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Robotic Luxo Jr. Lamp Is a Must on Every Pixar Fan Desk

Thinkway Toys's Pixar desk accessory/lamp/toy/thingamabob has a Luxo Jr. that moves and illuminates exactly like in the movie. As you can see in the video, you can activate it with a motion sensor and a remote control, a key ring in the shape of the the ball. It's cool for a piece of plastic, but I wish it really was a full-scale robot version of the iconic Luxo lamp that Pixar used in their second short. Hopefully we will have one of those next decade. A flying one. With lasers. And antimatter torpedoes. [Thinkway Toys via Slashfilm]

3:10 PM on Fri Aug 8 2008
By Jesus Diaz
15,697 views, 34 comments

Latest by Monoplex: I have one (not unboxed yet) and I am beyond fired up seeing what this critter can do. Woo-hoo! Please do more »

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Up: New Pixar Movie Has Us Completely Puzzled

With Wall-e still hot in our minds, Pixar has shown their new movie teaser at Comic-Con 08. It's called Up and the movie plot has us completely puzzled: More »

11:00 AM on Sun Jul 27 2008
By Jesus Diaz
23,722 views, 52 comments

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Remote Controlled "Ultimate Wall-E" Available For Pre-Order at $250

Maybe it was a miscalculation, or perhaps it is Disney trying to capitalize on the success of the film, but the Ultimate Wall-E remote controlled robot is now available for pre-order at $250—about $60 more than originally expected. Not a big deal, though—this toy is so feature-packed, it is almost like having the real thing. [Disney]

4:57 PM on Tue Jul 22 2008
By Sean Fallon
10,096 views, 25 comments

Latest by N/A: How big is this thing? It can't be all that "ultimate" if it runs off of 4 AA batteries. more »

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Wall-E Animator Tops Everyone Who Ever Wanted to Make a LEGO Wall-E

Were you thinking of building your own Wall-E out of LEGO? Pfft. I mean, no, go ahead. Just don't ever put it next to this model by Angus MacLane, who actually helped animate the film. Because, as good as yours may look, he can always play the "well, the way we do things at Pixar..." card on you. So how does he rate his own performance? More »

1:30 PM on Fri Jun 27 2008
By Mark Wilson
30,239 views, 28 comments

Latest by Purple Dave: The eyes are indeed shaped a bit oddly (though there is a limit to how much you can do to more »

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Wall-E Review: One of the Best Sci-Fi Movies in Years, Disguised as a Cartoon

Wall-E might be the most sympathetic, lovable robot ever created on film. While R2-D2 was hilarious and endearing, he had the benefit of C3PO to translate for him and a cast of human characters to carry the weight of the story. At the end of the day, R2-D2 was simply comic relief, but his descendant, whose voice was also created by Ben Burtt, is so full of humanity that you feel like your heart might just burst. Simply put, Wall-E is a masterpiece. More »

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11:00 AM on Fri Jun 27 2008
By Adam Frucci
53,280 views, 154 comments

Latest by N/A: i've seen it.it's terrible boring!they don't talk until the end of the movie..but okay. there are a few funny scenes:) more »

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WALL-E Made From ORIGAM-E

As if yesterday's Iron Man origami wasn't enough to seal artist Brian Chan into our hearts for ever and ever, he's created an even more impressive paper robot masterpiece: an origami WALL-E. To quell rumors started in the comments yesterday, yes, this model is folded from one uncut piece of paper.

And if you don't believe that, here's the pattern for you to try for yourself (before failing and just taking everyone's word for it): More »

12:20 PM on Wed Jun 25 2008
By Mark Wilson
16,999 views, 36 comments

Latest by DeadWriter: The tracks fold out to 2 flat planes. Loop the planes together to form the tracks. more »

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Wall-e Is Huge Glorious Robot Clusterfrak

Explorer robots, pilot robots, cleaning robots, broken robots. Robots robots robots. Robots everywhere. After drooling over this featurette on Pixar's Wall-e robot cast—with the creative team getting all Jon Iveish with us, explaining how their design follows function—we can only say two things: first, consider us officially excited. And two, we are happy George Lucas is not involved with this movie at all.

7:26 AM on Mon Jun 23 2008
By Jesus Diaz
5,061 views, 26 comments

Latest by dontforget: @OMG! Ponies!: o, my b. did not know more »

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New Wall-E Promotion Posters Invoke 1950s Ad Stylings

Fans of retro-styled poster art and Pixar films can now buy Eric Tan's 1950s throwback WALL-E prints. The WALL-E designs, which include pictures of Wall-E and Eve next to slogans such as “The Future is NOW!” were previously handed out as promotional postcards at the San Diego Comic Con 2007. These new poster-size versions measure 13 inches by 19 inches and cost $165 unframed. More »

2:30 PM on Sun Jun 22 2008
By Elaine Chow
18,625 views, 44 comments

Latest by Jones91: @keene: words that would make Dave Ramsey proud :-) kudos more »

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Lego-Built Wall-E: It Was Only a Matter of Time

It was only a matter of time before someone decided to tackle a Lego version of Disney-Pixar's cute little cash cow Wall-E. After a three month planning session, Joe Meno, editor of BrickJournal magazine, managed to get the job done. The result is a very impressive model that features a moving neck and arms along with rolling treads. Hit the Flickr gallery for the full set of photos. [Flickr via Brothers Brick]

3:10 PM on Tue Jun 17 2008
By Sean Fallon
13,352 views, 38 comments

Latest by KarinDiscoGirl: @Git Em SteveDave is thinking about knipples: AWWWW he DOES look sad! Sorta makes me think of Puss in Boots more »

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New Clip From Wall-E Movie Hits Intertubes

It's been a while since we showed you a new clip of Wall-E, so it'll please you to know that over at Slashfilm they've got one, apparently shown during ABC's screening of Finding Nemo. We won't spoil it by telling you much, but there's some Eve in there too and a great demo of some Newtonian physics in action: check it out, and remember the movie's due the 27th this month. [Slashfilm]

12:05 PM on Mon Jun 9 2008
By Kit Eaton
15,432 views, 47 comments

Latest by Mike918: It's freaking impossible to watch a Wall-E clip without saying a huge awwwwwwww seriously this little guy is super cute...if more »

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Animatronic Wall-E Entertains Guests At Disneyland, Charges $5 For a Popsicle

What's even better than a Wall-E robot toy made by WowWee? A Wall-E robot toy made by the animatronic people at Disney. This Wall-E robot is supposed to roam around Disneyland/Disney World entertaining patrons, but got spotted on the streets of LA panhandling and glad-handing for cash. You know who else can say their name? Timmy from South Park. Wall-E! [Slashfilm]

3:50 PM on Fri May 16 2008
By Jason Chen
10,325 views, 48 comments

Latest by wizzledizzle: I hate that pos. I wish they did not give it that annoying voice. If it sound like that through more »

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Wall-E Movie is Jonathan Ive's Latest Design Job

CNNMoney/Fortune has a story out saying that Eve, the female character to stand opposite Wall-E in the movie of the same name, was designed in part by Apple lead designer Jonathan Ive. The robot design is kinda cool, in that it reminds me of the most recent incarnation of Marvin the Paranoid Android, but the real story to be told is of Ive's day spent with the Pixar guys working on Eve. More »

8:27 PM on Mon May 12 2008
By Adrian Covert
32,217 views, 39 comments

Latest by tehronin: + comes bundled with QuickTime! more »

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Wall-E Robot Toy In Action

We just saw the Wall-E toy in action, and it's a pretty interesting toy (although not $190 worth of interesting). The best features include fully articulating tank treads, 10 motors, audio and vision sensors, remote control by both joystick and touchpad, individual shutters on each eye, and collision detection. Wall-E also has a "follow me" mode that'll allow a Wall-E to stick to a kid or dog and track it around the house. (We would have tried it out, but it was far too noisy and crowded at Maker Faire for Wall-E to track anything or anyone reliably.) [Maker Faire and Wall-E]

2:38 PM on Sun May 4 2008
By Brian Lam
59,220 views, 26 comments

Latest by N/A: Their's actually I another version out of Wall-e called U Command Wall-e and it's only 39.99 a bit on the more »

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Ultimate Wall-E Robot Being Brought to Life by Disney, Thinkway Toys

Disney is teaming up with Thinkway Toys to make Wall-E into a real robot. The toy, titled Ultimate Wall-E, will retail at a stonking $189.99 and will ship this summer. The robot will feature 10 motors for movement, remote control, programming mode and obstacle, sound and touch detection sensors for basic environment interactions. More »

4:14 AM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Haroon Malik
26,734 views, 41 comments

Latest by N/A: Here is a nice safe looking robot for all you parents to buy for your kiddies!! [www.yankodesign.com] more »

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Pixar's Wall•e New Full Trailer Blasts Us Into Space

I've to confess that I wasn't sure about Pixar's upcoming Wall•e, the story of a robot who is left behind to clean Earth by a starbound human race. After seeing how amazingly mindblowtastic the full trailer is, it's now higher than the greatest drunk hero of all time in the must-watch list, although still below the man with the fedora and the whip. What do you think?

3:38 PM on Wed Mar 12 2008
By Jesus Diaz
41,326 views, 74 comments

Latest by vikingrawk: Thank you, Gizmodo! If I hadn't stumbled across your 'Question of the Day: Which of These Upcoming Geek Movies Do more »

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Wall-E GameCube Mod is Too Cute (but Not Too Cute for the Giz)

Long before the Pixar movie hits the big screen this summer, a group of German modders have been inspired by Wall-E's cuteness to take an old and unloved Nintendo GameCube and some scraps of metal and acrylic, and put together a sweet mod that looks just like the little robot himself. It even has tank treads and a flip-down shutter, like Wall-E's, over the Gamecube's ports. Frankly, its so loveably "realistic" that we're pre-emptively sniffly, imagining what the movie will be like. [Bit-Tech via TechEBlog]

10:50 AM on Thu Feb 21 2008
By Kit Eaton
37,091 views, 24 comments

Latest by Simpsons-Movie-ruled: @SirNirian: who cares??!?!?!?It made this adorable "aaawwwww"esome robot more »

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Disney Goes Blu-ray 1.1 With Sleeping Beauty, Finding Nemo

Disney just announced some Blu profile 1.1 firsts for them: that Sleeping Beauty will start its Platinum Edition Blu-ray Disc collecting in Fall 2008 (with special features like a Virtual Castle and interactive games) with 7.1 surround sound. Finding Nemo will also be joining it shortly afterwards. A whole bunch of non-animation Disney films will be released as well in 2008, and they're listed after the jump. More »

3:57 PM on Sat Jan 5 2008
By Jason Chen
6,059 views, 14 comments

Latest by x23: Song of the South? more »

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Mllamp Brings Luxo Jr. to Life

Kitchen Budapest's Mllamp project is out to give everyday items the ability to simulate emotions. As you can see from the video, a pair of lamps have been rigged to mimic human emotions. What those human emotions are, we're not sure. We just know that these lamps totally remind us of Pixar's mascot, Luxo Jr. [Kitchen Budapest]

1:30 PM on Thu Nov 22 2007
By Christopher Mascari
7,212 views, 8 comments

Latest by ideaman2020: Why would I possibly want my appliances to show emotions? See "Adams, Douglas"... more »

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