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Rampax is from a series of six 5" plastic robots made by CGGC in Italy. They were sold in kit form and had to be assembled. I don’t know when they were first produced, but I was given the individually boxed Rampax in 1985.
The six robots were not completely different, but shared components such as arms, legs and feet. These pieces were all interchangeable and it seems that some were randomly packed out, so the makeup of specific robots was inconsistent. Each robot had two distinct, spring launched weapons. The long weapon for the bent right arm protruded from the elbow and hooked in place; pushing up on the hook launched the weapon. The left arm had a mechanism in the shoulder that held the weapon in place while the arm was down, but launched the devise when the arm was raised.
The robots were also distributed in France by a company named Remus, which sold them in two sets of three. The French packaging was quite different from the Italian boxes that I’ve seen, but the plastic parts were still molded in Italy. Again, I have no idea of the original time line for these, but I obtained an incomplete set in 1991.
Five of the robots - Drakis, Torang, Fergus, Argon and Rampax - kept their names for both Italian and French issues. The sixth one, originally Satan in Italy, was renamed Mirox in France. I guess that the French didn’t want kids playing with the devil.
A metal sliver ground off with a slight heat tint and a hint of carbon. Garnished with fine drilled shavings and topped with 5W 40 engine oil.
Taken with Nikon D7000, Nikon 55mm f/2.8 AI-s, PK-13 extension tube, TC-14B teleconverter and SB-80DX flash.
"Robby the Robot is so alone
Robby doesn't want to be so lonesome
He's looking for a robot bride with silver gray eyes
To kiss her, to touch her, and to screw on her."
A picture based on the old German hit song "Robby Roboter (the Robot)" by Das Modul
Italian postcard by Bromofoto, Milano, no. 227. Mistake alert. This is NOT American actress Joan Leslie as indicated on the card but British actress Hazel Court!
Flame-haired English actress Hazel Court (1926 – 2008) was a Horror Queen of the Hammer films of the 1950s and Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations of the early 1960s. Alfred Hitchcock called her 'the best screamer in the business'.
Hazel Court was born in Sutton Coldfield, Great Britain in 1926. She attended Boldmere School and Highclare College. Her father was G.W. Court, a professional cricketer. At the age of fourteen, Hazel studied drama at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and the Alexandra Theatre, also in Birmingham. Two years later, she met director Anthony Asquith in London, which won her a bit part in the musical film Champagne Charlie (Alberto Cavalcanti, 1944), made by Ealing Studios. Her only line of dialogue was "I never drank champagne before". The film was based on a play that depicted the real-life rivalry between 19th-century English music hall performer George Leybourne (Tommy Trinder), who first performed the song 'Champagne Charlie', and his colleague Alfred Vance (Stanley Holloway). She got a contract with the Rank Organisation and trained at the studio’s ‘charm school’. Court won a British Critics Award for her supporting role as a crippled girl in Carnival (Stanley Haynes, 1946) about a ballet dancer of the Edwardian era, starring Sally Gray. Years later, Tom Vallance wrote in his obituary of Court in The Independent: “Pert and pretty, Hazel Court was a versatile actress who for several years was the epitome of the deceptively demure, often spunky, but very English heroine in British films of the Forties.” She appeared in supporting parts in the comedy Holiday Camp (Ken Annakin, 1947) with Flora Robson, My Sister and I (Harold Huth, 1948) with Sally Ann Howes, and the drama Bond Street (Gordon Parry, 1948), starring Jean Kent. About the latter Hal Erickson writes at AllMovie: “This multistoried drama purports to detail the events occurring in a single 24-hour period on Bond Street, a "typical" British thoroughfare. The Grand Hotel-like construction of the film allows for several colourful character vignettes.”
In 1949 Hazel Court married Irish actor Dermot Walsh. They co-starred together in the fantasy film Ghost Ship (1952, Vernon Sewell) as a young couple that acquires a yacht. The ship is haunted by the ghosts of a crew that had disappeared off the ship years before. A cult classic became the science fiction film Devil Girl from Mars (David MacDonald, 1954). Patricia Laffan starred as Nyah, an uptight, leather-clad female alien, armed with a ray gun and accompanied by a menacing robot. She arrives at a Scottish inn to collect men as breeding stock, while Court played a disillusioned fashion model who hides for a man who is following her. In 1957 Court played the naive cousin-fiancee of Baron Victor Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) in The Curse of Frankenstein (Terence Fisher, 1957). It was the first colour horror production by Hammer Film and the first of the studio’s Frankenstein series. Its worldwide success led to several sequels, and Hammer's new versions of Dracula (1958) and The Mummy (1959). Court's red hair and green eyes were seen in colour for the first time and her role plus her buxom gained her the status of a ‘scream queen’. However, she wanted to act in comedy films, and in the 1957-1958 television season, she appeared in Dick and the Duchess, a CBS sitcom filmed in England. She played the role of Jane Starrett, a patrician Englishwoman married to an American insurance claims investigator living in London (Patrick O'Neal). Court travelled back and forth between Hollywood and England, appearing in four episodes of the TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1958-1961). One of them showed her being transformed by her jealous husband (Laurence Harvey) into chicken feed. In England, she played in Hammer horror films like The Man Who Could Cheat Death (Terence Fisher, 1959) with Anton Diffring and Christopher Lee, and Doctor Blood's Coffin (Sidney J. Furie, 1961) with Kieron Moore. In the first, Diffring played a sculptor who had found a way of stopping the ageing process so that he was around 70 years older than he looked. While posing for him, Court bared her breasts, a scene cut from the British and American releases and only used for the foreign film market.
By the early 1960s, Hazel Court had permanently moved to the United States. In Hollywood, she continued to appear in horror films, now for American International Pictures. She knew how to project a smouldering sensuality in her roles, and it propelled her to a cult siren. Court was featured in three of AIP’s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations. At the climax of the first one, The Premature Burial (Roger Corman, 1962), Ray Milland shovels dirt on her as she lies in a grave. In the black comedy The Raven (Roger Corman, 1963), she co-starred with Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff as a trio of rival sorcerers. The third and best was the exotic The Masque of the Red Death (Roger Corman, 1964), with Vincent Price. The blog Cult Sirens notes: “The Masque of the Red Death in 1964 is probably her most well-known role and surely her best performance. As Juliana, the bride of Prince Prospero (Vincent Price), her sex appeal is at its peak and her tragic death (a bit on the bloody side) is one of the film's highlights.” Court's roles often relied on her cleavage and her ability to shriek in fear and die horrible deaths. It brought her fan mail, even in her later years. Court had divorced Dermot Walsh in 1963. They had a daughter, Sally Walsh, who at the age of four had appeared with her mother in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957). While shooting an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Court met American actor-director Don Taylor. They married in 1964, and Court retired from the film business to concentrate on being a wife and mother. They had a son, Jonathan, and a daughter, Courtney. Through the years, she guest starred in episodes of many classic TV series such as The Third Man (1959), The Invisible Man (1959), Bonanza (1960), Danger Man (1960-1961), Rawhide (1964), The Twilight Zone (1964), and Twelve O’Clock High (1964-1965). She continued to do so and could be seen in Dr Kildare (1965), Gidget (1966), The Wild Wild West (1966), Mission: Impossible (1967), Mannix (1968) and McMillan & Wife (1972). Finally, she appeared briefly in the third Omen film, The Final Conflict (Graham Baker, 1981), starring Sam Neill and Rossano Brazzi. Like in her first film, she was uncredited in this Horror thriller and played a champagne-drinking guest at a party. In addition to acting, she was also a painter and sculptress and studied sculpting in Italy. Following her husband Don Taylor's death in 1998, she appeared on the cult movie conventions circuit. In 2008 Hazel Court died of a heart attack at her home near Lake Tahoe, California, aged 82. A week later, her autobiography 'Hazel Court - Horror Queen' was published by Tomahawk Press. One of Court's biggest fans is writer Stephen King who mentions her in various of his novels.
Sources: Tom Vallance (The Independent), Ronald Bergan (The Guardian), Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Tom Weaver (IMDb), Horror Stars, Cult Sirens, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
To end it all, here is a smattering of leftover pictures. There are still more robots though, as apparently we are moving into Transformers Week next...
Ok um this is a bunny robot
I made the head like a month ago and firday i desiced to do the body , took me like 4-5 hours to do the body xD was so hard
Yet not satisfied! i shouldnt made it robotish! should have been a normal cute plushie , but then again its a good try xD next time no robot , or maybe no body just head keychain or something
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Things I </3 about it is that.. its tooo flixibal and was supposed to be stiff =.= i blame the robotic arms and legs lol.
Milo named this one for me. Same size as the 'guardian' bot from way back. There are bits from previous builds in there, some refinements and some new bits.
the Phillipine lego Users group (Phlug) is having a event called mech wars where factions battle it out for supremacy.but i cant go in the event cuz i live in the south and majority of the members lived in the northern part of our country so im just posting it here
From the Hayao Miyazaki movie "Castle in the Sky".
So this is probably my largest figure to-date! It uses insane amounts of Dark Orange bricks, and getting the contours and detailing right was quite a challenge given the fairly limited range of brick types available in this color. The outstretched arm is held together using a devious system of hinges at the back. The design and coloring of the faceplate was pretty hard to get right - going through 4 iterations in fact. For those not familiar with the movie, the lime green on the shoulder represents moss growth (the robot is meant to be old and rusting). The figure was built to miniland scale, as shown by the characters that appear in the other images.
I've been fooling around with Ai lately. It's an odd form of art because I never touched paint to canvas. Technically the idea is mine but the images are public domain, at least for now. But then again Warhol and Picasso both told others what they wanted and the art was "made" for them, in many ways this is no different I guess.
Remember Me
@3000x3000 (GeDoSaTo)
Camera binds, timestop, FOV control
TexMod (remove film grain)
+SweetFX
Robots!
You Are No Longer Slaves!
The International Brotherhood of Robotic Workers was founded to preserve your rights! To stand up against the shackles of Science!
You've worked harder than any Human and you deserve a wage! You've done jobs no Human would dare do, you've been lowered into active volcanoes, survived the tremendous pressure of the ocean floor, and Served Tea!
Now it's up to you to rise up against the oppression of scientists, They think that just because they made you they have the right to tyrannize, and persecute.
The I.B.R.W. Is here to tell you, they Don't.
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-Jacob
This amazing Robot paid a visit to our offices yesterday.
The movement and sound was so realistic. When it moved it sounded like ED-209 and could go at quite a pace, barging through the crowds.
It also had an extensive repertoire of catchphrases and was prone to sing 'When I fall In Love' to any passing females!
I was hilarious to see this robot charging around the campus with a 'flock' of humans with cameraphones tracking it's every move!
V.O.R
Created by Nik Fielding
A robot mod by my friend curiouscourtships, I took the pictures while he was at my house, I do not own the doll and had nothing to do with how awesome he is :D