December 15, 2006
Danger Will Robinson!
Someone has mass-produced the robot from Lost in Space.
And by "danger" I mean to your bank account. Are people really so enraptured by nostalgia that they'd shell out over $20 grand for it? I mean, hey, it does have Dick Tufeld's immortal voice and you can use it as a big retro stereo, but still... Though I admit a full-scale remote control dalek would be rather tempting...
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WhoAh! That's a lotta clam sauce! For the millionaire with the empty rec room I guess. Cool though. In a big-blinky-robot kinda way.
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Wow, those are pretty cool, no $24k cool in my opinion, but they stimulate an itch I've been having for some time: How would someone go about making something like this themselves? I'm completely mechanically disinclined, yet I'd love to make a LIS Robot costume, or Robby the Robot that I would actually get in, and go around in now and then. Halloween, out shopping, whatever. But I can't even imagine where to begin. One obvious starting point is starting on smaller projects, maybe learning to work on cars or something. But I'd like to have some view towards what the next step would be.
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There are, in fact, whole sites & books devoted to building replicas of these very things, Rev. You don't have to spend 24K, but you do have to know how to make your own vacuum mold for plastic (pretty easy) & how to use fibreglass resin (hard). Some bits of B9 you'd have to buy or send away for, but it would still not cost as much as buying one of these. Ditto Robbie. I used to obsessively draw Robot B9 on big bits of paper my dad used to bring home when I was a nipper, every detail & rubber bulge, over & over again, practicing until I could recreate him from memory. Until Star Wars came out, then I obsessively drew R2 & 3P0, every seam & panel. Years & years. Loon. I dig looking at them all lined up like that.. cool
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Rev, check this out, I bet you'd get a kick out of it.
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You can also get a replica Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet. Now we can have a life-sized Rock'em Sock'em Robot match.
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I, for one, welcome out robot overlords.
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welcome our dammit
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Now we can have a life-sized Rock'em Sock'em Robot match. Okay, that's sold me on the idea. *starts saving money*