h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Here's a quiz for you. Can you find WALL-E?

http://www.hopewellstudios.com/images/stories/geekings/whereswalle1450.jpg

Apparently there is also a prize for identifying the most characters:
http://www.hopewellstudios.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=35

Obviously, can't discuss the answers here, it's too public, but I thought I could bring this bit of fun to your attention.


Geggs

Found 'him'. Took me about 40 seconds!

I don't see and competition on the page you link to either, just a numbered guide that rather gives the game away n'est pas?

j.

No, the numbered guide tells you exactly how many there are, but not their names. It can be used to help draw up an ordered list to email to the address next to the numbered guide.


Geggs

Who's not there?

Marvin?

K.9?

They both are. Twice, in fact.


Geggs

Guess that's that game over then.

Who is WALL-E?

GIYF. Pixar.

I was particuarly impressed to find:

- MO, the maintenance operator from the Filmation cartoon "Space Sentinels".

- the robot from "Saturn 3", the actual model of which is in Blackpool Pleasure Beach.

- Both Davison AND Tennant-era Cybermen, plus a Quark. Also old and new Cylon Centurions

- Metal Mickey

- Dick Spanner (anyone else remember him?)

- Evil Edna

- A skutter

- Ludwig.

A question: the yellow thing with eyes on tentacles at the bottom, immediately below Ludwig and Sergeant Major Zero - is that from Farscape?

Google is my friend. It's a DRD from, yes, Farscape. I'm also enormously impressed that the iron chicken from the Clangers is on there. A properly eclectic selection, there.

What imprezzes me iz dat I recognize so many of zem.

Gruesome #1 was very excited to see one of the Cadbury's Smash robots

The lokwork owl fro Jason and the Argonaught or was it Sinbad? And the nought and ross fro that aniated kid's thing with the really sry hag - terrified e that did - (sorry about the nonfuntioning keys) Is that Sgt Bash fro Robot wards?

Mmmmmmmmmm.... wazzat?

~jwf~

terrahawks that was it-

The owl was from Clash of the Titans (the good one, not the recent abomination).

An interesting sub-task is to spot all the robots of which there are two versions. So far I have:

Cylon centurion
Marvin
K-9
The Tin Man from Oz
Cybermen

And questionably C-3P0 - arguably Maria from Metropolis is his precursor, and Dot Matrix from Spaceballs is "another version" of him.

Wheelie the Transformer appears twice too. The one is holding the other, in fact.


Geggs

There's two Robbie the Robots as well. And Kryten is standing next to his namesake, though the name is the only thing they have in common.


Geggs

Can't see 2 Tin men from Oz. Do you mean Tik Tok from Return to Oz as the 2nd?

And can anyone name the yellow cartoon hovering robot in the bottom left corner? I used to watch the cartoon as a kid and totally forgot it existed till i saw this

I found Wall-E as soon as that part of the picture appeared on my screen (took ages). I still haven't seen the film, so I think that was pretty good going. Haven't heard of any of the others, let alone was able to recognise them - except Marvin, and Fender from Futurama. There were a couple of other Matt Groening-style characters there, too.

Well, C3 PO and the dalek of course - can't not know them.