A cute trio of little buddy droids who travel as Jedi companions to dangerous locations across the Star Wars universe made a surprise visit to the remote village of Batuu at Disneyland for a bit of exploration and research.
Walt Disney Imagineering and Disney Research conducted playtests of three BD unit droids on Thursday, Oct. 12 in the Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge themed land at the Anaheim theme park.
New visitors were spotted in Batuu! 🤖 Disney Imagineers hosted a 1-day playtest at @Disneyland with these droids in training, and we can’t wait to see where this exploration might go! 💫#StarWarsGalaxysEdge #StarWars pic.twitter.com/BTVBfk0qAy
— Disney Parks (@DisneyParks) October 13, 2023
The free-roaming droids walked in a single-file line like ducklings, greeted other static droids throughout Galaxy’s Edge and wowed visitors to Batuu, according to a WDW News Today video posted to YouTube.
A character meet-and-greet handler dressed in Batuuan attire asked the droids to conduct a “life form check” as the robots scanned Disneyland visitors with white lights attached to their heads and twitched their ear-like antennae. During the playtest, three operators holding touchscreen tablets controlled the droid trio from a few steps away.
The BD units were distinguished by their blue, green and orange trims and went by the names BlueBot, Greenie and Orange1.
The cute, little robots looked like the BD-1 droid from the Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order video game.
The BD unit droid befriends and accompanies former Padawan Cal Kestis, the main protagonist of the game, who is on a quest to rebuild the fallen Jedi Order.
The Beedee droids, short for “buddy units,” were designed to function as companions that assist with research and exploration in remote and dangerous locations across the galaxy far, far away.
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