There are a handful of legends on the blog. One of them is the Brazilian robot, Estrela Robo con TV or what I nicknamed the SpaceX Robot back in 2010, when I first posted about it.
It's claim to fame for us here at Moonbase is the Estrela's use of Ed Valigursky SpaceX/ SWORD imagery on the robot's TV screen and box!
Legends have a way of popping up agin and over the summer I corresponded with Martijn a fellow member of the cool Alphadrome Robot Talk forum. Martijn has restored a battered Estrela Robo Con TV robot, the 'SpaceX' robot and has kindly agreed for his pictures of his restoration appearing here [they first appeared on the Aplhadrome forum in a long thread beginning in 2003 no less]. So here goes and enjoy!
The battered bot
Head and arm removed
TV barrel exposed
Ed Valigursky's MEV2 and Moon Base Units visible on the barrel
LEM, rocket and mounted canon? - unidentified artwork
Robert McCall's jetpack Astronaut and unidentified space vehicles art
Ed Valigursky's Booster Rocket,
ear lugs
new ear lugs
coming together!
Ta da!
and the box:
This is what the chest TV film might look like. I've put it together from a picture of the rolled out 'film'
and here's a short film of the robot moving around kindly sent in by martijn [sorry, I couldn't get it to rotate!]
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