When Pleo finally comes out I’m going to buy him. He’s a cute little dino bot pet and he’ll cost about two hundred dollars. A good deal. How could I not buy him?
But Pleo is not the last word in dinosaur robots. Oh no. Not by a long shot.
What I really want are these motherfuckers. At over 180 Million Yen they might be a bit out of my price range but they are modeled on Tyrannosaurus Rex and Parasaurolophus. They’re 3.5 meters long and weigh approximately 80 kilograms. They roar, growl and stomp around like Zanta with a hangover.
Don’t believe me? You can watch them do it here.
And, when I get these, I’ll feed them a steady diet of Pleos. With some HP Sauce because I’m going to spoil my babies.
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melly
February 18, 2006 at 3:31 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I wanted to see them fight, or at least bite on someone, fine, something. But just dance around and make really funny sounds???
Grumpy Owl
February 22, 2006 at 5:55 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
You call that dancing Melly? Remind me to not ask you to the ball.
Melly
February 22, 2006 at 7:40 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Well, apparently you won’t ask me for chess either!
(You got funny stuff in the Name and Website boxes)
Ugobe Goes Bankrupt: Pleo Extinct « The Grumpy Owl
April 22, 2009 at 5:19 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
[...] I was quite excited when Pleo the robot dinosaur was in the works. I planned to buy one, joined the mailing list and even filled out surveys. But then the company that produced them made a strange decision. They jumped up the price. [...]