Major Spoilers Poll of the Week: Robot Wars!


--by Stephen Schleicher

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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.

Robot Wars!

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9 Responses to “Major Spoilers Poll of the Week: Robot Wars!”

  1. Mark I. Says:

    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.

  2. Scott Says:

    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?

  3. Stephen Schleicher Says:

    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…

  4. doubledumbassonyou Says:

    What, no Optimus Prime?

  5. Lifeisaglitch Says:

    Robby! Robby! Robby!

  6. Roy Says:

    DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER! Model B-9, ftw.

  7. DrStrangeCubicle Says:

    “What, no Optimus Prime?”

    R2-D2 scoffs at your faith in a talking robot.

  8. ykw Says:

    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.

  9. unbottledup Says:

    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).

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