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Misfit Scraps Shop Opened

Misfit Scraps store now open. Pop-culture hand-made crafts and digital designs.

MISFIT SCRAPS

Since we like making/designing stuff so much we setup a shop on Etsy to hopefully share some of our makes and help fuel more builds :)

Currently we have a Tiki R2-D2 inspired pin on our Etsy store and various merch through Tee Public for our Johnny 5 Spontaneous Emotional Response design :)

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March 2021 Droid Invasion - FACTORY XTREME - ANAHEIM GARDENWALK [T50]

Southern California Droid builders invaded the Anaheim GardenWalk and Factory Xtreme Saturday evening. Safely interacting with guests, causing mischief and making smiles!

March 2021 Droid Invasion

FACTORY XTREME

ANAHEIM GARDENWALK March 2021

Saturday March 6, 2021

4:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

400 Disney Way, Anaheim, California 92802

Southern California Droid Builders invaded the Anaheim Garden Walk and Factory Xtreme ! This was a bit of a last minute romp but we were able to catch a lot of innocent bystanders by surprise ! The droids romped around the garden walk outside the Factory Xtreme- dancing to the music, playing in the fog machines and mingling with guests. It was great to get out an about and have some fun with our fellow builders and droids! Visitors had a awesome time taking pictures and interacting with the droids outdoors.

For us Scum Balls, this was our 50th Troop!!!!! R2-2Ds 1st Troop after his completion last April- right when the COVID-19 pandemic started hitting. He has been gathering dust for over a year! Always interesting on a droids first outing to see what is going to go wrong :) 2D did amazingly well! A greeblie fail here and there , some loose leg bolts but he took the rough terrain like a champ!! A job well done to Krankmeister! You find find some R2-2D details on his home page.

All the droids performed awesomely. BB-8 took some brave steps out onto the rough stoneway and did fairly well with his balancing. He lost his head here and there :)

Southern California Droid Builders Muster in no particular order:

POC Officer Eric and Droid/Baby Wrangler @r2_aarre

Factory Xtreme @imperial_army & http://www.factoryxtreme.com

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LA Cookie Convention 2020 [T49]

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LA Cookie Convention

https://lacookieconvention.com/

February 29, 2020 - March 1, 2020

Fairplex Convention Center, Pomona, CA 91768

Summary

Enjoy some sweets and fun at the LA Cookie Convention!

Star Car Central cars- DeLorean Time Machine (1.21 Gigawatt Guys) , Ghostbusters Car (EctoXo) and Kitt (Knight Rider) and Desert Scum Droids and celebrity SAK R2-D2 (perello23).

Desert Scum Droids February 29 only.

  • Check out http://www.starcarcentral.com for information on the super awesome movie car club and how to become a member! Also on our Build It webpage.

  • Check out the Build It webpage on how to become a member of the Droid Builders or applicable costume groups.

It was a beautiful day in So Cal and the droids spent about half the time outside mingling with Cookie Con guests and passer byers with the Star Cars.

Per usual, the droids spread joy and cheer throughout the land ! They also got to meet Celebrity Pastry Chef Ron Ben Israel and ventriloquist, stand up comedian Jeff Dunham !

Scum Muster

  • Krank RD-QD Troop 3

  • Ardy Jo & Monster MSE EL Raton

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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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