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I have many other pics of Botz, too many to share here as I like to keep this stream varied somewhat. But I am so enamored with these guys that I set up a Facebook page dedicated to them. I invite you to visit and enjoy. Thank you for your support!
I have many other pics of Botz, too many to share here as I like to keep this stream varied somewhat. But I am so enamored with these guys that I set up a Facebook page dedicated to them. I invite you to visit and enjoy. Thank you for your support!
I have many other pics of Botz, too many to share here as I like to keep this stream varied somewhat. But I am so enamored with these guys that I set up a Facebook page dedicated to them. I invite you to visit and enjoy. Thank you for your support!
Little French Wall-E!! Think he's sick of our weather and is thinkin of doin a legger!
Explored #12 for 2 January 2010
I have many other pics of Botz, too many to share here as I like to keep this stream varied somewhat. But I am so enamored with these guys that I set up a Facebook page dedicated to them. I invite you to visit and enjoy. Thank you for your support!
Russian special forces mech, heavily armoured, twin xenon cannons, rocket pod. Slow but hard to put down. Known by the american call-sign "Goblin".
Russian special forces mech, heavily armoured, twin xenon cannons, rocket pod. Slow but hard to put down. Known by the American call-sign "Goblin".
Russian special forces mech, heavily armoured, twin xenon cannons, rocket pod. Slow but hard to put down.
July 30th 1926 - Somewhere in rural England.
A note from Professor Darkly -
Welcome, welcome… one and all. I’m so glad you found time to drop by.
I’m certain you are puzzled as to why you have been brought here on this fine summer’s evening… so without further ado I’ll enlighten you.
Many times in the past you interfering do-gooders have seen fit to meddle in my magnificently evil schemes… but now it is time for me to exact my revenge upon you.
You have been lured here tonight so that you may take part in a little sporting game of life and death… in which you are the prey.
As you peer through the darkness you will see that you have been locked inside a vast, derelict Victorian factory… where I have been secretly manufacturing my new super-fuel… which I have named Darklithium Five.
Darklithium Five is a highly toxic and incredibly unstable liquid which will be used to power my army of giant robots. Oh yes dear friends, my latest plan for world domination will soon be implemented in full.
The huge barrels you see before you contain Darklithium Five… and beyond them stands a towering, heat-ray firing robot. His job is to destroy you!!!
The robot will move in random directions as he attempts to locate you, shooting his terrifying heat-ray. If a barrel is hit once by the heat-ray, the Darklithium inside will turn critical. If a barrel is hit a second time… the Darklithium will overheat and the barrel will explode. You have been warned.
But do not despair. Each of you has been given a small remote control unit. This is your only hope of salvation. You must locate the radiation soaked batteries that fit inside your remote control. When you have four batteries you will gain control over the robot’s movements… and only then will you have the opportunity to send it towards your fellow protagonists. At most, just one among you will survive this ordeal.
The sweetest taste of all is that of revenge… and tonight vengeance will be mine.
Good bye and good riddance to you all. I’m sure that you’ll have a barrel of laughs. And remember… whomsoever controls the robot… will live to see another dawn… possibly.
Yours sincerely,
Professor Darkly.
The Robot of Doom is a board game for 2 to 8 hot-footed players.
© Copyright - David J Dalley
The PRONTO adapter can auto-focus practically any manual lens you attach to it! Designed to mount Leica M lenses on Sony Cameras with Phase Detection auto-focus, you can attach a second adapter to mount many other kinds of lenses, including M42 lenses like the Meyer-Optik Görlitz 50mm f/1.8 featured in these photos.
Here is a little wind-up robot from the 1970s I bought just recently. I spent a portion of last year during Plague boredom poking around ebay looking for old toys I remember once owning, and I came across a bunch of these little wind-up robots for, like five bucks. So I bought one. You could always find these in the toy aisle at the K-mart when I was a kid, and I had a bunch of them. They came in a variety of color schemes, but I always liked the chrome one with the blue lid best.
This guy is about an inch and a half tall, and he weighs nothing. His winder doesn't work great, but that only adds to the nostalgia, because they never worked great.
of COURSE it's normal for someone my age to lie in the driveway at 4am with toy robots and sparklers! jeesh!
Robots aren't stupid.
Never let it be said that I didn't do my bit to keep the United Kingdom united.
If the Scottish Independence referendum results in a narrow NO vote... I will take full credit for saving the Union.
And if it's a YES... we start rebuilding Hadrian's Wall... pronto!
A nun... on the run?
A puddle, a plastic clockwork nun... and a reflection of one in the other.
Helen... this is my submission to the "REFLECTIONS" photo challenge!
Reproduction pressed tin battery-operated toy robot from RobotIsland.com via eBay
When I was a kid I had a similar (not identical -- different front plate) toy robot which I kept for many years. A few years ago, prior to making a major move across states, I sold a great number of my childhood toys, including my toy robot.
Recently, some posts in the The Toy Show group on Flickr reminded me of some of my older photo stories. In some of those stories, my old tin robot had featured as a character.
In a nostalgic mood, I took a look on eBay and found modern reproduction toy robots are available from a company called Robot Island at an affordable price (under thirty bucks for this one). Feeling like I might at some point resurrect some of those old toy photostories, I purchased one of the reprobots... this one, No. ME100 Rotatomatic Robot.
Compared to the original 1960s robots, the "fit and finish" of the new ones is not as tight. The feet are slightly undersized. But the printing and paintwork looks good, and for my purposes, the new robot will be quite satisfactory, and in fact is of a better quality than I was expecting.
June 2024
The robots liked it so much last year, I've taken an extended group back to Barley (Pendleside, Lancashire) May Bank Holiday Model Engineering Show again this year.
Part of my robot exhibit :- with robot lizards, enhanced Robie SR's, a modern UBTech Alpha 1P, and my enhanced Omnibot with power arms.
Alpha 1P's Bluetooth works well with my Android phone, and although modern, his dance routines fascinated both parents and children.
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When I was growing up in the 50's, all cars had fins. Someday in the near future, we were told, they'd all have jet engines.
How wonderful are these retro robot toys? Wandered round the Christmas market in Princes Street Gardens this evening after work - dark winter night and here are all these wee wooden stalls, scent of hot gluwhein and spiced, hot cider in the air, steam rising from food stalls, the craft stalls all lit up, ice rink nearby, big wheel, carousel, busy crowds, lovely splash of life and noise and aroma against the surrounding winter night.
I love the traditional toy stalls - carved, painted wooden toys, wind-up clockwork toys, old tin-type toys like these gloriously 50s robots, I love looking at a whole stall full of these brightly coloured, wonderful toys and for a moment feeling as if I was five years old again and that simple pleasure a new toy and your own imagination promised...