If you wanted to fully immerse yourself in the Star Wars experience, all you needed were a few tiny action figures, your memories of what happened on the big screen, and those gratuitous clips of TIE fighter battles spliced into the occasional episode of Muppet Babies. Back in those days, the SW experience consisted of the original trilogy films, the incredible and ever-expanding toyline, the Marvel comics, a few forgettable tie-in books with awesome looking covers, and that one nutty Christmas special. It’s about time humanoids and automatons alike started treating it that way.Ī long time ago (1985) in a galaxy that…kind of looked like this one, actually, the Star Wars universe was not yet the enormous place overpopulated with oddly named yet marketable creatures that it is today. Droids isn’t just an animated series that caters to a younger crowd, it’s actually a gateway drug that initiated its audience into the upper echelons of the Star Wars expanded universe. The fingerprints of this obscure Saturday morning cartoon can be seen in just about everything that followed it, from the novels to the Dark Horse comics, to the prequels and The Force Awakens.
Droids happens to be an influential relic from the younger days of a rapidly growing multimedia franchise that didn’t know what to do with itself. Taking into account that the show has basically been disowned, in part because it’s incredibly dated, this cartoon about two droids wandering around desert planets getting into trouble isn’t likely to get the acclaim it deserves anytime soon. Droids is a tragically forgotten piece of Star Wars culture.
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