Via Starwars.com:

MEET THE FATHER AND DAUGHTER BEHIND THE GALAXY’S COOLEST DROID.

Most Impressive Fans is a feature highlighting the amazing creativity of Star Wars devotees, from cosplay to props. If there’s a fearless and inventive fan out there, we’ll highlight them here.

Tony Francis had a flight to catch Sunday, and just enough time, snow, and spray paint to make good on a promise he’d made to his daughter, Gwendolyn, last year.

After Gwen, now 7, saw Star Wars: The Force Awakens in theaters, she came up with the idea of building a snowman in homage to Rey’s astromech pal, BB-8. “She was excited,” Tony tells StarWars.com, but as spring set in there was never enough snow in their Highland, Utah, yard to make it happen.

“She really wanted it done. I have two boys. If they mention it 16 times, OK, they actually do want it.”

With four inches of perfectly packable flakes last weekend, and two hours before he had to leave for the airport, Tony knew it was time. “I just told her we’ve got to do this now, so this is our chance. Where I live the snow doesn’t last forever.”

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