ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

Almost coinciding with the release of the newfangled ‘Day The Earth Stood Still’ and the DVD re-release of the same film in its classic form, Amok Time’s Gort is scheduled to hit around the beginning of the new year. He’s one of cinema’s most important robots, eerily simple and iconic, and played by an unknown doorman. Eventually, Gort would live out a life of quiet dignity after being purchased by Bozo the Clown and used as a supporting prop in the background of “Commander Comet”.

If you can call that living.

Either way, this 16″ tall, solid Gort from Amok Time is an interesting work, and is now being distributed by Sideshow. $75 for two articulated arms in a huge chunk of molded plastic isn’t my usual speed, and I much prefer the two-pack that includes the 1/6th scale, articulated Klaatu, but it’s Gort. He’s pretty much the ringleader of all robots, and at 16″ tall, those are some pretty big shoes to fill.