There is a freestyle section of the game where you can play on your own but it’s much better with two playing, where the game turns into a competitive musical version of snap. It’s good, addictive fun and the best thing about it is that it’s been designed so you can’t really make a bum note, regardless of how tone deaf you actually are. The only thing you need to do this is your phone and the accompanying app.ĭropMix comes equipped with 60 cards and depending on how you put the cards down, you can mashup myriad songs or remix hits. The DropMix Bluetooth-equipped board consists of five color-coded spaces (similar to the fret on a Rock Band guitar) and the idea is that you ‘drop’ NFC-enabled cards onto the relevant slot to make sweet music. It’s made by Harmonix, the folks behind Rock Band, and is a card game of sorts where you can make music with your friends. If you've been holding off buying a DIY droid, consider this Artoo to end your search.Ĭould get even more costly with extra packsĭropMix is one of the most original games to grace this Best Toys list. With a new coding feature based on the Scratch Books platform launching in mid-April, there will be even more ways to customize and play with the Droid Inventor Kit than ever before. In our tests, it was fun and not fiddly to put together, thanks to the little magnets that mean the blocks snap together effortlessly, and the little Star Wars flourishes are a joy. This is a full-on masterclass in teaching electronics without feeling like you are at school. And while it plays like a toy, there’s a decent amount of education hidden within the fun. You can also control it to do a number of missions and activities. Much like the Sphero R2-D2, this is very much official Star Wars merchandise, so the droid - once you put the thing together - has more than 20 Artoo sounds and will roam around your house self navigating itself.
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Comprising 23 Droid parts, 6 Bits (the connectors that make everything work) and a whole host of stickers, the idea is that you build your very own R2-D2 and then code it to do things, thanks to the accompanying app. The Star Wars Droid Inventor Kit is a fantastic 3D jigsaw puzzle of a toy, that comes with its own moving parts. Now it’s the turn of R2-D2, thanks to the incredible connected toy from littleBits. In the Star Wars universe it was always C-3P0 that was being dismantled and put back together again. Australian readers: check out a fine alternative in the Sphero Mini
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Everywhere you look there is something Star Wars and that is a trend that is set to continue, thanks to Disney making sure that there will be a new Star Wars movie every single year.