In the original Star Wars trilogy, C-3PO changed from silver to gold after successfully navigating an asteroid field with odds of 3720 to 1, unlocking the gold skin.
He always had it in the sense that yes, one leg was silver in the 1977 release of Star Wars. In-universe, he didn't always have it, going through a couple different looks over the course of the prequels; he acquired the silver leg sometime between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope.
As neither the films nor other canon material have explained how C-3PO got a silver leg, fans believe his leg was damaged during the Clone Wars and so had to have it replaced – but whoever did it couldn't find a golden plate, more so as he was covered in golden paint, not made like that, and so a silver one (which is ...
Cowardly, bumbling C-3PO spent The Force Awakens doddering around with a red arm. No explanation was provided for the arm swap — you had to read a Marvel comic book for that — nor was an explanation given for why he was back to his more familiar gold in the film's final scene.
They aren't abbreviations — they're model and serial numbers. R2 is a second generation R-series astromech, serial number D2. * And C-3PO is a C-series protocol droid with the serial number 3PO. *And likely several more numbers that get dropped for the sake of time.
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How many times has C-3PO been wiped?
Given that he has been present in some of the galaxy's most important events and has met characters like Luke, Leia, and Anakin, C-3PO has had his memory wiped a total of three times through the Skywalker saga and The Clone Wars, but why?
C-3PO is a droid. "He" is only even a "he" because someone opted to give him and leave him with a male voice. He's a protocol droid, not a sex toy, so he does not appear to have any sort of sexual functions at all.
The 2007 14K Gold C-3PO costs $26,125.95 to $300,000. It is made from pure 14k gold, which was produced as a contest giveaway of LEGO Magazine. There are only five 14K Gold C-3PO Minifigures made and one of these reached a $300,000 bid on eBay.
As a sign of friendship, Threepio adopts the red arm as his own, as a reminder of unlikely friendship. And that's coming from the film's comic relief character. In other Star Wars news, Disney is believed to have found their young Han Solo in Alden Ehrenreich.
C-3PO accidentally became part of the Battle of Geonosis when his head was affixed on top of a battle droid's body after a mishap in the Geonosian droid factory. R2-D2 and C-3PO witnessed the secret wedding between Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala on Naboo.
It's explained in the comic The Phantom Limb : C-3PO got stranded on a planet along with a few other droids. Eventually his arm got ripped off by a swamp creature. The red one is the last remnant of OMRI, one of the stranded droid who gave his life to send a distress signal to the Resistance under the acid rain.
Sound editor Walter Murch states that he is responsible for the utterance which sparked the name for the droid. Murch asked for Reel 2, Dialog Track 2, in the abbreviated form "R-2-D-2".
C-3PO had been given new parts and a new color. C-3PO himself could not jog anyone's memories as his mind was wiped. Had anyone recognized him, he would have assured them they had never met before. He was also one of a very common protocol droid line; we literally are led to under that there are millions like him.
Following his reawakening after the Battle of Starkiller Base, R2 went on to accompany the Force-sensitive scavenger Rey on her journey to train under Luke Skywalker on Ahch-To, the planet of the First Jedi Temple, where the droid was reunited with his old master.
Only 5,000 Mr. Golds were made, and they were distributed randomly into LEGO Minifigures Series 10 blind bags. You could of course “feel” the blind bags, which kicked off a modern day Gold Rush of crazed LEGO fanatics trying their best to find their Mr. Gold.
sw1238 C-3PO - holiday sweater. This version of the C-3PO minifigure is exclusive to the LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar set. The LEGO Star Wars C-3PO minifig was first introduced in 2022 in the set 75340 Star Wars Advent Calendar and is currently estimated to be valued around $4 and an annual growth of about 5.8%.
R2-D2, sometimes spelled Artoo-Detoo and often referred to as Artoo, was an R2-series astromech droid manufactured by Industrial Automaton prior to 32 BBY, who would participate in major galactic events for nearly two centuries alongside the Skywalker family.
A New Hope's marketing material pegged Chewbacca's age at 200, which was confirmed in Solo: A Star Wars Story (at which point in the story he was 190). It also beggars the question of how long Wookiees as a whole are expected to live. There's a canon answer, though it's buried fairly deeply.
Internally BB-8 was originally called "Ball-Bot". JJ Abrams previous explained why he named the droid BB-8: "I named him BB-8 because it was almost onomatopoeia. It was sort of how he looked to me, with the 8, obviously, and then the 2 B's."
secondly, in Legends, R2 was given programming that actually restricted him. from sharing any information with Luke or Leia. about their parents or relation to one another. this was all part of the plan. to conceal this information from the twins.
During the Clone Wars, it was common practice to wipe the minds of astromech droids after every mission to avoid the risk of Separatists taking valued information. But Anakin remained staunchly against this idea for R2-D2, meaning the droid never had to worry about losing the memories of his past.
