My only purchase from Black Friday was something that I didn’t think I would pick up.
I didn’t get BB-8 a couple of years back, and I didn’t get any of the new droids on Force Friday.
But for Black Friday, Best Buy dropped the price by $50(!) AND threw in a free Force Band.
I played with both, and found them both amusing, and I’ll probably play with them more over time. The Force Band takes some practice to drive the droid. But the Holocron mode is kinda cool, finding holocrons and unlocking things within the app, like weapons and characters and ships and planets. The weapons allow you to pretend to armed with those weapons (so far a blaster and a bowcaster) and make gestures to make pew-pew sounds.
The app is much more fun to play with, because you can make R2 ’emote’ and make sounds. I have yet to try watching one of the films with R2, who is supposed to respond to scenes throughout the movies.
Overall, I’m happy with this little guy, as I’ve wanted a full-sized R2 unit since I was 10.
