The best Star Wars droids, according to us
No matter what you want out of Star Wars, we can all agree on one thing: It wouldn’t be the same without the droids.
Big droids, little droids, talkative droids, quiet droids — they’re all (mostly) good, in one way or another. But which are the best? That’s what we’re here to determine today.
We’ve surveyed the esteemed staff of Polygon, mining through the depths of Star Wars droid-dom to find the best and the brightest of our mechanical friends.
George Lucas and his team of art school hippies dreamt up the EG-series power droid before anything in Star Wars was really “toyetic.” Instead, the “gonk” droid was introduced in Star Wars as a mess of screws and metal sheeting, bumbling around the Jawas’ Sandcrawler and later the Lars moisture farm. (But, obviously, EG-6 did receive a Kenner action figure — a plastic box with feet.)
What a sad, wonderful robot. Supposedly, its in-world purpose is to supply various machinery and vehicles with energy. But in the practice of Star Wars movies, the EG models were really the droid equivalent of a background actor, walking around and emitting low-toned honks. EG-6 is the Eeyore of Star Wars, and I want to give him a hug. —Matt Patches
As a fan of 1970s thrillers in which a middle-aged, middle-class schmuck must save the day, I have a soft spot for Rex, aka. R-3X, aka RX-24, aka the original Star Tours droid. Through most of its existence, Rex whiled away the days driving the intergalactic equivalent of a the crosstown bus. Unfortunately, that career came to a glorious, albeit tragic, end, when Rex took a tourist shuttle into a battle between the Empire and the Rebel Alliance. Rex kept everyone alive (multiple times a day at Disney theme parks), so you’d think the droid would be
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