The high school's robotics club has a supply budget, but it's not the biggest, and anyway she can't use that stuff for personal projects. Her dad is willing to donate scrapped car parts from his auto shop, but his customers have been having a run of good luck lately and he hasn't had to throw much out. All of this explains why Margaret is detouring through this junkyard on her way home from school, looking to score some free parts.
It sure is!
The rest of the night, and the rest of the week, proceed as they have been going. School, engineering, spirit-bearer data analysis. Margaret's predictive model says she's more likely to get a dress than anything else.
Meanwhile, the Robotics Club's soccer robot continues to take shape. One day they order pizza and set up a projector to watch Big Hero Six after the regular club meeting.
"Disney's great. About everything they make is great for kids, and also fun for us teens and adults."
"Yeah, they really know what they're about. I've heard this one's awesome." Margaret grabs a slice loaded with veggies.
Pepperoni, for Teddy. "And about robots no less. We'll have to resist the temptation to nitpick constantly."
"Just chant 'different universe, different laws of physics' to yourself in your head, that's what I do. Of course, it doesn't help with internal inconsistencies."
"Or something that's rightly a year of work getting compressed into like a minute of montage."
(Someone else rebukes, "Shh, it's starting!")
Margaret will refrain from talking during the movie, but she will cry over Tadashi and smile at Fred's costume and gasp when the villain's true identity is revealed.
It's a good movie. Teddy laughs at Baymax's antics and is - uncomfortable about Tadashi, even though he doesn't cry (he's nothing like his brother) - and resists the urge to ask why Hiro didn't build another mini-bot controller.
Margaret almost cheers when she sees that Hiro still has Baymax's healthcare chip and can rebuild him. "I hate when robots die in movies in cases where they should have had backups," she says to Teddy afterward, "so it gets major points from me just for that."
"Yeah. Really, Baymax ought to be constantly backing up to two separate remote locations, or the cloud, but a saved chip works too."
"And he was in that portal-space thing, a remote backup would've been cut off. So having a chip saved him some pretty important memories."
Teddy's friend Bugsy shows up, holding a plate full of pizza crusts.
"I liked how Fred's dad really was a superhero!"
"Hey Bugsy. Yeah, that was pretty neat. Those after-credits bits always have such fun stuff." She is reminded of the existence of pizza and grabs another slice.
The pizzas are mostly gone by now. Bugsy asks, "Can I have the crusts?"
(Teddy shakes his head slightly at Bugsy's antics.)
Margaret is not super attached to her pizza crust; she'll rip it off and hand it to Bugsy before starting in on the pizza proper.
"I'll admit it's better than just tossing them in the trash. Hey Bugsy, who was your favorite character?"
"Fred!"
"Of course. I liked the - uh - roller skates girl. Fast and action-y, and a cool choice of tools."
"That was awesome, though I liked Honey Lemon a lot too. Very silly power, but in a fun way. Of course, my favorite character for the first big chunk of the movie was Callaghan . . . "
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