{"id":394991,"date":"2017-09-01T20:17:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T12:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/09\/01\/apple-now-selling-r2-d2-bb-9e-droids\/"},"modified":"2017-09-01T20:17:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T12:17:48","slug":"new-star-wars-toys-added-to-apples-online-store-including-r2-d2-and-bb-9e-droids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/new-star-wars-toys-added-to-apples-online-store-including-r2-d2-and-bb-9e-droids\/","title":{"rendered":"New Star Wars Toys Added to Apple&#8217;s Online Store, Including R2-D2 and BB-9E Droids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A collection of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/shop\/accessories\/all-accessories\/star-wars\">Star Wars toys<\/a>, including Sphero&#8217;s new R2-D2 and BB-9E droids, are now available to purchase from Apple&#8217;s online store.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/09\/bb-9e-r2-d2-star-wars-800x346.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"346\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-585757\"\/><br \/>R2-D2 and BB-9E can be controlled with an iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch. More details can be found in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/08\/31\/sphero-r2-d2-bb-9e-droids\/\">earlier coverage<\/a> of the droids.<\/p>\n<p>Apple&#8217;s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/shop\/accessories\/all-accessories\/star-wars\">Star Wars accessories page<\/a> also has a trio of Star Wars quadcopter drones by Propel, and a kit for creating your own Star Wars droid.<br \/>Apple is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/08\/27\/apple-stores-star-wars-themed-sessions\/\">hosting free Star Wars\u2013themed sessions<\/a> at many of its retail stores starting today through Saturday, September 9.<\/p>\n<p>The new Star Wars toys and sessions are in celebration of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/findtheforce\">Force Friday II<\/a>, which begins today and runs through this weekend. It&#8217;s all to promote <em>Star Wars: The Last Jedi<\/em>, which debuts in theaters December 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collection of Star Wars toys, including Sphero&#8217;s new R2-D2 and BB-9E droids, are now available to purchase from Apple&#8217;s online store. R2-D2 and BB-9E can be controlled with an iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch. More details can be found in our earlier coverage of the droids. Apple&#8217;s new Star Wars accessories page also has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":394992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-394991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}