We, Robots

The always interesting BoingBoing recently posted about a new T shirt featuring (by my count) 52 celebrity sci-fi robots.

ABOVE: a virtual Who's Who of Frau's nightmares.

I am geekily proud (and yet, of course, just a tiny bit ashamed) to report that I recognize about half of them. The big thingy in the center is a Martian "Milking Stool" from War of the Worlds (which is not a real robot, if you want to be technical); and the 5 things within its legs are:

• a Rock'em-Sock'em Robot
• Mecha-Godzilla
• R2D2
• one of those flying Robo-squids from the Matrix movies
• The mechanical owl from Clash of the Titans

In the upper left portion, there is

• Astro-Boy
  
• Marvin the Paranoid Android (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
• K-9 (Dr. Who's pet robo-dog)
• Crow from Mystery Science Theater
• Johnny 5 (from Short Circuit and the timeless Short Circuit 2)
• Mega Man

At upper right:

• the camera-headed robot from Pee Wee's Playhouse
• Wall-e (can't wait for that movie)
• Tom Servo of Mystery Science Theater (no Gypsy???)
• the Tin Man from Wizard of Oz (technically a cyborg)
• the annoying sidekick robot from Lost in Space.
  
• Gort from The Day the Earth Stood Still
  

Lower left:

• a Terminator
• Bender from Futurama
• the evil robot from the first Robocop movie
• C-3P0
  
• Wallace's Techno Trousers (does that really count as a robot?)
  

and lower right:

• the Iron Giant
  
• the Jetsons' maid
• Optimus Prime
• a Cyberman, maybe? (technically a cyborg)
• Voltron (technically a mecha)
• a Dalek (technically a cyborg)
• a Furby (technically a spawn of the lower reaches of Hell)
  

It's going to torture me that I can't recognize the 3-legged thing at lower right between Voltron and the Dalek, but even so that's 30 out of 52. Not too shabby, if I do say so myself.

I did not do so well with the corresponding Alien shirt, however:


I believe the big dude in the middle is a Sorn from CS Lewis's "Out of the Silent Planet", and I'm thrilled to see they included a Mooninite (upper left), Kang and/or Kodos, and best of all a Yip-Yip (upper right, with Tay-Lay-Fo-No). But apparently I'm way behind on my alien knowledge.

Here's hoping the great Robot Uprising comes before the aliens get here...