"Robocop, in the original cartoon had some red light in the middle of his visor which occasionally panned the whole visor. This was inspired by "2001 A Space Odyssey"s HAL computer, that had a little red light for its eye. Many anime/cartoons today borrowed this element in their robot designs. They brought this red-light idea over to Alpha Commando, obviously they were too lazy to animate it so they just coloured Robo's visor red. Note that his robo-cruiser and bike also had the red eyes..."
Nice find. However, the "original cartoon" was the first of two cartoon series that both were inspired by the live action film Robocop... in which he did not have a red light on his visor.
"RoboCop is a 1987 cyberpunk, action movie and satire of business-driven capitalism, directed by Paul Verhoeven... It spawned two sequels, several comic books, multiple video games, two animated series, dozens of action figures and two television series, all featuring a cyborg police officer."
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Adoniteking @ Jun 20th 2007 8:46AM
"Robocop, in the original cartoon had some red light in the middle of his visor which occasionally panned the whole visor. This was inspired by "2001 A Space Odyssey"s HAL computer, that had a little red light for its eye. Many anime/cartoons today borrowed this element in their robot designs. They brought this red-light idea over to Alpha Commando, obviously they were too lazy to animate it so they just coloured Robo's visor red. Note that his robo-cruiser and bike also had the red eyes..."
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:kcG44aQ-qYEJ:www.robocoparchive.com/cartoons/marvel3.htm+robocop+red+middle&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=uk&client=firefox-a
I suggest you do your homework first...john
strider_mt2k @ Jun 20th 2007 8:49AM
O snap.
JC @ Jun 20th 2007 10:59AM
Wow, nerd smackdown. Awesome.
josh @ Jun 20th 2007 1:50PM
Nice find. However, the "original cartoon" was the first of two cartoon series that both were inspired by the live action film Robocop... in which he did not have a red light on his visor.
"RoboCop is a 1987 cyberpunk, action movie and satire of business-driven capitalism, directed by Paul Verhoeven... It spawned two sequels, several comic books, multiple video games, two animated series, dozens of action figures and two television series, all featuring a cyborg police officer."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocop