- Hi, it's Parris from Epic Review Guys,
and in today's episode of Santa's Pick Saturday,
where we pick the top 10 toys for Christmas 2015,
there are two BB-8 Droid toys,
and they are not the same,
I'll explain a little about that to you,
and we'll talk about this Target exclusive BB-8,
goes for 80 dollars and I'll put a link to it
down below this video.
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- [Parris] This BB-8 Droid from the new Star Wars movie
is a Target exclusive
and I didn't see the other BB-8 being sold at Target,
so I don't think there will be any confusion,
there's the Target one, and the other one,
this one, again, goes for 80 dollars,
it's about half the price
of the other droid.
This version of the BB-8, is definitely considered a toy,
it's operated by a remote control,
the other one is considered an
interactive piece of electronics.
And I'll tell you briefly about the other model of BB-8,
this one is about twice the cost
and half the size, interestingly,
it's from company called Sphero,
they make these billiard ball sized little electronics
that you control with your smart phone.
I'll be trying out this model of BB-8
in next week's Santa's Pick Saturday,
so be sure and check back for that,
this one you need a smartphone, really,
to get the most out of it,
both to steer it, make it move around,
where you want it to go, it does have a random mode I think,
and the thing a lot of people dislike about this,
is the sounds don't come out of the droid itself,
they come out of your smartphone.
But for today, we're looking at the
less expensive, larger, Target BB-8.
Now we have
the head, the top portion of it
that stays on top as it rolls around.
Still not sure how that works.
I think this is an undressed BB-8,
without the shell,
I think this is a big chunk of,
the whole thing right there,
now this one requires batteries,
some triple A, and some double A batteries,
where as the other droid is rechargeable.
Instructions,
the clothing,
this is the shell
that's going to fit around this.
And a pretty simple remote control.
Here's a close up view of the BB-8 components,
the one from Target,
this has actual texture on it,
I think the Sphero one is just painted,
there's the inside that we're going to put the
main components into,
and then it snaps together.
Here's what goes inside,
it actually sorta looks like a little robot,
with the little arms here, and the head,
and on the bottom,
there are these wheels that aren't flat,
they're at an angle,
that's so it will grip the inside surface of that ball,
basically, and make it roll around.
Here is the head,
now this supposedly has a magnet in it,
and there are magnets,
it feels very lightweight,
so it's hard to believe there's a magnet in here,
here's the remote control,
front, back, right, left,
and if you go forward while going right,
forward while going left, that's about it.
And to give you an idea of the things it can do,
it's pretty simple, you can read the instructions
in a couple minutes and be able to do everything
that this knows how to do, I think.
I've put the four double A batteries in here,
I'm gonna drop it into the sphere,
I guess it doesn't matter where you put it exactly,
I notice there are little tiny wheels
on the ends if the arms that help it
stay in position, no matter whether it's upside down
or right side up.
And it said you shake it gently to wake it up,
so here we go!
Put it there, put this on top,
well, it did catch it, but,
(clapping)
is it awake?
I'm thinking we're not awake.
Well, I tried different things,
including changing out the batteries
on the original BB-8 ball,
this is another one, I went to Target and exchanged it,
I could not get that one to work,
I even had to get one with a smushed top box,
put it together, seems like it's going to work.
Now to wake this up,
I should shake it gently,
put it down, let it settle,
and put this on top.
Okay.
It's working!
It's so cool how the head stays on there,
let's try to go, well I got the remote control in reverse,
it wasn't that cool that time!
Now that is neat.
Okay.
It definitely looks like a drunken robot.
It's a little confusing to tell
where the front is for going forward.
So if I hold the buttons for it to turn and go forward,
seems to go in circles.
Let's try it to other way.
You forgot something.
There we go.
Even without using the remote control,
every so often the BB-8 just sorta decides to say something.
(mechanical whirring)
Just a little thing like that.
(mechanical whirring)
Now to turn this off, you can either wait five minutes,
five minutes without any input from the remote control it--
(mechanical whirring)
Yes. It turns itself off to save battery,
or turn it upside down for two seconds,
and they said be careful of the head falling.
(mechanical whirring)
Yes. He doesn't want me to turn him off.
Be careful of the head falling off.
Two seconds.
(mechanical whirring)
(droid sound effect)
There we go, powering down sound.
Couple of other things,
this has a 10 foot range with this remote control,
different,
different than the other droid,
which controlled by bluetooth on the smartphone
should have a 30 foot range,
also this is line of sight
because it's infrared,
which means you can't operate it around the corner
in another room like you probably could
with the other droid.
Let's try it out now on carpet,
out in the driveway, and also in the lawn.
Time to try it out on carpet,
this is not very thick carpet though.
Doesn't seem to have a problem with carpet.
Looks as drunken sailor-ish as ever.
In the lawn.
Uh-oh.
Oh, once it gets rolling,
it's kind of okay.
(laughter)
Does that mean it's given up?
Oh no, it's just leaving without the head.
And on the sidewalk.
Having a little bit of a hard time out here,
I think because of the sunlight,
they did mention sunlight interferes with
the infrared transmission from the remote control
so it can have trouble picking it up.
Seems to roll just fine on the sidewalk,
even out here in the wind.
So that's the Star Wars BB-8 remote control toy,
this is the one that you can get at Target,
goes for about 80 dollars,
(mechanical whirring)
isn't that expensive? Yes.
You can find a link to it down below this video
if you'd like to check out more about it online,
(mechanical whirring)
oh you know what's coming, yes,
I will be back next week reviewing the BB-8 from Sphero,
this is 150 dollars but it works with your smartphone,
you can, well it does all these things,
you can control it around corners
wherever bluetooth goes, you can control it,
the thing people don't seem
to care for about that particularly
is that the sound effects come through your phone,
which you're holding,
rather than through the BB-8 droid.
(mechanical whirring)
Surprising, isn't it? Yes.
So, we'll see how that turns out,
so be sure and check back next Saturday
for that review,
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