ROBOT COMMANDO IDEAL TOYS 1959

[Toyman1982]

I miss the good old days when it was just good fun to be a childhood terrorist with a robot death machine :(

[ndeyes13]

You know what was probably the best thing about this toy? When you picked it up and looked underneath it, it said made in the U.S.A.

[1Machela]

megatron hahahahahI origin)) 

[Mythteller]

America's answer to Japan's version of Tetsujin 28-go and that little boy hopes that his counterpart, Shotaro Kaneda is not up to the challenge.

[SardaukarPrime]

Holy shit,this from 1959? Wow...

[rangeclerk]

Remember this to and ma said no! She claimed she voted Republican but was Catholic and thought "if we all prayed for peace russia would change" me I wanted to NUKE THE BASTARDS! Anyway never got this cool robot but managed to have a good size military force of plastic tanks and "ground pounders" and plastic jet fighters.

My Italian Greyhound's eyes do the same thing the Robot does, at times when in the backseat of the car and have to let her sit on my lap while driving...then she's ok.

[torchred99]

Heck I had one........dang

[shane013a]

VINTAGE ROBOT COMMANDO BATTERY OP ORIGINAL BOX RARE NR 9 Bids $380.00

This is the E Bay listing for our old under $20 toy!!!!

[quiettman11]

I HAVEJUST AGAIN BECOME AE PROUD OFFICAL____ ROBOT COMMANDO_ FULL FLEGGED "ADMIRAL"!! OF THIS FINE FIGHTING MACHINE!!.MUCH MUST BE DONE IN SECRECY. AS OUR ENEMIES MAY BE LISTENING!!..WE SHALL FIGHT FROM PROTECTING OUR BORDER'S/AND ARE IN FULL SUPORT OF BRINGING IN THE MURDER'S OF 9/11/2001!! BEFORE THE 10th ANNIVERSARY OF THE COWARDLY ATTACK!! XX PLEASE KNOW I IN NO WAY MEAN TO DEMEAN THE REAL VICTIMS.OF SAID EVENTS! THIS IS JUST MY HOPES/ AND PRAYERS FOR THESE SOULS.!! GOD BLESS THEM ALL!

[plateshutoverlock]

I would have eventually replaced the reed switch (the "microphone" used in this toy) with a momentary push button, with maybe a "locking" switch wired in parallel. The "voice activation" part was just a gimmick and the toy would have been just as cool without it.

[DUSTYBASS]

i HAD ROBOT COMMANDO AND MY BROTHER GEORGE HAD GREAT GARLOO. WHAT A GREAT CHRISTMAS THAT WAS!!!!!!

[thebigfist]

@DUSTYBASS TheGreat Garloo was mine and the Robot Commando was my little brother`s!We still have them both ,in the original boxes,only because they had to remain at my Grandma`s house(that was the stipulation!!!!! Good thing, too!LOL!

[rangeclerk]

"Kill the neighbor's cat, RoboCommando"

[TomRoykouffVideos]

I wish I had

a fully functioning Robot Commando toy robot myself! Why?

Simple!

Because this toy rocks!

[skillzflux]

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!

[thesixtiesguy]

This was 1962. I had an Odd Ogg but I never got a Robot Commando.

[slydewinder]

I didn't know they had color TV in 1959?

[blinkingblythe]

I just did some research on this toy, and the "voice activation" is really done with a contact switch that is sensitive to vibrations, which composes the "microphone". Any loud enough sound would activate the robot. The actual functions are "chosen" by the knob on the controller, so there is no real voice activation other than off/on. Still an interesting idea, but I would probably have ended up shorting out the "mic" (replace it with a button) so I could use the robot and keep my voice. :)

[Datan0de]

Remember kids, when you see a 6-story tall robot knocking down buildings, stomping tanks, flinging missiles, and shooting down aircraft, "He's here to HELP you!"

This message brought to you by Cyberdyne Systems and Skynet Research.

[thesixtiesguy]

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

Yea. I;m glad he's not here to F with us.

[pointblizzy]

@Datan0de ROFLMAO!!

[ElleRoni]

fucking hard core

[Diabolik771]

it goes like 6 feet and the batteries need replaced.

[sundowna]

yeah..i wanted that bad boy but never got it..oh well i did get my bb gun..lol

[JustChiminin]

I got this for Christmas in '63 or '64 . . I don't believe it was available yet in 1959.

[StormRisingOriginal]

Your mom and dad didn't want you to know it was available till it was cheaper.

[bukster1]

So how did the remote work? It couldn't have had speech recognition back then.

[blinkingblythe]

probably recognized simple tones that just happened to be in the words you spoke. Still, I have to wonder how many transistors they had to pack into that thing for the logic gates and such and how expensive it was. Remember, this was 1959, and most electronics were still using tubes.

[welder541]

@bukster1 The remote to this toy had a control knob you slid up and down the remote itself to give it commands. The vibration created from your breath into what looked like a tinfoil backed mouthpiece on top would put it into action and complete your command. And this was '63'or'64' not 1959. Thanks for the great memories. I had one

[tvdays]

@welder541 I still have mine...Your right you had to blow into the mic. Notice its a clear top. ONly for the commercial had that the rest were red tops.

[oldschoolsituationz]

@tvdays yep it did have a red top! and say you still have yours kool! i had one in the early 60s, but mine turned into everything from a giant nemisis for matt mason to a submarine and spacecraft over the years... i wish i still had it. by 71 it was only an empty shell in the toy junkyard underneath my back porch. :( but what fun i had!!!!!

[Polymathes]

@bukster1 I had one of these. The voice command was nothing more than switch that activated (via vibration from your voice) what ever command was set on the congtroller. So if you set the controller to "Fire Rocket), then yelled into the wired remote it would execute the command.Primative by today's standards.

Too bad the robot sounds aren't heard in the commercial. It made an ominous beeping sound. Well...ominous for a 6 year old in the 60's.

[ushakov7]

This an awsome video.I didn't know thar such remore control toys existed in 1959!

[audiophile55]

Lol! the annoincer calls him "Robut Commando".

[centrifugalcollege]

audiophile55 we should buy you a Robut for Christmas...lol

[IwshIcldstrtover]

LOLOL!!! ^5!!!

[utoobwatcher]

lol that so pwnz!!!!

[xanxion]

wow, so 80's :D