When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Joel Franey Lego R2-D2 (75379) exists, as far as I can see, for two reasons: that the ...

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Star Wars Hot Toys collectors can add the ultimate edition of R2-D2 to their collections in 2019. The Deluxe version of the trusty droid comes with numerous attachments, light-up features, ...

Toys, and particularly tech toys, can have very short half lives. AppleInsider has been playing with three of Sphero's "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" app-controlled droids by a dad who was there in 1977, ...

Toy producer Sphero has launched two more robots based on droids from 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi,' with the introduction of R2-D2 and BB-9E accompanied by new Swift Playgrounds content that can teach ...

Star Wars and Sphero were a match made in heaven. The company had spent a few years in relative startup obscurity when Disney came along with the design for a new droid debuting in the upcoming ...

Hot Toys is releasing a new version of their sixth scale Star Wars R2-D2 figure, and it comes with all of the bells, whistles, and Princess Leia holograms. Want more like this? Get the latest drops, ...

There’s nothing worse than being replaced, which means it’s probably been a hard few months for R2-D2 ever since BB-8 stole the internet’s collective heart during Star Wars Celebration. “Remember when ...

The company’s also introducing another new droid today, although you’re likely more familiar with him: R2-D2. The company tells me that while R2-D2 toys and figurines have existed for decades, Sphero ...

Every Christmas in the ’80s, I wanted the same thing as many other pint-sized Star Wars fans: a robot sidekick to call my own. And not just any old droid would do: It had to be an R2-D2, specifically ...

Securing his position as possibly one of the best boyfriends ever, a Chinese Star Wars fan hacked a broken R2-D2 toy for his girlfriend’s birthday, turning it into an autonomous companion that’s ...