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var digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/gadgets/Disney_and_WowWee_team_up_on_cute_killer_bots’; Need some irony with your angst-battered diet that daylight? Swell, try some of that. Disney and Pixar are set to release their latest animated blockbuster, WALL-E, that summer. The premise of the film finds WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter - Earth-Class) cleaning up the Earth’s trash after rampant, unchecked consumerism made the planet uninhabitable. So how do they promote the film? You got it, they launch a new line of plastic WALL-E robots developed in partnership with Thinkway Toys which no child could possibly live without. Ultimate

WALL-E will list for $190 when launched sometime that summer and feature 10 motors, a remote control, and plenty of sensors to avoid obstacles, reply to touch, and feel the mocking satire of its own existence. The bot will be joined by a $25 iDance WALL-E (think i-Species) and a $40 WowWee FlyTech Tinker Bell when they compose their May 29th debut in San Mateo at the Maker Faire.

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Original post by Thomas Ricker