Welcome Steven! As soon as you are registered for these forums and see this, send me a private message (PM), so I can give you access to the 70th stuff.

Jangojedi wrote:SWEET!! I'm in. It's funny how you got on before me. Oh well, the armor looks great on you ANDY!

Thanks 70th Explorer & 501st; glad to report for DUTY.

Welcome Rick!! BTW, you should have access to a few more forums on here now.

Many of you are keeping up with me on Facebook or TK394.com , but in case others are interested, here's some info on my R2. I'm building an remote control 1:1 replica of R2-D2 (lights, sounds, and drivable). He will mostly be made of machined aluminum. He'll have a 12V, 28 amp-hour battery, weighing...

Oh no Eric, it's real. You can find 'em on eBay.

And I'm afraid I need to get my R2 driving and talking before I worry about projecting hi-def video signals.

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So which one of us got the guest starring role with Spielberg and Lucas on South Park tonight?
If you don't want to answer, I'll understand why.

I think it was a permissions issue. I've made a change and you should be able to create new topics now.

By way of introducing a new feature of the our forums, allow me to embed this YouTube video in my post! Here's what stormtroopers do on their breaks. 6ZiGPjkcg14 For those that wish to embed YouTube videos, check for the new button above the message box. Just insert the video id (NOT the whole URL) ...

I just really wish they had released this on PC.

I picked it up for the Wii. I'd be interested to see what it looks like on the X-Box 360 or the PS3 though.

I have droid parts scattered all across my workbench, the side table, and even the coffee table in the living room. And they are starting to collect dust because I just got Spore AND The Force Unleashed.

Welcome Andy! Good job with the armor. It looked a whole lot better than my armor on my first troop.

An idea born from the mind of Joss Whedon (Firefly/Buffy) during the writers strike, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is a campy, yet genuinely good internet video... And it's a musical! Available for purchase on iTunes, or you can watch it with one commercial between each act at http://www.drhorrible...

kbfett wrote:Since the upgrade it always says I have 1 new Message at the top but I don't think I do. What's up with that?

Those would be your private messages. Is there nothing there when you click on that?

90% of the reasoning behind the upgraded forum software is to keep up with the security updates. In fact, the forums have been upgraded more than twice in the past few years, as new versions became available. Unfortunately, this upgrade took us a full version number higher. That meant the previous t...

This post is to inform you that the web team has recently upgraded the software powering our forums. With this upgrade, some problems may arise. Some users might have their password reset. The suspected problem appears to be passwords that were under 6 characters in length. While we don't expect thi...