So that "build-a-droid" droid factory thing at Disney World is actually pretty awesome, as I discovered last week. Granted, you're dealing with limited stock options, grabby kids everywhere, and bored family members. But if you take the time? You can have a ton of fun creating your own astro droids. (The only temptation you have to avoid is creating "official" astromechs like R2-Q2 and R5-K6.)

Anyway, these were the only souvenirs I picked up from the four-day sojourn, and I had definite plans: Make companions for my Micronauts.

I'd like to imagine these guys - an Acroyear and a Space Glider - are Hired Guns or Bounty Hunters aboard a large freighter that's basically an indoor black light palace and hangar bay for their two Y-Wings with Captain Harlock-inspired skull and crossbones designs. Favorite pastimes include listening to "space rock" and "space funk" while expanding one's horizons with certain smuggled goods and watching a series of discovered vids from a galaxy far, far away of two law enforcement officers whose conveyance is a red and white wheeled vehicle amusingly called "a striped tomato" (whatever that is).

Their shiny heavy battle armor, crazy-@$$ jet packs, cybernetics, and vibro weapons have become the inspiration for many a hovervan mural.

The Scrooge McDuck top hat for the little guy on the left and the Mickey Mouse ears for the little guy on the right are sadly not included in these pics.

Anyway, this is my desk at home. Apologies for the hideous feet in this next image... Ha.

Time to get back to work.

On 8/2/2017 at 1:39 PM, Harlock999 said:

So that "build-a-droid" droid factory thing at Disney World is actually pretty awesome, as I discovered last week.

Hmm, not sure I've run across this. Is it somewhere in Hollywood Studios?

In the Star Tours gift shop both in Hollywood Studios and Disneyland.

It takes a lot of willpower to not build a new droid every time I hit up DL.

6 hours ago, rogue_09 said:

In the Star Tours gift shop both in Hollywood Studios and Disneyland.

I believe there's also a shop somewhere in Disney Springs in Disney World. But, yeah, I hit the Star Tours gift shop.

There are dozens of options for domes, torsos, and legs for R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, and R9 units. So a single droid figure ends up being comprised of five separate pieces, which fit together easily and snugly. Then you can add headgear (why not, right?) that includes top hats, Mickey Mouse ears, Goofy ears, Oswald ears, Yoda ears, Imperial caps, generic Star Wars caps, Santa hats, pirate hats, sombreros, and fedoras. Each customized figure is placed in its own plastic bubble case and costs $12.

This year, it seems Disney added protocol droids as well. But they looked flimsy and really only came in solid grey, white, blue, red, and gold color schemes. None of the kids (or adults) were really messing with those; the astro droids were the real draw.

And, you know, I mentioned "grabby kids," but watching the little ones work is pure joy as you will witness them using the full spectrum of fruit flavors (e.g., R8 dome on R7 torso with three different colored legs).