Building up to Maker Faire: The Final Reveal

Shawn Thorsson reveals his ED-209 replica at Maker Faire 2014.

[@CarlForgey]

Thanks for putting these videos together. It was a real pleasure watching such a pro do this kind of work, as well as the shop tips and tricks working with materials I've never worked with before.

[@literallydante7]

The paint job on this is fantastic! Loved this whole mini-series

[@797Venom]

Well done Shawn and the team.. Love Ed-209 and thing looks incredible! Great work, and well done on the build series, it combines so many processes and those tutorials were very informative, most interesting series I've watched on youtube! :) More projects like this please! :)

[@AlexandreBarret]

This serie was awesome !

[@jamesfred5166]

Awesome build !!! Loved the making of videos that lead up to this ! Great job great weathering !!

[@Khether0001]

Man, this is just *AMAZING*!!! "congratulations" really quite doesn't cut it! you deserve a hug, dude! it's awesome!!!!! =D

[@blizatrex]

This is amazing. more of these please.

[@adamroman8242]

Amazing! Fantastic job...that is going to look great in your TV room. :-)

[@xanokothe]

Absolutely beautiful. When I saw the first video and I thought "no way it's going to be done". It should move, would be AWESOME!

[@TandAWorkshop]

It actually does move. Makes noise too. Not sure why they didn't get any footage of that.

[@kcarmical]

Amazing work! Love it

[@Skyefuego]

Man, that looks so badass.

[@BetaThings]

great job Shawn!!!

[@Vim-Wolf]

I so want one of these for the car park at work.

[@ricomon35]

Just finished watching this series. Awesome presentation of the process of building, Shawn. I'm currently building the old Horizon 1/9th scale vynyl kit and had been looking around for ideas on the paint scheme. You're series has given me alot of ideas, and one main question. I realize the cost of making all the wood/fiberglass/silicon molds and finished pieces is quite high. Did you track the total cost of design > modeling/prototyping > molding > assembly/finishing? If so, how much in USD is your final build worth? Not factoring in any collectible/sentimental value?

[@warwicklaken]

Really impressive Shawn, Now you have the molds, will the next one move?

[@TandAWorkshop]

This one moves. I just need to build a new controller.

[@warwicklaken]

I would love to see videos on how you go about motorising it.

[@stephenhoyle2469]

That robot is awsome also where can i get me one of those sick chainswords in the background at 0:50?

[@Krazy_Kenny]

Nice... will you now make a life size Mazinger-Z?

[@robnai3372]

Absolutely awesome job, would make a great entrance room piece. Remove shoes, you have 5 seconds to comply.

[@BHARGAV_GAJJAR]

Shawn is this for sale ? I used to love this robot as a child

[@flavio76]

WOW!

[@vinceflores810]

That was awesome but i liked the spartan the delta squad helmets too.

[@TandAWorkshop]

Info on the Delta Squad helmets can be seen here: protagonist4hire.blogspot.com/search/label/republic%20commando You can see more stuff about my Halo builds here: protagonist4hire.blogspot.com/search/label/HALO

[@MightySavagE]

i want one on my lawn.

[@LG_Prd]

Citizen, click in the like button! You have 30 seconds to comply!

[@TheRealJackDiamond]

So I have to ask... Who paid for this thing, and what happens to it now?

[@blizatrex]

he has a build thread on therpf.com where he said it was all out of pocket.

[@esmith8887]

Watch the first video. It was a labor of love. A personal favorite of his.

[@babaganoosh1969]

I would seriously work for this guy..just for the knowledge value...he can keep the money...lol

[@MarkedOne66]

Id pay you if you could make me the Whole Dead space 2 Advanced armor :( to wer on comicon or some other events

[@TandAWorkshop]

If you'd pay me enough to cover the cost of the months of labor and the pile of expensive materials that go into it, I'd be glad to help you out.

[@SilverSpoon_]

why not using a working hydraulic system and a bunch of scrapped electric motors, controlled by a cheap laptop? it could then be a win if it were operational.

[@aggmedia]

I imagine because that would be really hard and take a really long time... going from 'great big prop' to 'actual working robot' is not so simple.