I’m making them as fast as I can, okay?
Lame. Forgot The Golem.
Hey, was Robbie in “Forbidden Planet” the same robot as in “Lost in Space”? (the TV series, that is)
Yep.
Nope. Compare Robbie with “the Robot”. Robbie was probably an inspiration for the Lost in Space version, but they were definitely not one and the same.
Short Circuit 2, man that was good times.
I believe Robbie actually “guest-starred” on Lost in Space at least once (maybe twice).
Something unnerving. (The robot refused to make the reunion show ;)).
Twice. Once in the episode called something like “Battle of the Robots” and also as a prison guard on some outer-space prison space station.
Heck, I think he even guested on ‘Mork and Mindy’ once. That robot gets around. He should have his own IMDB listing.
And no ‘Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow’? It had giant killer city-destroying robots! What more can they ask?
I was young enough to cry my little eyeballs out when they beat him up.
Pretty broad definition of “Robot”, there. I wouldn’t inmclude The Tin Woodsman as a robot (you can make a much better case for Tik Tok of Oz being a robot). You’ll get into definitional fights over things like Frankenstein (or The Golem, for that matter).
By the way, The Robot from Lost in Space was designed by the same guy who designed Robbie. Robbie also showed up (sometimes with changes) in the original Twilight Zone (along with a lot of other Forbidden Planet props and clips).
Robby also showed up in an episode of “Columbo”
and “Ark II”
and a movie called “The Invisble Boy”
you’re right, he needs his own IMDB listing.
Isn’t it nice when there’s a happy ending?
It misses his ‘Mork and Mindy’ appearance, though.
Wasn’t he also on The Simpson’s, complete with dead midget inside?
(Please ignore the apostrophe between the “n” and “s”. My…dog jumped on the keyboard. Ahem.)
I wasn’t going to mention it, but I did too. I was like five or something (at least, I’d better have been).
More omissions: If they’re going to count the missile launch systems in War Games and the babe in Weird Science as robots, then they darn well ought to count HAL. And I also note that they include Star Trek: First Contact and Nemesis, but not Insurrection.
As for Sky Captain, the list is from September of 2003 (later entries are all in production, with projected release dates), so I wouldn’t expect it to be complete past that date. Sky Captain may not have even been in the works, and even if it was, it may not have been generally known that it would involve robots.
Giant Killer City-destroying Robots!!!