Star Wars - Hero Droid BB-8 - Fully Interactive Droid

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] This is a very cool technology advanced toy. It has voice activation, a hughly advanced folkow feature that can follow you around had a handy wireless remote to control its movements and actions. This is something i highly recommend very highly. This will entertain the whole family

An excellent product for Children and Collectors alike. It resembles, and acts like the droid we have all grown to love. The lights, sound effects, and color scheme are on key. It, or should I say he, requires a lot of room to perform the preprogrammed animations. This toy is also FAST, so any hard collisions with things in the room could disrupt his internal circuity causing possible malfunctions. BB-8 is definitely an indoor toy. If you were to use him outdoors, it will wear down the paint finish. With every great toy, there are going to be some drawbacks to discuss. For example, the charging port doors are hinged with by a plastic strap. I feel in time, the plastic will begin to wear and eventually break off. I would have thought to use metal pins for the hinges. This would have placed improved durability on the opening and closing of the port doors. I question the Head Sensors. During operation, I periodically see BB-8 bumping into things head on. The Wall Mount Charger gets "very" warm, and I would not leave it plugged unattended as indicated in the instruction manual. You will also noticed that with the Micro-USB, there isn't a power brick included. Therefore, you will need to plug into your computer's USB port, or use your cell phone's power brick. I feel for the price that Spin Master is charging, they should have taken the liberty of including this item. Last but not least, the rechargeable batteries. The only way to access these two batteries (NiMH & LiPO) is to dismantle the head and body, voiding your warranty. However, I expect the batteries to accept and hold a charge, longer than the manufacturer's warranty. In closing, I would like to see future toys where applications, aka Apps! , and remotes are no longer required. The toy interaction would solely be based on Voice Recognition. Words, and phrases would make the toy act out segments as seen in the movie. You would be able to tell the toy to go forward, backward, turn around etc. This has been done with R2D2.