The Tyco N.S.E.C.T. Robotic Attack Creature comes - or came, since it's now discontinued - in two colours, and two frequencies.
Oh. Yeah.
I am, I assure you, perfectly aware that I am now required to make them fight.
I will do so, and of course make video of the result available to you, as soon as I find another radio-control warrior worthy of me.
(The real problem is getting copyright clearance for the only possible soundtrack.)
20 February 2008 at 9:07 am
I got a blue one for $25 on ebay. Ohhh yeah...now to take it to visit the family cats...
20 February 2008 at 11:46 am
These are pretty friggin' awesome: a ranged and melee weapon, suitable for small scale destruction. Why are they discontinued!?
Also someone pointed out to me that it's creepy and they'd stamp on it on sight. :/
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21 February 2008 at 3:13 am
It's sad that as I clicked on "the only possible soundtrack" link, and thought to myself "What would I use?", that I came up with the exact same answer...
21 February 2008 at 9:07 am
I wonder how easy it would be to tweak the frequency of receiver & remote control? I really like the visual of hundreds of these things crawling around in the same place at once.
21 February 2008 at 10:24 am
I wonder how easy it would be to tweak the frequency of receiver & remote control? I really like the visual of hundreds of these things crawling around in the same place at once.
Usually it doesn't take much more than changing the crystal in the the transmitter and receiver... although I'm not sure there actually is any single place with hundreds of these any more... or even tens.
22 February 2008 at 7:55 am
I'm sure it could be arranged. I saw 3 on ebay when I went looking.
26 February 2008 at 7:19 am
The NSECT was discontinued in favour of the more exciting-looking Tri-Clops, which I talk about some more in the last NSECT post.
The Tri-Clops is essentially a toy-ified high-speed Killough platform, so it's definitely got its own appeal.
1 March 2008 at 6:59 pm
I would have considered Ride of the Valkyries to be the obvious soundtrack choice. The music itself is in the public domain, but I don't happen to know if there's a good public domain performance recording.
1 March 2008 at 7:00 pm
Failing that, Night on Bald Mountain. HTH.HAND.