RoboCon 2009

Wow RoboCon is in just TWO weeks! I have been designing and building the new treadsection and silicone rubber legs over the next couple weeks and then installing them for RoboCon. Here are some pictures of the progress.

The steel leg support plates.

The Aluminum frame for the sub-waistplate support.

Steel wheel axels from 3/8" stock.

New tread section prior to rubber legs installation

New leg section on the left with the wood frame section on the right.

Robot Invasion at MegaCon Orlando Florida

At the last minute I decided to attend MegaCon in Orlando Florida and boy am I glad I did. I had a blast!!! I got to connect with some old friends and make some new ones.

Jim and Yvonne actually host the robot gathering called Robot Invasion and they had some fantastic robots in attendance. There were 2 B9 Robots, at least 5 R/C R2D2's and a few R2 and R5's in various stages of completion, A Full scale Robby, Bender, Death Star Droid, C3Po, FedEx Robot Bust from I, Robot, The 1950's Bus Stop Robots that were animated and a Life Size Cylon from new series Battle Star Galactica.




I met and spoke to Tricia and James from the new battlestar Gallactica and both were great people. In fact James came over to our display and posed with me and the Cylon!!


Another friend I reconnected with was Anne Lockhart from the original Battlestar series. As you probably recall she was here in Denver for last years StarFest and when I asked her to pose for a picture with my Robot she readily agreed. Anyways, as she set up her pictures we chatted and she said she would be over to our display to talk some more and of course take some pictures. She didn't disappoint. She remembered the picture I took in Denver of her and my Robot that and she signed it for me. What a great person.



Here's few couple other pictures from MegaCon 2009.

My Tribute to Bob May

Here is the cut-n-paste link to the local television station 9News story on Bob May and the Robot. Bob was the uncredited actor that was inside the Robot for the 1960's TV Show Lost in Space. I met Bob a couple years ago and considered him my friend. He was one of the actors that truely love and respected his fans. I'm truely delighted that I got to meet him and have him consider me one of his friends.

http://www.9news.com/life/entertainment/article.aspx?storyid=110048&catid=151

copy the link above to your browser to view story....

Bob May Tribute

Today Kirk Montgomery of the local television station, 9News, came to my home office to tape an interview with me and the Robot. The purpose is to do a proper tribute to the Man in a Can Bob May who past away this past January at the age of 66. Bob is the actor that gave the Robot his character and personality. Kirk is a Lost in Space fan as well and we had a real good time talking about the Robot and of course Bob May. Kirk will send me a copy of the interview and let me know when the segment will air. The Robot and Kirk will meet again at RoboCon 2009 which is a B9 Robot Builders Club Convention that is held in conjunction with StarFest in Denver Colorado.

2009- A New Year

RoboCon'09 is just around the Corner. (107 days) We are hoping to get at least one of the LiS cast Members in for this convention. Bob May or Mark Goddard would be the first choice. Bob lost his home along with everything else to the fires in California a couple months ago just before Thanksgiving.

R2 Gone

It didn't take long for R2 to be scattered. I don't think the Jawa's could have done it as fast. All parts are sold and shipped. There a small place in the office next to the B9 that was once the space of little R2. snif snif...

Robot and Droid News

I must apologize for the lack of posting but it was necessary. For the last few months I have had some guilty feelings about building the R2. The B9 has some system upgrades coming up and there are more than a couple projects around the house I have been putting off until he is finished. It's been three years and I'm starting another Robot Project before those are done? I guess it's time to clear the list. On november 24th I sold all of the R2 parts I had, and they were many, to finance the other projects. The R2 Project wasn't abandoned just postponed.The B9 is getting those upgraded parts and I hope to have most of them installed by RoboCon 2009 in April.