Say goodbye to the cute robot BB-8 Sphero. Practically, say goodbye to all the licensed products of the firm, covering R2-D2, BB-9E and McQueen car lighting. According to the Verge, Sphero plans to implement a personal surviving inventory of licensed toys, but it will no longer produce more as soon as it is completed. Indeed, the lists of products on the site Sphero says: "this is an archaic product and is no longer performed."However, the company does not simply stop the production of models: it completely stops its license partnership, due to the fact that it is no longer necessary to allocate resources for their creation.

Sphero CEO Paul Berberian explained that, but the toys sold perfectly when their films were released, fewer and fewer people took them over the years. "When you launch the toy, your 1st year is the biggest. Your 2 year is much less, and the 3rd year is absolutely tiny, " he said. Star Wars: the Force Awakens, who worked as BB-8's debut film, hit theaters in 2015.

This is probably one of the reasons why Sphero's solemn implementations were bad enough in 2017, forcing it to reduce working spaces and focus on education. Now the company will devote their time, staff and resources to their own educational toys, which with the period bought fame. In case you already have Star Wars bots, the good news is that toymaker will continue to support its own applications in the direction of at least 2 years. It is likely that you will try to take them out and play with them from time to time, before the sphere completely categorically abandon them.