Star Wars Vintage C3PO

October 15, 2008 by Jared
Filed under Action Figures, Droids

While most of this blog focuses on vintage Star Wars toys, we do cover newer and novelty toys as well. One category of game that has seen a lot of innovation is the game of chess. There are plenty of new and old (not so much vintage) Star Wars chess games available out there.

3PO is a protocol droid, designed to liaise among the thousands of different cultures around the galaxy. A protocol droid is fluent in many languages, spoken and unspoken, and assist their owners with things like etiquette, body language, translations, and inter-cultural relations.

Protocol droids often work closely with maintenance droids, as maintenance droids generally have limited communication skills, outside of machine-to-machine communications. C3PO is rarely seen without R2D2, his partner droid. C3PO was originally owned by Anakin Skywalker, left with Anakin, had his memory wiped, and returned years later, not even recognizing Tatooine.