Electricpig has just returned from Pixar’s studios in San Francisco with the inside story on the Special Edition BD set that’ll launch on November 18. WALL-E is programmed to clean up for Christmas.
If you have had your fill of merchandise join the club, but hats off to this chap – he may be bringing up the rear in terms of release date, but he’s well worth a ripple of applause. Not only does this Lego NXT replica look better than the robotic trashcan of Hollywood fame, but he boasts a feature set to make the original blush.
This week over at the Science Museum in London they’ve an event called “Emotibots” taking place and one of the stars of the show is this spider-like creation called Hexapod.
If your front room floor is looking like the M25 on a friday night for all your robot rubbish collectors roaming about the place and the sides of your sofa are stuffed with sweet dispensing merchandise then the time to take your love for the yellow droid to another level has come.
The monster merchandising bandwagon is unstoppable, we thought that last weeks biscuit robots were going to be the lone offering on belly bound robot goodness but thank goodness we’ve found more confectionery incoming.
WALL-E isn’t scheduled to arrive on these shores for another couple of weeks, but he turned up for a surprise set to close Glastonbury on Sunday night to a packed field, around the same time the Verve were plonking out their rehashed, insipid tunes one more time.
Without wanting to give away too much of the plot, so you can sit back and enjoy the film when it lands on 18 July, here’s a rundown of how WALL-E, EVE and the ragtag bunch of robots that join them stack up against other bots out there.