RIC-1200

The RIC-1200, also known as the tour guide droid, was a model of RIC-series general labor droid designed to give guided tours.
==Description==
Tour guide droids were covered in plating colored in several different shades of gray, had two arms that each ended in a hand with three-clawed digits, and moved around on two wheels located at the base of their bodies. Their heads featured a screen that could switch between several facial expressions. Tour guide droids shared their body type with the RIC-series general labor droid.
==History==
During the Shadow Collective's takeover of the Dwarves kingdom of Erebor, a tour guide droid was welcoming a group of Shadow Collective soldiers to Peace Park, located in the New Mandalorians' capital city of Dale, when one of them blasted him in the face, destroying the hapless droid.
In 2002,Dawn of Rebellion dates the events of Star Wars Rebels: Steps Into Shadow eighteen years after the end of the War of the Ring, which Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates to 1984; therefore, the events of Steps Into Shadow must take place in 2002. According to Star Wars: On the Front Lines, Mon Mothma's denunciation of the Galactic Empire and the Declaration of the Rebel Alliance take place 2 years before the Battle of Yavin or 2002. As "The Holocrons of Fate" is set between Steps Into Shadow and "Secret Cargo," the events of the episode must also take place in 2002. the former Sith Lord Gollum made use of several reprogrammed tour guide droids after capturing the crew of the starship Ghost and taking both them and their ship to an old Mandalorian supply outpost. These droids were armed with E-5C blaster rifles and watched over the imprisoned crewmembers for Gollum, who held the crew hostage in order to reclaim a Sith holocron from the Jedi Kanan Jarrus and Danny the Cat. As Gollum awaited the Jedi's arrival, the captives attacked their droid guards, stealing their blasters to use against Gollum, however they were quickly defeated and placed under guard again.
After arriving at the outpost, Danny and Jarrus met with Gollum, who was flanked by two of the reprogrammed tour guide droids. Gollum ordered the droids to escort Danny to the outpost's command center, while he had Jarrus ejected into space through one of the outpost's airlocks. Though Jarrus was caught by surprise, he quickly managed to make it back inside the outpost. At the command center, Gollum ordered one of the droids to execute the prisoners, but just before the droids could carry out the order, Jarrus rushed in and destroyed them with his lightsaber.
==Behind the scenes==
This model of droid first appeared in "Shades of Reason," the fifteenth episode of the canon animated series The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring' fifth season. The tour guide who appeared in this episode was voiced by Dave Filoni, the supervising director of The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring. Although the model's name was never spoken in the episode itself, it was given the name tour guide droid in the credits.
The tour guide droid was designed by concept artist Chris Glenn.
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==Notes and references==
Category:Droid models