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Re: The Screen Robots Ready Reckoner
Posted By cjlines 1 January 11, 2008 10:41:39 AM

Hahah! Awesome idea for a ready reckoner. :) Great stuff.

The only one I'd've liked to have seen there that isn't is the wee robot from 'Cinderella 2000' - his musical lament about robot sex (the charmingly named "Where Do I Plug It In?") is a classic cinema moment. Sadly, the movie seems nigh on impossible to find these days and even YouTube doesn't have a clip of the song. :(

Re: The Screen Robots Ready Reckoner
Posted By kestrel1977 1 January 11, 2008 12:17:41 PM

Good lord this is thorough! But what about the robots from 'Heartbeeps'... now there's an obscure film..

Re: The Screen Robots Ready Reckoner
Posted By Robmac 1 January 11, 2008 01:50:57 PM

Thems some good robots. I thought I was the only person on earth to have seen Runaway which is the only film I know of that has Gene Simmons from Kiss as a bad guy who can control shoe box looking robots. It makes you wander why they dont make films like that any more. There is one you might have forgotton though check out Rocky3 for one of the best 1980s robots ever!

Re: The Screen Robots Ready Reckoner
Posted By garlicsmack 1 January 11, 2008 01:57:00 PM

Man alive, that's thorough. Personally, I found the Cybernauts one of the most terrifying TV villains of my childhood, second only (in sci-fi terms) to that episode of the Time Tunnel where some aliens take over an American town. Jeepers.

Re: The Screen Robots Ready Reckoner
Posted By simonbrew 1 January 11, 2008 09:32:56 PM

Rob: Rocky 4, surely?

Re: The Screen Robots Ready Reckoner
Posted By Robmac 1 January 12, 2008 12:25:09 PM

oh yeah, Rocky 4... still its a great Robot. Back when Rocky 4 came out when I was at Primary school there was a TV spot for Rocky 4 and I am sure that Robot was in it. It also had a bit where Dolph and Stallone smashed gloves into each other and there was an explosion which of course being 7 and 8 led a lot of playground rumours that Ivan Drago was a robot a la Terminator.

Re: The Screen Robots Ready Reckoner
Posted By DuncanMonkey 1 January 14, 2008 04:54:13 PM

I love robots and this article. Now that was an extensive Ready Reckoner!

However, you lose big points for cussing Optimus Prime, regardless of the updated design, as he is like a god to me. Luckily you didn't lay into Bob from the Black Hole or me and you would've come to blows.

Hmm my brain also seems to have stuck on the scene from Runaway where Ms Alley gets scanned for bugs...

Re: The Screen Robots Ready Reckoner
Posted By twosheds 1 January 14, 2008 09:44:21 PM

Duncan: Whoops, I mixed up BOB with STARR. Corrected now [assumes the position]...
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