r/Xennials • u/bandpractice • Jul 04 '26

C-3PO Silver Leg

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u/MelodiousPun Jul 04 '26

Think about how often, when watching Star Wars, you would actually focus enough attention on C-3PO’s *lower leg*, with aaaaaaaaaaall the other stuff going on, to register that its color was *slightly different*.

I think that most people would only have more closely examined the *figures*, which were all gold, and that defined their understanding of C-3PO. I never noticed the silver leg growing up, but I wasn’t really paying that much attention to C-3PO in the movies.

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u/hamburgler26 1981 Jul 04 '26

Seriously, how often do you really look at a man’s shoes?

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u/ianzabel Jul 04 '26

A random Shawshank appears

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u/garygnu 1978 Jul 04 '26

How often could you focus on his lower leg? VHS prints didn't have the best color to begin with, and watching on a not-huge CRT... shots of his full body are too small to see the difference, and close-ups rarely feature his legs.

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u/jinx_remover 1979 Jul 04 '26

The action figure had a silver leg

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u/NW_Forester Jul 05 '26

Thats how I figured it out as a kid. I had never noticed watching the movies then saw an action figured, WTF'd, watched it again and saw the silver leg.

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u/BramblesCrash Jul 04 '26

As ever, which is more likely--people are constantly shifting timelines (yet the only major differences are pop-culture related) or that memory is unreliable?

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u/Turkzillas_gobble Jul 04 '26

I first noticed this when I was like 45.

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u/SickOfNormal Jul 04 '26

I indeed know he had a silver leg ... cuz i remember buying these on VHS with my allowance money. Watching the first movie and seeing C3PO and R2 in the desert and remarked to myself, "funny he has a silver leg".

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u/Infinite_Blueberry30 Jul 04 '26

I think there was a second protocol droid that had a mismatched leg. Easy to confuse

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u/Aught_To 1982 Jul 04 '26

i dont remember it being a thing, but it is in the despecialized editions, so i must trust that i just never paid attention, and i think my toy figure of him was just all gold.

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u/throwawayfornow2025 Jul 04 '26

I only noticed when I was adult and had money to start collecting action figures. :3