Today at lunch when I driving to the bank in Burbank, CA, USA I spotted a droid.
I didn’t have a camera so I just found a picture online. It’s a promotion for something that happens on the 28th, but no word as to what. It’s probably just new 30th Anniversary Star Wars stamps. The post office seems to be being very hush hush about it.
Saw this on gizmodo a couple days ago. They had a bunch of them all in a warhouse. I wonder when they put them in. And when there taking them down?
I saw two today. So they are in. There is a news paper article in Columbus, OH from yesterday where one was put in and replaced within a few hours. My guess is that the official date was today and they were put in too early so they took it back down.
The big announcement is supposed to be March 28th.
As for when they’ll take them down, they’ll probably all be in private collections before the Post Office has a chance to remove them.
I wonder if they got the idea for R2-D2 from a mail box? I think it was a trash can or roll-on deodorant though.
I know the inspiration for C-3P0 came from the robot in the movie Metropolis…
The links are to photos from our trip to Paris last summer after Unicon. Their big science museum was advertising a Star Wars exhibit full of actual props, costumes, drawings and matte paintings from the films. It was a rainy day so Jacquie said “Why not?”
Speaking of that exhibit it’s currently in Los Angeles at the science center. How is it? Is it worth the “Donation Suggested” admission price?
Edit: After looking at your photos it’s probably not the same exhibit.
I read that as “Druids spotted”…I’ve been playing WoW too much.
I’m pretty sure we had to pay a fee to get into that, though not the rest of the museum (which we didn’t see). If you like the magic of Star Wars, or of the movie business (I used to want to be a model maker) it’s definitely worth it to see those actual props and miniatures.
I saw a similar show in San Fran in 1995. There they had an X-wing with 6’ wingspan, Luke’s landspeeder (full size), a speederbike, and the model of the partially-finished Death Star from Episode 6. But I was shooting film back then, nothing to link to. 
The “Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination” exhibit at the California Science Center is “Donation Suggested”. Your pictures from Paris look like a much bigger space than the California Science Center has for such exhibits though. That’s why I doubt it’s the same traveling exhibit.
I did too, but then I realized I really don’t have the talents for it.
Hopefully none of these are installed in Boston.
I saw one today in Spokane. =p
comon they’ve drawn inspiration from the original DALEKS!