Customer Ratings & Reviews

Cute little BB-8 remote controlled droid. Works with an app on a smartphone. I still have not tried the watch with BB-8 feature that let's the droid interact while the film is played. The cats love it. It is fun to play with, but how long can you really play with a remote controlled ball? Be aware that it picks up dust and random hairs on the floor so it gets dirty quickly and the hairs and dust get caught in the wheel tracks on the head piece. It is a bit difficult to control, and only works on smooth flat floors. It is very fragile, the wires on the head can easily get bent or broken off. I knew what it was before I bought it, and I am still happy with the purchase. Not for kids unless they are careful, and what kids are careful? It is very expensive for what it is, and I was hoping for more features. Again, still love it, and I do not regret buying it.

Connected really easy and is user friendly. Rooks smoothly on hard surface or carpet. They were right...This was the droid I was looking for!!!!

I bought him the day he came out in hopes he would be the have to have present this year. So every week I have looked to see if there were still BB-8s available and no shortage is evident so I finally opened him today instead of going and buying 10 of them to resell. I love him. He is a blast to play with. Wish I had less carpet in my home but he I still a blast.

Sphero made a really cool compact companion droid. The interaction through the iPhone gives you a futuristic experience. Bb8 will become an inseparable buddy in no time.

This is a fun little Droid. The battery life has been great. Takes a nice bang into the wall well. 2 complaints though. At this price point I think it should work a bit better on carpet. Also it tends to get disoriented when turning multiple directions on a hard surface at speed. Let's not forget list price of this novelty toy is set at 149.99$. Also 2 of the phones I've used with this app/Droid get very hot after 10 minutes of use. But don't let this turn you away it's a fantastic way to pass time!

Easy to use & fun can do many of the features because it is interactive

It's an incredible toy worth it's money. Fun for whole family guaranteed

It's just beautiful. I was able to program it using Javascript

Both my 1 year old and 8 year old love this toy.keeps them busy and that's important to me ,to see them smile.

Great learning toy for youngster, especially ones who are fans of Star Wars!

My son loved his gift and the size on this bb-8 is perfect

The app not a smooth connection to bb8, wish it had a camera

I'm sure that by now everyone already knows about this cute little droid, so I wont bore you with the specifications about it. It's a lot of fun to roll around the house, or to just watch it roam around by itself (and bang into quite a few walls along the way). Somehow this little droid comes across as a real Star Wars droid come to life with how he interacts with everything around him. The app that controls BB-8 is put together well, and it's very easy to use for almost any age. I do like how the developers have made it so BB-8 can receive future updates to his software. This means there will be new things added to BB-8 every once in a while to give him new actions, sounds, etc. The fact that I now have BB-8 from the new Star Wars movie in my home is really neat, but the part that makes it great is that it moves and looks almost exactly like how the movie trailers show BB-8. Overall this is a great little droid, and I think that anyone who is a fan of Star Wars, or is just attracted by BB-8's cute looks should buy him. Even though it is a little pricey, it's worth it in my opinion.

I was pretty impressed. It did not take too long to get used to controlling the droid. You can even slow down the speed which was really helpful in learning to control it. The sounds and the twitchy movement were very realistic to the droids in the movies. I use this on my hardwood floors and good to play with pets, although pet hair can get caught in the underside of the head, but you can easily clean it out. And it does not seem to affect the movement of the droid much. I think this is a great gift for yourself or someone else.

Transcends a robot toy. Engaging and fun to play with. "Eyes" face the direction it moves towards. So disarming one easily anthromophirizes BB-8. Bystanders are taken by its ease of operation. Bring it with me on trips. Scoots along quite well and can hop onto thinner rugs. Recommend taking a moment and blowing off excess carpet fiber and lint the rollers in the head track after each use. Not for smaller kids to operate. Really grows on you. More than I ever thought, indeed BB-8 Is the Droid I Didn't Know I Was Looking For!

It comes with rechargeable batteries(last 60 minutes) that recharge on the wireless charging station. You can recorder video message, connect thru Bluetooth,Voice interaction, must be on ios 8(idk for andriod). There are future firmware updates that will give it more features, but u have to remember that there is hardware limitations. May get stuck in carpet you'll have to wiggle it like in this video. If your playing on a hard/flat floor u should be fine. Here is a video https://youtu.be/b6oXfzbUY70

My BB-8 was purchased as a impulse-buy replacement for a cat. Turns out, he is just like a cat. I can set BB-8 to amble about the house, on his own, and it just kind of works for what I wanted it to do. It was smaller than I imagined when I first saw it advertised, but the size is good because it gives BB-8 more room to move and play.

Going into buying this, I was just getting over a birthday of mine & wanted to buy something for me. So I started strolling through this website and came across this BB-8 Droid by Sphero. Bought it on an impulse. I love this little droid, but there really isn't much to it. You play with it, & it rolls around. The sounds it makes comes through the app on your phone; and the battery only lasts for about an hour, then you have to charge it for three hours to have a complete charge. Sphero promises that the droid will do more as time goes on. Realistically the droid is just a great paperweight until you have a case of Writer's Block and want to get some juices flowing...or maybe you just don't know if you want to play a game or watch a movie, so you turn BB-8 on and loose a good 15-30 minutes. It's a fun thing to lose time to, but other than that; there's not much to it. It has amazing technology in it, but until it can roam around my house freely or they make an extra headpiece for it that has a camera built in, this is just a good looking paperweight that you can play with. I'd recommend this as a buy, but only if you have the money to spend and aren't hurting. If not, wait for it to reach around $80 or so.

I did not have high expectations before purchasing bb-8. It was a pleasant surprise how much it can do and how toys are becoming more advanced. Definitely a tad steep for the price of this toy. However, I liked the packaging and enjoyed playing with the little bot and watching him in patrol mode.

Quick to get around. Head falls off. Bb-8 not always responds after 10 feet and app sometimes freezes or maybe just my phone, galaxy prevail. Would be better if BB-8 made noises and not from the phone and include camera inside eye to see where BB-8 is when roaming. Overall fun to play with and happy to have it. Also being a Star Wars collector. Would be cooool to see something like this for Star Trek also!!!