I have to admit that I am sort of a Star Wars geek. I am fortunate enough to have one of my sons share my love. Now I have an excuse to buy action figures and be consumed by getting the Star Wars version of the Game of Life on Ebay. I stumbled on the official Star Wars blog. There was a post that pissed me off.
Giant Robot magazine printed its list of the wimpiest robots and C3PO and R2D2 were on it.

I will concede that C3PO is a total pussy but R2D2 is bad ass! They liken him to a drink cooler, trash can and a mailbox. R2D2 is the catalyst for everything. If he didn’t get in the escape pod, get captured by Jawas, sold to Uncle Owen, runaway to find Obi Wan and get Obi Wan and Luke together, Luke would be a moisture farmer bitching about not getting to go the academy and hatin’ on the Empire! R2D2 carried the plans for the Death Star. If he wasn’t locking down something down on Luke’s ship, he was busy fixing the hyper drive on the Millennium Falcon. Giant Robot needs to rethink their choices or face the wrath of East Bluff Barbie!

BTW- my editing bar is going goofy so here is the link to the Star Wars blog:
http://starwarsblog.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/c-3po-and-r2-d2-wimpy-robots/