I’ve asked for a Stargate for Christmas and my birthdays every year for a decade and more, still bupkis.
I’ve always wanted a Samantha Carter.
When I was little I asked for a Lost In Space robot. The advertisement said “walking, talking, Life Size”. I thought how cool would that be!!!
It was about 8 inches tall, apparently life size meant the size of an advertisement. Walking meant it had a small wheel that would awkwardly propel it forward, and talking meant, that if you pulled string it would say “Danger Will Robinson”. Groot had more expressions.
I’ve never trusted advertisers since.
I’ve also never lost my interest in Robots. I few years ago, after realizing servo motors had fallen to where I might acutally be able to build something, I built a robotic finger. Which led to no end of jokes at work such as “Where’s that finger been?”, “Have you given anybody the finger?”, WHich finger did you build?”
Haven’t had much time to work on it, but I kept Dad’s power wheelchair as a mobile base. I have small monitor destined to be a face. I have a couple of small cameras for eyes, a couple of pan and tilt systems to mount the eyes on. I three layer body that looks suspiciously like a square shelving unit. In fact Dad’s caregivers used it as such.
One day, I’ll get there. And if I can give it enough skills to replicate itself, I can expand my robotic empire exponentially and take over the world!!!