Move Over Artoo: New Star Wars Droid's First Day on the Job

Meet the new droid — most definitely not the same as the old droid.

When the highly-anticipated new Star Wars TV show, Star Wars Rebels , starts screening this fall, we'll all get to know the name of Chopper a lot better. The droid is the R2-D2 of Rebels — indeed, he's based on early production sketches of Artoo. But Chopper's personality is a lot more willful. If Artoo was the family dog, as Rebels director Dave Filoni puts it, Chopper is the family cat

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Though he isn't a household name yet, Chopper has apparently arrived for his first day of work at Lucasfilm already — as you can see in the video above, provided exclusively to Mashable Read more...

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