So who else added B2EMO to their list?

[Dyne]

He's somewhere on my list.  That might take a while.

Because I don't have enough partially completed droids, I'm planning on B2-EMO as my next build.

Speedrunning both design and construction of LD-F1 (and 99-99) from the ground up in three months was a bit of an exhausting slog, so I want to work from something more solid for a change of pace.  

I know of Michael's work, but that mostly seemed to be a non-mechanical scale model last I checked and I didn't know his plans or timeline for refining it , though I see from the newest video on his YouTube channel that he's already started the process since then.  I like some of what he's done, but some of it I don't (his frame doesn't allow the little hinged doors to open properly, for example, plus I don't like the servo horn on top of the head, and there's no accommodation for a slip ring for powering his eye illumination and the potential periscope or whatever that I mention in the next post)

The club falls under "if it only exists on Facebook, it doesn't exist" for me.

I know Tim Hebel is also working on his own build (he has videos on his YouTube channel, TheEebel that probably go with facebook posts I'll never see), but I don't think he's released the files for R-Duo yet, so I wouldn't expect B2-EMO anytime soon.

Therefore, my build will likely be based on James's design as the foundation once the files are far enough along. However, given my distressingly consistent habit of looking at a well-trodden path and instantly steering my projects into the thickets off to one side, I doubt it'll end up an exact copy.

The reason I'm putting Bee ahead of the rest of my list is not the novelty factor.  It's because I was already bitten by the Mecanum bug at Dragon Con due to Acathla's scrubber droid and Gil the RX pilot droid and was considering doing a scrubber myself.  Once Andor came out shortly after and I saw him in action (I wasn't paying much attention to pre-release media because speedrun), I realized that he'd not only scratch that itch, but would also have a lot in common with my beloved Astromechs.

I'm a little tired of always building small, hard-to-work-on droids that most people overlook or won't recognize.  I need a hero droid.  (I'm holding out for a hero droid til the end of the night.)  Judging by reactions, Bee feels like the most significant new non-humanoid droid since BB-8 in TFA.  Plus he just looks like a fun droid for both builder and audience.

I'll have to sort out a storage solution, as I'm already tripping over LD-F1 on a daily basis, but I needed to sort that out anyway for that very reason, as well as making room to progress on my R-series and Treadwell builds.

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