What you’re seeing in the above gif is the innards of the BB-8 model that flatly disproved fan theories that the beloved droid could only exist as a CGI creation. On a panel with the animatronics experts behind The Force Awakens,we learned that there is in fact a small army of BB-8s, all purpose-built for different applications, or the remarkable engineering in the gif above was strictly for Hollywood’s red carpet. Read more...
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