Voice Activated, Interactive Dancing R2-D2 Astromech Droids

by Scott Beale on December 21, 2008 · 3 comments

What’s better than a chorus line of voice activated dancing R2-D2 droids?

BIGDPRODUKTIONS has video of a R2-D2 dancing to The Imperial March.

R2D2 Astromech blog has a video of a dancing R2-D2 at Maker Faire 2008.

Want your own dancing R2-D2? The Star Wars Interactive Electronic R2-D2 Astromech Droid is available on Amazon or you can build your own.

For more info on Astromech droids, check out Wikipedia and the Star Wars Wiki.

via The Official Star Wars Blog

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{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Enric December 21, 2008 at 1:54 pm

In time the full R2D2 will be created…

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2 Bonnie Burton December 22, 2008 at 11:02 am

I always love watching little kids interact with R2-D2. ;-)

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3 Ashley January 13, 2009 at 9:25 pm

Wher can I get a big R2 like the bottom video? The toy one is so small.

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