That low, rumbling, squelching sound you’re sensing at the edge of your hearing is nothing to be alarmed by; it’s just the collective peoples of the internet simultaneously excitement-soiling their pants because a new trailer for the next Star Wars movie has been released. As is required by the Jalopnik by-laws, I will now scrutinize the trailer for information about droids and spaceships and other vehicles or robots.
That low, rumbling, squelching sound you’re sensing at the edge of your hearing is nothing to be alarmed by; it’s just the collective peoples of the internet simultaneously excitement-soiling their pants because a new trailer for the next Star Wars movie has been released. As is required by the Jalopnik by-laws, I will now scrutinize the trailer for information about droids and spaceships and other vehicles or robots. It looks like we have some new things to talk about!
Oh, in case you’ve yet to see the trailer for what they’re calling Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, grab a rag to clean off your eyebones and have a watch:
Exciting! Now, because of our organization’s staunch pro-droid position, I’d like to focus first on what appears to be an all-new type of droid in the trailer. We can see the droid here, palling around with the well-examined astromech droid, BB-8:
So, let’s see what we have here. It’s quite a small droid, with what appears to be a conical-shaped head mounted to a C-shaped arm/axle unit that supports a solitary wheel. This group shot gives a better sense of the scale of this new droid:
It looks like it comes up to C-3P0’s knee joint there, making it somewhere around, oh, 15 to 17 inches high, or so? I suspect that the green-bezel’d object at the cone’s apex is some sort of optical sensor, with the three slots on the upper surface of the head perhaps holding additional environmental sensors.
