Cross-posted from a thread that really had nothing to do with this, I thought it might make more sense to have it under a proper subject.
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I've subscribed to the R2D2 kit for my daughter and I to build together: we're planning on waiting until it's complete (we have about 9 months to go, I reckon) before starting, so I've been collecting the official build diary off-line to preserve until we need it: mainly because of the image load issue, but also because I wanted to be sure it didn't go away just when I needed it :-)
As a result of that, every time a new issue is published in the diary, I download the web page and keep reloading until I can capture all the images, and then I alter the web page to point to the images on my hard drive, rather than online, so I can be sure all the images will load.
I keep the collection up-to-date with new issues, and if anyone else wants to download the 79.9MB zip file, it's here:
IanW's Collection of R2-D2 Official Build Diary Posts (up to Issue 93)
If you do get it, it unzips into multiple directories, each one being one of the published posts; inside that directory is an index.html file. Open that index.html file in your web browser, and you should see the whole post with all images.
Really, I should do more work to strip out the unnecessary parts of the page like all the links at the top, but they don't add much to the file and this way is at least quick and easy, so I've left it.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any problems.
Ian