C-3PO hidden in Star Wars the Old Republic???

[laserpistol76]

OK, so yesterday I was playing SWTOR, and I went to the republic fleet to buy a blaster rifle. Behind one of the commendation vendors, I saw what looked like C-3PO's head. Has anyone seen this? It's on the top left.

 

[JoeG]

Yup. Looks like 3PO's head from TPM, though I suppose it could really be any protocol droid. They all look alike to me. Does that make me droidist?

 

[Wes R]

I thought lucas had him built from scratch by anakin. Most of the protocol droids all did look alike other than their finish it seems.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

I thought lucas had him built from scratch by anakin. Most of the protocol droids all did look alike other than their finish it seems.

I believe the book stated that he swiped parts from Watto's shop. Or was that for the pod racer?

 

[Ronan87]

Easter egg, C3P0 type of protocol droids did not exist in ToR.

C3P0 was built from parts of his type of protocol droids + some 'extra' features.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Didn't the original Star Wars novel or character background state the C-3PO protocol droid was about a thousand years old?

 

[Ronan87]

Didn't the original Star Wars novel or character background state the C-3PO protocol droid was about a thousand years old?

Huh Anakin built him and Anakin is 1-2 thousand years after ToR.

In ToR you have protocol droids, just earlier and different models than c3po.

 

[tamplain]

I believe the book stated that he swiped parts from Watto's shop. Or was that for the pod racer?

Both 3PO and the pod racer were built from scrounged parts. Anybody else find it funny now when 3PO says "Thank the Maker" he's saying "Praise Darth Vader"?

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Huh Anakin built him and Anakin is 1-2 thousand years after ToR.

That wasn't the backhistory until TPM.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Both 3PO and the pod racer were built from scrounged parts. Anybody else find it funny now when 3PO says "Thank the Maker" he's saying "Praise Darth Vader"?

If it's from scrounged parts... then he's basically a Frankenstein, rebuilt by Anakin, so Anakin isn't the maker... he's just the re-furbisher.

 

[Ronan87]

That wasn't the backhistory until TPM.

So? It's the official story.

If it's from scrounged parts... then he's basically a Frankenstein, rebuilt by Anakin, so Anakin isn't the maker... he's just the re-furbisher.

Anakin built him from salvaged parts. He also gloated how he modified him, which is why C3PO has 'more personality' than other protocol droids. It also explain why in episode 4, 5 and 6 he 'knows' more because his been around since Anakin activated him.

 

[clancampbell]

That wasn't the backhistory until TPM.

Quite right, he was pretty old in the original Star Wars novel and i think Captain Antilles was his 12th owner......something like that...

Rich

 

[Ronan87]

Quite right, he was pretty old in the original Star Wars novel and i think Captain Antilles was his 12th owner......something like that...

Rich

But TMP overrides all of that since it's an official movie... right!?

@___@

 

[firesprite]

So? It's the official story.



Anakin built him from salvaged parts. He also gloated how he modified him, which is why C3PO has 'more personality' than other protocol droids. It also explain why in episode 4, 5 and 6 he 'knows' more because his been around since Anakin activated him.

Actually, at the end of RotS, they make a point of saying they were going to wipe his memory, so no, he doesn't "know" more because he's been around since Anakin activated him.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

I asked a question regarding the original novel, not what TPM want to state as truth. And just because Anakin put him together from found parts, doesn't really make him the maker.

Just like anyone building a car from found parts. The parts were made by car companies... the guy putting it all together into a car, is just a builder.

 

[Ronan87]

True he did get his memory wiped.

But since TMP overrides previous 'facts'... Anakin made him.

If you choose to only listen to part of the story, the original novels mention him being old. Maybe a thousand years like you say. I haven't touch them in YEARS and they are somewhere in a box...

From SW Wiki: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/C-3PO

They stated Anakin as the creator. So that's what they are going with.

 

[tamplain]

I asked a question regarding the original novel, not what TPM want to state as truth. And just because Anakin put him together from found parts, doesn't really make him the maker.

Just like anyone building a car from found parts. The parts were made by car companies... the guy putting it all together into a car, is just a builder.

Sooo, all the people on here building props out of found parts... they aren't the maker of their prop, since they didn't make the parts they are using?

 

[Fenris]

From the link given by Ronan87...

"Originally activated on Affa in 112 BBY, C-3PO had served as a protocol droid to the emissary of the Manakron system. Nearly eighty years later, he was gutted and discarded on the streets of Mos Espa, a city on the Outer Rim world of Tatooine. After being rebuilt by the Human slave Anakin Skywalker, C-3PO served Skywalker and his mother Shmi for over ten years, performing household chores and helping Skywalker earn his freedom by winning a pod race."

 

[tamplain]

From the link given by Ronan87...

"Originally activated on Affa in 112 BBY, C-3PO had served as a protocol droid to the emissary of the Manakron system. Nearly eighty years later, he was gutted and discarded on the streets of Mos Espa, a city on the Outer Rim world of Tatooine. After being rebuilt by the Human slave Anakin Skywalker, C-3PO served Skywalker and his mother Shmi for over ten years, performing household chores and helping Skywalker earn his freedom by winning a pod race."

I figured Anakin had built him from the chassis up, but that reads like he just replaced missing parts.

 

[Treadwell]

For over ten years? The context of the scene of Anakin showing him off suggests he only just finished putting him together.