'Short Circuit': Original Johnny 5 Robot Goes to Auction (6 Photos + 2 Videos)

Like classic cars, other movie memorabilia are becoming more and more popular. Interesting things can cost a lot expensive, and when I saw this beauty, I realized that she deserves articles. Children of the 80s, Johnny 5 is alive! One of the original screen models of a friendly and inquisitive robot from movie "Short Circuit" 1986.





In the old days, when there were no computer graphics, props for filming science fiction films had to be made real. If the film was about robots, then the robots had to be made directly very similar to the real ones. I remember the first time I saw the movie "Short Circuit", about a robot that was struck by lightning and as a result of a short circuit, he either gained consciousness, or intelligence, something like that is remembered. He became, in general, a reasonable being.



Johnny 5, that's what this robot was called in the movie, the other day was put up for one of the auctions with a starting price of 60,000 pounds sterling. According to experts' forecasts, by the end of the auction, this amount may double, or even reach 150 thousand pounds.





Johnny's height, by the way, rather big, 178 cm in height, width 76 cm, and it is made of plastic, aluminum and glass. unknown whether the functionality of the servos that allowed Johnny move and move their claws, that is, manipulators, but Once upon a time, they did work.