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R5-A2 was an R5 series astromech droid[2] with orange and white paneling and black sensors.[3] It stood 97 centimeters tall and, like all R-series units, was manufactured by Industrial Automaton.[1] In 0 BBY,[4] it was present in the spaceport of Mos Eisley on the planet Tatooine, where it rolled across[3] the intersection of Corporations Road and Dune Street[5] in front of a group of Imperial stormtroopers questioning the Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and the moisture farmer Luke Skywalker while the pair sat in a X-34 landspeeder.[3]
Behind the scenes[]
R5-A2 first appeared in the 1977 original trilogy film, Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope.[3] The droid's scene was shot between April 2 and April 4, 1976 on location in Djerba, Tunisia.[6] In the new Star Wars canon, the droid was first identified in the online description for the 2018 LEGO set "Sandcrawler 75220." The set depicted R5-A2 as being on board the Jawa sandcrawler in A New Hope,[2] something not depicted in the film,[3] with a non-canon character entry on LEGO's website explaining that the droid was captured by Jawas after roaming the streets of Mos Eisley and was brought to the sandcrawler to be sold for scrap.[7]
The droid's name originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where it was first used on a card in the 1996 A New Hope Limited expansion released for the Star Wars Customizable Card Game.[8] In the multiplayer mode of the 2017 video game Star Wars Battlefront II, multiple astromechs identical to R5-A2 can be encountered on the Mos Eisley map.[9]
Appearances[]
- Star Wars Battlefront II
- Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (First appearance)
- Star Wars: A New Hope Cinestory Comic
Sources[]
- Ultimate Star Wars (Picture only)
Star Wars: Build Your Own R2-D2 8 (Droid Directory: Imperial Mark IV Sentry Droid) (Picture only)- Sandcrawler 75220 on LEGO's official website (backup link) (First identified as R5-A2)
- LEGO Classic Star Wars (Set: 75220 Sandcrawler)
- The Star Wars Archives: Episodes IV–VI, 1977–1983 (Picture only)
- Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition (Picture only)
- Tatooine in the Databank (backup link) (Picture only)
Non-canon sources[]
- R5-A2™ - LEGO® Star Wars™ Characters on LEGO's official website (backup link)
- LEGO Star Wars Yoda's Galaxy Atlas (Picture only)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Star Wars Character Encyclopedia: Updated and Expanded states that all R5 units were manufactured by Industrial Automaton and stood ninety-seven centimeters tall. As R5-A2 is stated to be an R5 unit in
Sandcrawler 75220 on LEGO's official website (backup link), it must have shared those characteristics.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Sandcrawler 75220 on LEGO's official website (backup link)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
- ↑ Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates the events that take place on Tatooine in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope to 0 BBY.
- ↑ Star Wars: Complete Locations
- ↑ The Making of Star Wars
- ↑ R5-A2™ - LEGO® Star Wars™ Characters on LEGO's official website (backup link)
- ↑ Star Wars Customizable Card Game — A New Hope Limited (Card: R5-A2) (backup link)
- ↑ Star Wars Battlefront II
