Creating an army of merciless, unstoppable robotic soldiers has always appealed to me as being the most gentlemanly road to global rule – unlike either necromancy or politics, it doesn’t involve selling your soul.
All of my attempts (as pictured above) failed, however, mostly due to a nasty habit of focusing more on aesthetics than on more practical considerations, i.e. the need to include up-market options like rail guns and heat-seeking missiles. If I had instead invested my money in the kind of robots that were commercially available throughout all those years, mostly in the toy aisles, I could already be in command of a quite sizable army, much like Lee.
Some of those look pretty cool even, although I doubt that “Verbot” sold well in German speaking markets – there is something vaguely off-putting about a toy being named “Prohibition”.
And “CompuRobot” looks suspiciously similar to a certain movie robot – I sincerely doubt that the manufacturer has paid for the use of that likeness. But then, I sincerely doubt that anybody would pay for a license to associate their products with that particular movie … in fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if Disney actually paid people for not mentioning it. (If that’s really the case, I’m perfectly willing to remove this whole paragraph for as little as five bucks.)
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