C-3PO
Anakin byggde protokolldrogen i sitt sovrum. Han lägger medvetet inte omslag och lät det se lite skitigt ut, så att Watto inte skulle känna igen sitt värde:
The first was the protocol droid he was reconstructing in his bedroom work area. It was far enough along that even though it was missing its skin and an eye, it could stand and move around, and its intelligence and communications processors were up and running. Good enough to do the job he required of it, he concluded, which was to accompany him on his bartering mission. The droid could listen in on the Jawas in their own peculiar language, which Anakin did not understand or speak particularly well. By doing so, it could let Anakin know if they were trying to slip anything by him. Watto didn’t know how far he had gotten with the droid, and there wasn’t much danger Watto could find out while they were out in the Dune Sea.
Podracer
Enligt filmens officiella romanisering byggde Anakin podraceraren från kasserade och stulna delar. Han gömde den under en presenning i en avstängd del av staden och det ansågs generellt (av sina kamrater) som ett husdjursprojekt snarare än en verklig utsikter att gå in i en tävling, och därför inte värt att stjäla.
The second and more important secret concerned the Podracer the boy was building. He had been working on it for almost two years, salvaging bits and pieces as he went, assembling it under cover of an old tarp in an area of the common refuse dump in back of the slave housing. His mother had indulged him, mindful of his interest in taking things apart and putting them back together. She didn’t see the harm in allowing him to have this project to work on in his spare time, and Watto knew nothing of the Pod.
That was an inspired bit of subterfuge on Anakin’s part. He knew, just as with the droid, that if it appeared to have any value at all, Watto would claim it. So he deliberately kept it looking as if it were a complete piece of junk, disguising its worth in a variety of clever ways. To all intents and purposes, it would never run. It was just another childish project. It was just a little boy’s dream.
Observera att det inte var förrän Jedi anlände (levererar en Astro-droid som kan hjälpa till att fixa den icke-funktionella poden och en högdensitetscellen) att poden faktiskt blir en livskraftig utsikter.