In the Expanded Universe novel The Swarm War, R2-D2 inadvertently helps Luke and Leia come to grips with their heritage when an electronic glitch unearths long-concealed images of Anakin relating his fear of losing Padmé, and of Padmé's death.

It's a very helpful mode that can help show you some useful techniques you might not immediately figure out, like linking multiple commands to work simultaneously, and repeating commands with one tile by tapping the number on the corner. See also: Cultural impact of Star Wars In 2015 All Nippon Airways unveiled a Boeing 787-9 in a special R2-D2 livery, which is colloquially referred to as R2D2JET; this aircraft is seen here at Tokyo International Airport (March 2016). R2-D2 accompanies Poe in his X-wing for the final assault, and is later shown joining the others in celebrating the defeat of Palpatine and the Sith Eternal. While Luke cleans the sand out of R2-D2's gears, he discovers a fragment of Leia's message, and removes the droid's restraining bolt to see more; once free of the bolt, R2 claims to have no knowledge of the message.

More importantly, because the app doesn't have particularly detailed explanations for what each block means, the missions can teach you what they do at a fast pace. It looks very nice for a toy, but it won't be mistaken for a scaled prop or other enthusiast-oriented collectible.

It's made completely out of plastic, with a mostly white body and a combination of blue and silver highlights on its dome, legs, and various molded ports and doors (none of which open). For The Force Awakens, producer Kathleen Kennedy hired two fans, Lee Towersey and Oliver Steeples, to build new R2-D2 robots for the film, after being impressed by their working replicas that were brought to Star Wars Celebration Europe in 2013. He later plays an important role in restoring C-3PO's memory after Rey, Finn ( John Boyega) and Poe Dameron ( Oscar Isaac) are forced to erase it so the droid can translate a Sith artifact that holds a clue to the location of the Sith homeworld and the new fleet of the resurrected Palpatine. With the 2012 acquisition of Lucasfilm by The Walt Disney Company, most of the licensed Star Wars novels and comics produced since the originating 1977 film Star Wars were rebranded as Star Wars Legends and declared non-canon to the franchise in April 2014.Orange conditional tiles add to the complexity, letting you build loops of behaviors and program R2-D2 to only perform a command if it receives an input. Radio-controlled units were extensively utilized for the Prequel trilogy due to advances in technology, though Baker was still used in some scenes. R2-D2 makes a guest appearance with C-3PO, Luke Skywalker (and Mark Hamill) and Chewbacca in an episode of The Muppet Show. R2-D2 has a brief but pivotal role in the film, reuniting with Luke aboard the Millennium Falcon and showing him Leia's distress message from the original film in a successful attempt to convince Luke to train Rey.