Sunday, May 4, 2014

Star Wars Day, May the 4th be With You!

(General L3-G0 Video is at http://youtube.com/myL3G0 if you are just looking for Lego R2D2 videos)


@()$*&)(*& Sandpeople!


Lego R2D2 fallen on the sidewalk with right shoulder shattered.
L3-G0 faceplant, @#$_()* Sandpeople!
I was running a little bit late, so I let us be a little rushed and didn't watch for sidewalk cracks close enough (I even thought about it and figured the 2 I could see were OK so the 3rd was probably good), and L3-G0's body tripped as I was trying to get it out of the slight drizzle. 

His right shoulder got mangled again, and one of the front panels screws got pulled out.  A few bricks were scratched or dented and I'll probably replace them.

On the plus side, I don't think I have another picture of the bottom of his feet, and from the label I can now clearly tell which one is the Right Foot!  (As if I didn't know).

Fortunately the 501st was there, though where an Imperial learned to repair Lego Astromechs is beyond me.


L3-G0 the Lego R2-D2 and a 501st Jawa
L3-G0 the Lego R2-D2 and a 501st Jawa
501st trying to repair L3-G0 the Lego R2D2
501st trying to repair L3-G0 the Lego R2D2

Unfortunately he missed the group photo while I put his shoulder back together, but I got a couple more photos with the 501st.
L3-G0 the Lego R2D2 with some of the 501st
L3-G0 the Lego R2D2 with some of the 501st
L3-G0 considering a Tuskan Raider
L3-G0 considering a Tuskan Raider
Probably even more dangerous than the face plant was a run-in with a Sarlacc, I mean Gus Lopez, a Star Wars... collector!  Fortunately the endorphin rush Gus got from bagging a stuffed Bantha allowed L3-G0 to slip away...

Gus Lopez with L3-G0 the Lego R2-D2, Sandtrooper stumbling in background.
No Gus, you may not collect L3-G0 the Lego R2-D2 :)
(I'm not quite sure what's up with the pigeon-toed Sandtrooper, I guess he's still looking for the right droids :-)
 
After going back home (and finding my daughter who managed to vanish) we went back out to the mall for a few minutes.  Apparently the Minifig he bought at Comicon wasn't enough for him.
 
First stop was to check out the Lego store. I tried explaining the birds and the bees, but apparently I didn't make the right beeps and whistles, so L3-G0's still trying to figure out where he came from.
L3-G0 the Lego R2-D2 at the Lego Store
L3-G0, the Lego R2-D2 trying to figure out from whence he came
After my earlier wipe out (and random stranger kids wonder why we don't let them at the remote control), my daughter insisted that she be the one with the controls.  I'm not quite sure if it was her or L3-G0 that wanted to look at XBox One games...

L3-G0 the Lego R2D2 perusing a shelf of XBox One games
L3-G0 the Lego R2D2 perusing a shelf of XBox One games
 Since it was Star Wars Day, we ran into the obligatory Princess Leia hairdo of course!

L3-G0 with a fan on Star Wars Day
L3-G0 with a fan on Star Wars Day
And as if L3-G0's ''where did I come from?" question wasn't confusing enough already, we ended up at the Disney store.  (Looking for one of those Banthas Gus had showed us.)  Everyone there learned that, in addition to several Star Wars classics, L3-G0 already knows the Disney production logo theme "When You Wish Upon a Star" as well as "Let it Go".

L3-G0 at the local Disney Store
L3-G0 at the local Disney Store

 Anyway, that was L3-G0's Star Wars Day, May the 4th be With You!