Shopkeeper droid

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―GL-916[2]

Shopkeeper droids,[3] also known as sales droids,[4] vendor droids[5] or shopkeeping drones,[6] were a type of droid designed to function as merchants.[2] They were proprogrammed to be obsequious and desire to make customers happy.[5] The GL vendor droid was a model of shopkeeper droid.[7] Jawas[8] modified R1-series astromech droids[9] into R1-type shopkeeping drones.[8] They were able to show holograms of varying sizes. Their way of movement could be described as "rolling" and "tottering". A sales droid on Coruscant showed images of freighters to Affie Hollow and Scover Byne.[4]

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Behind the scenes

Shopkeeper droids first appeared in the 1999 film Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, the first installment of the Star Wars prequel trilogy.[10] They were first identified as such in the StarWars.com episode guide for "Duchess of Mandalore,"[3] the fourteenth episode of the canon animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars' second season.[11] In the third season episode "Evil Plans," a masculine shopkeeper droid was voiced by Dee Bradley Baker[2] while in the fifth season episode "Eminence" a feminine one was voiced by Anna Graves.[12]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ According to Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia, protocol droids are classified as class three droids. As Solo: A Star Wars Story Ultimate Sticker Collection classifies the GL vendor droid as a protocol droid, it must therefore be a third class droid.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Evil Plans"
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 StarWars.com "Duchess of Mandalore" Episode Guide | The Clone Wars on StarWars.com (backup link)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 The High Republic: Into the Dark
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Solo: A Star Wars Story The Official Guide
  6. ↑ Ultimate Star Wars
  7. ↑ StarWarsKids Star Wars By the Numbers: Every Droid in Star Wars on the official Star Wars Kids YouTube channel (original link is obsolete)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Star Wars: Complete Locations
  9. ↑ Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition
  10. ↑ Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace
  11. ↑ TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Duchess of Mandalore"
  12. ↑ TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Eminence"
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