More Than Robots - A FIRST Documetary on Disney+

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Here’s the trailer for a new Disney+ Documentary on FIRST, called More Than Robots

“More Than Robots” follows four teams of teenagers from around the world as they prepare for the 2020 FIRST® Robotics Competition. Get to know teams from Los Angeles, Mexico City and Chiba, Japan as they work towards the goal of taking their unique designs all the way to the highly competitive global championships. Although they are faced with overcoming challenges along the way, such as having limited resources within their community or putting everything on hold because of a world-wide pandemic, the kids persevere and learn that there is a lot more to the competition than just robots.

For more than 20 years, Disney has supported FIRST® with financial, in-kind and mentorship resources, and together with Lucasfilm’s philanthropic initiative Star Wars: Force for Change, FIRST® continues to bring hands-on learning opportunities and mentorship to more young people around the world, empowering them to not only think big, but to develop the skills needed to be the next generation of innovators.

“More Than Robots” is directed by Gillian Jacobs in her feature-length documentary directorial debut. Award-winning Supper Club founders Jason Sterman, Brian McGinn, and David Gelb are the producers. Lucasfilm’s Michael Garcia and Christine Beebe serve as executive producers, with Jacqui Lopez as co-executive producer.

This seems absolutely amazing and an incredible way to “Make it Loud”.

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could this be the “drive to survive” of FIRST?

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NASCAR cant get a DTS but FRC can? smh

Looks cool. Will have to check it out when it releases (Mar 18th)

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118 and 148 as the fake Sainz Norris rivalry when

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Oh, Britta directed this?

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I laughed way too hard at this.

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isn’t the end of this documentary gonna be like “covid happens”

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It’s weird to walk into robots and find someone from the show you just started binging poking around, yeah.

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Maybe we can do Worlds in Disneyland/World.

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Queue the “back in my day” meme and joint pain meds.

Worlds actually was hosted in Epcot for some time in the ye olden days.

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Had to chuckle at the “No Manuals” graphic in the trailer. Most responses to the Q&A questions: “please refer to the Game Manual”. :smiley:

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woah, that’s cool!

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Which teams are they following? I see 6909, and at least some of the scenes are from the LA Regional in 2020.

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4201 for sure.

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That’s an excellent choice.

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I would not be surprised for this trailer to be played at regionals around the world.

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Understatement right there.

Camera crews were busy at the LA Regional, but focused mainly on 4201 and their partners.

Now if only we didn’t have to sign up for Disney+ to be able to see it… :angry:

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Just subscribe for one month in march. This plus Book of Boba Fett is worth it, especially to binge.

Re: actual topic of conversaion - Nifty!!

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Ain’t got no time to watch this in March…

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I think you just discovered the business model

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