- "How about taking a look at these items? Top-drawer titanium, guaranteed to last longer than your circuit boards."
- ―GL-916
Shopkeeper droids,[3] also known as vendor droids[4] or shopkeeping drones,[5] were a type of droid designed to function as merchants.[2] They were proprogrammed to be obsequious and desire to make customers happy.[4] The GL vendor droid was a model of shopkeeper droid.[6] Jawas[7] modified R1-series astromech droids[8] into R1-type shopkeeping drones.[7]
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.[9] 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.[10] 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.[11]
Appearances[]
- "A Coruscant Solstice" — Life Day Treasury
- Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace (First appearance)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Duchess of Mandalore"
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Lethal Trackdown"
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Evil Plans"
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Nomad Droids"
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Eminence"
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Orders"
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "A Death on Utapau"
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Gone with a Trace"
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Deal No Deal" (In flashback(s))
- Solo: A Star Wars Story
- Star Wars (2020) 38
Sources[]
- Star Wars: Droid Factory
- "Duchess of Mandalore" Episode Guide | The Clone Wars on StarWars.com (backup link) (First identified as shopkeeper droid)
- "Lethal Trackdown" Episode Guide | The Clone Wars on StarWars.com (backup link) (Picture only)
- "Evil Plans" Episode Guide | The Clone Wars on StarWars.com (backup link)
- "Nomad Droids" Episode Guide | The Clone Wars on StarWars.com (backup link) (Picture only)
- "Eminence" Episode Guide | The Clone Wars on StarWars.com (backup link) (Picture only)
- What is a Wookiee? (Picture only)
- Ultimate Star Wars (First identified as shopkeeping drone)
- Star Wars: Complete Locations
- Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia (Picture only)
- Solo: A Star Wars Story The Official Guide (First identified as vendor droid)
- Solo: A Star Wars Story Ultimate Sticker Collection
- Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition
- Every Droid in Star Wars | Star Wars By the Numbers on the official Star Wars Kids YouTube channel (content now obsolete; backup link)
- Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition
Notes and references[]
- ↑ According to Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia, protocol droids are classified as third class 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Evil Plans"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Duchess of Mandalore" Episode Guide | The Clone Wars on StarWars.com (backup link)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Solo: A Star Wars Story The Official Guide
- ↑ Ultimate Star Wars
- ↑ Every Droid in Star Wars | Star Wars By the Numbers on the official Star Wars Kids YouTube channel (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Star Wars: Complete Locations
- ↑ Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition
- ↑ Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace
- ↑ Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Duchess of Mandalore"
- ↑ Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Eminence"