Droid Depot

This app is awesome if you have a droid from galaxy’s edge and are curious what else it can do! I had a lot of fun playing with my droid and sort of bonding with him. My only complaint is that if you have more than one droid you have to individually connect them to play, they aren’t in the same place. I love the app but it would be great if there was an option to make more than one droid profile in the same place. It’s really annoying that I have to take the time to connect the droid I want to play with and basically have to log out of the other profile. Another thing I think would be nice is an option for people with more than one droid so that you can have the two droids interact with each other. Kind of so that they can talk back and forth and sort of get to know each other. All these things would be really nice to have and I think would make the app more interesting

I have created 2 droids for myself and 1 for my grandma at Galaxy’s Edge so I was excited when I saw this app advertised in an email today. It took a second to get things going ( for all those complaining it won’t connect to your droids, I had to turn off the physical controller and only have the droids on to obtain connection). The fact that you can have your droid dance to DJ-R3X is AMAZING. DJ-R3X’s soundtrack is one of my favorite go-to albums and I’m excited that I can share the beats with my astromech friends! I was able to connect both of my droids separately and create their profiles and it’s great to see their profiles are remembered when switching connections back and forth. I really do hope the developers continue to update this app with more content as I would love to see my droids become even more alive than they are now. My only qualm is that I cannot have both droids connected at once to have a little dance party, but I do understand the limitations of a brand new app. Please keep more droid content coming and Happy May the 4th!! - Sincerely ‘a Droid Sympathizer’

There are a few other droids and droid apps out there that have features that I don’t imagine would be all that difficult to include in Depot droids: Autonomy: I have the old Target BB-8 droid. You can set it to just roam around your house or patrol. I also have the D-0 droid which can chase a ball and can interact with proximity. A couple of these features may need proximity sensors on droids, but the BB-8 droid also allows you to program in a series of moves. Interactivity: my daughter has L0-LA59. It doesn’t fly or walk, but it talks and moves on its own. It can be put to sleep and it reacts to touch. All of these features in a Depot droid, which already exist in this droid would be a significant improvement. They’d be fairly simple to integrate into R-unit heads. Communication: remember Furbies? They could talk to each other and interact with users voices. If you could figure out how to make BB-8 role with a magnetic head, it shouldn’t be all that difficult to build sensors to pick up noises, especially from other droids. This feature, plus proximity sensors, and some basic autonomy (like a Roomba) would be worth flying all the way to a Disney to make all new droids.

The app is great, but there's one thing about it that's bugging me. I wanted to write the developers to see if they can fix it, but I can't find any contact info for them, so I've decided to write a review in the hopes that the developers will see it and implement this small request. In the app, we can give our droid a custom name. Unfortunately, this name can only be 4 character total in length. Before I knew about the app, I named my little guy FR-3N (pronounced Fren, like short for friend). Unfortunately, I cannot include the dash in the name for him in the app, as that makes the name 5 characters technically. I was able to name him FR3N, but it's not quite the same. Without the dash, it doesn't really look like a droid name. If possible, I'd love to see the name character limit expanded, even if only by one character (or perhaps make a dash a character that doesn't factor into the count). It might not be a big deal to many people, but it makes me kinda sad that I can't give him his proper name. It's kinda like being forced to write a nickname on the birth certificate of my child (though not quite as severe for obvious reasons). Aside from this shortcoming, the app seems to be wonderful. I hope the devs see this review and take my request into consideration. Thank you for reading!

Amazing app overall, I especially like the dancing feature. It’s really funny. I like how you can control it on a nice controller other than the big , clunky controller that they give you at the parks. For the tic tac toe thing, eh, ok pretty easy though. If they were to add a super hard difficulty I would probably like it more, it’s just really easy to beat the droid. My only other complaint is the one addressed in the title. On both the droid builder AND the profile, you cannot set your droid as a C series, and I find this very frustrating as it forces me to set the name as either a bb, or r2, r3, r4, r5, etc. even when my droid is really a C series. Also on the droid builder you can’t build a C but that’s minor compared to the former. But overall good app.

My husband and I each built a droid on our honeymoon at WDW. While I’ve played with mine a little, seeing the app release was so exciting! While simple, the tic tac toe and dancing activities were cute and made me smile (which we can all use right now). I loved how my droid responded during the activities! I also appreciate that sounds are synced while you use the app to drive—I’m really bad at pressing the sound button while using the plastic remote, so this was a nice addition. Like others, I would love options for multiple droids in a future update! And one note: it took me a long time to figure out how to get the music to play because my phone is always on “silent mode”. Just triggering volume won’t work in this app, you have to fully toggle sound on to hear the sounds in the app!

First off, the app is great! I love how it lets you bond with your droid playing games and dancing. However I have a few small gripes. Make a sensitivity setting for moving around the droid head and moving around. You have to hold the button down and I know that you have to do the same for the physical controller, but on the physical, you don’t have to hold it down. You can just click the button and the droids head moves. For this controller, you can’t tap it. It can get a little tedious trying to get your droid to face a specific direction. That’s my only complaint but overall, awesome app. I definitely recommend if you lose your physical controller or don’t have batteries.

I got my droid in early January of this year, I loved it at first but got bored with it quickly. I didn’t use it for months on end. But when I heard that there was a new app for it, I quickly downloaded it and I’ve been using it for a few days. It just doesn’t have much to do. I’ve played Tic-Tac-Toe with it, made it dance, piloted it, all of that good stuff. It just needs more features. Like maybe missions or something? It was a good idea for the app, but just not as good as I thought it’d be. Needs more features!

I really wanna say THANK YOU for giving us this app. This really makes quarantine more bearable as I now can have fun with a new companion other than just making the droid act like a puppet. When I brought home my R2 unit from Orlando back in March, she didn’t really see much action outside of her box. Thanks to this app, she will be out roaming the house more often! I’ve had so much fun making R2-B3L dance around the living room or battle face to face in tic tac toe. I can’t wait to take this app and droid with me back to school and share the fun with my friends! Please add more games and features to play with the droids, maybe something that requires multiple droids for those of us who can meet up with friends who have physical droids? It would also be cool if we could make them react to things like they do in Galaxy’s Edge. And is there any way that the app can save my droid’s information when I go offline or if I decide to purchase a BB unit in the future so I don’t have to re-enter everything? Again thank you so much!!! I highly recommend this app for those of you with physical droids from Galaxy’s Edge!

This app makes the droid from galaxy’s edge so much better. The controls are much more fluid and responsive, the droid is more “talkative” and the movement sync with the music is excellent. My main complaint is that on the controller portion of the app, the top red button (the one for accessories) doesn’t function. I have the blasters installed on my R unit and when I hit the button nothing happens, sometimes the random noises it makes now include the blasters firing so I know they work and I tried with the original controller and they function as expected. This app I’m sure will continue to get better, but for the accessories not to work is a pretty big let down since they cost extra and the expectation is that they will continue to function

We love our two droids from Galaxy’s Edge and this app makes them even better! The kids love playing our droid in tic-tac-toe and laugh hysterically at the droid’s reaction to their moves and winning or losing. We’ve had some dance-off parties as well! I hope they keep adding to this app with more games and interactive experiences. Even the remote control on the app is a little more intuitive with the “joystick” than the regular controller. The only issue we have had so far is that the app controller does not recognize our blaster add-ons. Other than that it’s fantastic! Thanks!

My droid disconnects every single time I get the sequence hooked up. It goes into auto sleep as soon as I initiate which means ripping open my BB unit all over again (much faster than it would after regular use). This is a brand new droid from February that’s been used very sparingly to conserve battery. I’ve had to reconnect seven times since downloading the app 30 minutes ago. I’ve been able to get it to pair but my droid won’t stay on long enough to really use it (I have the controller off the entire time). Love the concept though and hopefully it’ll work better in the future!

Very excited by the promise of finding new ways to interact with my R4 astromech I built at Galaxy’s Edge in Orlando. One complaint from me: cannot edit the Profile section, using an iPhone 11 Pro with the latest iOS. I’d love to have the app remember the model of my droid, its name and the other details. If the developers can carefully add some content, such as replicating the personalities of the droids, such as the chips sold as accessories in Galaxy’s Edge, that would add a fun range of new sounds and actions. If the next update fixes the Profile issue, I would be inclined to update my review.

This app is very great and the thought of making my droid that has been sitting in my room finally move and have life again is super. There are connectivity issues that I have noticed while pairing with my droid however. I haven’t been able to actually connect my droid and finalize the connection. Giving that this is release day it is completely understandable that there are bugs. Hopefully there will be a patch/ answer to my issue soon!

Make sure you turn your controller that came with your droid off when you use this application. The signal from it will interfere with the app trying to connect to the droid. The app is fun to use with the droid but needs to be updated with text telling users to turn their droid’s controllers off to prevent the confusion you see happening in this review section. They didn’t have to make this app so it’s a fun new extra out of nowhere from Disney.

I got a bb series droid from galaxys edge and the first thing I noticed was the droid did not run very well with the included remote. But this app fixes all the problems I’ve had. Connecting to my droid was no problem and the dance feature is the best! A tip for connection: turn the controller off that came with your droid. Be sure you own a droid because the build your own feature is useless, there is no color.

My thoughts are that you should be able to have a translation thing maybe on the app that way you can talk to your droid and know them better and I also think that you should add a feature where you can have them do tricks and stuff like that I think it would do a lot of updating for the app, but I feel like it would be worth it I want to know the app creator start on this

We bought two droids at Disney a few months ago. And while they are fun to play with, once you bring them home from the park, they basically become limited RC toys. This app breathes amazing new life into them, providing a lot more entertainment value and bang for your buck. This should have been released a long time ago, but I’m glad to see it out now. Hopefully they will expand upon it in future updates.

Just built my droid at Galaxy’s Edge and then discover this app. The app is an improvement over the physical control in many ways. The app was easy to set up and learn. However, the “edit” button to change the name a affiliation of my droid doesn’t work. Seems like a minor bug fix, which I wish they would address. Overall still enjoy and recommend.

We have a droid at home and this app makes it 100x more fun. You do have to make sure the remote control that comes with the droid is turned off when you sync it to the app. Also, I only gave 4 out of 5 stars because the music for the DJ isn’t working for me. The droid will still dance and move around but it isn’t as much fun without the music. I’d love it if they could resolve that or post a fix for this sometime soon.

I have tried to get this app to connect to my droid and it doesn’t. I’ve tried deleting the app and re-downloading and restarting my phone, but it will not connect. I was really excited about this feature, but I’m bummed it doesn’t work. My cousin has the same issue with his. Hopefully one day it will work 😪

My daughter and I spent WAY too much time today playing with this app on two devices with our two droids. This app adds a whole new level of fun to the experience! As I said in the title, make sure you have fresh batteries in your droid. We couldn’t get one droid to connect until we switched out the batteries for fresh ones.

Long story short, it gives you really cool things to do with your droid at home other than controlling him. You can dance with your droid, give him music, let him do his own thing if you want or even face him in tic tax toe, all with multiple different reactions, voices, new controls, behaviors and it really gets that personality chip working! 10/10!

For some reason it will work and connect my droid sometimes and other times it will have the app crash in the middle of the connection. I’m giving it four stars because when does work it’s super fun. and it works a lot more often than it does not work

I love the way that I can play with my droid at home without having to be at Disney have a great time playing with it and sometimes I even sleep with it for the people who made it. I want to give you a special thank you and may the force be with you

Like I said, if you already have a droid this makes your phone a substitute controller that is a lot more responsive than the stock one. But if you don’t have a droid yet this app is basically worthless! The droid builder feature is so basic that it’s not even worth including on the app unless they plan to let you add/experiment with different colors and designs. But I feel like that would be more effort then Disney is likely willing to put in

Recently built a BB unit and linked to the app. I like the softer control of the app, and not having to carry the remote. However, not all options are listed, and the edit button does not work to name your droid. I named mine BR-57, but I can’t enter that. I can’t enter anything. When they fix it, I hope they’ll allow a larger name, as I’ve seen some saying that it only allows four characters.

This app is potentially the coolest thing to come out of buying my Astromech since actually building it. Unfortunately the app refused to connect even though I was following the steps and when it finally did, it only really controlled one leg while the other was dead weight. At first I thought it was my droid so I disconnected the app and reconnected the remote. Nope! Worked just fine. So I deleted and redownloaded the app. Same issues. I want to be a fan of this, but it does need some adjustments. Update soon please!

We have two droids we built back in November when we went to WDW and since coming home they have sat. Today with this app is the most they have ever been played with. Just a tip, when I had the physical remote control on the app would not connect to the droid. When I turned the remote off it connected right away.

Great app for controlling my droid. I’m really happy with it!! I can do dance battles & tic tax toe and drive it virtually. It’s also got info in Aurabesh, which makes my nerdy heart happy. However, although there’s an option to name your droid, the “edit” button doesn’t work. It simply does nothing when I press it. I’d really like to name my droid, could someone fix this please???

Very happy with the dance function! The control features through the phone are smoother than with the white plastic remote. I hope they expand the offerings in the “strategy” category (tic tac toe?) and add more options to build a droid. Leaving one star off as I hope they add more features. Seems the personality settings do slightly change the noises from our R2 unit, but not big difference to the BB sounds. Also seems like the droids interact more with each other with the app than just the white controllers. Pairing tip - I had trouble pairing our first droid until I realized the white remote should stay Off through the entire process. Then worked fine.

It seems the controls can used a tiny bit softer than the remote, the droid just goes 100 miles an hour still and too far at a tap. The game, it’s tic tac toe, so anyone older than 4 or 5 can’t lose. Another game option would be nice if it was a simple card game. The dance is a nice touch, but u can’t hear the song over the droid, again rolls off too far. The droid builder was the most disappointing. You basically choose which body then head shape and name. No colors (all blue w white outlines) or accessories. I doubt they’ll ever do any updates since the app is bug free as I can tell. But a couple adds if they do that would be cool since it uses your blue tooth is setting it to follow u around, lowering the movement speed and volume of the beeps. Have a fun day!

I really loved this app because it made the droid feel so much more alive! Unfortunately, ever since the OS update last week for the iPhones the app will rarely connect to the droid (even with the control turned off and new batteries) and sometimes if I can actually get the droid paired with the app it will disconnect mid dance sequence :/ I hope they update the app for the new OS soon.... would love to use this app more again.

The app is far better than the controller don’t get me wrong but it seems like there isn’t much more to do. Maybe add a few more games and a mode so the droid can move around autonomously and even respond to the mic in the phone. Anyways great potential and already better than the controller.

This makes the droid much more fun to play with and seems to enhance some of the personality. Only issue is there is no button to control the accessories lighting up like there is on the physical remote control. Seems like it’s easy enough to add so maybe it’ll happen someday.

Has anyone actually USED this? I can’t get it to connect to the droid I already have. Some others can’t either. One person called this app a ‘game’. Are we reviewing this app before we actually try it? Worthless right now. ********EDIT******* Finally got it to sync. Turn off the remote that comes with the droid. The app will control it now. Other than dancing, the app is still pretty boring. Bumped from one to three stars.

Hey guy so this app is really well built and works extremely well but there are some somewhat major flaws if you are like me so when you try to drive your droid in the app whenever I steer left it’s perfectly fine but steering right SLINGS ME TO THE RIGHT which I guess is a good and a bad thing what do you think?

Love this app! I haven’t tested yet to see if the range is farther than the controller I got at the depot, but it already seems to go faster and responds better. There is also a volume option that made my roomies very happy. 🙃 The only thing I wish (and this may have something do do with the droid itself) was that there was a camera to see where my droid went when I drive it out of my view like some other remote control droids I’ve had in the past. It would also be cool to have some more games and that path drawer in another droid app. All in all, great app, brilliant alternative to the little remote control.

The app is great, if only it didn’t disconnect after a few minutes. My BB8 goes into sleep mode and I have to open it up, turn it off then on again, and try again. Rinse, wash and repeat. My physical controller never disconnects. I’ll try changing the batteries to see if that changes anything, and let you know. If anyone has experienced this, please let me know how to fit it.

I had to try to connect my droid about 6 times. When it finally connected the sound wouldn't work even when I clicked no in the set up menu for sound. You can’t edit the droids name or anything. You can really just move the droid forward and back which could have been done with the regular remote. I hope this app will be updated because I feel like it had great potential, was excited for it but :/

The droid builder process is very underwhelming. You pick a head for an R unit and...that’s it. It’s a one step process. If we could pick colors afterward to make these droids look like the ones we purchased at Disney, or to get an idea of how we want it to look when we eventually go to Galaxy’s Edge, then I would rate this at five stars. Syncing with the droid we do have was easy and fun. The maneuvering function is delightful.

I wish the directions were clearer but here’s what the app forgot to mention: to connect the droid you need to go to settings, scroll till you find droid depot, and make sure it can access Bluetooth. I wish I knew that before I spent an hour trying to figure it out.

It’s nice you can control your droid through the app vs the clunky remote. It seems the edit feature for being able to change your droid’s name is no longer working which is disappointing if you want to be able to change its name. The strategy game is basic tic tac toe, all in all the app is just ok.

I recently got a droid from galaxy Star Wars, and I downloaded the app. Well as soon as I start the app and scan the app crashes and I have tried deleting the app, restarting my phone, downloading it again. But nothing is working it still crashes. I though maybe it’s my phone (iPhone 13pro max) so I tried it on other phones like iPhone12, iPhone 13 and iPhone 10 but none of that worked either. The app crashes on all. I don’t know what to do !!!!!

It took me 45 minutes to connect the droid right but once I did I had a lot of fun playing around with it. I think they should of added more games to play instead of just tic tac toe, but other then that I think it’s a great app just needs a few more games.

Took some troubleshooting to get the app to sync to my droid, but the trick is to make sure the original controller is OFF and then follow the instructions. That did the trick for me! I’m happy my unit is getting some use instead of just sitting in his spot. Looking forward to more add ons!

Custom Astromech units go into sleep mode if not interacted with or on Batuu after five minutes, however, when you use this app, it doesn’t count as an interaction so you can’t use the app without the droid disconnecting for more than five minutes. For those five minutes, the app works exactly how it is supposed to.

I got this app because I really want to build my own droid and play with it, but I can’t get one, because I live too far from the USA, so I thought that I could interact with my online droid, but when you build one online, you just get the blueprint. If anyone is reading this, I sounds like a great app if you have a droid, but for those without a droid, I wish the app would be more considerate in terms of what you can do. I WISH that you could build a droid online, then ship it to where you live, that would be more convenient, so people living internationally could also experience having a droid. That would be great. I hope someone responds soon.

I would have given this app a 5 star rating except it was hard to connect my droid. Make sure the controller you received with the Droid is OFF! My droid connected right away when I did that. It’s neat to be able to interact with the droid a bit more. We like our droids before but now we LOVE them!

I love this app so much and have had A LOT of fun bonding with my BB unit named AP-13 I would highly recommend for anyone with a galaxy’s edge droid and also I love playing tick tack toe with AP but I would love if I could have more games to play with him thank you for reading, bye!