Star Wars: Return of the Jedi celebrates its 40th Anniversary this year, and Disney is celebrating. Releasing as part of their Droid Factory line, a new and deep-cut Astromech figure has arrived.

Having been a Star Wars fan since the second grade—when Episode IV became the first movie I saw more than once in the theaters—I was downright giddy to receive and review this R2-D2 pocket projector.

The $25,000 full-size astromech droid on sale in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland has attracted more buyers than you might expect for such a big ticket item. Three of the pricey remote ...

In 2012, Disney would take reintroduced the Droid Factory from Hasbro at the Disney Parks in Florida and California. This line allowed visitors to create and purchase their own custom astromech droid ...

Following the launch of BB-8 in 2015, and R2-D2 and BB-9E last month, Sphero has introduced an all-new iPhone-controlled droid ahead of New York Comic-Con, which begins today. This one is R2-Q5 and is ...

Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She is the author of the books Live or Die: Survival Hacks, Wizarding World: Movie Magic Amazing Artifacts, The Star ...

We’ll have to wait and see how different they are in The Last Jedi, but at least as far as Sphero’s droids are concerned, the BB-9E is functionally identical to the BB-8 in most respects. It has the ...