I think we've seen this before on MC, a very unusual and mysterious money bank.
With the sound of GORT's Klaatu Barada Nikto echoing round the memory banks, this is .....
..... The Klatu android money bank by Quasar Industries of San Francisco from 1975.
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It's branded on the neck of its baseball head.
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One outlet was National Airlines. I can't see a coin slot though!
Here's a bagged version with another name too, Alsco. Who are they?
The sticker label 'Robots by Quasar' hints at another story connected to this bank. Quasar supposedly used them as promotional items for their upcoming home android range, real home androids for sweeping, cooking and nannying. In some quarters it's described as a hoax.
Did Quasar make anything else?
But the robot nanny hoax may actually hold the key to its true origin.
Could the Quasar bank have been inspired by this nanny robot that appeared in the TV series Logan's Run? Was the robot also called Klatu?
They're very similar whatever!
What do you think? Connected?
There are more fabulous domestic snaps of the Logan's Run nanny bot on the Atomic Chronograph Tumblr site for you to consider readers.
I was gonna go with Quasar televisions, but this is apparently the company: https://www.quasar.com/about-us/
ReplyDeleteThat does look like them Baron and they're old enough. Great link.
DeleteThe more famous robot from the Logans Run film was called 'Box'. This is the TV series with a much lower budget! The Klatu robot doesnt look like it had a lot of cash spent on it either! Bill
ReplyDeleteQuasar was a fraud company that no longer exists.
ReplyDeleteThey were trying to market themselves as building real robots, but actually they were just radio controlled devices controlled by someone out of sight.
Remember how Star Wars and The Black Hole marketed themselves as if the robots were real and had no humans inside? Same sort of thing.
Fraud? Really?
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Blimey, it was one hot potato Scott! I'll leave well alone I think. I'm amazed that there no mention of the Logan's Run TV robot. It looks the same to me.
DeleteThe Logan's Run TV robot was from Quasar I believe.
DeleteI thought it was a really neat robot all those years ago and tried finding out information on it. But, the fraud and scandal is what I found...!
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