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R2LA 16

R2LA16

Annual Southern California Droid Party

Scums 3rd annual droid party. Biggest one yet this year with a great variety of droids! Mingled with some awesome people.

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Scum Muster:

Krank & Ardy

S1-10C- busted front foot on curb
Monster Inferno MSE “EL Raton” with battle protection- side panels warped in heat
Star Tours Speeder 3000 Beer Transport (debut)
Captain Rex RX-24 (debut)- just finished night before neck lift needs work

Desert Scum 6/22/19 Desert Scum 6/22/19

27th Seal Day [T43]

Free event includes seal viewing, food trucks, live music, arts, plus a Halloween in June twist with Trunk-or-Treating and costume contests!

27th Seal Day

Marine Mammal Care Center

Public Event

June 22, 2019

10 AM -4 PM

Marine Mammal Care Center
3601 S. Gaffey #8
San Pedro, CA 90731
https://marinemammalcarecenterlosangeles.com/annual-seal-day/

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Free event includes seal viewing, food trucks, live music, arts, plus a Halloween in June twist with Trunk-or-Treating and costume contests!

If you haven’t been to Los Angeles County’s year-round sea lion hospital, Seal Day is the day that you will want to visit! Seal Day festivities will feature outdoor animal viewing, live music, food trucks, games for kids and dozens of booths from a wide range of community organizations. This year’s theme is Halloween in June, complete with professional costumed visitors, a Trunk-or-Treat experience with world famous Star Cars– vehicles from stage and screen, and a costume contest for those who come dressed for fun!

Seal Day is happening at Marine Mammal Care Center Los Angeles from 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM on Saturday, June 22nd.

Bring your appetite too! Some of the region’s most popular food truck eateries will be attending! Popular exhibitor booths will include Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, El Dorado Nature Center, plus many local environmental groups that will be giving lectures and demonstrations throughout the day.

Everyone is encouraged to come in costume and join in the fun! Live music performances will be happening all day (sponsored by the Parrot Head Club) plus special appearances by singer/pianist Flaviyake. Seal Day 2019 will also have hand-painted sea lion sculptures up for auction along with a chance to meet and greet with the local artists that created them for the event!

MANY WAYS TO DONATE HERE

Event Summary

Scums 2nd year for this lovely event supporting the MMCC ! It was a lovely day sharing how to build droids with visitors, encouraging donation to the MMCC and sharing candy ! We had an awesome droidbuilder back drop provided by Gears McTinkersome at http://twinlitworlds.com and Road Squadron. Gears also had his super car firghter Red 2 ! Aarre brought her in-progress R2 which really gives guests an awesome look at the building process. Jrbell from the Bakersfield Droid Builders brought his amazing aluminum R2. Had lots of interested guests, hopefully we recruited some builders :) Also out in force was the Saber Guild Jedi, 501st Legion and Rebel Legion !The Kyle Smith band provided some fun cover songs in the background for most the day. Please consider donating to the center. The center operation on donations by organizations and individuals like you! The center treats and releases injured marine mammals through their rehabilitation center.

checkout the built it page for the different groups!

Scum Muster

RD-2D & Krank
Monster Inferno MSE & Ardy Jo

VIDEO COMING SOON….

Desert Scum 9/22/18 Desert Scum 9/22/18

R2LA 15 [T27]

Droid Builder Party

PIX AT BOTTOM OF THE BLOG ENTRY

Hosted by Mr. Senna each year, R2LA is a gathering of droid builders in the Southern California area (mostly) although we have build visitors from out of state as well.

Super fun event collaborating with builders who we haven’t met in person and are basically celebrities in our opinion!

Ardy Jo’s Monster Wampa MSE rolled in with the recently finished Echo Base Beer Transport! Wampa MSE was surprisingly capable of toting a 6 pack ! Krankmeister brought his awesome BB-8E & MSE. He powered on the SNES Classic when it started getting a little dark out and played some Mario World, Donkey Kong and Super Star Wars right off BB-8E.

Great to see a couple choppers and so many MSEs this year! We were especially privileged to have Johnny 5, L3-37, K2-SO, C3-PO and Boba Fett ! They made for some great pix!

As usual, we had some MSE fun out in the street. Couple of race offs and the Mousezillas had a race with dudes riding on top of them! Racing quickly turns into crashes (some intentional !). Monster Inferno MSE had some battle damage. Ardy Jo had the bright idea of initiating a Diddy Kong Racing/Mario Kart balloon pop challenge. She secured a balloon to the back of Inferno MSE and zoomed around. The MSE sharks quickly caught on and attempted to pop the balloon. Only last about 30 seconds haha 2nd balloon popped off and bounced around unwilling to pop.

Fun time with crafty smart peeps!

Scum Muster

BB-8E & Krank
Monster Inferno MSE, Wampa MSE & Troop Transport & Ardy Jo

Desert Scum 9/8/18 Desert Scum 9/8/18

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.

Desert Scum 9/7/18 Desert Scum 9/7/18

Wampa Monster MSE Complete

Ardy Jo was able to complete the 1st version of the Wampa Monster MSE the night before LBCC2018!

She is really happy how it turned out. Rasberry Pi is something shes been wanting to play with for a while and is beyond relieved that she got it working at all! Some additions to the costume in future may include a working mouth and upgrading the sound system