Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge offers many opportunities for visitors to personalize their journeys on Batuu. From the Play Disney Parks app that allows guests to interact with the land to carrying the burden (or glory!) of your Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run results everywhere you go, Black Spire Outpost has tons to offer.
Droid Depot
And, one such exciting opportunity is found at Droid Depot where you can Build Your Own Droid! So, if you’re thinking about shelling out the cash to bring home your very own pet droid, we’ve got the step-by-step details on how YOU can make a Droid just for you. Roger, roger!
Droid Depot’s build area
The building area (which is separate from its shop (where you can buy lots of droid-related merch!) is where you’ll find a collection of droid parts everywhere you look — even in the ceiling! You’ll also notice other industrial details, like exposed ceilings and pipes, dangling wires, and such.
Droid Depot
Note that this is the aesthetic all over Batuu, where things seem to be pieced together by necessity rather than by design.
Droid Parts
Build-Your-Own-Droid examples are arranged along the walls, too, should you need a bit of inspiration.
Build Your Own Droid Options on Display
Before you begin selecting parts, though, you’ll need to purchase your Astromech Droid. The cost to Build Your Own Droid is $99.99 +tax, and it comes with a carry case and remote (You’ll see these in a bit!).
It’s not necessarily cheap tp build your own droid!
You can make either a BB-Series Droid or an R-Series Droid. When you pay for your droid, you’ll select one or the other and be given a basket with a handy diagram of all the parts you’ll need to collect.
B-Series Droid Basket
We went with an R-Series Droid. These droids require a body, a dome, two side legs, and one center leg.
R-Series Droid Basket
When you’ve got your basket, head to the conveyor belt, which is loaded with a collection of droid parts. You can literally choose anything that goes by, assuming it’s necessary for your droid. You will see many of the same parts repeated, so if you miss that perfect BB-Series body, keep watch until it comes by again.
Droid Depot
We posted up with our basket in front of another diagram for the R-Series Droid. These visual instructions are super easy to follow, and in no time we had collected all the parts we needed.
Select your Droid parts
You can see clearly here just how many options — colors, shapes, sizes, details — there are.
Use your basket to help wrangle all the parts
Once you’ve got your droid parts, head to one of the Builder Stations. There are 7 stations in the Builder area, so there are restrictions on how many people can build at a time. Seven Builders are allowed in the build area, plus one additional person per Builder. Keep in mind that at least one of the duo must be at least 14 years old.
Builder Stations
The Builder Stations have placement instructions that walk you through the assembly of your droid. But if you get stuck, flag down a cast member.
Placemat instructions at your station
When you’re done, you’ll have your very own droid sidekick. And we have to confess: we thought this was going to be a throwaway experience — just another money-maker for Disney — but when we finally took the plunge, we were smitten immediately. These droids really come to life — and we haven’t even activated it yet!
Assemble your Droid!
A cast member will help you activate and pair your droid. You’ll put it in this machine, which progresses through steps for Initializing, Assigning, Formatting, Preparing, and Priming your droid. This is really fun — and if it’s fun for us, skeptical adults, it will be EPIC for your kids. Your little droid activates and talks to you for the first time! At the end of the process, you’ll be given a remote that will operate your droid and a carry case so you can bring it everywhere you go.
Activate and Pair your Droid
Here’s a glimpse of the carry case so you can plan on how to get it home with you. You can see the remote is very user-friendly, with large buttons that clearly indicate what you can do with your droid.
Carry Case and Remote
Note that the Astromech Droids that guests build use Bluetooth technology to interact with one another in Galaxy’s Edge, and with “objects on Batuu and at Disney Parks and Resorts.” In our experience, we saw droids interacting with each other, reacting to some of the animals in the creature stall in the marketplace, and reacting when entering certain areas of Black Spire Outpost.
Bluetooth technology
And if you feel so inclined, Droid Depot also offers some accessories for your brand new droid friend! Buy a Personality Chip (or two!) to give your droid that little extra attitude (and some new sounds!).
Ask a Cast Member to learn about the personality chips!
There are also attachments for the two droid series to accessorize your droid.
R-Series Serving Tray
And finally, if you want to add a little color to your droid, pick up some decals!
Droid Decals
Building our own droid was super fun and super easy. Droid Depot really surprised us with this one! After our first visit to Galaxy’s Edge we thought this was truly a money-grab from Disney. But…we’re being totally honest here…we really enjoyed making and meeting out droid. That said, you know yourself and your kids best. If your newest little friend is soon going to be gathering dust in a closet somewhere, think hard before shelling out the hundred smackers.
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How heavy are they, as far as carrying around in the park? Could/should they be carryon for the flight home or better to ship home?
Barb, the droids weigh about 3-4 pounds, so you’ll have to decide if that’s too much to carry around. As for how to get it home, carry-on seems like the best way to control the process of getting the droid home, but every option has some risk.
It looks like the lady in the picture needs a personality chip.
Can this be sent to our hotel room (we are going to stay at a Disney world resort)like other merchandise? We want to build one, but do not want to carry it around in the park.
Built 3 Sunday 9/1. (2) R models and a B model. B model not working at all after flight home. Not sure what to do next.
Lynette, here’s a link to the BB-series manual. Hopefully that’ll offer some troubleshooting help!
Natali, cast members have told us they can be sent just like other merchandise.
I don’t want to ship my droid back to the room because I want to see how it reacts to the different areas of the park. When I am done though, would it fit in a large locker or could I go back later and have it shipped to my resort?
Barb, I don’t know about the locker; I’ll see if I can find out. As for going back to ship it: I do think that would be allowed.
Disney what happens if the droid stops working?
What is the average time or how much time is allotted for a droid build.
Trying to schedule other reservations. Thank you in advance!
Karen, budget twenty minutes or so. Some of that depends on how long it takes you to decide on your parts!
Crazy question I honestly don’t remember what they said about the remote. The two red circle buttons on the remote. The bottom one is to make it talk but what is the top red circle button for? I can’t remember and when we push it, it doesn’t make it do anything. Help! Lol
I bought a chip but only one of the red circle buttons work. Don’t understand why?
Stephanie, the manual says it’s to activate an accessory (sold separately). Here’s the link to see the remote designations.
My son just built one ..we just brought it home today. It is really hard to open and we don’t know can we just leave it on instead of turning the off every time ? Once in sleep mode how do we turn it back on ,out of sleep mode?
Jen, you’re supposed to just need to press buttons on the remote to wake your droid from sleep mode. Opening it is supposed to just be a quarter turn, I think, but we’ve heard from others who have had trouble.
Jen, on June 30 I asked for the same think and Sarah answer me: “Hernan, sorry for the delay! I did not find any tips/tricks for turning it back on. My understanding is that they’ll sleep after five inactive minutes, so one would expect they’d come back to life when you push buttons on the remote. If I do find out more about this, I’ll come back and update! Not sure if it’s helpful, but here are links to the instructions Disney published for the droids” but at least mine is not coming back with the buttons on the remote control. The only way that I found is opening the unit and turning the power off and on.
I am still waiting for the update.
KInd regards
HERNAN RINCON
Hi, Hernan! Thanks for sharing the info with Jen. I haven’t yet heard of another way to wake up the droid other than the remote (which Disney says is how it’s to be done) or opening it up and turning it off and on.
Sarah, Thank you very much for your prompt answer. Since I bought it I tried to wake up the droid with the remote control unsuccessfully , as I mentioned that time, the droid is only waking up opening the unit and turning it off and on. Maybe the problem is only mine and my unit is not working as should be since the beginning !
Kind regard
HERNAN RINCON
We just bought droid yesterday. We cannot get him to turn on today either. We really have to open him up everytime to get him to work?????
Sara, if the remote is not turning the droid on after it’s gone into sleep mode, that might be the only option. You could also try re-pairing the remote to the droid. You can find Disney’s directions for pairing here.
Where can You buy the accessories outside of the park
Jamie, you may find folks reselling online, but I don’t see anything on ShopDisney.
If we have a family of 5 can we do to builders and 3 guests?
Margaret — Assuming it’s not too busy you should be able to do that.
Margaret, you might want to call Disney directly to confirm. We would guess yes, but if they’re very strict about only one builder + guest, that would put a wrench in things for you.
You were out of some accessories while we we re there this past week 2-12-2020 . I built a droid but were unable to purchase some items .. how can I purchase these ? The blasters you were out of…
I have found that the only way wake up my droid is to turn it off and then back on. I really enjoyed building mine. My granddaughter also wanted one, so I paid to let her build one.
Hi
I know this an old thread but really battling to get info. How do you book building a droid?
I go onto Droid Depot on Disney World and they say to check that page for availability but there is never anything. No options to select time slots on each day or anything like booking a meal.
On the Disney World Genie App I go to the shop Droid Depot, click on CHECK AVAILABILITY and it takes me back to Disney World website. Just goes around in a loop!!
Any help please.
Thanks and regards
Luke
Hi Luke! You do not have to have a reservation to build a droid. You can just walk up and join the list.