Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Verbot


A good "old school" post today. Some of us may know what this is, others, not so much. For those who don't, it's a voice controlled robot from the 80's. Sadly, the store I got this from has a habit of not pricing the remotes with the toys, so you often have to search around for it, if they even have one around. I was lucky enough to find the remote on the shelf a few feet away from this one.It was $4 for the robot, and $1.50 for the remote. Overall $5.50. Not bad for a robot to kill time with. The voice control is a bit sketchy, but for it to work at all for being a little older then myself, is a good deal.

13 comments:

  1. To get one of the newest peices of that kind of technology of that time period for only $5.50 is pretty sweet. im sure you'll have fun with it, after all it is a robot. xd

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  2. haha such a dangerous thing, just give it a gun

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  3. So how long till robots take over the world I wonder..

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  4. oh yeah my buddy totally had that as I kid. and I had a similar one called "lil gripper" which I renamed "Grippo Joe" :) thanks for reminding me.

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  5. Hahah. My mother had one of these when I was VERY little; talk about a blast from the past. What a great buy you've got!

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  6. Great, now I'm going to have find one of those.

    +10 Nostalgia

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  7. Thats the first time I've seen one of those. haha I'm 19 though :P

    How much did they go for when they first came out? Anyone remember?

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  8. oh wow, just saw your infrared ray goggles too. The robot + the goggles for that price is pretty awesome, wish I had something like that around here.

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  9. I don't know what this is (born right at the end of the 80s) but damn, that looks like an awesome robot.

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