Disney, WowWee, and Thinkway Toys team up on cute killer bots for the ironic uprising

Need some irony with your angst-battered diet this morning? Swell, try some of this. Disney and Pixar are set to release their latest animated blockbuster, WALL-E, this summer. The premise of the film finds WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter - Earth-Class) cleaning up the Earth's trash after rampant, unchecked consumerism made the planet uninhabitable. So how do they promote the film? You got it, they launch a new line of plastic WALL-E robots developed in partnership with Thinkway Toys which no child could possibly live without. Ultimate WALL-E will list for $190 when launched sometime this summer and feature 10 motors, a remote control, and plenty of sensors to avoid obstacles, respond to touch, and feel the mocking satire of its own existence. The bot will be joined by a $25 iDance WALL-E (think i-Species) and a $40 WowWee FlyTech Tinker Bell when they make their May 29th debut in San Mateo at the Maker Faire.

[someguy7234 @ May 2nd 2008 7:51AM]

My roomba just got a new friend

[IndiaTech @ Apr 30th 2008 3:37AM]

Stop watching them make out, you perv!!!

[craig#2 @ Apr 30th 2008 4:05AM]

Woo hoo!! :D

Can't wait!

[ratnikh @ May 6th 2008 11:15PM]

And you'd think he'd love Roomba, because she's sexy and can suck like a vacuum, but no.... she doesn't like hydraulic pistons, she only eats carpet...

[roflercopterer @ Apr 30th 2008 1:57AM]

Johnny 5 had babies! They're Alive!

[Bernhard @ Apr 30th 2008 2:07AM]

Robots usually strive for efficiency, which in this case could mean trashing out earth's inhabitants.

[gabe @ Apr 30th 2008 2:14AM]

this looks like Johnny Five's Bastard Child.

http://www.soulbounce.com/soul/blog_images/johnny5isalive.jpg

[seanchk @ Apr 30th 2008 2:43AM]

I know what my 3 year old nephew is getting for Xmas !!

[ShadowMaker @ Apr 30th 2008 6:06AM]

Forget about my nephew. I know what I'm getting this christmas!

[zorkon65 @ Apr 30th 2008 2:45AM]

i for one welcome ar....wait, thats are new overlor..... is it april fools again?

[halooooom @ Apr 30th 2008 3:43AM]

i hope you mean OUR new overlords.

[iruka @ Apr 30th 2008 4:00AM]

Cute little thing. I want one!

[Ian @ Apr 30th 2008 4:07AM]

they should have made it a trash compactor.. then it would have actually made sense and practical

[John Connor @ Apr 30th 2008 6:21AM]

If you kick it into pieces does it put itself back together?

[cd.patterson @ Apr 30th 2008 11:46AM]

That looks a LOT like the robot from the movie Short Circuit (

[h8rain @ Apr 30th 2008 9:11AM]

"The premise of the film finds WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter - Earth-Class) cleaning up the Earth's trash after rampant, unchecked consumerism made the planet uninhabitable. So how do they promote the film? You got it, they launch a new line of plastic WALL-E robots..."

Too funny.

[Windzilla @ Apr 30th 2008 10:23AM]

it begs the question, will it take the trash out?

put another way

will it take itself out?

[Rick @ Apr 30th 2008 5:24PM]

Cute, but at $200 and in the mist of a recession, I don't expect them to sell many.

[dataminer49er @ Apr 30th 2008 11:46AM]

Apparently trash dumpsters are 6 inches tall in the future.

[DGT @ Apr 30th 2008 1:12PM]

No disassemble! Johnny 5 is alive!!!

[pgpprotector @ Apr 30th 2008 12:31PM]

I can't wait to see how some will hack this :D

[coffee @ Apr 30th 2008 12:53PM]

You have to appreciate Disney's balls in producing an anti-consumerism movie, being one of the worst offenders in the fast-food-tie-in, limited-time DVD producing, doll-collecting, game-producing, character-selling world they inhabit.

[Luis @ Apr 30th 2008 2:53PM]

Maker Faire San Mateo, Ca is May 3&4.

[retinaburn @ Apr 30th 2008 6:16PM]

All this needs is a scene in the WALL-E movie where he finds a trash-cubed version of himself, and the cycle will be complete.

[davelei @ May 4th 2008 11:51PM]

Lego Mindstorms Wall-E...
http://www.davelei.net/lego