(Image credit: Elegoo) Elegoo fans woke up with a groan yesterday morning, as the new 3D printer Elegoo teased on social media was not a much-hoped-for tool changer or perhaps even a non-planar 3D printer, but rather a bizarre emoji-branded edition of the Elegoo Centauri Carbon 2 . ELEGOO × emoji® Centauri Carbon 2 Combo: $489 USD Stay tuned😉Subscribe for early discount: https://t.co/soxCHD51CCJoin us for live reveal: https://t.co/umEOgPo1sELive time (half an hour before launch): June 4, 2026, 9:30 AM EDT pic.twitter.com/PryKmARwf3 May 27, 2026 Elegoo announced the new machine as a fun and creative collab with the emoji® brand , a German company that has trademarked the commercial use of emojis on physical merch and media (remember The Emoji Movie ?) since 2013. The digital emoji icons we use on our phones and social media are actually controlled by the non-profit Unicode Consortium , which maintains the Unicode Standard text used by computers and mobile devices across various platforms.…