• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I will never understand why the empire didn’t use captured b1 units as droid labor.

    Yes, they’re totally incompetent. But it’s either incompetence or intentional sabotage.

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      6 days ago

      Its because the best robot they could do in the 1980s was a guy in a gold suit or a wheelie bin.

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        6 days ago

        TPM was the 90’s, they started production in 1997, first in theaters in 99.

        and for the record, I was on my third FDM printer. or maybe my second. (depends if you count my dad’s inkjet that I strapped my mom’s hot glue gun to. Just for the record, I did ask if I could have the printer.))

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          5 days ago

          The empire was only in the original trilogy, so for “the empire to use captured B1 battledroids” they would have needed to be on screen in the eighties.