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This site is owned by me, Dustin Roberts. What started as a side focus has now fully consumed my hobby. That is, my R2-D2 collection is now first and foremost in my collecting habits. I try to keep up with it all by archiving it here for my own benefit, and hey, if you get any use out of it then that's cool too. The site may resemble Rebelscum.com, only because I am a content manager there, and also at TheForce.net.

Bryan Simmons helps maintain the website while at the same time contributing content from his extensive R2-D2 prototype collection. R2-D2 was the first toy character he ever owned, and he's been collecting R2 protos since 2001. He's way more than qualified folks. Most of Bryan's contributions can be found right here at Chrome Dome Proto's!



Who Dat?
Over the years I've made many friends in the Star Wars collectible community and many of them share my same goal for collecting R2-D2 memorabilia. While the majority of the images housed here in the Data Bank are of items from my own collection, many come from volunteers who wanted to help out and make this a better place for all to enjoy. Below are their names along with links to their own websites. A special thanks from me goes out to all these folks who've helped me along the way.

Philip Wise
Special thanks goes out to Philip Wise for all his support over the years. His dedication to the hobby and the people within the community through his collector orientated Rebelscum.com should never be overlooked. Philip provides the server space for this website and the news engine software for posts via Collectinghq.com.

Chris Holoka
Chris Holoka has kept me laughing over the years with his crazy Toshistation.com website. Chris is also inspires me with his ever evolving creative web design and graphics. He has also lended his talent to this website by designing our link banner and button!

Kenny Baker
Kenny Baker is the man who actually brought R2-D2 to life in the original Star Wars trilogy. Without Kenny, R2-D2 would not be as huge of a pop culture icon as he is today! Visit Kenny's website here.

Don Bies
Don Bies, Chief Droid Wrangler from LFL brings R2-D2 to life in all of the Star Wars prequels. Visit Don's website here.

Dan Flarida
Dan Flarida from Cincinnati Ohio has helped me aquire a few unique items over the years and has always been a positive contributor in the Online Star Wars collecting community.

The Earth Toy Collectible Mall
Kathy from "The Earth" is always on the lookout for anything R2-D2 releated that I might be interested in. I've gotten quite a few nice unique pieces through her and am very grateful! Visit their website for more information on ordering Star Wars toys via mail order.

James Boryla
James runs a webiste called Swseller.com and just about always has great stuff available for grabs up on eBay, just do a search for "swseller" and check out what he's got. I've managed to get quite a few things from him over the past few years.

Jeremy Beckett
Jeremy is one of my team members over at Rebelscum.com, plus he also is my good contact overseas in the U.K. for getting me R2-D2 related trinkets that are only found over the pond. Jeremy also runs Tataouine Tours , incase you were thinking of that special getaway vacation to Tunisia :-)

Steve Meister
Steve, a OSWCC member and Cincinnati local has donated a few things from his own collection for me to photograph.

Chris "Cj" Fawcett
Chris, one of the founders of OSWCC and webmaster for 12back.com recently hooked me up with my very first quality control piece from The Empire Strikes back!

Warren Harold
Warren Harold donated pics of his exclusive one of a kind R2-D2 Pie Bird to the archives. Plus his collection is featured here as well.

Bryan Simmons
Bryan Simmons is one dedicated to the vintage side of R2-D2 focus collecting. We'll be adding many of his one of a kind collectibles here in the future at R2D2Central.com!

Tom Buhler
Thomas Buhler, a fellow OSWCCer is always on the look out for out of the ordinary R2-D2 items for our archives!

Dave Myatt
Dave Myatt is a tree huggin, tofu eatin' hippy, but he's my Canadian connection and a fellow Rebelscum.com team mate!