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Non-stop Robot
has anyone ever heard of a (possibly japanese) robot toy named NON-STOP ROBOT? apparently with "Real welding action", it resembles a chrome-silver-coloured Zeroid with legs instead of tracks (and who remembers the Zeroids? Zobor, Zerak and Zintar. and i remember getting all weirded out by seeing a catalogue with text entirely in japanese and pictures of a mysterious Fourth Zeroid). a stylised version of NON-STOP ROBOT's head is assuming iconic status in some parts of Tokyo. The sticker comes with a blank speech balloon where you can write comments before you stick it up. this sticker is coming to be seen as a serious form of social and even political commentary. stickers have been seen advocating everything from mandatory glass recycling to mandatory aluminium can recycling. at least two (that we know of) love affairs - which both led to marriage - have been negotiated by means of appropriately discreet messages on NON-STOP ROBOT stickers left on lamp-posts and in public toilets. at least one kid has been seriously injured by dressing up in a NON-STOP ROBOT costume and trying to weld his little brother to the back of the family car, or something. another amusing urban legend which has sprung up around the sudden popularity of NON-STOP ROBOT is the one about the guys who broke into the factory where the action figures are made and they messed with the recorded messages in the toys. and, you know, you can find a NON-STOP ROBOT that likes to give off karaoke Primus songs, and another one holds platonic dialogues between Xuxa and Frank Zappa and another one just kind of looks at you funny all the time. goddamn scary. you'd swear it were possessed or something.
Mon, 29 Mar 1999 |
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