# Any Dopers Build an R2 yet? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 8, 2004, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-build-an-r2-yet/268146 "2004-10-08T02:59:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-build-an-r2-yet/268146/1 "2004-10-08T02:59:58Z")
There’s a lot of people building astromech droids and other Star Wars crap out there. Have any Dopers gone that far yet? I know some of you at least have a lightsaber or two. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-build-an-r2-yet/268146/2 "2004-10-08T18:17:33Z")
No, but you should see my TRON suit! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-build-an-r2-yet/268146/3 "2004-10-08T18:30:36Z")
HA!! [http://www.f1m.com/ask/Scale/r2d2/page01.htm](http://www.f1m.com/ask/Scale/r2d2/page01.htm) Look at page 6 and 7 as well. Holy Crap!! ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-build-an-r2-yet/268146/4 "2004-10-08T18:43:19Z")
A TRON suit? Please, that can’t hold a candle to my Ark of the Covenent living room set. ---
**Author:** ![Jayrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Jayrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayrot)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-build-an-r2-yet/268146/5 "2004-10-08T18:52:25Z")
> [@The Mad Hermit](#): > > No, but you should see my TRON suit! > > 😃 I don’t suppose [this is you](http://www.ibiblio.org/jmaynard/TRONcostume/), it is? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-build-an-r2-yet/268146/6 "2004-10-08T19:04:45Z")
No, but can you believe he was on one of the late-night talk shows? Conan or Tonight, I’m not sure which. I always wanted an R2 unit to fetch drinks and such. If I had the cash, I’d be following the directions in the link posted. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-build-an-r2-yet/268146/7 "2004-10-08T21:39:12Z")
If I had the cash. . . I’d pay that guy to make me one. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-build-an-r2-yet/268146/8 "2004-10-09T00:40:21Z")
I built a Dalek in my basement, but I couldn’t get it up the stairs afterwards. ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-build-an-r2-yet/268146/9 "2004-10-09T01:30:58Z")
(Smatrass mode **ON** ), Here is my R2 (actually mine is a '36) [http://www.autogallery.org.ru/bmwr2.htm](http://www.autogallery.org.ru/bmwr2.htm) Unclviny ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-build-an-r2-yet/268146/10 "2004-10-09T01:47:57Z")
[Giant Lego R2.](http://www.fbtb.net/image.asp?imageid=/customs/galleries/JoelBedger/JoelBedger17.jpg) **The Mad Hermit** , you know, you could always [build a bar monkey](http://barmonkey.net/). If you combined it with a remote controlled R2, you’d really have a kick ass drinking machine! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-build-an-r2-yet/268146/11 "2004-10-09T03:38:25Z")
> [@](#): > > I know some of you at least have a lightsaber or two. That reminds me; I really need to finish my lightsabre one of these times. There are only two or three connections I still need to make… ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-build-an-r2-yet/268146/12 "2004-10-09T14:50:24Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#): > > [http://www.f1m.com/ask/Scale/r2d2/page01.htm](http://www.f1m.com/ask/Scale/r2d2/page01.htm) > > Look at page 6 and 7 as well. Holy Crap!! Yeah, but all those guys are just making copies of the “D2” model of the R2 unit. Doesn’t anyone want to make, say, the red R2 unit that had a bad motivator? ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-build-an-r2-yet/268146/13 "2004-10-09T15:22:12Z")
> [@Jayrot](#): > > I don’t suppose [this is you](http://www.ibiblio.org/jmaynard/TRONcostume/), it is? :eek: That dude should wear a cup or something because you can see his sausage very clearly in those pics. I dont remember seeing trons cock in the movie. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-build-an-r2-yet/268146/14 "2004-10-09T16:30:39Z")
In the documentary stuff that came with my copy of Tron (yes…I admit to buying the DVD!) Bruce talks a bit about the horrendously uncomfortable dance belts (a modified jockstrap, from what I understand) they had to wear. That guy online REALLY needs one…_shudder_ Some people should just not wear form-fitting clothes. Please. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-build-an-r2-yet/268146/15 "2004-10-09T16:38:21Z")
> [@Middlecase](#): > > I built a Dalek in my basement, but I couldn’t get it up the stairs afterwards. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-build-an-r2-yet/268146/16 "2004-10-09T16:38:30Z")
> [@tracer](#): > > Yeah, but all those guys are just making copies of the “D2” model of the R2 unit. Doesn’t anyone want to make, say, the red R2 unit that had a bad motivator? I think that’s an R2D5. The guy I linked to is making one next I believe. If you look at his last couple pages (14 and 15 I think) you’ll see it. If it wasn’t him, it must have been one of the other guy’s project. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2004, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-build-an-r2-yet/268146/17 "2004-10-10T02:33:41Z")
I’ve not got any Star Wars props of my own, but I have many many friends who do (Stormtrooper outfits, Boba Fett and Vader costumes, and loads more). One of whom built the droids for Episodes II and III of the real Star Wars.