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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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Long Beach Comic Expo [T11]

We were at the LBCE 2018 on Saturday Feb. 17 with the Columbia Space Memorial Space Expo Exhibit.

Ardy Jo was able to finish her Monster Mouse in time but, forgot the controller! So it just sat and looked pretty all day. Krank finished his MSE side boards and was able to bring it along. His battery unfortunately died before he was able to drive it as well. Sad day for mousers!

Krank brought along hiss BB-8E head with working lights to display on the table.

Columbia had a lot of great activities for visitors to participate in at their booths.

The R2 Builders, BB8 Builders and Mouse Droid Builder clubs were represented using 3 tables to display parts, droids and handouts. We had several astromechs throughout the day including a R2-D2 and a Boba-fett style R2.

Johnny 5

The droid builder clubs were fortunate to enough to have Johnny 5 stop by ! We invite you to follow his page over on Facebook Hey Johnny for updates on his progress towards full restoration and operation of this awesome piece of machinery!

BB-8

We also had an awesome rolling BB-8! Check out and follow Aaron Lane on Youtube!

At the end of the day we had a informational panel and explained the different clubs/droids and builds.

Super great time despite our set-backs. Always learning new stuff and meeting great people!

Scum Muster

RD-2D & Krank
Monster Inferno MSE (1st Troop - no controller) Ardy Jo