As Star Wars tie-ins go, this is a geek’s dream come true: Currys and PC World have secured the services of R2D2 and C3PO to promote their stores. George Lucas’s mechanical cash cows turned shop dummies? You saw it here first. Read on, and see the TV ad in full.
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Just when Artoo fans thought it was safe to lift the restrictions on their credit cards after a battering from the ice bucket, entertainment system, alarm clock and fridge, we’ve stumbled upon another reincarnation of the droid.
If there’s one thing we know, it’s that you can never have too many R2D2 themed gadgets. From clocks to cakes we’ve seen them all. All except this R2D2 fridge that is.
There are reincarnations-a-plenty of Star Wars’ most famous droid, a silly money home entertainment system and a quirky RC amongst them, but the merchandising machine knows no boundaries and is as ruthless as Darth Vader when it comes to using the force against your wallet. Now there’s this: an R2D2 clock.
R2D2 may have been the unsung hero of Star Wars, but what about those other R2 units forced to sit in the shadows while our trashcan-shaped buddy was out mingling with Princess Leia? Well now it’s their turn to shine.
For many Star Wars fans R2D2 was the cool rebel robot to C3PO’s conformist ways. But now that reputation has been taken a bit too literally with the R2D2 Ice Bucket.
Radio One DJ Chris Moyles took delivery of his half-scale multi-function entertainment unit over the weekend admitting he couldn’t quite remember making the two grand purchase online last year due to inebriation.
The DVD playing, iPod docking, stereo-sound delivering dustbin on wheels has had us hot under the collar since our first sighting back in early 2007 but seemed to be consigned to the scrap yard after Nikko went bust in the UK.