ANA R2 Dreamilner Roll Out

Wow!  How did I ever luck into this one.  Got to work the ANA Boeing 787 Dreamliner roll out.  On Friday we had a practice session to place R2 (and C3PO) in relation to the crown and hangar door and then on Saturday morning at 9:00 am we did the roll-out.  Chris Bartlett (C3PO) and I had a great time.  Afterwards we got a private tour of the new jet on the line in the final delivery area.

R2 on Friday in his Boeing safety vest during practice

ANA Flight attendants in their new R2 uniforms

R2 & C3PO watch the roll out

Roll out picture from USA Today

R2 was a hit!

R2 Looking Good!

Wrapped up the day with a private tour of the new Dreamliner!

Emerald City Comic Con 2015 - Last Day

One of the fun things we do at Comic Con is a "Droid Parade" for the vendors before the show opens.  We also take time to visit the "cue" where all the people wait in huge lines for the con to open.  As we were wandering through the hall we ran into Anthony Daniels as a group.  He spent a lot of time with us talking about our droids and taking pictures.

 

First we got some pictures with Anthony and the Droids.

 

Then we had a picture with the whole group

 

 

Later we got a shot with some of the show "minions"  Thank you ECCC for a great show!

 

 

Emerald City Comic Con - Anthony Daniels

The highlight of ECCC 2015 was a very special guest - Anthony Daniels.  I had met him briefly at the EMP Museum and was excited to get him to autograph my back panel.  I had no idea that the weekend we turn out so fun for all of the R2 builders because Anthony Daniels was there.

 

Anthony Daniels signed my back panel and while we were doing that he remembered my R2 from EMP and we briefly discussed using him during his presentation in the main hall the next day.  I had no idea if it would work out, but the next day I went back to the stage and we discussed what R2 would be doing.  Grant Imahara (Mythbusters) was the host and when he asked Anthony about working with R2 in the movies he would say R2 was a pin in the butt and that was my cue.

 

 

Here is R2 waiting backstage for his cue.

 

 

R2 rolled out right on cue and the crowd went wild!  We had a fun interaction as Anthony talked about the challenges filming with the real robots.

 

 

Afterward the stage crew snapped a picture for me.  How fun to work with Anthony Daniels!  He is super nice and a real crowd pleaser.

 

 

 

Emerald City Comic Con 2015

As usual we had a really great R2 Builders Club booth at Emerald City Comic Con.  A total of 5 Droids in all different colors!  Booth looked just fantastic.

 

Here is a picture of the booth.

 

 

This is our "backstage" room provided by ECCC.  Very nice storage with great charging areas.