Wal-Mart Exclusive Funko Pop! Toy Reveals Resistance BB Unit.
If the merchandise is of any indication, BB-8 and BB-9E won’t be the only BB droids in town. A new BB unit, which will be aligned with the Resistance, has been revealed as a Funko Pop! Wal-Mart exclusive.
As seen on r/StarWarsLeaks, someone has taken a photo of a Wal-Mart exclusive Funko Pop!: a Resistance BB unit.
From the looks of things, it appears as though the “flat heads” seem to be the default version of these particular droids, most likely as a way to make BB-8 visually stand out. Disney likely made a small fortune off of BB-8 merchandise alone with The Force Awakens, so it’s not too surprising to learn that we’ll be seeing more BB droids from here on out.
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Well Poe did say he was “one of a kind”
Will it be revealed that BB units are only used by the First Order and that BB-8 is a reprogrammed droid like K2S0?
That’s actually kind of cool.
BB units were originally designed as therapy droids (according to the Aftermath series) and have been around in some form since the Battle of Endor or shortly thereafter.
There goes my theory. I guess I shouldnt find it odd that the First Order needs therapy droids. But I do.
I know technology moves on, but I personally would have preferred to see more updated R2 units … R12-D2 maybe?
New R2 units and protocol droids competing against R2 and 3PO during a scene in the resistance base would be funny.
A boyfriend/sidekick for BB8, (I seem to remeber hearing the crew referring to it as femenine??)
Why do utilitarian robots need genders and the ability to love? Unless it’s some kind of sex robot…
Do sex robots have to have a gender?
They changed that pretty quickly. Of course, droids can have male or female gender programming.
Unkar Plutt – “What about the droid? I’ll pay for him.”
Another example,
Kylo Ren to Rey – “Tell me about the droid”
Rey – “He’s a BB unit with a selenium drive and a thermal hyperscan vindicator.”
BB-66
One of things that troubled me about the TFA is the lack of droids. You saw a few of R2 units but only the one BB model compared to the originals where they popped up all over the place.
i just got my resistance bb unit from my local walmart and it wouldn’t scan so the manager let me have it for $2 because it wasnt in the system