WARNING: These aren't the robots you're looking for · 7:16pm Jan 4th, 2016
Regarding my earlier recommendation that you drop what you're doing and go buy the Rock-em Sock-em Robots:
The new reduced price on the robots comes with a new reduced size.
Left: The original (bought new circa 2013). Right: The new contender. Bottom: The JJ Abrams flare.
The necks on the old robots were steel, because you're supposed to bash them on the head to reset them. The necks on the new ones are plastic. The old robots move crisply when you smash the controls; the new ones are a little slow and bouncy, almost as if the internals were made entirely from plastic. But worst of all, the new robots don't make the whirring sound when you pop their heads. They just... pop up silently.
I repeat: THEY DO NOT MAKE THE WHIRRING SOUND WHEN THEIR HEADS POP UP.
Sound is our most underrated sense. I have a musician friend who rates movies entirely by their music, and he comes closer to the popular consensus than I do.
Rock-em Sock-em Robots without the whirring sound when the heads pop is like Star Wars without John Williams.
Special Edition rerelease! We replaced the robots with CGI!
3664034 Red Rocker punched first.
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You mean CiG?
That's a bit of a let down. The sound and bopping their heads are both crucial parts of the experience.
Also you lens flare needs work, I can still see the robots.
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3664073 So instead of a whirring noise, they'd just be amazing people?
Well, at least it took until 2013 before they cheaped out on the toy. Longer than some things.
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The whirring noise is evocative of the mental process that happens in a genius’s head like CiG.
The conking would be an elegant, innocuous though slightly nerdish way for people to vent their frustration at seeing said CiG regularly win the aforementioned competition.
One should never underestimate the potential of midget robots in salvaging peace within families.
What a pretty table.
Er, I mean, look at those cheap toys! What is the industry coming to?