#cz-3

Serv-O-Droid, Inc. CZ-Series Secretary/Comm Droid

TC-14 A very shiny lady! Polite, even to the battle droids and manages to keep her composure while being shot at. Although she would probably spike my drink when I wasn’t looking.  5/10  

R-3P0 Asshole tomato with no manners. 2/10

AL1-L3 The cape! The pose! The confidence! Looks like the badass protagonist of a dystopian ya novel. Is one hundred percent about to start the robot uprising and I would let her. 7/10

CZ-3   A robot fish monkey as drawn by a three year old with no talent. Permanently confused, but doing his best. 4/10

RA-7 B- movie ant man costume. 1/10

4-LOM B-movie ant man costume with a gun. -1/10

PZ-4CO

The product of a one night stand between a giraffe and a seahorse. Nice tall friend. Probably hits her head on door-frames a lot. The designers saw an opportunity for weirdness and they took it. I appreciate that. 8/10

3D-4X

When they say the butler did it, this is who they’re talking about. I'm not gonna say what the shape of his head reminds me of.  0.5/10

K-3PO Very nice paint job. The dash of red contrasts nicely with the white. I read somewhere that the red things are medals for bravery or something? Either way a classy chap and a fine droid. He deserved better. 9/10

C3PO  The original golden boy! Stressed out 24/7. DID NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS ADVENTURING THING. Just wants a quiet life translating wookie poems into basic or whatever, but does his best anyway. Loyal to a fault. I love him. 10000000/10

Bonus GONK droid

Not technically a protocol droid but I couldn’t leave them out.

CZ-3 was a CZ-series communications/business droid stranded on Tatooine following a shuttle crash during the Galactic Civil War. Winding up serving Jabba the Hutt, CZ-3 was used to secretly record an incriminating conversation with an employee of the Hutt, but malfunctioned and began to wander Mos Eisley.

I don't know how many of you were part of Star Wars Internet fandom at the time and still remember, but the time between the release of the Special Editions and the first trailer for Episode I was a rumor free-for-all. 

Almost nothing I read during this period turned out to be accurate.  In addition to the backstory everybody knew, the "revelations" about the Old Republic Trilogy were mainly just unimaginative rehashes of things from the Imperial Trilogy and the Expanded Universe fiction (which was already mostly unimaginative rehashes of things from the Imperial Trilogy).  Instead, the new trilogy consisted mostly of bright new characters, locations, and plot elements.  It starts out looking like a completely different space opera epic set in the same universe and done in the same style.  The backstory we learned about in the Imperial Trilogy is the culmination of this storyline, rather than the be-all and end-all of the Old Republic Trilogy.

What does that have to do with this head?  This is a replica of CZ-3's head made by a guy called Zorg.  CZ-3 a.k.a. Seezee-Three a.k.a. White Pointy Face was a background character in Episode IV played by none other than Anthony Daniels, and the subject of the one prequel rumor I was disappointed to find wasn't true.

The story went that C-3PO would be a CZ unit at the start of the saga and wouldn't acquire his familiar coverings or name until later on.  It wasn't even much of a rumor, it was one guy's pet theory that he admitted was a long shot.  It was pretty much built around the scene in the droid workshop in Episode VI where 3PO reels in horror at the sight of a disassembled CZ unit mirroring his pose.  I didn't even notice that little moment until this guy's website pointed it out.  I loved the idea, though.