Posted on 11/22/2017 10:04:55 AM PST by C19fan
Robby the Robot from sci-fi film Forbidden Planet has become the world's most expensive piece of classic movie memorabilia after selling for more than $5million. The seven-foot robot which has metal claws, a domed head and speaks 188 languages, starred in the 1956 film as the servant of Dr Morbius on Altair IV - known as the Forbidden Planet. The robot was auctioned by Bonhams New York for a world record price $5,375,000 in the TCM Presents* Out of This World! auction.
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$5,250,000.00 was my limit.
Forbidden Planet was just on TV a few days ago. Watched the last hour and a half. Ann Francis(?), in one scene wore a bit of a revealing blouse or cover. In the next scene it was gone. What a classic.
Just watched Road House too.!!!!!!
Great Movie, one of my favorites.
That movie ages very well. Great story, can’t go wrong stealing from Shakespeare, and the special effects still look good.
Wow! One of my favorite sci-fi films.
It cost about 1 million in todays dollars to build the thing in the first place
Monsters From The ID.
My dad had to explain to me what the “ID” was.
Somebody paid over five million bucks for that?
Step right up ladies and gentlemen. I have here for sale one of the original red slippers that Dorothy wore in the movie The Wizard of Oz. it may look like a New Balance tennis shoe, but I guarantee that it’s one of the originals from the movie.
What shall we start the bidding at?
One million?
Robby the Robot was also in Twilight Zone ‘Uncle Simon’ episode. “Barbara I have craving for some hot chocolate”. I love that episode.
I knew it would go for more than $4 million so I didn’t bid.
I believe he was in Lost in Space too.
When I first saw “Forbidden Planet” at the age of about nine, it terrified me. The idea of a malevolent, invisible energy force was kind of a secularized version of a demon, and the idea that this monster was an unconscious creation of the human mind kind of echoes the Tibetan Buddhist idea of “tulpas.”
That thing always looks like a recycled washing machine drum to me!
A degenerate waste of money that could be better spent.
One of my all time favorite sci fi films.
Forbidden Planet was just on TV a few days ago. Watched the last hour and a half. Ann Francis(?), in one scene wore a bit of a revealing blouse or cover. In the next scene it was gone. What a classic.
So you missed the part where she was swimming in the nude?
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