RX-24
Production information
Manufacturer	Industrial Automaton[1] Reubens Robotic Systems[2]
Model	RX-series pilot droid[1]
Class	Second degree pilot droid[1]
Technical specifications
Gender	Masculine programming
Sensor color	Blue
Equipment	Heuristic processor[1] Vocabulator[1] Three claw appendages[1] Repulsorlift[1] 2 photoreceptors
Chronological and political information
Era(s)	New Republic era
Affiliation	Star Tours

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RX-24, nicknamed Rex, was the inexperienced RX-series pilot droid for the Endor Express, a StarSpeeder 3000 flight offered by the Star Tours travel agency. His girlfriend is strongly hinted to be the droid ROX-N.

BiographyEdit

Rex, along with several other RX droids, was first delivered to Star Tours sometime prior to the Battle of Yavin. Foreshadowing his future first flight with the company, Rex, marked with a "Defective" decal and marked to be shipped back to the factory, could be seen in the customs area of a Star Tours spaceport, malfunctioning and occasionally absent-mindedly springing to life, uttering phrases that he would eventually repeat on his fateful first flight.

Rex's first flight had an inauspicious beginning. When he took a wrong turn within the spaceport, Rex nearly crashed his StarSpeeder before even reaching open space. He quickly got his flight back on track, but came out of lightspeed too late, passing Endor and putting the StarSpeeder in a field of comets instead.

After surviving the comets, Rex unwittingly took his tour group into a restricted combat zone. There, the StarSpeeder was briefly caught in a Star Destroyer's tractor beam before joining Red Squadron in battle. After risking the lives of his passengers to help destroy a Death Star-like space station, Rex safely returned the StarSpeeder 3000 to the tour station.

Behind the scenesEdit

Rex's voice was provided by Paul Reubens, who is more famously known as Pee-wee Herman. According to The Cinema of George Lucas, the character was originally envisioned by George Lucas as a veteran of the Clone Wars called "Crazy Harry", before the idea of a rookie pilot droid was developed. Hasbro released RX-24 as an exclusive Star Tours action figure.

During the ride, Rex says that he's "always wanted to do this". The short story One Last Night in the Mos Eisley Cantina: The Tale of the Wolfman and the Lamproid states that there was a droid audible during the Battle of Endor assault on the second Death Star announcing it had "always wanted to do this."

When a post on the Disney Parks Blog revealed that C-3PO would be the real pilot of the StarSpeeder 1000 in Star Tours: The Adventures Continue, it was announced that Rex would also have a part in the new show. Rex appears in the second room of the attraction queue, malfunctioning and "repeating" lines from the original attraction (which is actually set some time after this latest iteration), and is marked to be sent back to the manufacturer, along with two other RX-series droids and a couple of R5s.

AppearancesEdit

• Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina (Possible appearance)
• Star Tours: The Adventures Continue
• Star Tours (First appearance)
• Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures (video game) (Mentioned only)

SourcesEdit

• Star Wars: Behind the Magic
• The Cinema of George Lucas
• Scum and Villainy (sourcebook)
• The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

Notes and referencesEdit

External linksEdit

• RX-24 at The Unofficial DisneyWiki.
• RX-24 at EndorExpress.net