R2D2 and all our fears what happened to rodney rocket legs?
#1
Posted 23 May 2005 - 12:13 AM
hmmm...
WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO R2D2s LEG BOOSTERS?!?
HUH?!?!
HUH!?!?
come on undateable gusher geeks!!!
let's hear your theories...
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#3
Posted 23 May 2005 - 01:19 AM
Obi-wan or someone walks into the Robots-R-Us store:
"I'd like some spare rodney robot leg rockets for my R2 unit, his faild last week"
"It'll take two galatic weeks to special order them from the death star.. They've put some sort of export control on the spare parts"
"Oh?"
"Yeah.. and they need all sorts of contact info if ya order them."
"Oh. Well... err I'm .. I'll be leaving in a week, so nevermind then, didn't realize it would be so much trouble to get those..."
(And he slowly backs out of the store)
#5
Posted 23 May 2005 - 04:37 AM
#6
Posted 23 May 2005 - 05:45 AM
Yeah falling into a swamp was his intention, flying to the shore would have been dumb. And head first off a sail barge risking damage when he could have flown. What a silly little chap he is!
#7
Posted 23 May 2005 - 06:25 AM
I cant remember that scene exactly, but didnt Luke tell R2 to stay with the ship?
#8
Posted 23 May 2005 - 06:51 AM
Yeah but after he is spat out and Luke goes off with Yoda to the hut. If memory serves correctly R2 toddles to the end of the wing, the ship rocks a little and rather than using his micro-second droid reflexes to ignite his rocket legs he just falls head first into the swamp and is promptly eaten by a creature, that probably has a name and 3 books of back story if you search the web a bit
#9
Posted 23 May 2005 - 12:13 PM
It's also amazing that in the OT, R2 has such unsure footing that a little rocking will knock him off the wing, while in TPM it seems R2 type driods are designed to actually wheel onto a wing and fix things in the middle of a battle!
#10
Posted 23 May 2005 - 12:15 PM
#11
Posted 23 May 2005 - 12:21 PM
Here are possible explanations:
- He knows that C3PO is jealous of him because C3PO is crap, and so he tries not to show off and make him feel bad
- Lucas will get rid of the boosters in the special special edition DVDs so they never happened, he will erase history and all our memories
- R2D2's boosters are powered by inconsistency, and so he can only use them in the first films, later on there isn't enough to sustain his own weight
- It's a different R2D2 in the later films
- The boosters got clogged with sand over time and don't work anymore
- Lucas doesn't know what he's doing
#12
Posted 23 May 2005 - 12:23 PM
#13
Posted 23 May 2005 - 12:36 PM
#14
Posted 23 May 2005 - 06:09 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!
now, that is some good writing, richard...
very nice.
#15
Posted 23 May 2005 - 09:54 PM
what happened to THOSE?
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