not too overwhelming for any new goers but full of lots of stuff. Loved meeting new builders and seeing those we have made builder homies with! Didn't get any MSE Vision videos (forgot the camera mount at home) and didn't get as many photos (especially on Saturday) as we should have. 

Kranks favorite cosplay of the weekend was Joe Dirt and Ardy Jo's was Cinderella ! 

It was BB-8E and Wampa MSEs 1st con and they did great! everyone loved with BB-8E started wiggling and moving. He was rocking out to Johnny 5s jams. Wampa MSE creeped everyone out with his eyeballs and jumping out from around corners haha He also went for a beer break. 

Saturday

Arrived with RD-2D, MSE-6, BB-8E, Monster Inferno MSE & Monster Wampa MSE & 2 slicer droids. The plan was to have Krank's MSE-6 tug the BB-8E. Unfortunately, it blew a connector and started smoking after we turned it on ! haha had toss em back in the truck for the weekend. Unfortunately Krank could have fixed it in a couple minutes it turned out. Resorted to tugging BB-8E behind RD-2D or by hand. 

Droid booth had a nice corner spot with space to display the droids and move around. We were lucky to have Johnny 5 hang out with us on Saturday! Ardy Jo was able to get her "Hold the Door" doorstop signed by Hodor (Game of Thrones) Kristian Nairn in the morning. Saturday flew by! Did a droid parade at some point in the day, which is really fun to mow through everyone. Monster MSE loves cardboard trashcans. Some kind soul turned in Ardy Jos phone that got left in the pooper.

Sunday

Had to tug the droids around the block from the hotel unfortunately since they moved the LBCC entrance due to the stamp convention. Sunday seemed busier for some reason. We had Godzilla hang out at our booth on Sunday. Super awesome costume by one of our builders Amy! We snuck to the back of the hall to do some astromech racing. Jackie's Bakersfield R2-D2 won over all even though the Monster Wampa MSE spanked them all haha Also did another droid parade around the hall. The panel was at the end of the day and Scum left right after. Panel was represented with a nice variety of builders and went really well even though the room was tiny. 

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