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.
posted Apr 30th 2008 1:44AM
My roomba just got a new friend
Stop watching them make out, you perv!!!
Woo hoo!! :D
Can't wait!
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...
Johnny 5 had babies! They're Alive!
Robots usually strive for efficiency, which in this case could mean trashing out earth's inhabitants.
this looks like Johnny Five's Bastard Child.
http://www.soulbounce.com/soul/blog_images/johnny5isalive.jpg
I know what my 3 year old nephew is getting for Xmas !!
Forget about my nephew. I know what I'm getting this christmas!
i for one welcome ar....wait, thats are new overlor..... is it april fools again?
i hope you mean OUR new overlords.
Cute little thing. I want one!
they should have made it a trash compactor.. then it would have actually made sense and practical
If you kick it into pieces does it put itself back together?
That looks a LOT like the robot from the movie Short Circuit (
"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.
it begs the question, will it take the trash out?
put another way
will it take itself out?
Cute, but at $200 and in the mist of a recession, I don't expect them to sell many.
Apparently trash dumpsters are 6 inches tall in the future.
No disassemble! Johnny 5 is alive!!!
I can't wait to see how some will hack this :D
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.
Maker Faire San Mateo, Ca is May 3&4.
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.
Lego Mindstorms Wall-E...
http://www.davelei.net/lego