Nevermind....Not knowing all things LIS, I've seen the robot B-9 also called YM-3. Why is this? What are the differences?
Just curious.
hal9001-
Oh!'YM-3' is indeed generic nomencature developed by Matsudaya Corp. No known LIS Reference.
Probably right on that.Also, in one of the year 2 episodes ("The Colonists" I think) the robot said he was "a robot of the class M-3". Maybe that's where YM-3 was derived from.
I lived in Tokyo in the mid 80's and LIS was on the air one night a week-and the picture was fabulous! Anyway, the dialog was Japanese and English but not on my TV. I recorded some episodes for fun and played them at the studio. They were showing season 2 at the time. The translator at the studio told me that the Robot was called Friday and M-3 in two different episodes-The Ghost Planet being one of them. The voice box in the Masadaya robot, which when it came out in '86 was $75.00 US is the voice of the two actors playing Smith and the Robot I forget what the translator said the voices were saying but it was basically Smith insulting the Robot and the Robot rebuffing with a zinger of his own.Good lord, it's been so long since I've thought of this. If I recall correctly, in Japan the Robot was called 'Friday'. Localization of American programs was pretty goofy back in those days.
They had a Robby version as well! Neat little guys are right!I happend upon a couple of those little wind-up ones in a local shop not too long ago (at least I think these are the ones you refer to). They have YM3 on the box. Bought them all - even the ones that appeared to be missing some parts. I plan on keeping one original and repainting one of the others. Neat little guys...
Mark in Okinawa
What a great cool history. I love that stuff. My memories are of being about 5 years old and watching LiS, along with Johnny Sokko and Ultraman on UHF channel 52 in Kansas City. They had all the weird sci/fi and Friday Fright Night movies and what-not.I lived in Tokyo in the mid 80's and LIS was on the air one night a week-and the picture was fabulous! Anyway, the dialog was Japanese and English but not on my TV. I recorded some episodes for fun and played them at the studio. They were showing season 2 at the time. The translator at the studio told me that the Robot was called Friday and M-3 in two different episodes-The Ghost Planet being one of them. The voice box in the Masadaya robot, which when it came out in '86 was $75.00 US is the voice of the two actors playing Smith and the Robot I forget what the translator said the voices were saying but it was basically Smith insulting the Robot and the Robot rebuffing with a zinger of his own.
The shop was a small hobby shop inside a small department store and there were racks and racks of this Robot available as well as the little wind up version! Guess where my per diem ended up every week?
Someone in the shop had even built from scratch a 24 inch tall exact replica of the robot in wonderful detail with all the lights in his bubble and chest. They wanted something like 2 thousand dollars for it, but I couldn't swing that amount at that time. I also had no place to put it...
Mine was $80 in 1993. Now... fuggedaboudit.when it came out in '86 was $75.00 US
OOhh, it's yellowed- does it spend much time in the light? Or is it kept in a box or closet?I still have mine from the mid-90's, $75, IIRC. The clear plastic suffers from major yellowing
I know! I got one off ebay a couple of years ago for $160.00 but they go much higher. I'm dying to go back to Tokyo soon and revisit that hobby shop-it is still there.Mine was $80 in 1993. Now... fuggedaboudit.![]()