Tags · Star Wars
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30-Mar-2024
Sure there’s rain, but there’s still the Falcon. -
16-Jul-2023
Who wouldn’t want to be a Jedi? -
08-May-2023
Star Wars Droid montage. I don’t claim to understand how Star Wars got a holiday but I’m belatedly acknowledging May 4th. Thank the maker! -
04-May-2022
MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU. 1977. Age 7. -
14-Jan-2022
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31-Oct-2021
New Bot Day! R6-W1CH joins me on vacation in Chicago! She’s a Star Wars astromech droid exclusive from Disney (2021)—she assists a coven of witches, thus the hat! She’s joined by some newly acquired Windy City denizens. Happy Halloween! -
20-Sep-2021
New Bot Day! ASP-704 was a 1997 digital insertion into”Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.” He’s one of many additions many regard as unnecessary. Star Wars was rich with texture and realistically dirty already in 1977. I’m happy to have lived into an era where vivid Star Wars stories are being told again. Welcome ASP-704! You are superfluous but all Star Wars droids are dear to my heart. -
02-Aug-2021
New Bot Day! Are droids free? D-O’s story in 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker forces us to ponder. D-O escapes service with a murderous Sith and joins the Rebel Alliance and is happy! It’s a better lot in life, but is the little robot free? What is freedom? Interrogating the ethics of a story is worthwhile. -
10-Dec-2020
New Bot Day! Captain Rex (RX-24) is from a theme park! Built for Disneyland’s Star Tours (1987) attraction piloting a Starspeeder 3000, imperfectly. Paul Rubens provided the voice. After years of service he’s now known as R-3X and is a DJ in Oga’s Cantina at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge (2019). Here’s to getting safely back to Disneyland in 2021! -
06-Oct-2020
New Bot Day—a Pit Droid! A gaggle of these robots debuted in 1999’s Star Wars: The Phantom Menace working on podracers. They’re sort of comedic and hapless but I like how economical and simple they are. A charming bot for times which are full of trouble. -
18-Aug-2020
New Bot Day! C-3PO is well known to all as a translator and protocol droid since 1977’s Star Wars. I got this guy at Frank & Son’s up in L.A. a few months ago. Threepio is always a bit put upon and worried and seldom far away from his friend R2-D2. Here’s to being wrong that the odds are not against us! “Thank the maker!” -
21-May-2020
New Bot Day! K-2SO: the brilliant and sardonic reprogrammed Imperial protocol droid. Kay was brilliantly prortrayed by Alan Tudyk in 2016’s Rogue One. He’s my absolute favorite droid from 21st Century Star Wars. -
04-May-2020
New Bot Day! May 4th is an odd Star Wars Holiday so… Welcome FX-7 Medical Assistant Droid. Hails from The Empire Strikes Back, 1980. It joins 2-1B, IG-88, BB-8, R2-D2, Gonk & L3-37, already in my collection. #MayThe4th #StarWars -
09-Apr-2020
New Bot Day! Welcome to defiant and brilliant Elthree (L3-37), comrade and confidant of Lando Calrissian; key to the success of the Kessel Run that made Han Solo notorious! She was introduced in 2018 in the under-appreciated Solo: A Star Wars Story. Be like L3–don’t take any crap! -
20-Mar-2020
New Bot Day! “Gonk. Gonk. Gonk.” says the GNK power droid the first time we see it in Star Wars. Welcome to my toy robot collection Gonk! Lovably goofy. Perfect to close out Birthday Bot Week! Happy Birthday to me! -
09-Mar-2020
New Bot Day! From 1978’s Battlestar Galactica tv series it’s a Cylon Centurion! Never went to court Universal and Fox contested just how much of a Star Wars ripoff BSG was. Cylons like this one have been referenced across the culture; Wikipedia notes Futurama, The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, Robot Chicken… men my age loved these silver baddies! -
15-Jul-2019
I’m pretty sure this is my second medical robot, the first was Baymax. 2-1B first appeared in the Star Wars universe in The Empire Strikes Back in 1980, caring for Luke post-wampa attack and then post-Darth Vader duel. Welcome! #NewBotDay -
01-Apr-2018
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14-Nov-2017
Some rando Jedi. #sketchpartysd #jedi #starwars #sandiego -
02-Aug-2016
Wonder Woman vs Darth Vader because of course, work in progress. -
02-Jul-2016
Saved all my money for one of these in 1982 or so. Foolhardy purchase was disapproved of by my Grandfather. It was a great toy. -
04-May-2016
Late Star Wars Day post… -
25-Dec-2015
Breaking in the new recycled notebook from Steffani, Amber & Arlo with some Darth. -
01-Sep-2014
Star Wars board game from 1982 is terrible. @missewon found it. Destined to be donated to Goodwill.