R5-A2

R5-A2 was an R5 unit astromech droid with orange and white paneling. Like all R5 units it stood 97 centimeters tall and was manufactured by Industrial Automaton. In 0 BBY, it was present in the spaceport of Mos Eisley on the planet Tatooine, where it rolled past a group of Imperial stormtroopers questioning the Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and the moisture farmer Luke Skywalker while they sat in a X-34 landspeeder.

Behind the scenes
R5-A2 first appeared in the 1977 original trilogy film, Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. In the new Star Wars canon, the droid was first identified in the online description for the 2018 LEGO set "Sandcrawler 75220", which depicted R5-A2 as being on board the Jawa sandcrawler in A New Hope, something not depicted in the film.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope