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McDonald's R2D2

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McDonald's are doing a Star Wars promotion on their Happy Meals in the UK.

Now, my boys outgrew Happy Meals years ago, but they had this freebie card model, and who can resist R2D2? I realise that most people reading this are not in the UK, so I scanned the original* for you to print out yourselves.

Making it is, frankly, easy, but it is made of quite thick card, so the final model is surprisingly sturdy, and satisfying to stand on one's PC.

_{^{* This is, probably, a technical breach of copyright, but since I'm leaving in all the corporate imagery, I bet McD don't mind...}}

25 comments

May 11, 2012. 10:54 AMRufda Camen says:

Can anybody send it me a model to prin for my kids? I live in Argentina and this promo don't come!! :(
THX!!!

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May 11, 2012. 11:02 AM

Kiteman (author) says:

Just download one of the images I scanned - click the small "i" in the top-left corner of the images to find the larger files.

May 12, 2012. 5:26 PMRufda Camen says:

THX!

Aug 27, 2011. 7:26 PM

ilpug says:

Will make, out of boredom. Then i will add it to my host of paper craft characters atop my mirror.

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Aug 28, 2011. 1:08 AM

Kiteman (author) says:

Cool - post a photo when you're done!

Aug 23, 2011. 4:22 PMbroper says:

r2d2s awsome

Jun 20, 2011. 10:12 AM

vishalapr says:

Very Nice!!!Well done

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Jun 20, 2011. 2:18 PM

Kiteman (author) says:

Thank you.

May 9, 2011. 12:41 PMonemoroni1 says:

This is really cool. I screen captured it with windows note book, printed it, cut it out with xacto and ruler, assembled it and now it proudly sits on my computer. Thank you so much. You turned a 62 year old man into a kid again!

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May 9, 2011. 2:35 PM

Kiteman (author) says:

I'm glad - thanks for the comment.

Apr 27, 2011. 5:08 PM

KnexFreek says:

Love it! votedd

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Apr 28, 2011. 8:59 AM

Kiteman (author) says:

Thank you!

Apr 3, 2011. 2:37 PMNicola Tesla says:

how can i print it? it's not here and i want to make it!!!

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Apr 3, 2011. 3:09 PM

Kiteman (author) says:

Just copy and paste one of the photos.

Mar 2, 2011. 11:06 AM

iminthebathroom says:

awesome, is there a pdf of the scan or... either its great. Could always print out a copy of your cut out template. Thank you, and may the force be with you, even if Lucas isn't

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Mar 2, 2011. 1:07 PM

Kiteman (author) says:

No PDF, I'm afraid - just insert the image into a Word document and print that.

Mar 2, 2011. 3:17 PM

iminthebathroom says:

yes yes, that what I was thinking. May even vector it with inkscape or something

Feb 27, 2011. 1:35 PM

NachoMahma says:

> * This is, probably, a technical breach of copyright,
. No probably about it and it's not very technical. ;)

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Feb 27, 2011. 1:49 PM

Kiteman (author) says:

Ah, but is anybody going to complain?

Feb 27, 2011. 2:50 PM

NachoMahma says:

. George Lucas, et al?

Feb 27, 2011. 4:01 PMvalhallas_end says:

Lucas has been whining at any fringe breaches for the past 30 years, and taken a lot of flak for the lengths he's gone. I think Kite's okay this one time.

Feb 27, 2011. 6:26 PM

NachoMahma says:

. I'm just picking nits. Even if someone does get their feathers ruffled, the worst that should happen is Robot getting a cease & desist letter. But I'm no lawyer, nor do I portray one on TV.

Feb 27, 2011. 7:55 PMvalhallas_end says:

Haha, very true (although, I'm kind of curious - just how much trolling does Lucas himself do, and how much is allocated to subordinates? They seem to find tiny issues anywhere and everywhere on the internet these days). Welp, if they do send any correspondence, I'd think it would deserve a place of "honor" on Instructables. After all, it's not every day a forum member brings a scathing attack from a film legend down upon an audience of geeks*, nerds*, etc. If it had his signature on it, boom - freebies in print form!

*No offense meant to geeks or nerds. I'm typing this whilst studying fracture mechanics for a graduate course.

Feb 28, 2011. 3:48 AM

NachoMahma says:

. Most ppl on this site are very proud to be referred to as geeks and nerds. ;)