Fett’s Droids Episode on DVD

Steve San­sweet, Head of Fan Rela­tions for Lucas­film, announces that the ani­mated Droids adven­tures will be on DVD as early as this November.

Despite the series, in ret­ro­spect, being crit­i­cized for poor qual­ity and low enter­tain­ment, Lucas­film has decided to box up and ship out the series. There were 15 thirty-minute episodes between Sep­tem­ber 1985 and June 1986 on ABC.

Boba Fett appears in “The Trigon One: A Race to the Fin­ish,” writ­ten by Peter Sauder and Steven Wright and aired Sep­tem­ber 28, 1985.

Star Wars: Myth and Magic [link no longer active] describes the episode in brief: Thall and Jord pre­pare their mod­i­fied land­speeder, the “The White Witch”, for the Boonta Speeder Race. Sise Fromm hires Boba Fett to elim­i­nate the rac­ing team, while Tig plants a ther­mal det­o­na­tor on “The White Witch” that will explode after 10 laps. Admi­ral Screed, later to be seen in “The Adven­tures of Mungo Baobab,” makes a cameo appearance.

The Boonta Race ties back to Star Wars: Episode I, where the pod race occured. Mas­ters of the Force — Droids Ani­mated Car­toon goes into much more detail:

This episode is “The Race to the Fin­ish” and starts with C-3PO, R2-D2, Thall Jobin, Kea Moll, and Jord Dusat as they travel to the Boonta Eve speeder race when they are attacked out of nowhere by a tyder­ian shut­tle (for­give me but I was quite the star wars nerd back in the day so I will use all proper ship names and char­ac­ter names� try to keep up). Pilot­ing the shut­tle is none other than Sise Fromm, an old and pow­er­ful crime boss that seeks revenge for when 3PO and the gang stole his Trigon One (think dooms­day weapon). Luck­ily C-3PO and the gang jump to hyper­space just in the nick of time.

After their nar­row escape they come out of hyper­space out­side the planet Boonta Eve and make their descent. Kea being the dum­b­ass she is can­not man­age to keep con­trol of the ship and it goes crash­ing into the ground. They man­age to bump into a kindly repair droid sec­onds after crash­ing and make a deal with him to fix their bro­ken ship while they take off to race. But what of their speeder bike? It is still dam­aged and they need to race in the big event.

We then find out that the evil Sise Fromm has hired the best bounty hunter in the galaxy to help him with his lit­tle man­hunt. You guessed it! He has hired Boba Fett, the biggest mean­est bounty hunter this side of Dagobah.

Back on Boonta Eve C-3PO meets a strange new droid that just so hap­pens to have the per­fect facil­i­ties to fix their speeder in time for the race. Of course the teams eagerly accepts the strange droids off and they begin fix­ing their speeder. Of course the droid can­not be trusted and soon betrays them and it is revealed that he in fact work­ing for Boba Fett. C-3PO and R2-D2 don’t really have a prob­lem tak­ing the evil droid out but Boba Fett can’t be far behind.

Once Boba Fett arrive on the planet all hell breaks loose as Boba uses every­thing in his arse­nal to try and stomp our heroes into mush. Quickly run­ning out of time, Thall races off in the speeder and draws Boba away from the oth­ers as he tries to make it to the big Boonta Eve race on time.

Once the race starts we find out that Boba Fett has a speeder of his own and in the race him­self. This makes things a bit harder for Thall as Boba tor­ments him through the race with var­i­ous das­tardly gad­gets until one of his weapons back­fires on him and knocks him out of the race leav­ing Thall to win the race.

An unhappy Boba Fett decides to turn in Sise Fromm over to Jabba the Hutt so he does not have to go away from this deba­cle empty handed.

After win­ning the race they are con­tacted by the Zebu­lon Dax Cor­po­ra­tion and offered a posi­tion design­ing and build­ing speed­ers for them. Tak­ing the job How­ever would require C-3PO and R2-D2 to be repro­grammed for what­ever stu­pid rea­son, so the guys decide not to take the job. This does not site well with the two droids and R2 and C3PO decide it is time to part ways with the three humans so they are free to take the job and the droids are free to go on new adven­tures with new people.

This episode is avail­able online through out mul­ti­me­dia vault at MULTIMEDIA > VIDEO.