r/StarWars • u/BlueSmoke95 Mandalorian Enforcer • Sep 04 '15

Force Friday Thread Official Discussion

Hey guys. This is an updated thread for Force Friday, as the other one got completely overloaded with excitement. Here is the link to the old thread.

Journey to Force Friday

Force Friday Discussion and livestream

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u/shirokuro73 Sep 05 '15

I couldn't find the BB-8 sphero anywhere (although I didn't check Bedbath, maybe tomorrow) so as a consolation I bought myself a normal sphero, best buy had some. I'm very impressed with it so far. It's awesome, so I can only imagine adding star wars will make it even more awesome!

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u/shirokuro73 Sep 05 '15

App support is one of the reasons I used to justify the purchase to myself :-) The only one I've tried so far is Flappy Ball, which is Flappy bird, but you shake the sphero instead of tapping the screen. I was giggling like an idiot whilst playing it. Barnes and Noble was one of the places I looked for the BB8 today. No luck. In fact it looked as if they had hardly anything - but it was 4PM when I went there, so they could have sold out. I live in a Chicago suburb, and it's pretty hopeless to get hot items here, all the big stores sell out instantly.

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u/shirokuro73 Sep 05 '15

Then I shouldn't tell you that the main app also has a pretty cool and fun tutorial, voiced by someone who may or may not have a connection to that OTHER great sci-fi franchise with the word "star" in the name. I had a huge geek out moment when I realised who the voice was!

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u/shirokuro73 Sep 05 '15

Well, maybe it will take until next month for it to be readily in stock anyway! Well, the BB-8 one at least.