I have to admit to your. Was more sophisticated than the one I built when I was growing up exit my brother's always made fun of me. For. Building. It. When. I. Move. From my parents house 🏡 I took my model with me it. Was. I. Made
I absolutely loved Lost In Space...even at 62 yrs old...I purchased the complete dvd box set to better reflect onto my childhood memories . Even as a 1st grader, I had the first made Remco robot and a super cool Lost in Space Lunchbox.I spent countless weekends constructing The Jupiter 2 out of paper plates (as someone mentioned here). If it was a corny show...I didnt notice or even care until much later episodes. Maybe it went along with my growing more mature. The most fascinating thing about this show were the ingenious props ...alien creatures...the flying jet pack...The Chariot...Lazer guns...etc. Everything was ahead of its time for it... in spite of possibly being just another low budget show. I would also add that even today... I appreciate the genuinely superb soundtrack that played to capture each scene ....whether it was Dr. Smith trying to flee from another alien encounter or Penny trapped inside another dimension with her Space monkey Debbie. Back then...there was absolutely no way to rewind / replay any show you missed. You had to make darn sure to make it home on time or miss out. Great memories indeed.
Isn't it crazy? But I feel everything you've said here. And YES, I used to build the Jupiter 2 too. Out of Aluminum Pie Pans. With a cardboard deck in between, and all stapled together. It had an "Astro-gator" too. Take care LIS- buddy. Jeff
One of the reasons I have become addicted to your channel is the fact that you’re obviously having a lot of fun really do love these wonderful shows and movies. One of the reasons I dropped out of a lot of fandom and comic book collecting is that So many people no longer seem to be having fun Please keep having fun for years to come
A regret I have, During 1980's there was a B9 wandering Shopping Malls here in Australia, R/C, they wanted to sell it, I wanted it, MY "Other-Half" said she would leave if I brought it home, She is Gone, least the Robot would have still kept me Company ... Nice to see some have their Priorities right, & they have a Club ...
This is the coolest thing I've seen on RU-vid in YEARS. I was in the 1st Grade when the Lost In Space series started. I watched every episode. The robot was my favorite and has been ever since. It makes complete sense to me why someone would want to put so much effort into building his own robot. I am so jealous. Great work on that robot and even better, thanks for sharing him with me.
That line of thinking of building B9 with accuracy to your satisfaction, ability and not to worry too much about the details is the same method I used to build my Stargate SG1 uniform costumes. I belonged to a fantabulous SG1 costuming club and some builders would easily and happily spend thousands of dollars for screen accurate costumes whereas other would build as they could afford. As such, my standard green and black off world and desert SGC uniform costumes were not exactly screen accurate but "audience recognizable". Wearing my SG1 costume to renaissance faires and conventions was a personal highlight/rush. As for building something from Lost In Space... As as kid, I never got further than taping two paper plates together to make my Jupiter 2.
Every time I watch what your videos you always remind me when I was eight years and just enamored with TV and movie robots - - - Robbie was my favorite and in the close second was the lost in space robot right there in my memory.
The trip down memory lane was worth the watch! As far as building a B9, it will end up like my Tom Servo, a loose collection of parts waiting for me to get to it! My main interests are restoring vintage electronic test equipment, and everything else is sadly waiting!
This is making me so nostalgic! My father would show me pictures his parents took of him in his home built Galileo shuttle from Star Trek. It must've been from 1968 or 1969. Unfortunately he never got into DIY stuff and so I didn't have the money, means, location, or knew family who would teach me how to build stuff. One of these days though I'll finally have the equipment to start pursuing home building projects as a hobby. 😂 Also that's really cool that your audio ended up in robot toys.
Dan, this was such a pleasure to watch! I love how you gave full disclosure about your amazing Robot! Yours is still the best looking first season Robot anywhere. Thanks for sharing this!
Those sides are meant to prevent physical accidently toggling from something in the room falling. Like a broom tilt against the wall to the side of the controls. Or even someone backing into the switches.
My dad shared lost in space with me when I was younger and I fell in love with the show. Always wanted a replica of the b9 and your creation has inspired me to create my own, it also put the amount of work in perspective. Thank so much for your awesome video!
No Idea why this landed in my YT recommends, but so happy it did. Great talk on your journey to fulfil a childhood dream. It not my bag (that’s a great 60’s euphemism) but thoroughly enjoyed 18 minutes of a true nerd creating something that he experienced thorough a low resolution television tube. 🤖
I see I am not alone. I was 8 years old when Lost in Space debuted on TV. The show fascinated me and the robot was my favorite character. Great video. Now it's time to search and see if anyone has made replicas of Crow and Tom Servo from MST3K.
I have two of the life-size cutouts and one has been on display for years. I also have a big collection of models and toys I painted. I used to sell Remco reproduction boxes and decal treads on eBay. I can't do that anymore, so please do not ask. 😁😁 Hope you get Robot's mic replaced and use A.I. to "bring him to life".
That is so impressive! You literally built it from the ground up. Sure you can buy prefab everything now days but all your woodworking and plastic bending are amazing. Real love went into it and it shows.
1st generation Lost In Space viewer here. (I was 5 years old) I had no idea so may people were this infatuated with the Robot. But I think it's really kewl that there are.
Because your voice is so professionally modulated I had assumed that you had come up through voice acting work, but you where actually an engineer. Wow. I'm impressed.
I absolutely loved this video. You really hit the right tone to approaching this. None of us are going to last forever, so we need to enjoy whatever we're creating so that is part of our enjoyment. Thanks for sharing this. Great information!
I like what you said about the voice tracks. Those of us who build Grogu need something like that, there are no voice tracks for him that don't have either background noise, talking or music!
Dan. I love your vids. These are great. Thanks. I’m over 66 and saw LIS in original run. I did not have the resources to build a robot but pretended to be the robot. Now a challenge for you. What ever happened to the Lost in Space, Space Pod? But that my friends, is a story for another video!
I have a book titled "You can build...The LOST IN SPACE Robot", edited by Flint Mitchell, third edition published in 1998. It covers several robot builds by different people - 98 pages. Very cool. I found it in a second hand book store.
I BOUGHT the book on how to build the robot back in the 1990s from a small comic book store. It was less that $20 I still look at it once in a while and dream. I have built 3 robots over the years,not B-9,of my own designs. I use Powerwheels motors and gears boxes in the base, windshield wiper motors to move the arms, little motors in the shoulders to open and close the claws. I used trash cans for bodies. I control them with double pole double throw switched mounted in an old plastic cassette storage box with a cable to the robot. Not really Hi tech,but fun. My second robot was radio controlled.
Fantastic. I am 68 and have fond memories of Lost In Space, although at first the robot scared me a little bit as a kid. I remember my Dad let me stay up late to watch The War of The Worlds. Lost in Space was always amazing to look forward to, the robots voice clear in my memory. What a superb model you built, really great to see it.
I got as far as making a scale drawing on a huge sheet of paper. And then........ Star Trek! I never got back to B9, but boy, I sure wanted to. Now I can afford to buy one, but it's not the same as building your own.
Check out the club. You can buy most parts and it is still a.substantial build and go from simple electronics all the way to voice activated animation if you chose to
Exactly - I couldn't afford a Gibson SG when I was like 11 or 12 so found a piece of very Thin Plywood in the garage of a house we rented in Anoka,Mn at the time. I then dolled it up with Pickups, Bridge, etc with Pen, colored ink & Paint & would dance around & play it out in the Garage to the likes of the solo in "Girl, you really got me now, you got me now ..." That Kinks distorted Guitar along with the Sonics "Witch" & "Out of Limits" & others really started me off !
Super cool! I was impressed with your solution to get the legs looking "wrinkled" nice idea. I have always liked B9, probably one of my favorite robots in TV/Movies. One of these days I would love to build a 1/1 scale model of B9 but for now I'm content with my Polar Lights version. Thanks for sharing. -David
I am a first generation Lost in Space fan. Never missed an episode in the first run. I asked my mom (who was an expert tailor) to make me a replica of Will Robinson's space suit. Which she did. I wore it for years until I grew out of it. I also had the B-9 robot toy. Also also I built a copy of the Jupiter spaceship out of balsa wood and paper. I guess I was a Super Fan before that even exited! What a show!
I am a pinball guy, if you ever do want to switch to LEDs (as incandescent are getting hard to find) there are some pinball suppliers that sell LEDs that look like incandescent bulbs
Incandescent bulbs are being phased out, The bigger ones are illegal now in Europe. The problem with LED is they are instantaneous so to get the same effect as a bulb you need to use PWM switching and fade them out.
Wow, this channel is geek heaven. I reckon we could have been good friends if we met as kids. I am of a similar era and also used to rush home from school to watch reruns of Lost in Space. Never made a robot though. I think I missed out on something there.
Incredible. So glad to see this. This robot is such a good looking robot. Should be one in every house. Pleased to see him kept alive. There has to be some info on the original designers building the first robot. In elementary school my brothers and I played lost in space in the back yard and I was the robot. Many thanks for the u tube.
Being a professional scale RC giant scale aircraft builder for over forty years and was an avid fan of lost in space. Particularly the robot. Fantastic build job. Using what you have available is critical. Thank you for taking the time to show us all how you did it.
I love Lost in Space, mostly I love the B-9 Robot… Out of ALL robots in tv and movies he is my favorite… Thanks for sharing the journey into building one! I hope to build at get a smaller scale model of one someday…
LIS first season was the best. I missed it when it aired as I was born in late 1964 but I too watched it in syndication after school too. I love all of your stuff!!!!!!!!! Oh, and your B9 is so cool. Would you consider doing Robby next? I loved "War of the Robots" in season 1.
I tried in 1975 mine used a fish bowl for head had a motor in it. It was about 5ft and I use a old tank toy for the bottom it drove about. And I won an award for it was 10 at the time.
Good video Dan. Nice to see you and place the voice and face with the name. Great shout out to the club too. I joined 16 years ago, still a work in progress when the mood strikes me. I agree wholeheartedly with your opinions of the 1st 3/4,of season one. It could.have been such a great scifi show if they had continued the original premise.
Some people have made LEDs sort of look close, but to me if you're going to build a robot, do it the way it was originally :-) hope you had a great holiday Dan
@@MoviesMusicMonsters Hey Thanks Dan... love your work here on this stuff, and the way you deliver your videos. Just stumbled across your videos about an hour ago, and subscribed just now! On the LED, incandescent thing, I recently bought a 30 year old car where someone had modified the headlights to LED. I pulled them out and put the original halogens back in to get that "yellowish" tinge back that that matches the vintage of the car back then. So I totally get your sentiment. Cheers from Sydney, Australia.
Hey Dan, great video! I was a very early member of the B9 Robot Builders Club. I purchased my bubble from Planer Plastics, Torso from Mike J. Made the bottom half the same as you. I never completed it.
As a young boy I made two robots in my basement. Their bodies were peach crates (the only thing at my disposal) and cedar shingles as arms and leg sand a shoe box for a head. Was it convincing? My parents came downstairs and I remember my mother putting her hand over her mouth and saying: "oh Douglas (my father), look at this!" I felt like Victor Frankenstein in Frankenstein when he declared "It's Alive!"
I just came across your website. Great job. You really take us old heads back. I watched so many reruns of Lost in Space that I knew every scene from every episode. Still prefer the black and white shows before they went psychedelic. Keep up the good work.
Back in the late 80s I took the family to Kings Dominion in Richmond Va. They had a Star Trek prop display. I saw on of the Rura Penthe mining guns from Undiscovered Country. I was a super soaker painted, weathered and lights installed.
Hi Dan, I found your channel tonight and was amazed at your B9 creation. It's awesome! I especially love your attention to detail--things like incandescent bulbs instead of LED's, and making things look like the original even when it means you have to go the hard route to build it. I have one suggestion for you for the microphone. Check out an Electrovoice 635A. It looks very similar to the mic on B9. Again, it might not be perfectly accurate, but those mics were around back when Lost in Space was on the air (they're still around today), and to me it looked very similar. You saw those mics used by a lot of news reporters back in the 70's. I've subscribed to your channel. Looking forward to checking out more of your videos. Thanks so much for bringing back great memories of my childhood. And, the B9... it's perfection!
Fantastic. Always loved the B9 and thought I'd get around to building one. Hasn't happened yet though. I'm nearing completion of a '60s Batmobile (another commenter mentioned that car here) and it's true: made-for-TV-and-movie props seldom looked showroom-fresh up close. Same with my Batmobile. I'm already showing it, bad paint and all. At a show I overheard a fella comment to a friend: "yeah, it's rough... but so was the original." Works for me!
This may be my first RU-vid video about Lost in Space. I have not seen any episodes in a very long time, but I don't think I would enjoy too many of them now - too childish. But not all episodes were like that. Of course I too loved the all of the hardware, and especially the robot. Great job on the build.
If you're driving the lamps with a microcontroller to blink them, then you can PWM the output for each LED lamp according to whatever light-curve you want. I've seen this done with "vintage" computer front-panel replicas that originally had incandescent bulbs.
I wish i had one of your beautiful robots for my lost in space collection. I have been collecting for 37 years. Wish i could buy one. God bless from the sledgemaster times
wouldn't it be cool to build essentially a real one? Actually changing some features so that it could move over rough terrain and actually use those arms for something useful? Parts of it would look a bit different but it would basically be about 80% like the one on the show. And of course it would be radio controlled so you could move it around and turn it and pick up things with it and go over different types of ground. Some thing they were not worried about when they were filming on a soundstage.
A lot of Builders have added wheelchair Motors to the tread section making their robots mobile. A lot of other builders have added artificial intelligence. It's getting there :-) in a couple years who knows :-)
