FACTS 2009 took place on October 17th/18th, 2009 in Gent, Belgium. This year was special because we had for the first time adjacent boothes with the french-speaking R2 builders (www.r2-d2.fr). It was fabulous meeting these guys, especially their Pastis-spending droids.....

The Wow-Effect when you entered our hall : The Belgian BCD fan club once again ecxeeded themselves.... These guys have by now rented a warehouse to store all their props.

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The by-now famous Jabba set from another phantastic Belgian fan group, the Prospector´s squad.

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A very charming member of the Prospector´s squad

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The french Super-Drive. I suspect the motors to be 200 watts each, and two of them per feet. The droid was really, really, really fast. Actually too fast for the confined hallways.

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A bit hard to see on these pictures, but these french (or french-speaking belgian) droids serve pastis drinks, a french specialty, and snacks. The french know their "Savoir vivre" !

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My R2 in front of the Endor Bunker set

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One of Marco "Xeno-man´s" domes, with fibderoptics for the LDI´s.

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Peter, Marco and Oliver. You could think, these guys had a dome fetish.

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R2 Dan preparing for his "Weathering Tutorial"

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We don´t know how Wim does it, but it´s always him who drags the really cute girls to our booths for a photo...... Lucky bastard !

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Try to move your eyes to the long-haired freak lying in front of these stunning girls, still doing his weathering tutorial, with a lot of spectators.....

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Our very own mascot girl Michaela in yet another self-made, beautiful Amidala robe.

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Daniel still trying to get Heiko´s R2 really dirty. He succeeded in the end.

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We didn´t know what movie these were supposed to be from, but anyway, we had to get a photo with them.....

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Our official group picture with the french-speaking and the english-speaking groups together. From left to right, and front to back : Patrick H., Christophe P., Micheael R. (in front with striped shirt), Marco Xeno-man (behind), Heiko H., Stephane C., Oliver S. (light blue R2 shirt), Franck M., Wim H., Fabian L., Raphael G. (AC-DC-R2-D2-shirt), Chris G., Daniel Shud-whatever, Peter F., Arnd2, Bruno D., Michel M., Olivier F.

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All the present European R2s united (except for Clint´s which was watching the Bunker set.)

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Yours truly in Jos´s amazing full-size snowspeeder. Jos openend that canopy for about everyone of the 14.000 visitors.

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Tired people on sunday afternoon....

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