Short Circuit’s Johnny 5 Up for Sale on E-Bay

Pretty much every movie fan has some piece of movie memorabilia that they would love to own. It just comes with the territory. Of course, in most cases they lack the money or the resources to obtain these things, but one can always dream, can’t they? And today someone’s dream could potentially become a reality… that is, assuming someone’s dream is to own the original full-scale Johnny Five robot from the Short Circuit movies! This amazing wonder of modern engineering and 80’s nostalgia is currently up for auction on Ebay, for the completely reasonable price of $100,000! From the Ebay auction:

Although fifteen such robots were made for the films, most of these were mock-ups, half-robots and other non-animatronic pieces. This is the only complete Johnny Five that survived, and is the only one known to exist. It is accompanied with a letter of authenticity from Eric Allard, the robotic special effects supervisor who made this robot for the film.

How cool would it be to have Johnny 5 in your home? Maybe you could even rewire him to make you breakfast. At first I thought this was a joke (the original listing for the auction was taken down) but now it seems to be back on the market again. Hey, if we all pool our money maybe we can buy one of his transistors. One question though… why does he look so damn angry?

» Related Link: Ebay: Original full-size Johnny 5

Comments (1)

  1. Wouldn’t you be angry if someone was selling you? :)

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