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    Sandcrawler

    Sandcrawlers are huge treaded fortresses used by Jawas as transportation and shelter. The sand-pitted vehicles, many meters in height, are equipped with a magnetic suction tube for sucking droids and scrap into their cargo chambers.

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Appearances
  • Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (Episode I)
  • Star Wars: A New Hope (Episode IV)
  • Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (Episode II)
  • Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett
Locations
  • Tatooine
Dimensions
  • Length: 40.0m
species
  • Jawa

History

Anakin and a Jawa talk in front of Sandcrawlers

Sandcrawlers were a common sight on Tatooine, used by the planet’s native Jawas as homes, workshops and fortresses. These massive rolling vehicles trundled across the desert wastes in search of machinery that could be fixed up and sold to settlers. Those searching for something knew to check in with the Jawa tribes, whose knowledge of Tatooine’s badlands and desert flats was unequalled.

A Sandcrawler traversing the deserts on Tatooine

During the Galactic Civil War, the droids C-3PO and R2-D2 were found by a Jawa sandcrawler and sold to Owen Lars and his nephew Luke Skywalker. What seemed like a nice payday for the Jawas turned out to be their doom – Imperial troops tracked the sandcrawler and destroyed it.

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    Bad Motivator

    Luke nearly misses the opportunity to meet the trusty Artoo when his uncle purchases a different astromech from the Jawas. When the red astromech blows a motivator, though, Luke convinces his uncle to pick up the little blue unit, R2-D2.

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