Long Beach Comic Con 2025: Meet the droid builders

August 27, 2025

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This coming weekend, 30th – 31st August at Long Beach Convention Center will see the return of Long Beach Comic Con, and along with guests from a number of hit shows will be the Southern California Droid Builders, who are very keen for you to join them across the weekend and see just what they’ve been up to (deetoo). You can find them sharing a booth with Columbia Memorial Space Center and Space Expo and be sure to head to Room 203C on Sunday at 3.30pm for their ‘How To Build Your Own R2-D2’ panel.

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Mark Newbold

Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.

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