BB-9E.
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Remember when BB-8 stole your heart in The Force Awakens? BB-8 will be back in the Last Jedi, but if a new toy released today by robotics company Sphero is any indication, he’ll have a fresh foe: BB-9E, BB-8’s evil twin. The droid has the same soccer-ball-like base as its twin, but has a different shaped head and is black and grey with a red eye. The bad BB is described as a “rolling menace,†and Sphero said that it was part of the Astromech unit of the First Order that keep their starships and machinery operational, according to Variety. We’re calling it now: Go ahead and call it BB-H8, his “obscenely adorable on-set nickname,†according to director Rian Johnson.