Major Spoilers Poll of the Week: Robot Wars!
--by Stephen Schleicher
Time to take a break from the infighting among the superheroes, and time to get practical. This week it’s a battle between Model B-9, Class M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot - you know, that robot from Lost in Space, and the 7 foot, 2 inch tall mechanical behemoth from the MGM 1956 classis Forbidden Planet - Robby the Robot.
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August 5th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Robby FTW.
My girlfriend will often watch Suzy Orman while I’m on the internet and I overheard a call-in viewer on the “Can I Afford It?” segment asking if Suzy thought he could afford a life-size Robby the Robot. I think it was like $7000.00. She said “no.” My girlfriend didn’t understand why I thought that was too bad for the guy.
Ah well.
August 5th, 2008 at 9:52 am
You know. There was an episode of Lost in Space where the two actually did throw down. If memory serves, Robby had outclassed B-9 and was expected to mop up the floor but with the guile and aid of Will Robinson, B-9 prevailed. Does anyone else have a better memory of that episode?
August 5th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Scott: I remember the episode as well, and since it is/was lost in space, I’m sure B-9 won… even though we all know that wouldn’t be the case in the real world. Robby takes out the creator of Fish-Heads, and B-9 breaks down crying like a little girl…
August 5th, 2008 at 10:05 am
What, no Optimus Prime?
August 5th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Robby! Robby! Robby!
August 5th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER! Model B-9, ftw.
August 5th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
“What, no Optimus Prime?”
R2-D2 scoffs at your faith in a talking robot.
August 5th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
If B-9 had never been anything more than a prop on the set of LiS, just being the link between TV’s Zorro, Timmy’s mom, Space Academy and the co-ruler of Lumania would be enough to come out on top.
Plus Robby loses all cred for being in a low-rent Shakespeare rip-off.
August 7th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Robby the Robot is the cool icon that was trashed to construct “the Robot” from Lost in Space. The Robot has no personality, other than being a flat, redesign of the family dog. Robby was in the Twilight Zone, Wonder Woman, and the Banana Splits that computes to awesome. To paraphrase Sam Jackson,”Personality goes a long way.” (please add mother-fuckers and exclamation points as needed).