R2-D2’s Big Day at the Smithsonian

Adam Savage dropped by the National Air and Space Museum’s “Futures in Space” exhibit to reunite with the R2-D2 he began building back at ILM (where he even got access to the original Kenny Baker model). Curator Matt Shindell walks us through the multi-year build process and the careful steps his team took to prep Artoo for a lifetime of display.

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