ECCC Day 3

Sunday was our NW Builders group panel at 11:00am.  We all met and then ran the droids en masse down to the room were the panel was going to be held.  A line of 6 R2 units running through the convention center created quite a stir (actually it was chaos) and they finally cleared a path to a loading elevator for the final trek.

The panel room was well set up by ECCC and had a nice audio and video board all ready to go.  We placed three R2's on each side.

The panel was packed, standing room only and unfortunately many people could not attend because we flat ran out of room.  Next year we hope for a larger space.  In the shot below you can see how full it was.  Also notice the computer screen in the bottom showing what was on the big screen up front.  Thanks to R2 buider Carol for running the show for us!

I also managed to get shots of all the R2's and their builders.  Left to right are Bob (me), Rob, Vincent, Cole, Todd & Chris.

ECCC Day 1

Friday morning Cole Horton and I arrived early to get things set up.  Before the show opened \a local TV station came by to shoot and evening magazine TV promo with Ray Park (Darth Maul).

We shot the promo with my R2 in the promo and Cole's red R2 providing the sound effects.  Ray was super nice and stayed for a few pic's with our droids.  The show is off to a great start!

Shorty after this and well before the show opened oCle & I took our R2's to the main floor.

Unfortunately just after I took this piture the crowd grew so large we had to return to out booth area because we were starting to clog the whole area!

Just after the show opened R2 & I went to visit Billy Dee Willaims and get an autograph.

I had finished the inside of my main rear door just for this and "Lando" was my first one of what I hope will be many!  Day one was a blast!!!  At the end of the day we had 4 beautiful Droids.  Left to right are Bob, Cole, Chris & Todd (at least their droids).

Museum of Flight

Every year I have the great pleasue of visiting the Seattle Museum of Flight on Presidents Day weekend.  Artoo and I get to hang out with the NW Scale Modelers who do a HUGE model show n the museum plus we get to do a stage presentation that is very popular!  This year Artoo and I got to do a photo shoot with the Museums Astronaut that is appearing in all the new commercials.

Shown above are the two of us inside the Space Shuttle Trainer.  This was the actual trainer used to train all shuttle astronaut's.  We are in the cargo bay - had to ride a special elevator to get in.  Really had fun with him and the museum photgrapher!

 

This view is looking forward to the cargo bay / crew compartment tunnel.  No chance of R2 getting in there!

 

 

Thanks again to the Museum of Flight!

American Library Association Convention

Interesting the things that come up for Artoo and I to do!  This one popped in at the last second from fellow builder Cole Horton.  A publisher needed R2 to appear in a stage presentation at the Seattle Convention Center- what a hoot this was!

The picture above was during the presentation with Tom Angleberger who wrote "The Strange Case of Origami Yoda".  Now I had never heard of this book, but if your about 10 years old I guess it is a huge best seller.

Tom was a great guy, loved working with Artoo and we had a blast onstage entertaining Librarians from all across the country.  He has a new book coming out soon, "Art2-D2's Guide to Folding & Doodling"

All in all we had a lot of fun seeing how Librarians fell for R2, getting our pictures taken and just plain messing about.  The Seattle Conventon Center staff & all the people from ALA were just great to work with.  We hope to return!

Left to right, Tom Angleberger, Artoo-Deetoo, Bob Jacobsen