Dec 6

Dec 6 Los Angeles Empire Con [T47]

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Los Angeles Empire Con

December 6-8, 2019

Los Angeles Airport Marriott,

5855 West Century Boulevard

Los Angeles, CA 90045

TICKETS & INFO WWW.EMPIRECONLA.COM

EMPIRE CON WILL BE BACK IN 2020 !

From The Host:

Empire Con, the ultimate event for Star Wars fans and collectors is coming to LA on 6-8 Dec 2019!. Join us for this 3 day convention at the Marriott LAX to celebrate all that is Star Wars. Meet the stars, see props, costumes and much much more!

Local Southern California Droid Builders will be attending help celebrate the awesomeness of Star Wars ! Scum droids are super excited to be part of the event and hang out with their droid buddies!

All proceeds from the con went to the Peter Mayhew Foundation

http://petermayhewfoundation.org

Troop Log:

3 days of Star Wars ! This was Scums 1st big Star Wars focused event and it was super amazing! It is always an extreme pleasure to hang out with the Droid Builders and our Sister clubs Mandalorian Mercs, Saber Guild, 501st Legion and Rebel Legion members. Please check out the Build It page for information on joining one or more of these amazing clubs!

It is a really pleasant experience to hang around genuine Star Wars fans, we all have something in common so we are automatically best-ies. It is different than the regular cons in that the is that unified genuine love and interest the droids. It is always our hope to inspire others to look into building their own and always a pleasure to discuss it with those that have or have started. A common issue is actually finding time to finish one. If anyone is like Ardy Jo, she desires that creativity and excitement aspect of building things, which is kind of a sweet spot that is hard to explain and even harder to fabricate, it just is there when its there and isn’t when it isn’t.

Day 1

We had 2 R2-D2s , RD-QD and Monster Inferno MSE. The booth was a nice roomy area and we had some awesome photo back drops for guests. We also had a nice display of a work in progress R2 for guests. Friday wasn’t so busy crowd wise. Ardy Jo chatted with Mr. Craig Miller who was promoting his new book “Star Wars Memories: My Time In The (Death Star) Trenches” (which can be found on Amazon).

The after party was the being George Lucas party with plaid projectors and the holiday special playing while the DJ blasted some beats. The Monster Inferno MSE had fun dancing with the balloons!

Day 2

Chopper from the Bakersfield Droid Builders joined us! The builders held a build panel in the afternoon with a very small group in attendance. Those that did attend enjoyed talking to the builders after and taking that exclusive peak inside R2. The Scarif Tiki After Party was poppin and Monster MSE had a blast dancing with the palm trees :)

Whilst Ardyjo was romping through the Dealers Hall again she picked up Mr. Craig Millers book again he very nicely signed it for her. Later Frazer Diamond popped out from behind his booth and asked for a picture of the Monster Inferno MSE which striked up a conversation that he was there as he played one of the Jawas in A New Hope when he was 7 years old. He indicated he was the one with the droid caller on the sand crawler scene. Ardy Jo had luckily enough brought her replica with her and was able to get him to sign it! Too bad it wasn’t a legitimate replica but all the same an awesome piece to add to the collection :)

Day 3

Day 3 we were down to 3 Astromechs & the MSE. We were able to make the group photo with the Rebel Legion/501, Mandalorian and Saber Guild. While we were out there we got to mingle Angie Mayhew, Jim Cummings and Christopher Sean.