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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.…