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title: Tiny Working Replica of The Force Awakens’ BB-8 Droid — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/tiny-working-replica-of-the-force-awakens-bb-8-droid/
date: 2015-04-21
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# Tiny Working Replica of The Force Awakens’ BB-8 Droid

Like with R2-D2, BB-8, the adorable rolling droid companion that will be appearing in Star Wars: The Force Awakens this December, was realized as an actual remote control prop on-set, not computer graphics. And just days after the robot was officially revealed on stage at Star Wars Celebration, some brilliant hacker has created a perfect RC replica of their own—although a little smaller in scale.