However, StarSpeeder overshot its target, careening past Endor and into a comet field, with Rex having to escape by flying directly through one of the comets. He then instructed R2-D2 to make the hyperspace jump to the flight's intended destination: the forest moon of Endor. ![]() Whilst preparing his StarSpeeder 3000 for takeoff, Rex took a wrong turn and proceeded to fly himself and his 40 passengers into the spaceport's maintenance bay, narrowly managing to steer up and out into space. The flight went wrong almost immediately. In 4.3 ABY, Rex is tasked with his first flight with Star Tours: ST-45, also known as the "Endor Express". Rex was the love interest of ROX-N, a feminine-programmed droid that worked at the L’Astroport Services Interstellaires – a story element that appeared only in the Disneyland Paris iteration of the original attraction.Īppearances Legends continuity Star Tours In the original attraction, a red REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT ribbon hangs from Rex's torso, which may serve to explain Rex's tendency to malfunction and bumbling nature. Much like all droids of the RX series, Rex has a talkative and friendly attitude, and focuses more on his guest interaction than the safety and the schedule of the flight. Rex appeared as the pilot in the original Star Tours attraction. 2.3.2 Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant.2.1.2 Star Tours: The Adventures Continue.Rex's voice is portrayed by Paul Reubens in all of his appearances. Some time after this appearance, he gained employment with Star Tours, where he would later crash land on the planet Batuu, and be reprogrammed into DJ R-3X, the house DJ of Oga's Cantina. Rex was officially introduced into official Star Wars canon with his 2014 appearance in Star Wars Rebels, where he works as a pilot droid for Garel Interstellar Excursions. Rex's appearances in the Star Tours attractions are not considered part of the main Star Wars canon, but are instead considered part of the Star Wars Legends continuity. Set roughly 5 years before the timeline of the original attraction, Rex appears here as a newly-delivered, yet malfunctioning, droid in the attraction's queue. Rex later appeared in the attraction's prequel, Star Tours: The Adventures Continue. He is depicted as an RX-series pilot droid who works for the Star Tours travel company, where he pilots a StarSpeeder 3000 spacecraft. This figure has had several running changes: a "dirty" armor version was the initial release, followed by a "clean" armor version with damaged stripes, and now a "clean" armor version with clean stripes (which have been painted a lighter shade of blue than the Sneak Preview figure.RX-24, later R-3X, and also known simply as "Rex", is a character from the Star Wars franchise, first introduced in 1987 as the Audio-Animatronic protagonist of Disneyland's Star Tours attraction. ![]() This version has dirty armor with lots of 'carbon scoring'. Captain Rex was also available as a Sneak Preview mailaway figure.When he and his fellow troopers are surrounded by battle droids, outnumbered and outgunned, he never wavers in his commitment to the mission, even if it means this battle could be his last. Like all clone troopers, Captain Rex believes that the mission always comes first. Captain Rex accompanies Anakin Skywalker to the planet Teth to rescue Jabba's kidnapped son.
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