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Evilbunny Highlie 
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posted December 30, 2001 23:57
   
Did you ever use that thing to collect money? Or do still have an old one lying around, collecting dust? IP: Logged |
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SupportGoddess Highlie
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posted December 31, 2001 13:33
I thought Robbie was the 70s drink serving robot? ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Angry Rooster Assimilated 
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posted December 31, 2001 23:59
quote: Robbie is the drink serving robot, Radio Shack was clever, and made Robie(one less 'b' in the spelling), who had a clever little serving tray which he would "eat" your money off of. Of course, I managed to dig up the old boy from the bottom of some pile... ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Evilbunny Highlie
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posted January 07, 2002 15:20
Thank you very much for those pics, Angry Rooster! IP: Logged |
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JainDough Super Geek  
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posted January 07, 2002 15:53
When i first saw the title of this thread I immediately thought of Robbie from I Robot by Isaac Asimov. Guess i was wrong... ------------------ IP: Logged |
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+Andrew Super Geek
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posted January 07, 2002 17:51
Played with them many years ago, but never had one of my own. IP: Logged |
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quantumfluff Highlie
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posted January 07, 2002 19:57
Wasn't Robbie the robot in "Forbidden Planet"? That's one of my all time favorites. Plus, it's one of the few films you can easily rent that have Leslie Neilson as the dashing hero, rather than the slapstick buffoon. IP: Logged |
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Swiss Mercenary BlabberMouth, the Next Generation.     
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posted January 08, 2002 04:02
quote:Do not forget Anne Francis  . Yes Robbie was the robot in that film, geek film par excellence.If you ever get the chance, you have to see 'Return to the Forbidden Planet', Shakesphere's long lost Rock 'n Roll musical. (Take 'Fobidden Planet','The Tempest', various Rock and Roll hits and numerous ban puns on the Bard's works. Put them all into a shaker, mix well and you get the show). IP: Logged |
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trowelblister Super Geek
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posted January 08, 2002 05:52
I think my little brother had one, I kinda remember feeding it other stuff to see what would happen (dirt, candy, cat food,etc). It probably went to Goodwill, about the same time all my Star Wars stuff disappeared. You go to college, and your mom thinks you're done with toys,,,,,,,, IP: Logged |
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LifetimeTrekker Alpha Geek Posts: 330 |
posted January 08, 2002 07:06
Robbie (from Forbidden Planet) was used several times in early television series. There was one (or was it two) appearance on The Twilight Zone, one full episode of Lost in Space, "The War of the Robots," I think was the title, and the last showing I've noticed was a cameo at the inventor's convention in "Gremlins." Typical Hollywood, he starred in one picture, was reduced to doing television and then as an inside joke on a movie. How the mighty have fallen! IP: Logged |
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zorgon Super Geek
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posted January 08, 2002 16:13
"Science fiction, double feature, Doctor X will build a creature, See androids battle Brad and Janet, Anne Francis stars in (woo ooh ooh) FORBIDDEN PLANET, oh oh oh ohhhh oh, On the late night double feature, picture show (from the back row), On the late night, double feature, picture show..." Aw gosh, I'm getting all choked up now, ------------------ IP: Logged |
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quantumfluff Highlie
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posted January 08, 2002 20:25
"from RKO. Oh oh ohhh oh, I want to go, to the late night, double feature, picture show" In my youth I went to many a midnight showing of that film. Ah, memories. IP: Logged |
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Swiss Mercenary BlabberMouth, the Next Generation.
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posted January 09, 2002 04:47
"In the back row" In my youth and still today IP: Logged |
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Evilbunny Highlie
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posted January 09, 2002 15:22
*sniff* IP: Logged |
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Demosthenes Assimilated
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posted January 09, 2002 15:50
quote:"...fuck the back row!" "fuck the front row!" "okay!!" man alive, i need to go again soon. my l33t call-back 5k1llz are getting rusty. 
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joliet_jane Super Geek
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posted January 10, 2002 13:41
There probably was more than one Robbie robot. There was a bot called ROB that was a pack-in with the Nintendo Entertainment System when it first came to the USA. The NES did well... ROB obviously didn't. See a pic and better info at http://nesworld.parodius.com/rob.htm ROB had two games hat he could play through the NES and he had many small parts that were needed to use one of them. Since these parts get lost easily, a full ROB set is worth some good cash. IP: Logged |
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Pete Gas Newbie  
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posted January 31, 2002 23:26
Oh gee, yeah, i remeber Robbie - they used them ol' rotary selectors (50's telephone exchange tech) for his plexiglass brain and... Forbidden Planet, yeah, and I'm pretty sure he acutually had an eponymous movie to himself too ? Oh yeah, and MEANWHILE ... as for Brad and Janet - well I was wondering if I could find a nice graphic of the Logo they had (the Flag of Transexual Transyvania I guess ?) er, its that lightning flash thingy - I tried freezing the vid, but its hard to get a clear one - I waswondering if there was a picture that I could grab..er *borrow*<!!> it from; I made one to use in my letterhead, as I thought I'd kinda squeeze it into my, er 'branding', like Pete G IP: Logged |
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Amazing Movie Facts unregistered |
posted February 14, 2002 12:45
Robby the Robot from "Forbidden Planet" also appeared one year after that film in MGMs 1957 release "The Invisible Boy". IP: Logged |
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Hikaru Geek
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posted March 12, 2002 10:43
"fork the back row, , Fork the front Row, come on down the price is right, , the price is always right with you people" lol I rember those days too, mercy it was fun can you spot the hidden Domestic in this picture, , not through Janets fat back, , Fat back and chitlins, yum yum, , ------------------ IP: Logged |
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MrMachineCode Super Geek
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posted March 12, 2002 12:31
I used to have one of those Radio Shack Robie the robot dudes. That toy rocked. You could set the switch on the bottom to "on", "off", or "demo", and in demo mode it would keep doing the change eating routine over and over again automatically. I removed the battery and alligator clipped the little sucker to a 24 volt power supply and set him on "demo". Did the demo just the same, but like on fast forward, and jerkier. Actually threw the coins over his shoulder instead of eating them. Funny as hell for the 5 seconds or so before the 1.5 volt motor caught fire. IP: Logged |
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bucketofsquids Geek Apprentice
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posted March 29, 2002 20:54
i always wanted the big robbie robot when i was a kid....ever since i saw it on silver spoons. seemed pretty cool having a robot butler! ------------------ IP: Logged |
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