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| | Gary Westfahl's Bio-Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Film: Robby the Robot |
 | | Robby the Robot merits a place in this volume because he was the first figure to demonstrate that in science fiction films, overtly non-human characters, constructs of the special effects department, can indeed function as sympathetic and involving characters. |
 | | I saw Robby the Robot once at a 1974 Star Trek convention, standing in a hotel lobby, inactive but still available to be gazed on by admirers. |
 | | More than the theatrical sets, the cheesy special effects, or the electronic music score, Robby’s appearances, and the way the other actors accepted him as an equal, conveyed the utter strangeness of that film’s alien environment; he dominated every scene he was in, and the movie dragged whenever he was offstage. |
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