Last week at MCM Birmingham Comic Con we caught up with Ian. Ian has quite a story to tell about R2-JY and how his hobby is doing great things after such a tragic event.

We salute you Ian – not all heroes wear capes….

You can find out more about https://www.meningitisnow.org/ in the link and stay tuned to find out how you can support this great charity and….wait, what?!?!? You can win an R2-D2 built by the guy who built the onscreen R2-D2?!

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