droid

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It does not have a cloth outfit because it is a droid which is only briefly seen.

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  • "You're a robot The common term is droid, short for android Are you sentient Sentience is an illusion." —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • To achieve the effect and have it stay true to the films and the history of this particular droid, they turned to Lucasfilm Animation's Gary Scheppke, who got a box full of 'Artoo bits' and to the modelers who began basing all of their work off the actual hardware that has historically been shown as being part of R2-D2. —  EclipseMagazine
  • The pilot droid is also a unique minifig, but unlike the Count, it can be made with LEGO pieces from other sets, but I admit that the use of a skeleton leg for the head is pretty clever. —  The Brothers Brick
  • The tactical droid is growing impatient and changes plans.
  • R2-D2 mouse looks like a droid you'd want to have around the house: —  Fanboy.com
 

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