Battle Droids
Clone Wars really did a number on the B-1 Battle Droid’s reputation, transforming the Trade Federation’s robot hordes into effectively goofy comic relief—and even before then, they’re a little silly in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. But in Phantom Menace they really are, for the most part, a captivating, menacing threat. The design is so good, and unlike anything we’d seen from Star Wars droid design before—a really cool example of Lucas wanting to use new technologies to push designs further than what came before.
