Lets talk about TOBOR the Great.

Back in 2007 I made 2 full scale replicas and a mini walking Tobor the Great.
Here are links to the full scale build from my web site.

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[outsider]

I was hoping you'd do a video about this. Tobor looks amazing. You did a fantastic job on him.

[markb]

You definitely have skills. TOBOR looks Great. I really like the desk top version. i'm going to see if i can find a printable tobor that size. he would look good in my display case. thanks for all your videos and sharing your knowledge.

[OzziesRobots]

Amazing That remote looks like the king of handheld remotes. Seems like we've lost creative design elements of the 50's since these suits had to be worn so the proportions were also somewhat compatible with real people & made the robots more relatable with loads of personality even through say C3PO . Don't get that much with CGI

[jameswarrick]

Just phenomenal sir, & great video.

[kerigpope]

Thank you so much for this video! 😁
Your Tobor is a LOT more complex than I'd imagined, especially being made using the same materials as the movie-made Tobor. And when I saw your Tobor's eyes light up I felt like I was 8 years old again. And you also made a remote controller unit prop? So awesome! I would love to own that scaled-down Tobor, it would perfectly compliment the Walmart Robbie that I just bought. (which is how I found your videos and website)
Thanks again for sharing your extensive robot collection, and especially your magnificent Tobor. 👍

[inipi]

Again another AMAZING video!!!! You talent and dedication is

[leifotto]

Tobor was one of the key influences in my childhood that led to me becoming an electrical engineer in R&D. (Speed Racer, Star Trek, and The Prisoner being some others.) Your work is truly amazing! The movie always left me wanting to see more, and your video gave me so much more insight into the structure of Tobor than even the original film. So satisfying and nostalgic! Thanks so much for sharing your wonderfully detailed and accurate creation!
🙏🏻☺️🌿

[MrAeronca]

So for some reason in the middle of the night last night I was thinking "Tobor"! BTW shooting rivets would have been a simple task for a skilled guy like you, a few practice pieces and in a hour you would have been good to go, remember back in the 50's L.A. was loaded with aircraft surplus parts, aluminum, Plexiglass, rivets, and assorted hardware and the aircraft industry was still very active in the area

[potrzebieneuman]

I definitely remember this movie from childhood and I'm 66 this year. the name Tobor made me recall a Japanese black and white cartoon from when I was a youngster, it was called Tobor the 8th Man about a bloke who was shot or some such thing and he was near death. A nutty professor got hold of him and turned him into a robot, the Tobor of course being Robot spelled backwards. Odd the way words trigger thoughts.

[johnkeller]

Thanks for sharing a wealth of information with us John! Many of these robots are a big part of my youth and I find this stuff very interesting. I'm glad they all have somewhere to live!

[toonman]

Your skills amaze me. Gotta watch this movie.

[donaldjohnlong]

Love TOBOR. Of course, Robby is my favorite movie robot, and the Lost In Space Robot YB-9, beside TOBOR.

[donaldjohnlong]

When I was 14 years old in 1961, I drew up my own set of plans to build my own replica of Tobor, but I never built it. I became a draftsman in the 1970s and kept my plans in a folder.

[SianaGearz]

Glue such as contact cement actually holds pretty much indefinitely. More critical perhaps if the joint was vinyl to vinyl that eventually vinyl just degrades and delaminates from cloth underneath, but that's just how it is. Vinyl is a brittle hard plastic, that is mixed with a plastifier, a viscous solvent of low volatility. But eventually the solvent does escape and air off and the vinyl debonds from the cloth substrate. When? Sometimes in 5 years, sometimes more than 20.

[richardalonzo]

Amazing Post John !!! Thanks for the Tobor the Great Peak !! Your story and build on this is amazing!! What an opportunity to study the original robot suit, was there a frame that the metal pieces attached to ? How did the performer get inside the suit ? You can almost see what looks like suspenders in the chest photo next to your replica and they do look like frosted plexiglas for the louvers. How tall would you say Tobor stands next to Robby and Gort ? I have the resin kit that was made years ago but there are parts that are not as accurate, they need to be re-vamped. Tobor is one of my favorites in the Robot world !!

[JoseMartinez-oghy]

Great video! John, appreciate all the work you put into things. True craftsman and artist.👍❤️🤖🤖🤖

[donaldjohnlong]

Produced by Carl Dudley, whose daughter is Carol Ward Dudley, who resides in Beverly Hills and NYC.
Designed by Howard & Theodore Lydecker, drafting drawings by Robert Kinoshita, who designed Robby the Robot a year later.

[Pygar]

I was watching Uncle Simon last night... Robby's hand looked dogchewed!
Do you also keep notebooks on things like the Uncle Simon head and the other variant Robbys ( the Project UFO Robby for example)?
Be a big help to modelers to see your display variants well... When it's not so cold, maybe you could measure the Simon head, and maybe the diameter of one of Robby's scanner rings- since Robby's height varies, this could be a quick-and-dirty means of determining the scale of *any* Robby!

[ronaldspencer]

have all the classic Robots in your Robot John from The Soviet film 'planet of

[stevensmith]

Now that is a masterful job - and thank you for the video.

Did I read correctly on the original website where you have the 3D images, etc, that you found the actual prop parts in a storage bin in Pittsburg, California? Your work-arounds were spot on. Is the Robot museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where one is on display? I first saw Tobor the Great as well as the TV pilot way back in 1958 - I was three. Anyway, great stuff!!!