This set does not miss one beat- not a single one, I tell ya- and so I am strongly recommending that you get one. You’ll come to adore her as much as WALL•E does!

Video review included!

The Waste Allocation Load Lifter - Earth Class (aka WALL•E) was a mass-production robot built by the international monopolistic conglomerate Buy n Large in the 22nd Century to begin the long clean-up of human garbage & waste on Earth. Though only designed for a trial run of five years, the reality of the situation on the planet meant that it would instead take hundreds of years to affect clean-up safe enough for humans to return. And so, Earth was completely abandoned so that the WALL•E units could work more efficiently. Over the centuries, with a complete lack of outside support, the thousands of WALL•E units across the world worked themselves into ruin. By the 29th Century, only one remained fully functional- surviving by salvaging spare parts from its rundown comrades as a most-unexpected & unprecedented form of self-preservation; its unusual motivation to continue on functioning would eventually prove to be turning points for both humanity and itself.

As the space cruise liners casually drifted throughout the galaxy on their five year tour, carrying the whole of humanity on a much needed break from the ever-growing mess on Earth, the giant incinerators and small WALL•E robots were busy at work cleaning up the massive junk piles. But the megacorporation Buy N Large’s Operation: CLEANUP fell farther and farther behind schedule, and was eventually abandoned altogether as futile and haphazard. The WALL•E robots would just have to finish the job alone because Earth could no longer sustain life. But, in the hope that the planet would one day cure itself in the future, and Operation: RECOLONIZE initiated, a probe ship was annually deployed from the flagship Axiom to sample the world. Each ship was equipped with multiple Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluation robots (aka “EVE”) which would carefully and quickly scour the planet alone- looking specifically for biological signs of life in the form of plants. Equipped with specialized sensors, the EVE robots are very particular and persistent, looking through every nook and cranny. Capable of supersonic speeds for long-distance scanning, or hovering at slower ground-level speeds, they also can manipulate their environment through the use of magnetically-suspended fingers at the end of their paired arm-like flight stabilizer wings. As the artificial structures on the planet continued to decay and fall apart, this would introduce risks to the robots; or landslides and other hard-to-reach areas. And so, each EVE is equipped with a plasma cannon stored retracted seamlessly inside the right stabilizer. Once a plant sample is successfully recovered, the EVE will collapse itself down into a secured and dormant Sleep Mode to save power in order to transmit a long-range signal to the probe ship for earlier-than-planned recovery. The plant sample- stored safely within the robot- is then taken directly to the Axiom for analysis to confirm that the EVE is not faulty in its discovery, and finally preparation for the journey home can begin!

For seven hundred years, all EVE robots came back with negative results...

Search ‘N Protect EVE (back) is a stretched-egg shape which is about 4½” (10.57cm) tall and 2 3/8” (6cm) in diameter. Like her on-screen counterpart, EVE cannot balance upright on her own, so a transparent-ABS display stand is included, which elevates her up about 1½” off a flat surface. The stand comes pre-assembled, but can split into two parts if too much pressure is applied to the immovable joint. The peg on the end of the stand fits quite snugly into the lower part of her chassis. (You actually have to fight to take it out or put it in, but be patient and don’t force it because the plastic clearly isn’t designed to handle too much pressure!)

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Amazingly, this toy features no visible screws or bolts holding it together, so EVE and all of her accessories more closely match how they appear in the movie. (Bonus points to Thinkway Toys for no visible screws while keeping everything comfortably fit together!) However, whether you’re a stickler for detail like this or not, the very-subtle detailed machinery appearing in her neck and arm sockets are not represented here. (Again, they’re hard to see even in the movie, so that they’re not represented here, I think, was a good thing.) EVE features poseability almost identical to what she displays in the movie, and her proportions are spot-on as well. Her head can twist left and right very easily all the way around, but she can’t look up or down. A thin transparent tube keeps her head attached to her body, helping to maintain the idea that it’s just floating there like in the movie. Unfortunately, her head cannot retract all the way to her body to resemble her Sleep Mode; this is as far as you can get to that. Her retracted arms can be extended by gently applying pressure to the top or bottom of them, and they’ll slip out easily enough. Again, transparent ABS plastic is used at the shoulders to keep the arms attached even though- again- they float in place in the movie. Each fin/arm is made of two pieces, but the four-finger hands are not represented here in any way. The shoulders are double-jointed, and can twist both forward/backwards easily, but pitch outwards only about 35° at max regardless of how they twist. Her shoulders with friction only; there is no ratcheting involved, thus making construction and functionality easier to produce.

Because her arms are obviously way too thin to contain her plasma cannon, Thinkway Toys provides a spare ABS/PVC equivalent which can snap-fit into the same shoulder socket. This spare arm has some more-intentional seam lines, and so you can now see her fingers there, though again nothing on the cannon arm can move. The same limits on poseability apply to the cannon arm.

Though the accessory arm can’t shoot blue balls of plasma, an all-ABS rock formation is provided with the set. When the button on the one side is pressed, a pre-molded chunk of the rock gets ‘blown away’! (Kudos for making molten dripping rock-slag along the surviving section of the rock. Awesome, that.)

In the movie as EVE takes shelter from an armada storm in WALL•E’s truck, he starts showing her parts of his collection of junk. One of the items he shows her is a light bulb, which- when she holds it- lights up to the surprise of both! A small solid ABS light bulb is provided with the set, and it can be fitted over the tip of either of EVE’s arms! (Again, the toy doesn’t have poseable fingers, so this is really the next-best option.)

This set has two built-in special features...

As WALL•E continues to show EVE his collection, he shows her a small plant that he had found a few days earlier. Unfortunately, this is the very thing that EVE has spent all this time scanning the region for. And so, EVE immediately opens up her chassis, uses a capture field to snatch the plant from WALL•E’s grip and place it inside herself, and then immediately goes into Sleep Mode- activating a beacon for the probe ship to fetch her back to the Axiom. Of course, WALL•E knows nothing of this...

EVE’s internal sample storage bay is represented here as well. On her back, just above the display stands’ mounting hole is a transparent-ABS peg that, when pressed inwards, pushes open the front of her body to reveal the storage bay! Inside is a pre-applied decal showing the plant symbol also seen in the movie, and the exterior of the bay is painted dark metallic gray, with a few molded-in surface details. Then, you can take the provided PVC boot and place it within her, and close up the doors again by manually pressing them together and then sliding them backwards. The functions of the storage bay do not impact how the shoulders move about either (which is good since that does not restrict posing options). That I am aware of, the doors are held in place by simple pegs inside, so if forced they will pop-off, but I think that the extending arms would break before then. (In other words, don’t try to remove the doors!)

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The other feature is less complicated and even more interactive. When you press down on her head, EVE’s eye expressions change! There are six expressions in all, which always repeat in this order:

Normal, or Wide-eyed

Squinting

Squinting to aim her cannon arm / Doubtful

Sad / Depressed

Happy / Giggling

Mad

I’ll come right out and say it- I don’t think that Thinkway Toys could have done any better. I truly believe this to be a near-perfect toy representation of the character from the movie! Perhaps the only thing that stands in the way of true perfection would have been not having her head tilt up/down, or the arms not being able to extend to 90° horizontally. If she could have done that, I would have been truly speechless in my praise. As it is, I am amazed how well this toy turned out! That they were able to eliminate all visible signs of screws or pegs or tabs holding all of it together is fantastic, and fully preserves her polished look from the film. Additionally, having arms that both extend- and then turning around and providing an accessory cannon arm- was top notch. (I suspect that, in time, moving the shoulders in/out and around will eventually wear away at the friction joints, and then the arms will droop more and more, particularly with the cannon arm...) the exploding rock was also a great idea; it’s design is simple, but it gets the point across! The light bulb was obviously such an important symbol to both her and WALL•E in the movie that they provided one here, which I also thought was really nice. Having a fully-functional storage bay was cool with the peg opening it in back, but then to add a boot that could actually fit in there was equally cool. Am I disappointed that her fingers were not represented in some way? No. To do that would have meant providing an extra set of replaceable arms, and I think that would have been truly unnecessary. Having the standard wide-eyes look is standard on many other toys of this character, but to have them change automatically from within is amazing! Am I disappointed that her eyes can’t go blank, and she can’t assume Sleep Mode? Ehhh... a little, but I am very pleased with the way this feature turned out. There is one accessory I am surprised that was not included here, and that is the red shoe that was placed on her for most of the movie when she was taken to the repair facility in the Axiom. (But I can see how that might have been tricky to accomplish and not tarnish the smooth finish of the toy, so I am glad that it was not included even if it is missed...) The other good thing about this set is that it’s completely to-scale with the likes of U-Repair WALL•E, so acting out scenes from the movie are completely possible. And really, that was one of the big reasons I chose this set over others of her- she was in-scale with a WALL•E figure that I already really liked, and she came with relevant accessories & features. ...And all of this in a small set that costs only $15.00! Search ‘N Protect EVE does not miss one beat- not a single one, I tell ya- and so I am strongly recommending that you get one. You’ll come to adore her as much as WALL•E does!

(Had I owned one of these before December, I would easily have nominated it for CDX’s 2008 X-mas shopping wish list...!)

Going into it, I knew that the scrubbing feature would be nothing significant, so I wasn’t let down that way; my expectations were already quite low.

Video review included!

The Waste Allocation Load Lifter - Earth Class (aka WALL•E) was a mass-production robot built by the international monopolistic conglomerate Buy n Large in the 22nd Century to begin the long clean-up of human garbage & waste on Earth. Though only designed for a trial run of five years, the reality of the situation on the planet meant that it would instead take hundreds of years to affect clean-up safe enough for humans to return. And so, Earth was completely abandoned so that the WALL•E units could work more efficiently. Over the centuries, with a complete lack of outside support, the thousands of WALL•E units across the world worked themselves into ruin. By the 29th Century, only one remained fully functional- surviving by salvaging spare parts from its rundown comrades as a most-unexpected & unprecedented form of self-preservation; its unusual motivation to continue on functioning would eventually prove to be turning points for both humanity and itself.

The Microbe-Obliterator (M-O) is one series of many robots whose function is to maintain a clean and safe environment for the human inhabitants aboard the Axiom. Unlike the larger VAQ-M robot which handles larger debris, M-Os are detail-specific regarding smaller particles such as dust, dirt, and microorganisms. Specialized Buy-N-Large Germaprobe™ sensors are the key to this robot’s function, and an extendable roll bar-style suction unit allows them to make wide sweeps across many types of surfaces. With so many locations where infectious life-forms could hang out, the smallish M-Os are rather persistent in their function, especially when decontaminating the Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator (EVE) probes returning from the surface of the long-abandoned Earth.

Clean N Go M-O (back) stands 3 1/8” (80cm)-tall with the head extended. The toy is very simple in construction, and is not designed to come apart in any way. The head can extend upwards and turn side-to-side, but it lacks the red strobe light he had in the film. He also can’t look up or down, and his eyes don’t move or change (being a decal behind the transparent plastic window). The arms can extend out only about a quarter-inch, but even then the rolling dark gray bar between them still doesn’t touch the ground! (And don’t even think of trying to raise the bar in front of his face or above his head!) While the dark gray scrubbing bar still turns, it can’t be covered up like in the movie. Whereas the movie character had a plain white body with a window on the back, there is a new window on his chest in addition to the one in back which then reveals the interior mechanism. Unlike the movie version of M-O where he rolled about on a single ball-wheel, that has been replaced with two rubber and two white ABS wheels to make room for the toy’s special feature. For decorations, a gray stripe along the base is painted on, and then he has several labels stamped on- including a BnL logo on the back of his head- and his name appears on both the front and right side of his lower body (he’s listed as being “Unit 101”).

While you can retract his head and arms to resemble his storage form, it isn’t as streamlined and tight-fitting as it is in the movie.

As in the movie, M-O can clean flat surfaces. To do this, there are two small leg-like brushes which are connected to the rubber wheels. To activate the feature, roll M-O along a flat surface, and as the wheels turn, the brushes will swish back and forth as they pull particles in!

So, how does the feature stand against an acid test...?

Being close to December, I ran M-O through some of that flaky indoor-use artificial snow on a counter top for about two minutes. And in that time, he picked up maybe six flakes; those that he did pick-up got stuck in the small soft bristles rather than be collected internally! The problem is that M-O sits too close to the ground, and so he just pushes them aside! Anything smaller like dirt I wasn’t willing to try because I didn’t want to get him too dirty. (And you know how much he dislikes that-!)

In a toy line dominated by the title character and EVE, it was nice to see some of the other ‘bots at least make an appearance (even if as non-poseable vinyl figures in six-packs). While in spirit this toy is poseable, it fails to deliver on what it promises- picking up significant amounts of dust particles and then storing them internally. The proportions also are a little off, so his head is a bit too big. Since the figure does so little, I thought that a pop-out transparent-red part could have been included somehow in the otherwise-hollow head. The arms, also, really could have extended another half inch-or-so; just so that the scrub bar could actually touch the ground! This toy- even though it is scaled incorrectly to other 3” figures in the line- is what I consider the fully-interactive version of the robot, and yet it lets down as such. Going into it, I knew that the scrubbing feature would be nothing significant, so I wasn’t let down that way; my expectations for such were already quite low. Even though it may look like him for the most part, it doesn’t pose or move like he would in what I would call an "acceptable" way. Unless you simply want a physical representation of him on your shelf that is guaranteed to collect dust in a different way, don’t bother. So, my vote is N-O on Clean-N-Go M-O.

This set is cute (little robots with squat bodies and big eyes usually are), practical, sufficiently gimmicky, and certainly a good representation of the character physically from the movie.

The Waste Allocation Load Lifter - Earth Class (aka WALL•E) was a mass-production robot built by the international monopolistic conglomerate Buy n Large in the 22nd Century to begin the long clean-up of human garbage & waste on Earth. Though only designed for a trial run of five years, the reality of the situation on the planet meant that it would instead take hundreds of years to affect clean-up safe enough for humans to return. And so, Earth was completely abandoned so that the WALL•E units could work more efficiently. Over the centuries, with a complete lack of outside support, the thousands of WALL•E units across the world worked themselves into ruin. By the 29th Century, only one remained fully functional- surviving by salvaging spare parts from its rundown comrades as a most-unexpected & unprecedented form of self-preservation; its unusual motivation to continue on functioning would eventually prove to be turning points for both humanity and itself.

Each WALL•E unit is a small trash compactor programmed to search out solid garbage, collect it within itself, and compress it into more-manageable trash cubes for later pick-up by other dedicated robots. In addition to the two small three-fingered hydraulic manipulators on either side of its chassis, each has a small laser cutting torch built in between their optical sensors on the sensor pod above which can cut larger garbage into smaller and easier-to-handle chunks for them to process. They roll on two tractor-tread assemblies and are able to climb difficult natural & artificial terrain such as stairs & junk heaps with the sophisticated traction & suspension within them. To make certain that they too do not contribute to the mess they are trying to clear, all WALL•E units use solar energy as their primary power source. When recharging, during difficult weather patterns, or in storage, each unit can retract the sensor pod, manipulators, and tractor-tread assemblies into the hollow interior to make a compact cube shape.

U-Repair WALL•E (back) stands 3 15/16” (10.2cm)-tall when all of the accessory parts have been added, and is designed around the story element from the summer 2008 movie that this particular unit tried to keep itself functional by swapping parts from its broken brethren ‘bots. The set contains 20 parts which come pre-assembled in the packaging, but serve as the main gimmick of this particular toy. The separate components are:

• eye camera sensors (Right & Left)
• head
• neck
• hollow body
• storage compartment doors (Front & Back)
• chest control/indicator panel
• upper arm (Right & Left)
• lower arm & hand (x2)
• tractor assembly (Right & Left)
• tractor leg attachment piece (Right & Left)
• ragged tractor-tread belt (x2)
• complete tractor-tread belt (x2)

The only duplicate parts are the tractor-tread belts- one pair are worn from use and look ragged, while the other pair look factory-fresh & undamaged. Since the two pairs of belts are symmetrical when slipped onto the tractor assemblies, it doesn’t matter which goes on which side. And, because WALL•E’s yellow ABS body is hollow, whichever pair of belts is not in use can be stored internally, keeping the set complete.

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With the exception of the head-to-neck joint (which is a ball-&-socket) and the tractor-tread belts, all of the U-Repair WALL•E parts are snap-fit. Indeed, if you wish, you can even swap most of the components into kooky combinations! The only exception to this is that the tractor assemblies cannot snap onto anything other than the leg attachment parts; this is because the assemblies’ joints have tiny unique bars which prevent them from snapping onto anything else. However, the leg attachment parts themselves are still fully versatile in merging with the other components of the set. Though they can be separated, the two fingers on each hand are not meant to be removed, even though if too much pressure is applied they will pop-off. The control panel on the front of WALL•E’s chassis above the front storage compartment door can be removed, but Thinkway Toys incorporated a small tab-&-slot design on the inside which prevents you from installing it upside-down.

Since there is not nearly enough room or mechanics involved in this toy, WALL•E cannot store all of its parts inside of itself like it does in the movie, so simply removing most of them is sufficient to resemble its compacted storage form (back). (Yeah- you can store some of the smaller separated parts inside of him, but that space is obviously normally reserved just for whichever spare set of tractor-tread belts is not in use.) In storage form, its almost-cube-shaped body is 2 ½” (6.5cm) on its longest axis [front-to-back]. The similar-sized Transforming WALL•E action figure set, however, is specifically designed to fit all of the parts into it without separating them by means of spring-loaded internal mechanisms.

Removing U-Repair WALL•E’s limbs allows for a better look at the detailed molded surfaces on all of the components which closely resemble the ones on the CGI character from the film…

The plastic lenses for its eyes are indeed transparent, but inside of them is black plastic, so you can’t see what’s really in there even though they reflect light well enough. Though the panels on the top of its eye camera sensor parts which resemble eyebrows, they are molded in and do not move as in the movie. On the back of its head is a single black PVC part resembling cables going into its eye cameras; these cannot be removed but the material is flexible so that its eyes can still tilt up-&-down. All six sides of its yellow body have panels painted gray, and lines highlighted. Of particular interest is the fact that all fully-exposed yellow surfaces have weathered brown paint applications added to them to give WALL•E that worn, rusted, grungy, & beat-up appearance it has throughout most of the film. This applies just to the body and upper arms; no other surface has been weathered; and all plastic molds have not been altered- save one set of tractor-tread belts- to look worn either. The tractor assemblies do not extend or contract like they do in the movie; being molded into single parts. However, three of the wheels on each do freely rotate, with the fourth for decoration only. On both sides of the two largest wheels on the tractor assemblies, and on the back storage compartment door, is the logo for the fictitious Buy n Large corporation (abbreviated as “BnL”).

Other extra printed details include the control panel display which shows his “Solar Charge Level” [at full capacity], the official “WALL•E” label on the lower left corner of the front storage compartment door, and the black-&-white caution stripes on both upper arms. And, with the exception of the outside panels around the eye camera lenses, all other surfaces of the toy are unpainted.

Poseability for the U-Repair WALL•E set is fairly good. All of those snap twist-joints in the wrists, shoulders, and neck allow for a good range of motion, and there are additional alternate joints in the larger two fingers on each hand (they are molded together as one piece), a second shoulder joint beyond just the connecting peg, and a horizontal rod between the eyes which allow them to swivel up and down. The shoulder joints in the movie run along an angular “J”-shaped track on each side, allowing it to reach farther, or retract the arms. Here, the shoulders snap into just one hole located about mid-way along the upper horizontal track; unlike the larger electronic motorized InterAction WALL•E toy, the shoulders cannot be repositioned anywhere else since there is only one hole on each side along the non-functional track. WALL•E’s rather expressive binocular-shaped eye cameras can swing up and down just a little, but because the black plastic cord on the back of his head is actually rather inflexible, they always droop when left alone, so it always has a rather mournful expression. Unlike in the movie and several other toys, U-Repair WALL•E’s lower arms cannot telescope in and out, and so they stay at that one length all the time- the wrists just barely stretching beyond its body when the arms are pointed straight forward. Both tractor-tread belts- which are made of a flexible yet non-stretching material unlike rubber- can freely turn, allowing it to roll. (Those belts are tight enough that it doesn’t roll very easily, so you have to push down on it a bit to get them to spin. And even then, sometimes the inner wheels won’t turn, and the belts will just slide right around them. Don’t even try pushing it around on hard wood flooring- it’ll slip around like it’s on ice; it works best on short carpet.)

Having not actually seen “WALL•E” in theaters by the time this review was posted, I had to do my best to avoid spoilers for myself until it came out on DVD later in 2008. However, seeing the various trailers & reviews online allowed me to glimpse the tiny R2-D2-wannabe, it was inevitable that I would come across the character enough to become interested. And really, this is the only figure I found that I really wanted. The biggest reason was the ability to disassemble him to resemble its storage form, and that they provided a worn pair of tractor-tread belts to swap out. I did, however, see another figure that you could disassemble, Construct-A-Bot WALL•E, but I kept a good distance away from that one because it used magnets to keep the parts together, not snapping joints, so I knew it would never stay together after the first time I dropped a single part! Though this figure was the same size as ones that didn’t come apart, and instead came with trash cubes, I decided that I didn’t need the trash cubes to like the figure. While I was a little disappointed that the arms couldn’t telescope, the two larger fingers on each hand were molded together, and that it couldn’t reach far beyond its chest, I still find this a very satisfying representation. But, I wasn’t willing to spend over $30 for features like motorized rolling around and voice-activated features that- as an older collector- I would not have used much later on. Things to change? Other than those disappointments listed above, not really. I might, however, tighten those connection joints just a hair, though… The U-Repair WALL•E set is cute (little robots with squat bodies and big eyes usually are), practical, sufficiently gimmicky, and certainly a good representation of the character physically from the movie. And so I highly recommend getting the little trash-bot!

See the commercial for U-Repair WALL•E by Thinkway Toys!

(Be sure to look for more "WALL•E meets a" videos- they're hilarious too!)

The InterAction Wall-E toy is a voice activated animatronic toy. This means that Wall-E can "hear" you, and will respond with physical motions - head movements and arms flailing. Read on, for full review, with video.

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Wall-E was a great movie. If you don't agree then your soul is as black as pitch, and you should remain at least 50 yards from children at all times.

Seriously though the movie is really good, as are most pixar movies. Sometimes I think they are the only thing keeping the disney empire alive.

We actually got this toy for my son some time before the movie had come out. He had seen the trailer and then once we were in the toy store he had to have him. But Wall-E didn't get a lot of attention in our house until the movie came out. After I came home from the movie I ran downstairs into the playroom, grabbed Wall-E and stuck him in the photo tent. The movie was something special, and this toy deserved a second look.

The basic premise of Wall-E is that he is a trash robot, left behind on a polluted, abandoned earth for 700 years. There were many Wall-E units at one point, but he appears to be the last one operating. Each day is the same as the next, collecting trash, and creating cubes which are then stacked as high as skyscrapers. Every once in a while, Wall-E comes across a curiosity from the civilization that lived here years ago. Through these items he develops a personality - Wall-E is incredibly curious, and even creates a collection of items that he has come across in his travels.

In the future, a Robot collects toys. Think about that for a minute.

One day, Wall-E's routine is disrupted by a probe ship from outer space. The human race is living on a cruise ship, and it sends out probes to look for vegetation samples, a sign that the earth is ready to be re-populated. One such probe is the little white robot EVE. Wall-E falls in love with EVE, or whatever passes for love with robots, and the story begins there...

The InterAction Wall-E toy is a voice activated animatronic toy. This means that Wall-E can "hear" you, and will respond with physical motions - head movements and arms flailing.

The toy itself is solid and nicely done. The treads are rubber and roll manually - Wall-E cannot move around on his own.

The front panel on Wall-E opens and there is a decal that shows the trash that compacts inside of him.

The body is a weathered yellow cube, but not as dirty as seen in the movie. The bulk of Wall-E is here - there are buttons on the top that can activate the lights and sound, as well as a button on the back. On the bottom there is a three way switch that goes from off/try me/on.

Wall-E's arms are removable and can be repositioned to a spot lower and more forward on the body, however only when they are inserted in the upper holes do they move automatically. Each hand has individual articulated fingers, but not individual finger joints.

The head has a small bit of movement, but the instructions on the back ask you to not move it because of the possibility of damaging the internal mechanism. I'm sure all those little kids who can't read will pay attention to this.

The whole InterAction gimmick is nicely done, and it really makes the toy enjoyable. When Wall-E is in the on mode, he can hear you talk through a small microphone on his chest. You will know when Wall-E hears you because his eyes will light up as it detects sound. A short pause later, Wall-E springs to life. Unfortunately, he doesn't specifically answer you, he just responds to sound in general.

However, should you get the InterAction EVE, the two can babble on and on to each other for hours.

In short, the Thinkway InterActive Wall-E is a lot of fun, for both kids and the adult collector.