Robot Top Trumps

I was reading this post over at Boston.com, and thinking about robots I have known and loved. There was Ed209, Robocop’s Nemesis, foiled by his creator’s Dalek-like lack of foresight, there was that one with the spinning disc on the front of it that kicked everyone else’s robo-butt on Robot Wars that one time, and everybody loved the Terminator before he got old (did you know that the role of the terminator was almost given to Lance Henriksen, who played Bishop in Aliens?).

So I have a proposal for you: put a comment reminding me of the coolest or most kitsch film or real life robot you can think of, and when I’ve got 20, I’ll make a Top Trumps card game out of them, and post it here for you to print out and take to school. Just don’t start fighting about whether the T1000 should have a better weapon score than Johnny 5, or you’ll get them confiscated.