At the risk of setting myself up for public ridicule, I met John, my husband, at a Star Wars Fan Club meeting. I even likened him to Luke Skywalker (or was it Han Solo) in a giddy love-struck letter I wrote to my parents to introduce him. On our tenth wedding anniversary he bought me a R2-D2 unit that moves around and plays audio files from the movies. So it should come as no surprise that I’ve fallen in love with the R2-D2 DVD projector from Nikko America. What’s even more surprising is that it is so full of features that people who aren’t Star Wars nuts would appreciate it as well.

Nikko America have a coveted license from Lucasfilm Limited to build this one half scale R2-D2 look alike, which plays eleven snippets from the movies and flashes blue, red and green lights in familiar places, just like C3-PO’s little pal does in the movies. The product comes complete with a remote control shaped like a Millenium Falcon, which sits on a stand that plays sounds made by the notorious ship. The cockpit and propulsion system even light up! (I wonder if you can see a wookee inside?)