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io9In Love, Death, and Robots Season 2, Poop Droids Are the Future
Netflix’s wild sci-fi animated anthology Love, Death, and Robots returns next month with tales of post-apocalypses, children in haunted houses, and flying techno-whales. But it’s the AI pooper-scooper in this new trailer for the show that has me the most intrigued. Partially that’s because the trailer does highlight a big dog-turd, which is abducted by … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsThe Map to a Perfect Star Wars Blanket Is Hidden Inside This BB-U-Knit
While 2020 hasn’t been a great year for travel, gatherings, or general overall happiness, it has given many of us the chance to work on new hobbies. Maybe one of those hobbies is knitting—and if you did pick up that skill, a new Star Wars book is going to be your new favorite thing in … Continued
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Tech NewsAn R2-D2 Robot Vacuum Is Exactly the Chore Droid I’m Looking For
It’s staggering to think that Matthew Scott Hunter came up with a way to combine his love of clean floors and Star Wars before the marketing teams at Disney, Lucasfilm, and iRobot did. Using random household items he turned his functional robot vacuum into an Artoo unit that roams and cleans his home. Inspired by … Continued
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io9MoviesIn This Exclusive Star Wars Short, It’s Droids Who Save the Galaxy
Who helped fly the X-Wings that destroyed the Death Stars and Starkiller Base? Who saved icons of the Rebellion from being smushed in a trash compactor? Who secured the map to the missing Luke Skywalker? Who knows over six million forms of communication, including bocce? That’s right: droids are the real MVPs of Star Wars, … Continued
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io9MoviesRise of Skywalker‘s New Character Posters Are Simply Beautiful
Every action-packed glimpse of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker that we’ve seen has been full of interesting information about what to expect from the film as it brings its heroes and villains into the next chapter of the epic space opera. But there’s something to be said for simple, powerful images—like the latest batch … Continued
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io9MoviesNew Rise of Skywalker Images Have Arrived Along With a Curious Tidbit About ‘Ancient’ Star Wars
We’ve been so busy obsessing over The Mandalorian we almost forgot it was getting close to the time Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker features would start rolling out! Ok, not really… Entertainment Weekly has dropped its big cover story for The Rise of Skywalker (as they are wont to do) as well as revealing … Continued
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io9Toys & CollectiblesA Four-Wheeled Version of the Mandalorian, and More of the Most Bizarre Doppelgänger Toys of the Week
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular roundup of all the excellent new toys we can’t wait to squander our hard-earned paychecks on. This week we’ve got a new Hot Toys version of Rey with a bewildering head sculpt, new collectibles arriving just in time for the return of Rick and Morty and the arrival … Continued
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io9MoviesMeet 2 Mysterious New Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Creatures
When Lucasfilm wanted to reveal new characters like Zorri Bliss or Jannah from Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker, we saw their images in the pages of Vanity Fair. Today, two more new characters got their big, albeit slightly less regal, reveals as toys on a YouTube livestream. Those characters are aliens by the names … Continued
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io9Toys & CollectiblesGonk Gonk, the Best Toys of the Week Are Here
Welcome back to [GONK GONK], io9’s regular roundup of the [GONK GONK] toys we’ve seen tempting our [GONK GONK] this week. We’ve got a [GONK GONK] little Kirby, one of Magneto’s [GONK GONK] costumes in years getting a [GONK GONK], and, of course, we’ve got [GONK GONK]. [GONK GONK]? [GONK GONK]! Hot Toys Sixth-Scale Star … Continued
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io9New Mandalorian Details Tease a Lawless Galaxy and Its Misfit ‘Heroes’
As a refreshing break from a tale of Jedi and Sith, of the endless battle between light and dark, The Mandalorian looks like a bit of space-Western manna from heaven when it comes to Star Wars storytelling. So you didn’t need to sell me even harder with the idea of Taika Waititi as an assassin … Continued
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io9Toys & CollectiblesWatch a Giant Army of Lego Droids Play the Star Wars Theme on Real Instruments
First revealed back in May, Lego’s Star Wars Boost Droid Commander set builds on the toymaker’s Boost robotics platform which is a more kid-friendly version of its complex robotic Mindstorms kits. The set is finally available this month, and to prove that kid-friendly doesn’t also mean very limited, the company programmed 95 Lego droids to … Continued
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io9MoviesWatch Han Solo Han Roll-o in Star Wars‘ New Short Series, Roll Out [Updated]
BB-8 is one of the cutest additions to the Star Wars galaxy under Disney’s purview. So perhaps this is the inevitable conclusion of a design that has won the hearts and plundered the wallets of countless Star Wars fans: What if…what if everyone in Star Wars was shaped like a BB-unit? That’s basically the premise … Continued
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io9Toys & CollectiblesThese Lego Star Wars Droids Might Be the Toy Robots Everyone’s Been Looking For
Consumer-focused robots have been having a bit of a hard time in recent years. Just last week, Anki, maker of the adorable Cozmo and Vector bots, was the latest robot maker to go under as consumers hesitated to spend $250 on an automaton that didn’t really do anything. Lego’s latest creation also won’t vacuum your … Continued
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io9Jon Favreau’s Latest Mandalorian Update Is Breaking My Already Tattered Mind
For better or worse, Star Wars is fascinated with Star Wars. Countless books, games, comics, movies, and TV shows exist with the purpose of expounding on characters we already know a lot about. But Jon Favreau’s latest addition to The Mandalorian is leaving me questioning just how delightfully absurd this franchise can be sometimes. I…don’t … Continued
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BB-8 Got to Kick Some Ass in This Week’s Star Wars Resistance
Having BB-8 on Star Wars Resistance was a stroke of genius. Not only does it allow fans to have one of the most popular characters from the movies on the show, we know where he is during those movies. BB-8’s presence sort of a becomes a ticking clock because, eventually, he and Poe will head … Continued
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io9Watch How This Absurd Costume Helped Make Solo’s L3-37 Droid the Film’s Best Character
The unique personalities of the droids in the Star Wars universe have always made them some of the best characters. Solo’s L3-37 improved every scene she was in, thanks to the voice work of Phoebe Waller-Bridge—who also helped bring the physical character to life on set, as this behind-the-scenes look at the movie’s visual effects … Continued
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io9Toys & Collectibles
Your Very Own Lifesize Replica of BB-8 Will Cost You Almost $4,000
Considering how he steals almost every scene he’s in, it didn’t take long for BB-8 to become a fan favorite, and for everyone obsessed with Star Wars to want a rolling droid of their own. Sideshow Collectibles is about to make that dream come true, or at least as close as possible, with a new … Continued
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io9Talented Hacker Turns Amazon’s Alexa Into Lando’s Sass-Talking L3-37 Droid
One of the best parts of Solo: A Star Wars Story is Lando Calrissian’s piloting droid, L3-37, who’s been uniquely pieced together and upgraded from parts of other droids. Patrick Stefanski has essentially done the same thing to turn Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant into a desktop version of L3-37 who answers to your beck and call. The … Continued
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Why Don’t We Know More About Star Wars‘ Droids?
Some of the most interesting bits of world-building introduced in the most recent Star Wars spinoffs have come from the films’ droid characters. Sure, droids have always been a part of Star Wars’ mythos, but what’s been so surprising about Rogue One and Solo is how they gave us a glimpse at the inner lives … Continued
