It's time for another Planet 8 Top Ten -only this time, it's a Top Ten times two! That's right, in this episode, we're giving you not one Top Ten list, but two Top Ten lists! And our subject this time around is near and dear to our hearts, and we hope to yours too: Robots! Sometimes friends, sometimes foes, these mechanical beings have always fascinated people. In this episode the Planet 8 crew shares their favorite robots, with a twist: we have one top ten list of giant robots, and a second top ten list of human or nearly human-sized robots! We hope you'll enjoy the lists and the discussion around the selections. We think some of them will surprise you!
For our Sensor Sweep, decidedly non-robot related, is a limited edition Creature from the Black Lagoon 1/3 scale bust sculpted by Jeff Wehenkel and painted by Michael Reagan. Bob was lucky enough to get one at Creatures-Con recently. Sorry folks - no links for these! They're all gone!
That's all for this time. Let us know what robots are in your top ten!
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Interesting list of top robots; personally, I don't think I'd include the Vision, because to me he's more of an android (yeah, I know that technically he's a synthezoid) like Data.
ReplyDeleteThe Iron Giant would definitely make it on my list, but so would Twiki and Andy the cowardly robot from the too-short-lived '70s TV show Quark. And also IG-88...
Otherwise, I completely don't agree about Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - I recently(-ish) rewatched the pilot movie and a few episodes and found that it held up pretty well. That's mainly because I look on it is classic '70s camp more than anything else. (That only applies to the first season, though; the second season is pretty lame.)
-Edo Bosnar
Hey Edo! Well, we did have some back and forth about how to define robots - we didn't include Robocop because we decided he was a cyborg, but then, some might say the Terminator was too. It's pretty arbitrary! Catch us on another day and we might have a very different list! I haven't looked at Buck Rogers in a long time - I might have to check it out again.
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