Star Wars Autonomous Droid Testing in Tomorrowland

[jocarol]

All those kids did was touch it. I was expecting to see them riding it or attacking it with souvenir lightsabers from the way you guys were talking.

 

[Practical Pig]

All those kids did was touch it. I was expecting to see them riding it or attacking it with souvenir lightsabers from the way you guys were talking.

At the 0:55 to 0:57 point in the video, a young girl actually does start to climb aboard, and (presumably) her father tells her not to. That was a responsible parent, but ...

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

They have briefly featured a walk around See Threepio that is extremely cool. Seems like a no-brainer. I don't know who this robot is, but he's lame.

 

[Stevek]

At the 0:55 to 0:57 point in the video, a young girl actually does start to climb aboard, and (presumably) her father tells her not to. That was a responsible parent, but ...

Dad should have grounded her as soon as they got home for calling it R2-D2...or made her watch Phantom Menace on a loop for 8 hours.

 

[malice]

Just some stray observations:
Cool, the boy at the beginning and in the thumbnail is resting his foot on the robot
The dad airkicks the robot at 0:33
Your hands are dirty, get them out of your mouth!

 

[Phroobar]

Dad should have grounded her as soon as they got home for calling it R2-D2...or made her watch Phantom Menace on a loop for 8 hours.

Kids like the Phantom Menace and the rest of the prequels. Those movies are their Star Wars. Heck, I was at a TRU picking up a Jedi Master Luke figure. The girl at the cash register thought it was Qui-Gon Jinn. I set her straight. She didn't know who Luke was. Someone didn't raise the millennials very well.

 

[brb1006]

In reality this is no different from Push or R2-D2 roaming around the park. It will be treated like any other meet and greet.

I can also see these droids wondering around the ride line but just out of reach from guests. It could be worst. A kid might try to take a dump on one like a kid in Shanghai Disneyland.

Only difference is that Push could talk so at least Push could tell guests not to get in his way or climb on him.