Want to own a ‘Forbidden’ sci-fi icon? Robby the Robot is going up for auction

Digital Trends ^ | November 12, 2017 | By Eric Brackett

[Swordmaker]

[Lurker]

I still watch Forbidden Planet a couple times a year.

Really well done flick with a great cast.

L

[clearcarbon]

Funny thing, when Robby makes noise he sounds like an adding machine.

[LukeL]

Bar bara I want my hog chocolate

[Steely Tom]

That’s the “Forbidden Planet” Robby, not the “Lost In Space” Robby.

[chimera]

I think Robby appreciates the charms of a youthful Anne Francis.

[Steely Tom]

“A thesis is like a miniskirt: it should be short enough to be interesting, but long enough to cover the subject.”

[Bubba_Leroy]

I had always assumed that they just reused the prop. Lost in Space was not exactly big budget.

[SMGFan]

“Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet / Uh-uh-uh-uh, oh-oh “

[yarddog]

I remember the Sears Christmas catalog back in the late 50s or early 60s had a “Robby The Robot” toy.

That was a great movie and Anne Francis was really pretty. Didn’t all Sci Fi professors have a hot daughter?

[Bubba_Leroy]

Robby the Robot even has a list of filmography at IMDb.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1119475/

[Lurker]

Indeed it is.

L

[SMGFan]

In a Columbo episode Mind Over Mayhem (1974

[blueunicorn6]

The first episode had a space tank fighting a huge space monster.

Us kids thought it was going to be great!

Pretty soon, they had an episode with guys wearing vegetable costumes.

[Lurker]

“Didn’t all Sci Fi professors have a hot daughter?”

All the good ones, anyway.

L

[padubis]

In Lost in Space he was a “roe-butt” as far as I remember.

[allendale]

Forbidden Planet has to be one of the best, if not the best written Science Fiction film ever made. Aliens is right there too.

[ealgeone]

I think he has to be dismantled. He appears to be harassing her! /sarc

[hoosiermama]

Veggie tales?

[cicero2k]

I watched this movie pre-puberty and post-puberty.

It was a different experience.

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However, the script and story is strong. Who knew what an ID was? Religious overtones.

Plus comic relief. Robbie belches after drinking some liquor.