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Okay, this guy has a good job, running the remote control on an R2-D2 robot at this past weekend's Maker Faire. There were about a half dozen of them at the west entrance to the Fiesta Hall, which I've always thought of as the Burning Man Rave Tent since the inside is all Tesla coils and flashing lights and techno music. Yawn. But at this entrance, it's lots of little kids being enchanted by their favorite droid from Star Wars. Across the way, there was a corral of Wall-E bots, which were also pretty cute.
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Too beautiful ! Were they selling them or what ?? I have always wanted a large wall-e pretty bad after I saw the movie !! :~) Phil.