- “It’s a trap!” Yeah, apparently USB drives taste nothing like calamari.
I remember back to my childhood when I’d bring over a box full of floppy discs to my friend Chris’ house to “trade” various games on the Apple IIe computer. Heck, I think I even brought my floppy drive over at times.
Nowadays, you just need a slick little Flash Memory Drive and you can store practically 1.21 gigawatts of data on something as small as your thumb. It’s crazy to me. Even more fun, though, is when companies get creative with their memory drives and make them in all sorts of crazy shapes, sizes, and characters.
I recently had a chance to test out Star Wars Mimobots Series 8 from Mimoco. Unless you’re ridiculously awful at reading comprehension (at which point you don’t even know what I’m typing in this parenthesis), you’ll realize that these items are based on the super-awesometastic movie series Star Wars.
I chose one of my favorite characters from the original trilogy: Admiral Ackbar, the Mon Calamari rebel pilot who joins Lando at the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon. First off, the USB drive itself is great. They come in four sizes: 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB. I was given the 8GB version and even that is pretty enormous.

To use it, you just pop Ackbar’s head right off and stick the drive right into a USB slot on your device. Then just copy data right into the drive, take Ackbar out and repeat on another drive to transfer those files. Couldn’t be simpler!
The figure itself looks great and I really love the art style on all the Mimobots. It’s as if you took the real Star Wars characters, squished their bodies down and elongated their heads. My younger son Ryan was fascinated by it. First by how a USB drive works, and second he just loves playing with figures. So he grabbed Ackbar and brought him right into the game he was playing with Lego mini-figures.
The drive is big enough to enjoy, but small enough to easily just stick in your pocket and carry around with you. Really neat. Mimoco has a ton of great licenses for other Mimobots including G.I. Joe, Transformers, Hello Kitty, DC Super Heroes, Adventure Time, and more. Prices vary, though most of the 8GB ones seem to clock in around $17.95 to $19.99.
Buy your own Mimobot!
Win your own Mimobot!
The mimotastic folks over at Mimoco were kind enough to provide me with an 8GB Jabba the Hutt Mimobot to use as a prize in a giveaway! So enter with the rafflecopter form below!
a Rafflecopter giveaway
Giveaway ends on July 24, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. The winner will be chosen at random and announced on this site. Giveaway is open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States (including District of Columbia) who are at least eighteen (18) years old at the time of entry. The Winner will be notified by email and has 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen.
I got my prize and my son LOVES it, just in time for school. Thank you so much
Hey, Nadine! So happy to hear that! You should take a photo of your son with Jabba and share it! Congrats again!
R2-D2 MIMOBOT® USB Flash Drive
Darth Vader
Thanks for the giveaway… we like the Hal Jordan x MIMOBOT.
Yoda MIMOBOT
Cobra Commander
Love the Arlecchino MIMOBOT® by tokidoki
I’d like the Badtz Maru character!
My son would love this my favorite though is batman
I love the Hello Kitty.
Batman x MIMOBOT®
The Joker one is awesome!
i like the Wicket MIMOBOT®
I really like R2 D2 its looks really nice. My daughter liked the hello kitty
Ackbar….its a trap
I like the Joker!
Jabba’s tongue makes it…
The Catwoman x MIMOBOT!
Buddy Chub Rainbow
Hello Kitty Apple.
R2D2 for the USB and the win!
I like the Swirl Mimobot.
I like the Hello Kitty® Apple MIMOBOT®
Love the Yoda one
Batman is the coolest
I would want YODA!
Han Solo MIMOBOT® with Carbonite carrying case – omg I love this!
Do I have to have the one you put in your mouth? Just kidding 😀
I would like the Batman one but any is fine!
Happyskunky at yahoo dot com
I love the Hello Kitty
I’d love the Hello Kitty Fun In Fields.
r2d2 or green lantern
The batman. no brainer
I’d love the RayD81 MIMOBOT!
I like Yoda the best.
The Badtz-Maru x MIMOBOT® is so adorable! I would love to have that one. 🙂 Thank you.
I want them all!!! R2D2 would be my first choice though.
My husband loves the Batman one!
Superman is my favorite, but the Joker one is also really cool
I would most like to have the Hello Kitty® Balloon MIMOBOT®. Thank you for the lovely giveaway!
Erin E
busymom369 at gmail dot com
Love the Joker one the best!
BatMan
I like the Monster Molly Mimobot.
I’d love the Swirl MIMOBOT. I love the colors, and the ears are cute too.
the joker!
The Joker looks awesome!
I like Optimus Prime!
cheap of me, but i love admiral ackbar
Boba Fett is a classic.
I love the Han Solo MIMOBOT® with Carbonite carrying case!
Boba Fett
any jedi drives?
My favorite is The Flash
I want the new Flash Flash Drive! Thanks for the chance!
medictom@gmail.com
i love the Hello Kitty® Fun In Fields MIMOBOT®
I like the The Joker x MIMOBOT®.
i want the Hello Kitty® x MIMOBOT
I like Wicket since Yoda looks funny.
LOve the batman one
vmkids3 at msn dot com
I like the Batman (The Dark Knight Rises Edition) X MIMOBOT®
Jabba rocks! Batman is very cool too.
The Joker!
i would choose the transformers!!!
I would love to have the Optimus Prime.
Finn MIMOBOT®
Buddy Chub Rainbow MIMOBOT®
i like boba fett!
I would love to have the pirate one!
I love the tokidoki adios
I would love the Yoda one.
Fairybit
I love the Batman one!
Badtz-Maru x MIMOBOT® USB Flash Drive
Jabba the hut!!!!!!!!! <3 Jabba!!!
love the stormtrooper unmasked one.
r2d2 would be cool or green lantern
I like “Hello Kitty”.
Einstein flash drive.
Chococat x MIMOBOT® USB Flash Drive
I love the Pantera MIMOBOT® by tokidoki 😀
Han Solo or Yoda
Yoda
Darth Vader Unmasked MIMOBOT®
I LOVE the Mictlantecuhtli MIMOBOT® by Julio E. Carrillo and the RayD81 MIMOBOT®!
Thanks from karmakaytlyn@yahoo.com!
I’d like the R2D2 mimbot.
I’d most like the Han Solo in Carbonite, but all to the Star Wars Mimobots are great.
emily the strange
Would love to have the Emily the Strange Mimobot.
I like the Mimobot Stormtrooper Unmasked and the Mimobot Yoda
I like the Snake Eyes MIMOBOT® USB Flash Drive!
Thanks!
I love the Princess Bubblegum one
cody_endres(at)hotmail(dot)com
C3P0 is adorable! Brings back childhood memories. : )
My husband would love the Batman X Mimobot
THEY HAVE IT!!! Woo Hoo!! Boba Fett MIMOBOT® (ROTJ Edition)
Wampa or carbonite Han Solo… too funny
Jabba would be awesome, but I really like the Jake MIMOBOT as well!
I like the Catwoman x MIMOBOT
I like the C3PO.
I love the Leia as Boushh MIMOBOT®
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OPTIMUS PRIME!!!!!
I’m loving the Hello Kitty® Balloon MIMOBOT®, cute
Joker, definitely!
optimus prime
I would love to have the Dark Knight Rises mimobot.
I love the C3PO one!
batman iss cool
Haha, little Jabba rocks.
I like yoda
yoda-mimomicro-card-reader
I like the Domo X Mimobot!
C-3PO!!!!!!
is cool
so many! the jawa is always cute
I like Yoda.
Thanks for the chance.
mogrill12@gmail.com
GiJoe
C-3PO
I’d probably choose the hello kitty one, but I like the Jabba one too!
I would like the Hello Kitty Fun in the Fields or The Joker.
I like R2D2.
slave leia and superman are quite cool! i wouldnt mind getting those!
rypm25@aol.com
YODA
Han Solo MIMOBOT® with Carbonite carrying case
R2D2
WICKET!
I also love the Batman!
I like C-3PO MIMOBOT®
I like the Bumblebee Mimbot.
Boba Fett!
I want Darth Vader!
I want R2D2
I like Catwoman
rsgrandinetti@yahoo(DOt)com
Hello kitty apple.
I would like to get the Stormtrooper Unmasked MIMOBOT
abfantom at yahoo dot com
The optimus prime!
I want Yoda. Badly.
It’s tough to pick from just one of them, but the Hans solo in carbonite is really cool! 😉
Right? I totally want that carbonite Han!
Oh my gosh these are so cute. I don’t know how I would keep it away from my boys or even my geeky college friends.
My boys would love Optimus Prime!