Antiques Drive In

05/03/2023

A little humor shared by Michael Dale Martin 😂

04/14/2023

Bicycle Door🚲

03/22/2023

Vintage Telephone Table... My 98 year old aunt still has hers. Beautiful.

02/12/2023

Did you know?

Robby the Robot was built by ex-washing machine designer Robert Kinoshida who said, "I remember on the first day of filming, the crew stood around wondering 'What the hell is this thing gonna do?'"

Robby was made of: metal, plastic, rubber, glass, and Plexiglas. The plastic parts were made using the then new technology of vacuum-forming heated plastic over wooden molds. He stands just over 7-feet tall, made in three detachable sections with a very detailed head.

Two stunt men took turns being inside Robby to operate him. An off-camera actor spoke Robby’s lines into a microphone that ran a cable to Robby’s foot and up to a voice-activated circuit that lit-up blue, neon tubes as he spoke.

Later, actor Marvin Miller dubbed in Robby’s final voice. Miller was the man that gave out the checks in TV’s The Millionaire series.

Forbidden Planet, the first A-grade science ficiton movie of its time, was a big hit. The star of the movie was Robby, who was featured on the poster carrying Anne Francis.

Two years later, Robby starred in The Invisible Boy, with his name twice as large as the other actors on the poster. It was a critical and financial success that made Robby a continuing pop-icon. Later, he appeared on many TV shows including:

The Thin Man, Dobie Gillis, four episodes of The Twilight Zone, Hazel, The Adams Family, and The Man From UNCLE. In one episode of Lost in Space Robby battles the B-9 robot that was also designed by Kinoshida.

All appearances of Robby after 1971 were made by a replica, as the original was too valuable to risk on sets or locations.

After being in the hands of various collectors, in 2017, the original Robby was auctioned off for $5,375,000, making Robby the most expensive film prop ever sold.

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