Baby Dos: Week 32
Size Comparison: Tomy Omnibot
I've been lax in posting about the pregnancy. For that, I apologize. The good news, though, is that the baby continues to grow as it should. The pregnancy has been relatively easy and that's been a tremendous blessing. The baby is moving a lot and seems to have hiccups on a fairly regular basis. During the last appointment, the doctor kind of mapped out how the baby was positioned. We were happy to find that the baby is currently upside down. It was good to hear the baby is in the standard delivery position. Of course, that's also a good reminder that the baby will be arriving soon and we have a lot to get done first. Hard to believe there's only eight weeks until the expected due date.
We're working on getting ready for the baby. I'm painted the bedroom this weekend. Once that's done, we'll probably really get into setting the room up. At some point, you know, the baby will need some place to sleep and we have yet to get a crib. I did, finally, wrap up my list of potential baby names. We still need to combine our individual lists and run through the selection process. We started during our weekend getaway but my list was so deplorably short at the time that little was accomplished. This time, though, I'm coming to play.
Anyway, the Tomy Omnibot. The eighties were an interesting period for robots. There was certainly a fascination with robots as they were an integral part of pop culture. I mean, Knight Rider's K.I.T.T. was essentially a robot with a wicked Trans Am shell. Number 5 of Short Circuit represented the classic robot turned friend scenario. Bubo from Clash of the Titans portrayed the ever-popular robot as a friendly owl character. And who can forget that orange robot, what's-his-name , from Riptide? Naturally, robot toys were a hit. Long before the Robosapien, the Tomy Omnibot was the servent/friend robot of choice. I never had one. I remember thinking they looked pretty cool but, for some reason, it never really struck a cord with me. Maybe if it looked more like a Trans Am...
Want more robots? Check out The Old Robot's Web Site.
1 comment:
The Old Robots website makes no mention of the pseudo-robot, Alphie.
One of my friends had Alphie, and I always enjoyed playing with him. I imagine if I had owned one and spent more than 5 minutes with it, I would have realized that it fails to qualify as a robot in almost every way. Still, it's from the 80's, so it'll always have at least one coin in its purse.
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