Droid Makeover

By pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
Derry, Northern Ireland
October 27, 2017 12:07pm CST
A wonderful piece on a local news site caught my eye today, as would anything related to the original Star Wars story: That famous whistling, clicking robot from Star Wars, the droid R2-D2, has been immortalised by graffiti artists in an open area near Prague in the Czech Republic. The unsightly ventilation shaft in this piece of open land used to attract all sorts of scrawls and scribbles, but it has been completely revamped - pretty cool, don't you think ?
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325759)
• Rockingham, Australia
28 Oct 17
That is beautiful. Fancy coming across it on a dark night though - providing you had a torch!
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
28 Oct 17
@JudyEv A daytime pastime, definitely.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
28 Oct 17
A good torch looks as if it would be a must - no streetlights around, as far as I can see.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325759)
• Rockingham, Australia
28 Oct 17
@pgntwo If you didn't have a torch you wouldn't see it and it wouldn't scare you.
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Craft Smart
@craftsmart (265)
• United States
28 Oct 17
This is amazing! Would love to do something like this somewhere, but it's hard to find opportunities.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
28 Oct 17
Being able to see the potential in some artefact, that's the challenge.
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Oshy
@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
29 Oct 17
That is pretty cool and in Czechoslovakia?
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Oshy
@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
29 Oct 17
@pgntwo Oh yeah..
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
29 Oct 17
The Czech Republic, as Czechoslovakia was split into the Czech and Slovak republics in 1993 or so.
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susan
@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
5 Nov 17
I love the makeover... very clever....
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susan
@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
5 Nov 17
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
5 Nov 17
Cute too, I thought. Could it be the start of a craze? There are a couple of unsightly bunkers on a couple of beaches I have visited near Benidorm in Spain...
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M.-L.
@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
27 Oct 17
Bulgaria of all places. Who'd have thunk it?
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
27 Oct 17
Actually, my mistake @MALUSE - turns out it is near Prague, so Czech Republic. Oops. Still, pretty cool work!
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
27 Oct 17
@MALUSE It is, very well done to the team who had the vision to transform the dull concrete monstrosity...
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M.-L.
@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
27 Oct 17
@pgntwo The idea is good wherever it comes from.
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Jeff Moffitt
@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
28 Oct 17
I absolutely love it! Fantastic piece of artwork, and a great way to improve the area and discourage graffiti artists from defacing the ventilation shaft. I'm a huge Star Wars fan, and R2-D2 is one of my favorites from the movies. I'm glad that they keep him and C3-PO in the storylines in all the new movies. It's great to see the old droids along with the new droids.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
28 Oct 17
Ah, but the new droids are really older droids in some cases, as episodes I, II, and III precede in the storyline, but were made more recently than IV, V and VI. As for Rogue One... well, BB-8 is really cute, but it kinda is off to the side in the storyline.
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Jeff Moffitt
@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
28 Oct 17
@pgntwo Hahah, yes, I am aware of the order (and age) of the droid models. To me, nothing will ever be as great as good old R2!
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sishy7
@sishy7 (27169)
• Australia
27 Oct 17
Oh yes, that looks much, much better and very cool!
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
27 Oct 17
Very inventive. The people who did that deserve a pat on the back.
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Belle Starr (Iz)
@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
28 Oct 17
I think that is a great idea it went from being unsightly to being a real attraction.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
28 Oct 17
A tremendous improvement, yes.
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12595)
• Ireland
27 Oct 17
@pgntwo I'd find either creepy if I came across them on a lonely walk through the forest
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
27 Oct 17
It would be a bit unnerving, on a moonless night...
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Elizabeth
@Poppylicious (11133)
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29 Oct 17
That is amazing! I love street art that looks like art. It brightens up a place.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
29 Oct 17
Pretty realistic. Shame it's not near a major thoroughfare anywhere, but then the Internet has spread the word far and wide
Robin
@Daelii (5619)
• United States
27 Oct 17
That's awesome art work! Its real nice seeing people take the initiative to improve and take better care of their part of the world.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
27 Oct 17
Impressive use of talent
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