Nice! I used to pick those up for about 500 bucks about fifteen years ago...
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Posted 10 August 2013 - 05:24 PM
c.1956 Nomura, Mechanized (C-cell) Robot in Orig. Box w/Rare Sales Brochure
Nice! I used to pick those up for about 500 bucks about fifteen years ago...
Nice! I used to pick those up for about 500 bucks about fifteen years ago...
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Posted 11 August 2013 - 08:29 AM
"If you do not speak English, I am at your disposal with 187 other languages along with their various dialects and sub-tongues."
"Colloquial English will do fine, thank you. Uh, this is no offense, but, you are a robot, aren't you?"
"That is correct, sir. For your convenience, I am monitored to respond to the name "Robby."
One of my favorite old movies; even at the age of eight or nine, when it played on TVs "Million Dollar Movie" (WWOR channel 9 in NYC), I simply HAD to know what the word "colloquial" meant. 
Even so, at $7,000 with 26 bids and still 11 hours to go, this auction is in a league populated almost entirely by cold speculators whose interest in this child's toy is vastly different than mine. Or apparently yours, unless you already are or plan to secretly become one of the bidders. 
At any rate, thanks for the heads-up! 
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Posted 11 August 2013 - 09:26 AM
My own Robby has been monitoring professor Morbius' nympho daughter for many years...
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Posted 11 August 2013 - 10:19 AM
"Hey, Doc, is it a male or a female?"
"In my case sir, the question is totally without meaning."
Nevertheless:
"Robby, I must have a new dress, right away."
"Again...??".
Is that a poor copy of Rodin's "St. John the Baptist Preaching" in the background? Sure looks like it.
You may rest assured Robby was acutely aware of the differences between men and women.
You need an "Altaira" action figure to keep Robby company, like this:
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Posted 11 August 2013 - 10:45 AM
No need, I have been married to Altaira for 36 years now!
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Posted 11 August 2013 - 07:25 PM
Wow...I had two of these when I was a kid. My parents bought me a lot of this stuff when I was growing up ( I was a geek, even then). Sure wish I had at least one of them now..lol. That's a lot of scratch for a toy...
"... a good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring." - Mark Twain
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Posted 11 August 2013 - 08:20 PM
Sold for nearly 10 big ones.
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Posted 12 August 2013 - 09:11 AM
Looks like Robby just gave her a "green gown"! LOL
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