Homemade R2D2 shorts

The aptly named Productiveslacker (with a kick-ass bio! "a seasonal cast member at WDW and I aspire to become an Imagineer. I am a painter and a t-shirt designer") made these boss R2D2 shorts herself.

They don’t sell R2D2 shorts so I painted my own :) (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

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That’s one of the droids I’m looking for.
Antinous / Moderator

So the projection beam comes from…..
- http://jere7my.livejournal.com jere7my
  
  The first belt loop to the left of the button.
  
  Sorry.
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    WTF?
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      That’s where the holoprojector is. See?
  - Mantissa128
    
    And his… uh… ‘interface arm’?
jon_anon

Am I wrong to want to interface with that communications port? I AM FLUENT IN MORE THAN 6 MILLION COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS
- TWX
  
  Heh. More like I can release six million “data packets” into that “communication port”…
  - http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios
    
    If you think about it, “data packets” is EXACTLY what they are….but this being BB I bet you did think about it.
    - digi_owl
      
      Nature has provided one hell of a compression algorithm there.
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        Compression and self-replication, with adaptation. Pretty slick.
      - TWX
        
        I’m certain that someone has already done the math calculating the bandwidth of the average human male ejaculation…
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        @awjt:disqus i suspect there is more than one malware author that would love to replicate that feat ;)
http://twitter.com/AntiBoredomTeam Dan Century

These are not the ‘roids I’m looking for.

Kudos on the shapely posterior.
http://twitter.com/PsychicWhoosh Michael W.

I’d love to smuggle some secret Death Star plans in those, if you know what I mean.
BarBarSeven

It’d like to remove her restraining bolt!
http://www.aarongilliland.com/ Aaron Gilliland

Bleeble eeble doop deep. Sex.
http://twitter.com/rykineffect The Rykin Effect

It looks like white shorts with a red button and sharpie colored all over it.
- Moriarty
  
  You’ve very nearly uncovered the secret of how to get something posted on Boing Boing.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Unlike, say, the Mona Lisa, which looks like a slab of wood with colored grease sludge daubed on it.
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    The Mono Lisum crossed the Da Vinci sector in under three pantaloons to win.
  - Rich Keller
    
    Wasn’t Sfumato Damar one of the bug people on Geonosis at the end of Attack of the Clones??
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      You watched Attack of the Clones???
    - Antinous / Moderator
      
      I once spent an extraordinary amount of time trying to find damar in it’s natural gum form. Still better than making rabbit size from scratch.
- ocker3
  
  Ah, but it’s artfully applied marker, That’s the difference. Anyone can wave a marker around near a blank canvas, doing a damn good job of reproducing an iconic pattern, That’s what we came to applaud.
  - Guest
    
    I agree. that iconic representation inspires me to reproduce.
- howaboutthisdangit
  
  I honestly hadn’t noticed that.
http://www.askbryan.com/ Bryan Davis

Shorts? What shorts? I see no shorts.
Preston Sturges

From the Callipygian star system.
pjcamp

I was gonna make a sex joke but after reading down to this point, I feel all dirty.
willyboy

R2EatU
jimh

Utini!
solstice2005

Interesting to see that the “mutants” are resorting to using female body parts to show up the items! Juts like Detroit and others basic earthlings… And that the comments seem to be overly in favor.
- http://jere7my.livejournal.com jere7my
  
  Juts like Detroit and others basic earthlings…
  
  No. No. Nothing juts like Detroit.
- http://egypt.urnash.com Egypt Urnash
  
  um that would be because the “mutant” in question is a lady, and is modeling these nerdy shorts on her own body.
  - millie fink
    
    Yeah. And if a guy made them and wore them and shot them in the same pose, BB would’ve posted those photos instead.
    
    Right?
    - Guest
      
      I don’t know, why don’t you try making something other than bad points about trumped up unneccesary faux outrage. Maybe you’d make the front page.
- Ipo
  
  Reasonably good looking female mutants should be embarrassed of their attractiveness and have pudgy, hairy, middle aged guys model their awesome, geeky, artsy shorts?
  
  Next up:
  The Dalek burqa, modeled by its creator, Davros himself.
tedder42

(insert pervy objectifying comment here)

She did a great job making those!
BombBlastLightingWaltz

Initially, I thought it was a slim guy possing in those low hip shorts.
- TWX
  
  The subject has a proper, high waist and doesn’t have any visible body hair. Generally males are the exact opposite.
frozenintime

R2 this 3cpo, lets interface.
http://twitter.com/PsychicWhoosh Michael W.

“Boy, am I gonna get it. You know, that little droid is gonna get me in a lot of trouble.”
lbigbadbob

Oy… This thread is embarrassing.
Jake0748

I’m not even sure if it is the Boingboing slogan anymore – But this post is a wonderful thing. Thanks Cory and thanks Areyna Schmidt (productiveslacker), you made my day. :)
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Our new tagline is a compendium of greasy peccadilloes.
  - http://theladyfingers.blogspot.com/ Ladyfingers
    
    As though “wonderful” means anything else.
  - Culturedropout
    
    Arrgh! You realize that now I’m going to have to start working that line into as many of my conversations as possible?
    
    “Well, Frank, I applaud your incentive, but in all honesty, the whole thing strikes me as a compendium of greasy peccadilloes.
    
    Or maybe, “Yes, thank you. I’d like the multi-grain pancakes with a side compendium of greasy peccadilloes.”
puppybeard

As a hairy man with a pudgy belly, I somehow don’t think I’d have made it on here had I made and modelled similar shorts.

Although to be fair I did use to have jeans with elaborate geometric patterns markered on to them, criss-crossed with cowdung stains. This stuff is just too commercial.
- Ipo
  
  Tron Guy, is it you?
  At least you didn’t dare to have much sex appeal.
  - puppybeard
    
    I wish…what a bulge!
    - Guest
      
      You could get a RIM tattoo?
- Beanolini
  
  No? But you might have made it to the ‘cycling shorts‘ page of wikipedia.
vonbobo

This droid is going to cause me a lot of trouble.
http://www.facebook.com/heather.cristofaro Heather Cristofaro

I never got this reaction when I showed people my chewbacca underwear set…
- TWX
  
  Yeah, well, when a woman-looking-person walks up to a man and asks him if he’d like to see her hairy wookiee, he has to really think hard on the possibility that something isn’t what he expects…
  
  I used “Do you want to see my hairy wookiee?” as a line on my first date. She and I went to see Star Wars Empire Strikes Back Special Edition… It obviously didn’t work, but didn’t get me slapped and the rest of the evening was pleasant enough. As a high school student I didn’t really expect it to work either.
frogmarch

I don’t understand why BoingBoing chose not to publish the photos of me in my homemade Death Star Garbage Monster shorts.
Culturedropout

“OH!!! R2!!!

As an equal-opportunity dirty old man, I’d just like to say I’d hit it, and I don’t care if it’s a dude or a chick! So there! XD
Bill Kirsch

Why no comment on the katakana on her right rear? R2D2 did not have that. Looks like ‘hukoutakou’ but I get nothing in my Japanese dictionary.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Ritzmann/1532420118 Jeff Ritzmann
  
  It’s called Aurebesh, the symbolic/language of the Star Wars universe. It reads: “R2D2″
  
  And no, he didn’t have that on him. A nice decorative touch though.
Mark Pitcavage

R2D2, it is you!
dayhat

‘Cause I got something for you. It is shiny, it is clean.

Come on up and I’ll adore you with my yellow laser beam.”

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