Hiis spirit will live on through the works of many diy / homebuilders of R2 units:<p><a href="http://astromech.net/" rel="nofollow">http://astromech.net/</a>
<i>...he created R2-D2 and many of the creatures that populate the film.</i><p>Does that include the other R2 unit, the one with the bad motivator? That's one of the few Star Wars toys I had as a kid.