Stunning recreation work: Danger Will Robinson! - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

7 Jan 2007

 --- John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote: 

**>> snip <<**

...

 Back in late 1998, my buddy Sheldon Leemon (author
 of "Mapping the C-64")
 won the grand prize in an online sweepstakes.  The
 prize was a full-size
 promotional version of the robot from the remake o f
...
  "Lost in Space".
 It had been touring the USA and Japan.  Doesn't lo ok
...
  quite the same:

 http://www.robotoys.com/lis99.jpg

 600 pounds, New Line Cinema valued it at $4,500.   We
...
  debated what we 
 might do with it, never coming to any good
 conclusions.  I was tempted
 to store it in my barn.  He never picked it up.  I t
...
  sat in a shipping 
 yard for months.  I think it eventually started
 running up charges and 
 was sent back in mid-1999.  I wonder where it went !
...

 - John

Urghh!!!!

Why would you want that piece of trash?!!!
Sorry, but I think it's the worst designed robot
in the history of films!
Robbie the robot (Forbidden Planet, 3 or 4 eps
of Lost In Space 60's tv series, background in
Gremlins 1 (or 2?) and even in a Columbo film
...
 from the 70's!), Gort (Day The Earth Stood
Still), Maximillion (The Black Hole) and more
modern robot's such as Robocop, ED-209 and
Caine (all from the Robocop films), plus the
T-1000 (Terminator), are much better designed
to be menacing and/or cool looking.

When I saw the one from the Lost In Space
film (from 90's) I just laughed. To be honest,
going from the picture, it looks like a cross
between the robot's from Short Circuit and
Caine from Robocop 2.

Regards,
Andrew D. Burton
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk