On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, Keys wrote:
> got a Tomy OMNIBOT 2000 for $7.50.
Drool! I won a regular Omnibot at a grocery store raffle in the rural town
where I grew up. I was quite young, but I had a lot of fun with it. I
believe it is still in my parents' attic.
The coolest thing I ever did with my Omnibot was use it to serve candy to
visitors on Halloween. The little tray it came with worked very nicely. I
hid in a closet with the door cracked open just enough to have a good view
of the area. You could key up and speak into the Omnibot remote control, and
the sound would come out of a speaker on the robot. It scared the youngest
trick-or-treaters half to death! It wasn't much smaller than them. They'd
run off screaming for their lives. Excellent fun!
'Course, the raging laughter from the closet eventually gave away the
secret.
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Jeffrey Sharp
Received on Tue Mar 04 2003 - 20:11:00 GMT