Towering Gort replica fetching a pretty penny at auction

We've seen some pretty fantastic replicas grace the always fascinating pages of eBay before, but this particular creation is apparently hitting home with quite a few wealthy nerds prospective buyers. The fiberglass reproduction of Gort from the famed 1951 classic The Day The Earth Stood Still is currently sitting just above $4,000, and there's still quite a few hours left for bids to fly in from other galaxies. Unfortunately, the winning bidder will be forced to trek to San Francisco to pick it up, but at least you can look forward to checking out its tilting visor and array of sound effects before it melts your wallet and calls you master.

[Via Technabob]

[TheCow5 @ Feb 25th 2008 3:44AM]

Worth Every Penny.
great movie

[Greg Mcp @ Feb 25th 2008 6:50AM]

As far as movie robots go, Gort is a bit lame though.
A motorbike helmet painted silver, and a silver costume.

Robbie is much cooler.

[Ryan Trevisol @ Feb 25th 2008 7:31AM]

Darn. I always get Gorn and Gort confused. I was hoping for some silver-eyed, reptilian love in here.

[Boing @ Feb 25th 2008 4:07AM]

Klatu, Barrada, Nikto!

[Ray @ Feb 25th 2008 11:21AM]

That comment was more predictable than all those "final nail in the coffin" ones...

[Owen Taylor @ Feb 25th 2008 4:19AM]

Profile of Lock Gordon, who wore the Gort suit:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0552696/bio

[Owen Taylor @ Feb 25th 2008 4:19AM]

Sorry. Lock Martin, not Lock Gordon. Too many Flash Gordon reruns on SciFi, I guess.

[grjohnston @ Feb 25th 2008 4:19AM]

I, for one, would like to be the first to welcome our San Franciscan (or Bay Area) overlords.

[matthew @ Feb 25th 2008 5:06AM]

i'll make one of these next year and sell it for 2 grand

i mean really... a replica?

[Crispin @ Feb 25th 2008 8:08AM]

Doesn't hurt that there's a big name remake in the works for next year.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970416/

[TheCow5 @ Feb 25th 2008 11:49AM]

What the hell is with Keanu Reeves being in this movie, he will only kill one of my more favored movies of all time.
That but-head can act at all.

[Dan @ Feb 25th 2008 8:25AM]

Robbie? Please. Gort was a great symbolic representation of atomic age technology, with the power to annihilate the planet and a nive bit of ambiguity regarding whether he was Klaatu's servant or master. Seamless metal body didn't hurt either.

[Iphtashu Fitz @ Feb 25th 2008 9:22AM]

Yeah, but does its visor open up and shoot out laser beams that vaporize everything from rifles to tanks?

[OneLove @ Feb 25th 2008 10:56AM]

My questions is why he needed a belt ring?

[christopher Powers @ Feb 25th 2008 12:26PM]

May or may not be a good investment as there's rumors of a remake due out in a couple of years... Remakes really fuel the market for memorabilia and $4,000 today could sell for $20,000 next year or the year after that...

But then again, I'm still waiting for my Hogan's Hero's and Gilligan's Island remakes I was promised ten years ago...

[akratunis @ Feb 25th 2008 2:25PM]

The ebay post says "Originally equipped with tilting visor with sound effects." This sounds like it is no longer equipped.

Also says "robot hasn't been activated ... unknow if it's in working condition" Now if you had this, wouldn't you turn it on to see if it works...?

[CaliforniaKid @ Feb 26th 2008 12:51AM]

I've seen/studied that movie quite a few times. One of my favorites. The Robert Wise narrative track on the DVD is quite interesting.

There's something not quite right with the scale of THIS Gort. He looks too thin. Chest isn't big enough.