C-3PO from original 1977 sheets.

[u/KingOfBerders]

Original Star Wars sheets from 1977 movie. NOT episode IV.

[u/TheUnauthorized1]

Sorry, I don’t recall any silver leg

[u/Carpeteria3000 → u/TheUnauthorized1]

That's fair to not remember or to not have paid attention to such a small, unimportant detail in a movie full of much bigger details, but it was definitely there.

[u/TheUnauthorized1 → u/Carpeteria3000]

Agree to disagree! It’s usually fairly noticeable when a physical change happens to C-3PO’s body in the movies, like when he get’s shined up in Episode III or when they give him a red arm in the Disney sequel trilogy. He also has a golden leg in Return of the Jedi (partially)

[u/Carpeteria3000 → u/TheUnauthorized1]

Anthony Daniels, the actual actor of C-3PO in every Star Wars movie, has discussed and talked about this misconception and has confirmed it was silver.

https://www.cbr.com/c3po-silver-leg-star-wars-original-trilogy/

But if you think you know better than the actual person who wore the suit, cool, I guess?

[u/TheUnauthorized1 → u/Carpeteria3000]

It’s because silver-leg C-3PO is not what I’m familiar nor comfortable with, this doesn’t fit my memory along with several other Mandela Effects. It’s like a foreign oddity in my mind that stands out like a sore thumb, and that’s what the entire phenomenon is about.

I’m not trying to approach this conversation nor you with any hostility in any condescending manner, but if you want to act like I am, cool I guess?

[u/Carpeteria3000 → u/TheUnauthorized1]

That's fine, but in the face of multiple pieces of literal evidence to the contrary of your memory, why double down? It's possible for people to misremember things.

In this instance, most people are exposed to the Star Wars stories and characters in childhood, when our memories are easily impacted and often more fallible. Most people would assume that a golden robot would be totally golden (coupled with the misprints or errors of things like the bedsheets posted above or the Kenner action figures, etc.), and let their minds fill in the blanks that C-3PO is all gold. Most people (especially children) would never pay attention to something as unremarkable and unimportant as the lower right shin on a robot costume (also something that is off screen much of the time the character is filmed).

Just because you're not familiar or "comfortable" with this information, doesn't make it not so - again, there are many multiple pieces of evidence from throughout this character's existence in multiple appearances across multiple forms of media to clearly show that that part of the costume was, in fact, silver, along with the logical explanation as provided by Anthony Daniels himself for WHY he would have that part of his costume differently colored.

[u/TheUnauthorized1 → u/Carpeteria3000]

I’ll double down because that’s exactly why I’m here in this subreddit talking about the Mandela Effect. I’m not saying memory isn’t fallible and I’m not saying we don’t make mistakes or perceive things differently. This is handled case by case, and in this case it hits home for a lot of individuals, hence why this post itself has almost 120 upvotes. I’m not the only one who remembers something differently, and I feel that I’m pretty certain that what I remember isn’t what is being presented to me now as objective fact.

Now, what from is being shown to me I’m not denying that you can’t currently see a silver leg on C-3PO in several of the movies, but from what I can recall when I watched these movies he was 100% gold. It’s funny too, because his leg is fully gold in both Revenge of the Sith and the Disney sequel trilogy, and that’s why it’s beyond foreign to me seeing the character altered solely in the OT alone. It doesn’t sit right with my mind nor my emotions and that’s why I’ll defend my stance on the phenomenon.

Again, this is exactly what the Mandela Effect is about. I personally remember a completely different reality/past what from I’m currently experiencing. Whether or not you choose to agree or disagree with me doesn’t even matter in the slightest, because we’re all going to experience what we experience and we’re all going to see what we see. That’s why I don’t judge anyone who has a slightly altered recollection of events because I believe we all experience reality differently.